Estate agent regulation, deposit-free rentals, rents on the rise




A new working group on 'professionalisation' of estate agents has been set up – what does the industry think?

Government says the working group has eight months to recommend ideas for better agent qualifications, an industry regulator and a Code of Practice, among other things.

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Rents rise across the UK as reduced supply squeezes market

Although rents have come off the boil a little in London and the SE, one agent warns that the ongoing 'landlord exodus' will soon speed up rent rises nationally.

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Landlord and managing agent fined £22,000 for unlicensed HMO

Kuppusami Selvarajan and his agent S3A Management Limited must pay sum which includes fines and costs and will also have to return rent to eight tenants.

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Leading Scottish agent trials deposit-free renting at PRS apartments

Tenants at a build-to-rent development in Edinburgh are to be offered deposit-free renting by leading agent Rettie & Co.

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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Facebook+Zoopla+OTM = What?</span>


Facebook Marketplace is used by 800 million global buyers and sellers every month, says Tara Dulake, and now it is marketing rental properties from Zoopla and OTM. What does it mean to your business?

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