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![Huge rise in property tax for HMRC ahead of possible Budget change](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/TaxMan-400x310.png)
Figures released by HMRC show that the Treasury raked in £5.7 billion in inheritance tax receipts in the nine months from...
24 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Local Housing Allowance - call for even more help for low-income renters](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/2_MortgageCalculated.png)
Low-income renters will get a boost next spring - but a pressure group wants more government help for this sector. The Chancellor’s...
12 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Councils enforcing rental licensing are on brink of bankruptcy](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/_licensing-400x310.png)
Scores of councils that enforce licensing regimes on the private rental sector claim they are on the verge of bankruptcy. Almost one...
08 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Hunt’s lack of support for rental sector still subject of criticism](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/ToLetBoard-400x310.png)
Last week’s Autumn Statement - which fell short of expectations in terms of help for the private rental sector - is...
27 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Tax and Benefit Changes announced to impact housing market](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Help%20to%20buy%20equity%20loan.jpg)
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has used his Autumn Statement to reveal measures affecting both the rental market and the wider property industry. The Local Housing...
23 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Big rise in tax receipts as Chancellor ponders Autumn Statement](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/TaxMan-400x310.png)
Inheritance Tax totalled £4.6 billion for the HM Treasury between April and October - that’s £500,000 up on the same period...
22 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Business Rates - ‘last chance for government to help High Street’](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/BusinessTeam-400x310.png)
A prominent agency says tomorrow’s Autumn Statement is the Chancellor’s last chance to come good on the election promise to lower...
21 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Homelessness surge means Chancellor must invest in rental sector - call](/upload/images/shutterstock_1016671648.jpg)
New figures have shown that 2,086 people were found to be sleeping on London’s streets for the first time between July...
07 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agents demand payment changes in upcoming Autumn Statement](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/2_MortgageCalculated.png)
Propertymark is urging the government to use next month’s Autumn Statement to support low-income households in the private rented sector in...
26 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Want to give advice to Chancellor Jeremy Hunt?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
The Autumn Statement on November 22 is the traditional vehicle for the Chancellor to introduce tax change - but now you...
27 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agents demand incentives to make EPC improvements](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/_EPC5-400x310.png)
Propertymark is backing a call for financial help for landlords who improve the energy efficiency of their properties. The think tank E3G...
04 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Eviction court delays to rise as spending cuts bite - Law Society warning](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/EvictionNotice-400x310.png)
Agents and landlords are to face even longer waits for eviction court cases following the spending cuts announced in the Autumn...
22 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Tax Grabs - might Tories lose support because of CGT penalties?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/TaxCoins-400x310.png)
A second agency chief has warned the Conservatives of the possible electoral consequences of higher taxes aimed at the private rental...
21 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![CGT tax change - It could have been worse, say agents](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Tax-Image-400x310.png)
Just about every agency that has commented on yesterday’s Autumn Statement are in agreement - changes to Capital Gains Tax, Inheritance...
18 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rental Sector hit by surprise Capital Gains and Stamp Duty tax changes](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/TaxCoins-400x310.png)
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has delivered his long-awaited Autumn Statement - the fiscal event which he says will lead to “all of...
17 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Buy To Let may be a busted flush, warns investment guru](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Buy-to-let-2-400x310.png)
A prominent figure in property investment is warning that buy to let is the sector facing the biggest challenges in the...
17 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![First Time Buyers cut back in struggle to escape renting](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/RentOnlineSearch-400x310.png)
A new study from Rightmove reveals what aspiring first-time buyers are most likely to cut back on in a bid to...
17 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Cut taxes and make them simpler! Agents’ plea to government](/upload/images/Logos/NAEA-ARLA-Propertymark-400x310.jpg)
With only 48 hours to go before the Autumn Statement confirms stealth tax rises and massive public spending cuts, Propertymark has...
15 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Tax turmoil to dominate Autumn Statement warns leading agency](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/_JeremyHunt%20_400x310.png)
One of the country’s most respected lettings agencies says tax is dominating the agenda ahead of Thursday’s Autumn Statement from Chancellor...
15 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![HMRC’s Tax Threat to rentals slammed by agency chief](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Tax-400x310.png)
A holiday lettings agency has criticised the proposed rise in capital gains tax which may be introduced this week in the...
14 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Property stealth taxes to be major part of next week’s Budget](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Taxes-400x310.png)
The Financial Times has an exclusive saying allowances on property taxes such as Capital Gains and Inheritance will be frozen -...
08 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Interest Rate Rise - lettings sector braced for bad news](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/MortgageRates1_400x310.png)
There’s widespread concern that the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee, which meets tomorrow, is to unveil a 0.75 per cent...
02 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Investors won’t sell if CGT changes target buy to let - warning](/img/default/lat.png)
There’s a warning that buy to let investors will simply hold on to properties and not sell them if rumoured Capital...
16 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Shock Labour claim that agents will increase tenant fees until June](/img/default/lat.png)
A senior Labour politician claims that “unscrupulous” letting agents are hammering tenants with higher-than-usual charges between now and June 1 when...
14 February 2019
From: Breaking News
![Agency consolidation increasing as fees ban looms, warns ARLA](/img/default/lat.png)
The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it is seeing a consolidation of agencies ahead of the ban on agents’ fees...
05 December 2017
From: Breaking News
![Industry welcomes government call for greater lettings regulation](/img/default/lat.png)
Industry figures have broadly welcomed the latest consultations and proposed additional regulation for the lettings sector, announced by the government yesterday. The...
19 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![How Agents Can Recoup Losses from the Ban on Letting Agent Fees](/img/default/lat.png)
According to recent government figures, the average letting agent’s fee is £223 and 4.3 million householders pay this amount or thereabouts...
14 September 2017
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![MPs set to debate letting agent fee ban in House of Commons](/img/default/lat.png)
A Westminster Hall debate for MPs on letting agent fees will take place this morning in the House of Commons. The debate...
06 September 2017
From: Breaking News
![Lobby your MP to help stop fees ban, ARLA tells members](/img/default/lat.png)
The Association of Residential Letting Agents has told its agent members that they should urgently lobby their Members of Parliament to...
18 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Campaigning agent tells lettings sector: change is coming](/img/default/lat.png)
A prominent campaigner over the misappropriation of rental deposits has welcomed the news that government proposals to ban letting agent fees...
18 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![UK letting agents' fees cheaper than many countries, claims ARLA](/img/default/lat.png)
The Association of Residential Letting Agents is keeping up its campaign against a ban on agents’ fees in England by showing...
29 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![4,000 letting agency jobs at risk if fees ban happens warns ARLA](/img/default/lat.png)
There are 4,000 jobs at risk if an outright ban comes into force on letting agents’ fees according to new research...
28 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Letting agents and tenants to suffer because of fees confusion](/img/default/lat.png)
A leading insurance company says letting agents and tenants alike will suffer if the government’s proposed ban on fees levied on...
28 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Minister confirms fee ban on its way but rental sector 'improving'](/img/default/lat.png)
Housing minister Gavin Barwell has confirmed that consultation on the government’s proposed ban on letting agency fees levied on tenants in...
23 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Landlords will still use letting agents after fees ban - claim](/img/default/lat.png)
The substantial majority of landlords who now use letting agents will continue to do so even if they see their premiums...
21 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Letting fees ban still unlikely to be introduced until 2018](/img/default/lat.png)
The government’s Housing White Paper may have made many broad pledges aimed at the private rental sector, but it still remains...
08 February 2017
From: Breaking News
![ARLA wants agents' fees spread over six months, not up-front](/img/default/lat.png)
The Association of Residential Letting Agents has repeated it call for the government to ban up-front letting agent fees at the...
01 February 2017
From: Breaking News
![Tenant referencing firm raises concern over agents' fees ban](/img/default/lat.png)
Tenant referencing and insurance firm FCC Paragon says its own referencing sector, as well as independent letting agents and smaller corporate...
01 February 2017
From: Breaking News
![Want to lobby Phillip Hammond? Here's how you do it...](/img/default/lat.png)
The government has published a new set of guidelines for organisations, companies and individuals to lobby the Treasury ahead of the...
03 January 2017
From: Breaking News
![Substantial majority of letting agents expect rent rises in 2017](/img/default/lat.png)
Some 80 per cent of letting agents say they expect rents to rise next year. In the latest market survey by the...
20 December 2016
From: Breaking News
![Inventory clerks join clamour for caps on agents' fees on tenants](/img/default/lat.png)
Letting agencies and landlords must club together to campaign for a cap on agents' fees charged to tenants, rather than an...
15 December 2016
From: Breaking News
![Campaign set up to 'force' government to honour fees ban](/img/default/lat.png)
A campaign group has been refocussed with the objective of making the government honour its Autumn Statement pledge to ban letting...
08 December 2016
From: Breaking News
![Letting agency fees ban may drive investors north says buy to let guru](/img/default/lat.png)
The Northern Powerhouse agenda, increased infrastructure investment announced in the Autumn Statement and low entry prices make the north of England...
06 December 2016
From: Breaking News
![Fees ban: here's a calculation of how much it might cost landlords](/img/default/lat.png)
City investment consultancy Jefferies has calculated the impact on landlords if the country’s second largest agency group - LSL Property Services...
30 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Advice from a letting agent where fees are already banned](/img/default/lat.png)
The managing director of one of the most prominent letting agencies in Edinburgh and Glasgow - where agents’ fees on tenants...
29 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![NALS 'fair fees' agents committed to making fee ban work](/img/default/lat.png)
The NALS ‘Fair Fees Forum’ - set up before last week’s announcement on the banning of letting agency fees levied on tenants...
29 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Agency claims some tenants think deposit and rent are ''agent fees'](/img/default/lat.png)
A letting agency says the scale of confusion over letting agents’ fees is such that some tenants actually believe the deposit...
29 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Online agency makes league table of highest/lowest tenant fees](/img/default/lat.png)
Online estate agent Urban.co.uk says it has created a league table of fees that tenants are charged by agencies in different locations...
25 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Fees ban not stopping agency rejoining lettings sector](/img/default/lat.png)
In the week that the government announced a ban on letting agents levying fees on tenants, one multi-office estate agency has...
25 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Agents fear fees ban will damage quality of references and services](/img/default/lat.png)
Many agencies have spoken out in dismay at the announcement by government that letting agency fees on tenants would be banned...
24 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Campaigning charities welcome ban on letting agents' fees to tenants](/img/default/lat.png)
Two charities that have been at the forefront of campaigns to have a ban on letting agents’ fees on tenants have...
24 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Hammond confirms fee ban - and no change to buy to let tax or stamp duty](/img/default/lat.png)
Phillip Hammond has delivered his first Autumn Statement, tackling amongst other things, what he called “the housing challenge.” The speech made no...
23 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Confirmed - government WILL ban letting agents' fees on tenants](/img/default/lat.png)
The government will today announce that it is banning letting agents’ fees levied on tenants - meaning the fees will instead...
23 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![UK only 15th best buy to let investment location in Europe](/img/default/lat.png)
The UK is only the 15th best place in Europe to enjoy high returns from buy to let according to currency...
22 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Top agency says government seen as anti-landlord, pure and simple](/img/default/lat.png)
More than 92 per cent of landlords believe the government is anti-landlord and want the Chancellor to back them in this...
21 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Letting agent rips into landlord survey of buy to let 'quitters'](/img/default/lat.png)
A lettings agent has poured scorn on a survey suggesting a quarter of landlords are about to quit buy to let,...
18 November 2016
From: Breaking News
!['Hands off Buy to Let' mortgage chief tells the government](/img/default/lat.png)
Another prominent mortgage chief has called on the government to show its support for the private rental sector by repealing some...
10 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Industry body launches e-postcard campaign over buy to let taxes](/img/default/lat.png)
The National Landlords Association has launched an e-postcard campaign for letting agent and landlord members to lobby the government over the...
10 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Mortgage chief demands government support for rental sector](/img/default/lat.png)
A leading mortgage industry spokesman says he hopes Theresa May's "more balanced approach" to housing policy will trigger government support for...
09 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Industry body to lobby Treasury on tax before Autumn Statement](/img/default/lat.png)
The Residential Landlords’ Association has revealed that it is to meet with Treasury officials ahead of next month’s Autumn Statement -...
27 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![Industry body urges major tax breaks to boost Build To Rent](/img/default/lat.png)
The British Property Federation is urging Chancellor Phillip Hammond to bring in tax measures to help the purpose-built Build To Rent...
18 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![Industry group steps up pressure against buy to let tax change](/img/default/lat.png)
As the Conservatives meet at their annual conference and Chancellor Phillip Hammond considers next month’s Autumn Statement, an industry body has...
03 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![Tenants now pay over £1,000 per month for typical one-bed property](/img/default/lat.png)
The average rent for a one-bedroom property was £1,010 in August, according to the latest Landbay Rental Index. Between July and August,...
13 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![Another rental group speaks out against buy to let tax changes](/img/default/lat.png)
The Scottish Association of Landlords - which represents letting agents as well as landlords north of the border - has spoken...
16 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![Industry group says Autumn Statement is chance to rethink housing taxes](/img/default/lat.png)
The Residential Landlords Association says the build up to the new government‘s Autumn Statement - effectively its first budget - is...
25 July 2016
From: Breaking News
![ARLA chief gives dire warning about image of private lettings sector](/img/default/lat.png)
The managing director of the Association of Residential Letting Agents says urgent action is necessary “to make the prospect of being...
31 March 2016
From: Breaking News
![Agents and landlords disappointed with budget of 'missed opportunity'](/img/default/lat.png)
Yesterday George Osborne delivered his eighth budget as chancellor, announcing an extra £3.5 billion in spending cuts by 2019-20. The Office for...
17 March 2016
From: Breaking News
![Osborne has slashed rental sector confidence 'to below crisis levels'](/img/default/lat.png)
Landlords’ confidence in the buy to let sector has collapsed to an all-time low and is now “worse than levels witnessed...
03 February 2016
From: Breaking News
![Industry body taking advice on legality of Osborne buy to let tax changes](/img/default/lat.png)
The Residential Landlords’ Association is taking legal advice on whether George Osborne’s buy to let tax changes are a breach of...
20 January 2016
From: Breaking News
![Buy to let stamp duty surcharge: government asks ‘should there be exemptions?’](/img/default/lat.png)
The government is asking whether its proposed three per cent stamp duty surcharge on the purchase of second and subsequent homes...
30 December 2015
From: Breaking News
![Buy to let targeted as Scotland slaps extra 3% duty on 'additional homes'](/img/default/lat.png)
Scottish finance minister John Swinney is to introduce a three per cent surcharge on the full purchase price of all ‘additional...
17 December 2015
From: Breaking News
![Surge in buy to let valuations as landlords try to beat deadlines](/img/default/lat.png)
The buy to let market has experienced annual growth of no less than 26 per cent between November 2014 and last...
11 December 2015
From: Breaking News
![Stamp duty hike may hit new-build volumes warns leading developer](/img/default/lat.png)
The chairman of Berkeley Homes is warning that George Osborne’s latest three per cent stamp duty hike for buy to let...
07 December 2015
From: Breaking News
![Remarkable article praises buy to let and attacks Tories for killing it](/img/default/lat.png)
It is not often that a national newspaper dedicates an article to praising buy to let - and even rarer for...
30 November 2015
From: Breaking News
![Letting agents and landlords angry at buy to let stamp duty 'surcharge'](/img/default/lat.png)
There’s been an angry reaction from letting agents and landlords to the shock news that an additional three per cent stamp...
26 November 2015
From: Breaking News
![Osborne's property industry Autumn Statement announcements](/img/default/lat.png)
- From April 2016 buy to let landlords and people buying second or holiday homes will have to pay an additional...