4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (278+ words) One of the leading agency figures in the lettings industry backs the government’s new rental database – but wants agents to be heavily involved. Allison Thompson, chief lettings officer at the LRG agency group, says the greater transparency facilitated by the…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (408+ words) A leading property management specialist believes the government risks ‘throwing the baby out with the bathwater’ if it replaces leasehold with Commonhold. Principle Estate Management’s Brett Williams, who has more than 35 years’ experience in the sector, is urging the new…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (323+ words) A diagnostic service has been launched for estate, lettings and block management agencies to measure their efficacy. Called The Property Agency Benchmark, it’s operated by consultancies Oliver and House of Marque and it scores participating agencies across five stages against…...

3+ week, 10+ hour ago   (229+ words) HomeLet and Let Alliance have launched RefBot, an AI assistant handling routine tenant referencing queries around the clock. Supporting the circa one million tenant references processed each year by HomeLet and Let Alliance, RefBot is already changing how demand flows…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (254+ words) A Rent To Buy operator has been put under review by a regulator. Rentplus Homes is based in Milton Keynes and buys homes built by developers under Section 106 agreements with local authorities. It then leases them to housing associations for…...