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The government has written to Conservative MPs promising changes to the Renters Reform Bill to ease concerns over its anti-landlord bias. Jacob...

The chief executive of Propertymark has made an outspoken attack on the government in response to its latest attempt to extract...

The Budget on Wednesday will contain a £300m tax raid on the rental sector according to a report this morning -...

Labour has waded into the increasingly-fractious debate over the Renters Reform Bill. Activists in groups such as the Renters Reform Coalition and...

According to the BBC, the Government is no longer committed to increase the amount disabled people in England can claim to...

An event which claims to change the fortunes of letting agents has been recognised by the Professional Speakers Academy. Agent Rainmaker Live...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has given what some commentators have interpreted as a sign that private rental sector licensing from councils...

The government has pledged that section 21 repossessions will not be scrapped until improvements have been made to the way courts...

Propertymark has fired a broadside at Labour saying it must provide agents with a proper court system to handle evictions. Labour deputy leader...

The Leaders Romans Group of lettings agencies has signed a deal with the National Residential Landlords Association. LRG will become the NRLA’s...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove will address the main Conservative party Conference on Tuesday morning next week - but perhaps his most...

The Renters Reform Bill is being discussed by MPs this afternoon - although not as part of its long-running passage through...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is today charing a crisis meeting of mortgage lenders, as calls mount for him to take action to...

Two prominent trade bodies representing elements of the private rental sector are fighting back against the latest attempt to impose rent...

The main landlord body wants more details behind the soundbite rhetoric of the Renters Referm Bill, launched today in Parliament. Ben Beadle,...

  The Renters’ Reform Bill is finally due to be published and introduced into Parliament next week. Housing Secretary Michael Gove has told Sky...

Landlords and agents acting on their behalf are to be given more powers to evict unruly tenants who ruin neighbours’ lives...

A warning letter signed by 330 major players in the private rental sector has been delivered to Housing Secretary Michael Gove. The...

A prominent letting agent has written an open letter to Housing Secretary Michael Gove, calling for a halt on government attacks...

Labour’s Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, held a summit yesterday about the capital’s private rental sector - but he did not...

The landlords’ main trade body is directly challenging a Tory MP who has called for a rent freeze. Natalie Elphicke - in...

Agents are being invited to comment on the government’s Fairer Private Rented Sector White Paper. And unusually the invitation comes not from any...

The Property Investor Show is back for its 20th year with 100 property sector experts and exhibitors in London this week. The...

New research commissioned by the landlords’ trade body shows that the UK needs almost 230,000 new private rented homes a year...

The National Residential Landlords Association says average rent debt owed by tenants as a direct result of the pandemic is still...

Baroness Alicia Kennedy, the director of Generation Rent, is to be one of the speakers in a debate at the ARLA...

Landlords in Wales have been told that rules giving tenants six months’ notice to vacate a property will remain in place...

Private tenants and landlords across the country face a cliff edge as the end of furlough coincides with cuts to benefit...

Research by a lettings sector trade body has revealed precisely how outdated some regulations are.  According to the latest analysis, by the...

The head of the tenants’ campaign group Generation Rent has condemned the government as “reckless” for ending the eviction ban on May...

Letting agents body ARLA Propertymark has joined the criticism of London Mayor Sadiq Khan who wants to be given the power...

Rent guarantees and upfront cash payments from local authorities are the most effective means of opening the private rented sector to...

ARLA Propertymark says its disappointed over the latest extension to an eviction ban and the requirement for six months notice to tenants. The latest...

The government has announced a further extension to the current ban on bailiff-enforced evictions in England until May 31. At that point...

Labour says the latest extension to the ban on bailiff-enforced evictions doesn’t go far enough to help tenants. The extension to the...

The government has announced yet another ban on bailiff-enforced evictions in the private rental sector. The existing ban was due to expire...

A call has gone out for the longer-term buy to let rental sector to have a similar tax regime as the largely-unregulated...

There’s widespread concern that a freeze on the Local Housing Allowance will worsen rental arrears. Although Chancellor Rishi Sunak failed to mention...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has been accused of causing needless fear for renters by claiming all those in arrears due to...

The largest survey yet conducted about rent payments during the pandemic shows the claims of pressure groups about widespread evictions are unfounded. Over...

The Welsh Government has launched a new Tenancy Saver Loans scheme to allow tenants to borrow to pay off arrears built up...

ARLA Propertymark has expressed its pleasure that the eviction ban, already extended by two months, will now expire at the end...

The government appears to have confirmed that the evictions ban will end in late August and courts will resume hearing possession...

The extension to the evictions ban will compound the suffering of victims of domestic violence and anti-social behaviour. That’s the view of...

Landlords have expressed disappointment at the government decision to extend the ban on evictions by a further two months.  It will be...

A lettings sector group says there was never any eviction crisis looming for private tenants, contrary to a slew of recent claims. New independent...

A leading trade body is backing calls by MPs for additional financial support to tenants during the Coronavirus crisis. The National Residential...

A leading trade body is pleading with the government not to make it harder for landlords or their agent representatives to...

The Generation Rent pressure group is wrong to claim that the majority of landlords are failing to support tenants needing help...

The new National Residential Landlords Association has backed calls from the Labour Mayor of London to ensure the benefits system covers...

One of the lettings sector’s biggest trade bodies is calling on government to make a clear statement to help landlords who...

The chief executive of a new lettings sector trade body is to address his first conference next month, giving an indication...

This month sees the launch of a new trade body for the lettings sector - the National Residential Landlords Association. It’s the...

Ben Beadle is to be the chief executive of the new National Residential Landlords Association, launching in January. The new body comes...