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When renting a property out, letting agents and landlords recognise that it is important to take a deposit from the tenant...

A sales and lettings agency which has entered insolvency is reported by a local newspaper to have offered vendors cut-price fees...

Hello and welcome to your regular Monday PJT, the essential guide to who’s moving where in our industry. Everyone mentioned here got...

Whinge. Moan. Lead quality. Crap market. Decision procrastination. Fee pressure. Bloody competitors. Especially Purplebricks. Brexit, of course, Brexit... These are just some...

With Boris Johnson winning the Conservative leadership election and becoming Prime Minister, he has spent his first few days in office...

Hello and welcome to this latest edition of PJT, your regular weekly column giving all the key appointments news in the...

What a great time to be a letting agent. In decades, never has there been so much change. As you’re well aware,...

With the Tenant Fee Ban obliterating a key income stream, letting agents should be looking at ways they can increase the...

With Easter now upon us (happy Easter, by the way, and hope you’re enjoying the long weekend, the Easter eggs and...

It’s no secret that the UK’s housing sector is in crisis. Headlines scream about the shortage of new-build homes. TV pundits...

The Money Laundering Regulations require estate agents to risk assess their business relationships and apply an appropriate level of investigation to...

Interesting news this week from South Africa where the PropTech startup, Flow, has raised R20m in the country’s 'biggest PropTech seed...

We’re delighted to say we’ve had a fantastic response to our call for pictures and videos of your decorated offices -...

Communities have missed out on more than 10,000 affordable homes in the past three years as a result of government rules...

It’s now almost a month since the government introduced new rules on Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO), as part of its...

In what is regarded as his most important speech since becoming housing minister, Dominic Raab has told a conference that it...

It’s no secret that technology has changed the way businesses operate, in all sectors. With that has come changes to the...

Paul Lamplugh, the father of estate agent Suzy who was presumed murdered 33 years ago, has died - tragically, without ever...

An outspoken estate agent has given the government a clear message - get off our backs , ease the red tape...

Any letting agent appreciates the effort, dedication, and sometimes heartache, that comes with running a business yet equally knows that when...

100 years ago, 90% of the UK population rented a home. Today, that figure has flipped, and over two thirds are...

With reports continuing to focus on a slowing property market and an understanding that not enough properties are being marketed for...

Data from a firm specialising in lone-worker protection suggests that there has been a 27 per cent increase in the number...

The Elf on the Shelf has been something of a craze in the build up to this Christmas, notoriously getting up...

PropTech start up OneDome, which supplies online booking and mapping tools, has teamed up with live chat service provider Yomdel in...

Landlords are being urged to step up and ensure that all rented properties and accommodation meet recent laws relating to carbon...

The UK is home to four million leasehold properties in private ownership, according to government figures. The majority of which require...

Stephanie Slater died last week, aged 50. Whilst she died from cancer (tragically, only 11 days after diagnosis), it’s the events...

In this week’s Natter I’m going to get all political. Don’t worry, I won’t be giving my opinions on Brexit, Trump...

Local councils say there must be an immediate and fast-moving review of building regulations in the light of the Grenfell Tower...

We’re already more than halfway through 2017 and, against all the odds, it’s pushing 2016 close in terms of eventfulness and...

“I predict that within a few years, folks advertising properties for rent or to buy will start to show if their property is a...

The estate agency which was fined £200,000 after a prospective house buyer fell 30 feet into a well during a viewing...

Excuse the puntastic (or not) title, but as you’ve no doubt already deciphered I took a trip northwards a couple of...

The chronic shortage of housing supply in the UK relative to demand has been a national issue for decades. The Government...

Whatever the weather, whatever the season, our industry excels itself at good work - and we are always delighted to publicise...

Legal firm Kirwans have released shocking statistics which state that 70% of eviction notices issued by landlords to tenants may be...

The government has launched an official consultation process on a package of measures to crack down on what it calls ‘rogue...

A health service tribunal has found that a senior paramedic tried to sexually assault an estate agent as she prepared for...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s aim of creating a 24-hour city is one step closer with the appointment of London’s first Night...

Liz runs her own estate agency in Gateshead. When researchers for the Suzy Lamplugh Trust got in touch earlier in the year to...

It is fair to say that 2016 is a year full of surprises. Anyone who had the foresight to predict Britain...

Buy-to-let landlords may have failed in their recent legal battle against planned government tax relief changes for buy-to-let homes set to...

Suzy Lamplugh was just 25 years old when she disappeared whilst working as an estate agent in London in 1986. She’d...

A 24-unit block of apartments designed by the company behind the Yo! Sushi chain has been given consent to be constructed...

Three decades after 25-year-old Suzy Lamplugh disappeared on a house viewing, the charity set up in her name is calling on...

The huge rush to acquire buy-to-let property in the first quarter of the year ahead of the stamp duty change deadline...

For many people buy-to-let continues to look an attractive income investment at a time of low saving rates and stock market...

Barely a week goes by without news of the latest disastrous AirBnB experience suffered by an unsuspecting landlord.   Whether it’s damage...

The Motley Fool, a widely-read City investment column, says a Leave vote could result in a fall in housing market transaction...

Forget the gloomy stamp duty news, or the prospect that a new house price index might revalue house prices downwards, or...

High profile stock market commentary website Motley Fool has given Zoopla a strong endorsement on the eve of the first anniversary...

Someone told me the other day that it’s now only seven Mondays till Christmas. Now there’s a scary thought. Best get...

With a raft of new legislation introduced recently now will be the ideal time to think about whether staff are up...

Headlines across the lettings industry often focus on the behaviour of ‘rogue’ landlords – those that are slow to become compliant...

You can't help but notice that it's back to school time – the shops are full of school uniforms and pencil...

No one likes to be called and told, your boiler has broken down or a burst pipe has caused damage to...