Tech
New property portal aimed at ‘buyers’ not ‘browsers’
Site will pre-qualify purchasers by asking for funding information
News
Lettings
Huge boom in buy-to-let as April 1 deadline nears
Market turbo-charged as buy-to-let investors scramble for deals
Agency
Supply improving as new listings rise again, says RICS
But RICS warns on central London housing market, with over a quarter of agents expecting price falls
Compliance
Bye bye! One in five tenants expects to lose deposits
Eight in ten landlords wish they had asked for larger deposits to cover damage
Law
Agents who turn down tenants on benefits ‘are not breaking law’
New House of Commons briefing paper puts refusals in context
Lettings
London mayor hopeful would set up not-for-profit letting agency
London mayor candidate Sadiq Khan to make housing top priority
Finance
Savills residential business in UK hit by tax changes
Global operation brings record revenue and profits to Savills – but misery in high-end London market
Other News
Picture of the Week – for once, we’re lost for words
All property particulars tell a story – don't they?
Agency
Rightmove heads list of world’s best property portals
But Purplebricks and easyProperty also on guru's list of just nine firms as the future
Finance
Property service charges escalating to hit owners
One in three management firms have increased charges, hitting landlords and owner occupiers
Politics
Brexit: Is the EU stay-or-go poll hitting your sales?
Is Brexit uncertainty making sellers and buyers delay decisions? Agents are the ones in the know
Lettings
New TV series tonight with evictions specialist Paul Shamplina
Bad tenants, bad landlords – the dark side of the private rented sector back on TV
Compliance
Rightmove urges agents not to click link in fraud email
Rightmove uses social media to warn agents of phoney email
Finance
One in three purchasers of £1m homes do not need a mortgage
More than 7,000 sales of £1m-plus properties are to cash buyers
Finance
Rush as buy-to-let borrowers try to close mortgage deals
Valuations for property investors leap up as April 1 deadline gets nearer
People
Ex-Countrywide boss Scarff announces first directorship
Scarff becomes non-executive director of 17-branch firm
Law
Agent warned of jail after admitting 13 frauds
Agent defrauded elderly farmers in his land agent role
Agency
Corporate agents ‘not doing well on the high street’
Listings ladder shows all is not rosy for corporates
Agency
Agent tells Chancellor: George, don’t do that
Osborne told by leading agent that his property reforms are counter-productive