Proptech startup that claims to weed out time-wasting tenants raises £2.8m in funding
Company claims to vet tenants, who are given shortlists of suitable properties
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Purplebricks founder Kenny Bruce bids to buy football stadium
Bid comes after Bruce invested £500,000 in his home town football club last year
Tenant fees ban: Chartered Trading Standards Institute to give MPs its views today
Communities and Local Government Committee hearings into tenant fees ban and private rented sector resume
Fixflo forms advisory board made up of business heavyweights and appoints non-executive chairman
Veterans of Financial Times and Friends Reunited among proptech firm’s advisers
More buyers ditching high street lawyers for specialist online conveyancing services, claim
Research shows buyers increasingly don’t want to use a general solicitor to manage the legal side of their purchase
Revealed: The hundreds of millions poured into online and hybrid agents
Ten top agents have raised £250m between them
Collapse of Hunters in Norfolk results in 21 job losses
Confirmation of redundancies follows meeting of creditors yesterday
Online agent defends failure to display EPC ratings on Rightmove listings
Agent insists EPCs have been commissioned but are not pulling through to Rightmove
Competition watchdog that fined estate agents £370,000 launching new price fixing crackdown
Competition watchdog vows to hunt down more illegal cartels
Irish firm promises to revolutionise property auctions with first UK online sale
Online technology will make property auctions available to all
City plans total ban on agents’ ‘eyesore’ boards
Council has applied for a ban after 25% of properties in some parts of the city ended up covered in boards
First-time buyers bounce back into the mortgage market, figures suggest
Increasing number of mortgages went to first-time buyers in January
Sky’s the limit! Agent plans parachute jump to raise money for children’s A&E unit
Agent’s vertigo-inducing fundraising efforts come as another property group aims to raise £100,000 for charity this year
Council fines its own sales and letting agency, forcing it on to official blacklist
Local council’s own agency is now on official blacklist
Government paves the way for single ombudsman with new housing consultation
Consultation – one of two launched this weekend – comes less than two weeks after Ombudsman Services quits property and suggests single ombudsman
Mystery as provider loses regulatory status for tenancy deposit replacement scheme
Scheme founded by letting agent says the loss is temporary and it is seeking a new provider for its protection product
Average asking prices rise in all but one region, Rightmove figures suggest
Visits to portal’s website were at highest-ever level in January
Lets with Pets: Labour plan for tenants to have right to keep animals ‘needs to be done in the right way’
Charity welcomes proposals but accepts that landlords will have commercial concerns
Driving out landlords is ‘folly’ in the face of collapsing home ownership, claim
Taxation of landlords in the face of a surge in house prices above income growth doesn’t make sense, RLA asserts
OnTheMarket starts second week of trading with shares back at launch price
‘It’s good news week’ message from OnTheMarket kicks shares into 8% uplift