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This month brought more big milestones in the easing of COVID-19 restrictions – and with them, big changes for our industry.

It’s been an exciting month so far! We hope you’re all enjoying the reopening of pubs, non-essential shops, hairdressers and gyms.

As a sales manager at PayProp UK, Robert Flood is an important ambassador for the brand. Outside work, he’s also a Community Ambassador for Movember UK, using those same people skills to help a cause close to his heart.

With one of the world’s most successful vaccine rollout programmes under way in the UK, the chances of a complete lockdown – where agencies are forced to close – are hopefully slim. However, it doesn’t hurt to be prepared!

February may be the shortest month of the year, but the last few weeks have brought some big developments to our industry. In this month’s Rent Report e-mailed to subscribers, we look at the most important ones.

Lockdowns, vaccinations and a new US president dominate the headlines at the moment, but there are still some big changes coming to the property industry this month – and the rest of this year.

As part of our third PayProp special report on COVID-19 rental arrears in the UK, we surveyed over 600 agents, tenants and landlords from across the country about their experiences during the pandemic and their predictions for 2021.

At the end of a year that has seen the country and the property industry scrape the bottom of the barrel for good news stories, letting agencies and landlords can breathe a cautious sigh of relief.