Compliance
Your plain English guide to GDPR: Part two of our mini series
Consumer rights and data breaches
News
Agency
Foxtons reveals how staff headcount cuts helped keep it in profit
Savings achieved as staff left and were not replaced helped keep Foxtons profitable
Finance
Three-year-old property firm says it is now worth £26m as it raises over £6m in new funds
Crowdfunding campaign contributes another £1m – and counting – to short-stay lettings business
Lettings
Bad tenants and rogue landlords – plus an agent expelled by the Ombudsman
Professional sub-letting gang involved in eviction to be featured on TV tonight
Compliance
Rogue lettings agent database to launch tomorrow, but ARLA is questioning the point of it
Long-awaited database will only be made available to local and central Government
Agency
New Artificial Intelligence digital search business ‘to offer competition to Rightmove and Zoopla’
New business gets backing and help from ex-Countrywide boss Bob Scarff
Agency
OnTheMarket announces doubling of traffic to site since flotation
Major uplift in traffic to OTM in first full month since floating on stock market
Compliance
Your plain English guide to preparing your agency for GDPR: Part one of our new mini-series
Everything you need to know about getting your agency ready for May 25
Agency
Revealed! The most responsive letting agents in London
Renting app Movebubble has ranked letting agents by how fast they respond to tenant queries
Lettings
Sweeping rent controls set to be introduced via Private Member’s Bill in Scotland
Rent controls needed to stop 'rip-off' rents, says Labour party
Agency
Connells brand announces 22% rise in profits ‘due to continued high street growth’
Growth for major regional agent which 'sells more homes in Wales' than any other
Lettings
Landlords’ Barometer – #57: Taxing times for the private rented sector
Number of landlords planning to quit buy-to-let market rising sharply
Agency
Average asking prices for more expensive houses across central London slashed by 10%
Agent warns that decline in sales market is hitting the lettings sector
Politics
Government admits falling behind on Right to Buy replacement pledges
Is this a nail in the coffin for Right to Buy in England?
Lettings
New crackdown – including possible criminal sanctions – on letting and managing agents announced
Victory for campaigners who have spent 20 years urging successive governments to regulate lettings industry
Compliance
Compulsory CMP to come in before fees ban which Government admits could drive some agents out of business’
Government recognises that some agents will fold as a result of fees ban – so compulsory CMP will come in first
Agency
Daily Mail asks whether ‘meteoric rise’ of Purplebricks is built on dodgy foundations
Mail article says analysts are querying sales figures
Finance
‘No Agent’ shoots over target in fundraising campaign and says it is worth £7m
Online lettings platform in business for 18 months
Compliance
Rightmove admits gender pay gap because so few managers are women
Annual report says boss of Rightmove could earn over £2m this year
Other News
Two injured as high-powered sports car crashes into estate agency branch
Estate agency staff safe after Maserati crashes into shop window but two pedestrians injured