Charity
Humberts name assistance dog cause as its charity of the year
Agent pledges to raise £7,500 for charity that supplies assistance dogs
News
Lettings
Private landlords ‘lining their pockets’ with housing benefit – claim
Over £9bn paid in housing benefit to private landlords, complains body for housing associations
Law
Touting: Can it be right to canvass by knocking on an ill pensioner’s door?
Is extreme canvassing an emerging trend?
Agency
Will Countrywide shareholders lose patience with firm’s ‘retail’ strategy?
Can Countrywide's management team survive another six months?
Agency
Haart has a purple moment – and it’s a clever bit of marketing
Haart offers special money-off deal to vendors who have paid an online agent upfront
Other News
Picture of the Week: Exposed (shh!) – but do its owners know the naked truth?
You have to guess – just where has a naked rooftop bar launched?
Lettings
Less than 2% of social tenants apply for Right to Buy in trial of scheme
Housing associations testing Right to Buy report only a handful of tenants want to purchase homes
Law
Landlord who crammed 24 people into home meant for seven hit with £40,000 bill
Landlord of grossly overcrowded property even put six tenants in an unheated shed in garden
Other News
SAVA surveyors report no drop-off in work since Brexit vote
Surveyors say that demand for their work has been maintained at high levels over July and August
Other News
Fifteen reasons why Pokémon Go is nothing like recruiting…
It's the game that's caught the world by storm – but it's a no-go for recruitment
Politics
A dozen new ‘garden villages’ take a step closer to realisation
Large new estates, dubbed 'garden villages', planned as separate settlements across England
Compliance
Portal juggling: Rightmove says it will help in any investigations of cases
Portal says it will assist industry regulator
Agency
City analyst warns some estate agency branches may close after Brexit vote
Investment bank predicts 'softening' house prices but no housing recession
Lettings
MPs slam how all the help ‘many’ homeless people get is a list of local letting agents
As homeless crisis escalates, report highlights lack of social housing and how vulnerable people struggle with private rent
Agency
Flat-sharing website accuses ‘greedy’ letting agents of profiteering
Portal blames letting agents for rent hikes
Lettings
Belvoir calls on ministers to reverse Osborne’s ‘disastrous’ taxes on landlords
Property chain calls on new housing minister to take swift action to bin 'punitive' policies
Lettings
The £500 a month rental room in London ‘no longer exists’
Average monthly cost of renting a room in London now £878
Lettings
Andy Burnham calls for councils to be able to buy poor quality private rented homes
Manchester mayoral candidate Burnham to introduce licensing scheme plus rent caps
Finance
Help to Buy mortgage guarantee scheme hailed as government initiative that actually worked
Scheme has so far helped almost 80,000 home buyers with small deposits