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![Eight Cabinet ministers are private landlords - and claim rent on expenses](/img/default/lat.png)
The Mirror newspaper says eight members of the new Boris Johnson-led Cabinet are buy to let investors - and it accuses...
06 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![MPs to debate impact of Universal Credit on private rental sector](/img/default/lat.png)
MPs today discuss the impact of Universal Credit on the private rented sector, in a debate prompted by the Liberal Democrat’s...
09 January 2018
From: Breaking News
![Best letting agents named at glittering ESTAS bash](/img/default/lat.png)
Over 1,000 guests celebrated the success of the industry at the 14th annual ESTAS awards on Friday. The event, which is sponsored...
15 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Industry pours scorn and derision on fees ban consultation](/img/default/lat.png)
The government’s formal consultation on its proposed ban for fees levied on tenants by agents has been greeted with derision and...
10 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Developers and investors lobby government for more Build To Rent](/img/default/lat.png)
Developers and investors have written to housing minister Brandon Lewis proposing a three-point action plan that could see more than 250,000...
06 June 2016
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...
22 April 2016
From: Breaking News
![Housing minister claims buy to let tax changes will create a fairer system](/img/default/lat.png)
Housing minister Brandon Lewis has backed the raft of measures seen by many as anti-buy to let, including the restriction on...
21 April 2016
From: Breaking News
![Government to unveil new lettings measures - in Christmas week](/img/default/lat.png)
It may be almost Christmas but the government is this week unveiling new laws to combat what it sees as the...
21 December 2015
From: Breaking News
![New lettings laws likely: minimum bedroom size and HMOs redefined](/img/default/lat.png)
The government is proposing a national minimum bedroom size and a re-defining of what constitutes a House in Multiple Occupation in...
09 November 2015
From: Breaking News
![Councils told new law renders local licensing schemes redundant](/img/default/lat.png)
Local councils are being urged to drop landlord licensing schemes following the publication of new laws showing that they are not...
15 October 2015
From: Breaking News
![New scheme shows Build To Let expanding further into the provinces](/img/default/lat.png)
Mixed-use developer Muse says it will submit plans for a 100-unit Build To Let scheme at part of a retail, office...
23 September 2015
From: Breaking News
![Industry body wants S21 delay after major drafting errors](/img/default/lat.png)
A major drafting error in Government regulations affecting the private rented sector risks undermining confidence in the new Section 21 legislation...
17 September 2015
From: Breaking News
![Government confirms no ban on letting agent fees in England](/img/default/lat.png)
The government has confirmed that it has no plan to ban letting agency fees in England. Fees are already banned in Scotland...
16 September 2015
From: Breaking News
![Government puts Build To Let at heart of private rental strategy](/img/default/lat.png)
Housing minister Brandon Lewis has made it clear that Build To Let - the investment by institutions to build and then...
10 September 2015
From: Breaking News
![Boris backs lettings reform and banning rogue agents](/img/default/lat.png)
London Mayor and Tory leadership wannabee Boris Johnson wants rogue operators in the private rental sectors to be banned with repeat...
08 September 2015
From: Breaking News
![Pensioner buy-to-let hotspots revealed](/img/default/lat.png)
Brandon in Suffolk is the most profitable location for pensioners to invest in buy-to-let property with an average yield of 8.59%. This...
25 August 2015
From: Breaking News
![Government U-turn on longer private sector tenancies](/img/default/lat.png)
Housing minister Brandon Lewis has backtracked on suggestions that the government may introduce longer standard tenancy agreements in the private rental...
17 August 2015
From: Breaking News
![Letting agents could be blacklisted under new regulations](/img/default/lat.png)
Letting agents and other industry professionals are being consulted ver changes to the sector’s regulation - including possible blacklisting of rogue...
05 August 2015
From: Breaking News
![Controversial sub-letting idea kicked into the long grass](/img/default/lat.png)
The government appears to be trying to push its controversial idea to allow much more tenant-led sub-letting of private rented property...
09 July 2015
From: Breaking News
![Government put on the spot over landlord licensing schemes](/img/default/lat.png)
The government’s apparent opposition to council-wide landlord licensing schemes will be put to the test in the coming weeks following a...
12 June 2015
From: Breaking News
![Airbnb stunt to publicise changes in short lets rules](/img/default/lat.png)
Airbnb is letting out a two-bedroom floating house on the Thames to publicise the changes in short term letting rules in...
20 May 2015
From: Breaking News
![A victory V sign to the housing sector?](/img/default/lat.png)
The Conservatives’ election victory came as a surprise, so much so that television pundits spent all night after the vote rubbishing...
15 May 2015
From: Features
![Brandon Lewis should be in Cabinet says ARLA](/img/default/lat.png)
The Association of Residential Letting Agents is the latest industry voice to say that Brandon Lewis, the newly-reappointed housing minister, should...
15 May 2015
From: Breaking News
![Government decides to keep Lewis as housing minister](/img/default/lat.png)
The quick-off-the-mark Residential Landlords Association appeared to earn brownie points for the entire private rental sector by sending a congratulatory message...
13 May 2015
From: Breaking News
![153 MPs are landlords: how many from tomorrow?](/img/default/lat.png)
An analysis by The Guardian newspaper shows that 153 MPs from the last Parliament declared an income from renting out at...