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The Property People have shared a new white paper exploring the growing pressures facing front-line residential property professionals and the increasingly critical role managing agents play within the wider housing system.

New data from the English Housing Survey reveals the vast majority (93%) of leaseholders in flats are satisfied with their tenure. This is the first time the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has conducted research on this scale into leaseholder satisfaction, building on its qualitative 2023 leaseholder perspectives report which showed most leaseholders were either positive or neutral towards the tenure. 

Landlords have little more than a working week to ensure they have distributed a vital legal document to all their tenants, the head of lettings management at Worcestershire estate agents Nicol & Co. has warned. 

Today at UKREiiF, the Association for Rental Living (ARL) – the membership organisation for the rental living sector in the UK, including Build to Rent – launched its inaugural Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Strategy for Build to Rent. 

As artificial intelligence (AI) adoption takes off in the UK’s property sector, leading PropTech provider Reapit is urging agencies to use AI in ways that strengthen the human connection, which remains central to agencies’ success.

Historic advisory firm Debrett’s has announced the opening of a new London office at 17 Carlisle Street in Soho, marking a return to the capital for the business founded in London in 1769. The office forms part of the growing portfolio of central London buildings owned by ThamesBank Properties.

JAR, the London-based property management and residential consultancy business formerly known as James Andrew Residential, today announces that it has completed a management buyout led by CEO Fiona Docherty and COO Rob Soning.

Haymarket Management is delighted to announce their appointment as the new managing agent for Falkner Place in Liverpool  -  a 110 unit residential development that they are genuinely excited to call part of the Haymarket family.The contract, awarded by LivingCity and taking over from Urban Bubble, begins on 1st July  2026. For the team at Haymarket’s Liverpool office, it’s more than just another instruction, it’s an opportunity to invest in a community, build real relationships with residents, and make a

Every building project involves the coordination of a huge number of decisions, skills, people and timelines. It can be easy to think of fire safety as just one of a long list of things to tick off. Taking a delayed or inconsistent approach to fire safety can lead to significant problems in property development. And those problems come in the shape of time and money.

BLOXX, a global fintech, will be at UKREiiF to showcase how it has created a new, affordable homeownership option that does not require a mortgage or any government subsidy, while fundamentally rethinking how homes are funded in the UK. The fintech states that delivering 1.5 million new homes will require a new residential asset class and capital model that unlocks supply while opening up access to homeownership, creating the demand needed to build homes at pace. The new homeownership model enables people to subscribe to buying their homes, whilst delivering outsized risk adjusted returns for

Latest figures out of the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) show significant progress in addressing the backlog of fire safety remediation applications for higher-risk buildings (HRBs). While this marks an important step forward, timelines remain extended and the remediation landscape complex. The BSR data to 1st May 2026 shows an improvement in reviewing of remediation applications, but the median approval time remains at 46 weeks.