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12 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Renters Reform Bill at risk if councils aren’t given more cash - MPs](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HousePrices_balancing-400x310.png)
Measures contained in the Renters Reform Bill will fail without sufficient resources to ensure they can be enforced. The warning comes from...
13 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
![Many councils enforcing rental regulations face ‘effective bankruptcy’](/upload/images/shutterstock_2192453705.jpg)
A survey of local authorities in some of the poorest areas of the country - bodies which enforce many private rental...
06 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agency boss who pledged lettings surge resigns after failure](/upload/images/Resignation%202.jpg)
A chief executive who pledged to beef up her agency’s lettings division - but failed to do so - is leaving...
18 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks lettings division to be slashed as agency's failure deepens](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/LearningAgents-400x310.png)
The chief executive of Purplebricks, who eight weeks ago claimed to have “a plan to grow our lettings business”, is now...
20 February 2023
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks lettings division losses to be revealed next week](/upload/images/Logos/Purplebricks2019Logo-1-400x310.jpg)
The financial fall out from Purplebricks’ disastrous lettings compliance crisis is likely to be revealed next week. The troubled agency says it...
26 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![HMRC owed £270,000 by bankrupt lettings agent - court case halted](/upload/images/Back-link-images/equity%20release%20calculator(2).jpg)
Proceedings against a bankrupt letting agent have been delayed 10 weeks to allow mental health reports to be prepared. Madelaina Eftekhari is...
04 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agency cleared of part in ‘Ghost Tenants’ lettings scandal](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/Court-Fine-400x310.jpg)
A London lettings agency - that has now entered bankruptcy - has been cleared of any involvement in a rental scandal...
04 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![Five things agents dislike about tenant referencing](/img/default/lat.png)
Tenant referencing. It’s a necessary evil. Although most tenants are responsible and pay their rent on time, broke swindlers with dubious...
04 March 2021
From: Sponsored Content
![Crooked agent escapes prison after stealing almost £30,000](/img/default/lat.png)
A crooked lettings agent stole almost £30,000 from dozens of clients to prevent his business from going bankrupt. Tim Catherall, of Nottinghamshire,...
28 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Baroness kicks off campaign to have all arrears evictions suspended](/img/default/lat.png)
A pro-tenant campaign group has this morning kicked off its campaign to have the eviction ban - already extended until late...
01 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Longer eviction ban will hurt most vulnerable and damage rental sector](/img/default/lat.png)
A prominent figure in the lettings industry has warned that any extension to the current evictions ban would risk hurting the...
03 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Call for loans-for-landlords as part of anti-eviction plan](/img/default/lat.png)
The Chartered Institute of Housing has published proposals aimed at avoiding a spike in private rental sector evictions when the current...
02 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Labour’s two-year delay for rent arrears “not enough” say activists](/img/default/lat.png)
A group of private rental activists says Labour proposals to give tenants two years to repay arrears accrued during the virus...
12 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Labour wants tenants to have two years to pay back virus arrears](/img/default/lat.png)
Labour wants tenants running up arrears during the Coronavirus crisis to have two years to repay them, as part of a...
11 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![PropTech product claims breakthrough with same-day referencing](/img/default/lat.png)
A PropTech product is claiming a breakthrough for letting agents who can now access same-day referencing on prospective tenants. LetAlliance claims that...
11 June 2019
From: Breaking News
![Scandal: Agent steals £350,000 but pays back just one pound](/img/default/lat.png)
A lettings agent who stole over £350,000 is reported to have been told to pay back…£1. Local media in the south of...
27 March 2019
From: Breaking News
![New online agency will get reviews of tenants from past landlords](/img/default/lat.png)
Another online lettings agency launches in March with a claim that it “will streamline and automate the majority of admin tasks...
04 January 2019
From: Breaking News
![Government reveals letting agents' mandatory qualification and code of conduct](/img/default/lat.png)
The government has this morning - Easter Sunday - announced a crackdown on rogue letting agents in the shape of a...
01 April 2018
From: Breaking News
![Letting agent stole over £350,000 of deposits to fund lavish lifestyle](/img/default/lat.png)
The director of a lettings agency who who stole hundreds of thousands of pounds to spend on holidays and other luxuries...
16 February 2018
From: Breaking News
![ARLA backs government's U-turn on Client Money Protection measures](/img/default/lat.png)
The Association of Residential Letting Agents has given its support for what appears to be a government U-turn on Client Money...