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HM Land Registry will add Unique Property Reference Numbers and INSPIRE IDs to its monthly Price Paid dataset from 28 August 2025, extending the treatment to UK Companies and Overseas Companies datase
InfoTrack has created a dedicated head of innovation and AI role as it expands from AP1 form automation into cross-document validation tools that flag name mismatches and date conflicts. The vendor pl
Conveyancing distributor conveybuddy now routes 85–90% of instructed cases through firms with direct API integration, up from approximately 80% in July. The platform has completed its eighth full conn
Sales-agreed timelines have compressed 23 per cent since January, falling from 81 to 62 days by June according to Rightmove data. The acceleration creates operational pressure on conveyancers whose ti
iamproperty's membership of the Open Property Data Association marks a commercial inflection point for UK property data standards. With the platform's 7,000 agent users joining a consortium that alrea
The government has opened an 18-month funding window for cladding remediation in residential buildings under 11 metres, subject to a PAS 9980:2022 fire risk appraisal identifying "serious life critica
Defra is funding three startups through the Geovation Accelerator Programme with £20,000 equity-free grants each, marking the first time the department has joined the scheme run by Ordnance Survey and
More than one in four people lack confidence navigating the home-buying process, with conveyancing and legal procedure cited as the single biggest area of uncertainty. New research from Barclays Prope
Wales lost 532 registered rental properties and 290 landlords in May 2026, despite 1,680 new registrations—a net exit ratio of four to one. Single-property landlords now make up 69.6% of all Welsh lan
Scottish annual rents fell 0.2% in Q2 2026, with the country's three largest cities recording flat year-on-year growth. Local authorities must complete their first market assessments by May 2027 to se
Two-thirds of private rented properties in England and Wales now involve letting agent management, a two-year high driven by growing compliance complexity under the Renters' Rights Act. Yet no mandato
The Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill faces a narrow two-week window for introduction before Parliament's conference recess, with three major consultations still open and critical operational detai
Twenty-six Labour MPs have asked Angela Rayner to introduce rent controls in England, backed by modelling from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Autonomy Institute that pairs three rent cap mechanism
Legal & General's build-to-rent arm reportedly submitted licensing applications for 315 Lewisham properties 744 days after the council's selective licensing scheme began in July 2024. Council corr
A landlord with two properties under guaranteed rent arrangements has reported the first missed payment from an unnamed housing group, with rent due 17 August still outstanding. The case highlights fu
A letting agent training provider is advising agencies to respond to portfolio contraction by acquiring competitors, repositioning compliance knowledge as a lead generation tool, and unbundling manage
Letting agents face a compliance dilemma as the Renters' Rights Act prohibits discrimination against benefit recipients whilst Local Housing Allowance now covers just 2.7% of advertised private rental
Twenty-six Labour MPs have called on Angela Rayner to introduce rent controls in England, prompting warnings from property lawyers that landlords could exit the market. New modelling estimates tenant
Tenant demand for flatshare rooms has hit record levels, with commuter towns below £500 per month seeing the highest enquiries per room. SpareRoom is lobbying for an increase to the Rent a Room Scheme
Trading standards authorities are refusing to act on letting agent compliance breaches due to budget cuts, reserving enforcement capacity for cases involving vulnerable consumers who have been "specif
