Comings & Goings
Snippets of industry news: Hortons welcomes new partner; Simon Carter succeeds Jessica Hardman as president of the BPF; Close Brothers Property Finance MD Rowland Thomas to retire
News Archive
Boost for buyers as regulators confirm mortgage loan-to-income threshold changes
Smaller lenders will be offered greater scope to support borrowers
Launch of 2025 Home Moving Trends, and Landlord and Tenant Surveys
Property Academy survey will gather current opinions about buying, selling, letting and renting, with a view to providing key insights for estate and lettings agency professionals
Fine & Country’s YouTube channel surpasses 100,000 subscribers
Creating and maintaining a YouTube channel has proved to be a powerful marketing benefit for the estate agency
BPF advancing merger with AREF and IPF to create new representative body
The British Property Federation, the Association of Real Estate Funds, and the Investment Property Forum are preparing to ask their members to vote on a proposal to merge
Deposit alternative provider partners with 14-branch agency
FCA-regulated product provides landlords with up to eight weeks’ cover against rent arrears and dilapidations
House of Lords back amendment to Renters’ Rights Bill – “a welcome and sensible intervention”, says lawyer
Tenants with pets must pay extra damage deposit
Property industry reacts to latest UK house price data
The latest Halifax figures reinforce what many estate agents are seeing on the ground
Here’s how agents can win more instructions with ‘street-level advantage’
Hyper-local knowledge is the key to helping sellers feel understood
Mortgage lenders drive down fixed rates and relax stress tests
New data shows the average two- and five-year fixed rates continued on the downward trend, as lenders also relaxed stress test
Zoopla expands its campaign championing estate agents
Agencies of all sizes feature in this new campaign
Council says its scheme provides an alternative to ‘expensive’ agency fees
Local authority incentivises landlords to house tenants directly, rather than use letting agents
Rightmove integrates enhanced leads with agents’ CRM system
Some of the largest and leading CRM systems will integrate with Rightmove’s enhanced leads feature, with others set to follow
Landlord ordered to pay more than £82,000 for illegal Airbnb rentals
Landlord found guilty of illegally letting two flats
Major upgrades to potentially deliver up to 39,000 new homes
The chancellor Rachel Reeves says these “vital investments” are long overdue
BTR investment hit £1.9bn in first half of 2025 – CBRE
Over the last six months there has been improving levels of sentiment from investors
House of Lords – Renters Right Bill, day two: legislation must be ‘fit for purpose’
Propertymark is urging its members to write to Peers in the House of Lords as day two of Report Stage of the Renters’ Rights Bill arrives
Property industry welcomes government’s leasehold reforms
The announcement is an important step forward in raising standards and improving transparency in the leasehold sector
New AI tool indicates the likelihood of a property selling
SellScore assigns a percentage score indicating the likelihood of a property selling, if instructed by an estate agent
Estate agents disappointed by Labour government – survey findings
Research, capturing the views of over 400 estate and letting agents issues a damning verdict on UK’s economic drift, political fatigue, housing policy chaos and patchwork regulation