Purchase of Van Mildert for £20 million has now gone ahead giving Rightmove a major additional foothold in the private rental market together with its tenant passport platform.

Prime agents are increasingly under scrutiny by HMRC over their AML practices, which has prompted Lonres to acquire Financial Crime Services.

Agents are now able to offer tenants the company's Rental Protection Plan product which has already been taken up by national estate agency chain Andrews.

Just 42% of tenants are interested in buying anytime soon – millennials are the keenest with 64% being aspiring homeowners compared to just 13% of those aged over 55.

Innovative proptech brand Tili, returns as headline sponsor to The Negotiator Conference & Expo 2019 and gold sponsor of The Negotiator Awards.

Letting agent Kristjan Byfield convened a dozen of the industry's best-known figures to present his proptech brainchild The Depository.

Service enables agents to fill properties with Airbnb and Booking.com guests between rentals and has previously been backed by former Rightmove and Purplebricks bosses.

The final curtain on the Australian dream is likely to fall quite soon as there are now just 182 listings on the Purplebricks’ Australian website.