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A new borough-wide landlord licensing scheme is set to launch in the London borough of Brent on April 1, the council...
27 March 2024
From: Breaking News
Owners of vacant properties are being offered an improved incentive to bring their house back into use. Plymouth council is re-launching its...
14 March 2024
From: Breaking News
A prominent rental activist is tomorrow going to tell a House of Lords committee about the need to regulate letting agents. Conor...
26 February 2024
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The number of private tenants in properties that are hard to heat has fallen, a council claims. As agents will know private...
06 February 2024
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Scottish councils must engage with letting agents and landlords if radical rental reforms have any chance of working. Propertymark argues that the...
31 January 2024
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The Liberal Democrats have called on the government to bring in an emergency ban on no fault evictions and banks repossessing people’s homes...
21 December 2023
From: Breaking News
A new action plan to tackle issues around HMOs is being drawn up by a Midlands council next week. West Northamptonshire council’s...
06 July 2023
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Belvoir’s very first franchisee, Andy Campbell, has been awarded the prestigious Belvoir Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of 27 highly successful...
03 May 2023
From: Breaking News
Propertymark is querying why there’s no help for the private rental sector to meet energy efficiency targets expressed in a new...
17 January 2023
From: Breaking News
It’s been announced that a deadline for existing hosts on AirBnb and other short let platforms to register with the Scottish...
22 December 2022
From: Breaking News
Over the next three months Redbridge council in London is consulting on proposals to renew selective licensing in the borough. It says...
14 November 2022
From: Breaking News
The new Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, has been welcomed by the agency establishment - even though some may be wondering how long...
17 October 2022
From: Breaking News
There appears to be no space for discussion on the government’s private rental sector reform policies at the Tory Party conference...
30 September 2022
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A dramatic day, which saw a Cabinet reshuffle seemingly come out of the blue, ended with Michael Gove as the new...
16 September 2021
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New guidance has been issued to agents as the government confirms that most remaining Coronavirus restrictions are to be lifted from...
14 July 2021
From: Breaking News
Tomorrow sees the start of a three-day debate over the extension of the eviction ban in Scotland - and Propertymark appears...
21 June 2021
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Greater Manchester’s Labour Mayor, Andy Burnham, says he wants to clamp down on the private rental sector. In his manifesto for next month’s...
19 April 2021
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The government has told estate agents to ensure at least one Union Jack is present in properties during both physical and...
01 April 2021
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A rent guarantor service has taken a swipe at new housing minister Chris Pincher and his recent predecessors who have not...
02 March 2020
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A London Labour council wants to introduce rent controls to its borough. The South London Press reports that Lambeth councillors have voted through...
06 February 2020
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Politicians from several parties say they want their local council in Bristol to have the powers to regulate the number and...
10 January 2020
From: Breaking News
On the day that Labour launches its proposals to reform the private rental sector, the Tories have announced so-called Lifetime Rental...
21 November 2019
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A collective of activist renter groups has set out a manifesto of what it wants from the winner of next month’s...
04 November 2019
From: Breaking News
It can be done - a council has U-turned on plans for a licensing scheme for landlords. The move by Hounslow council...
10 September 2019
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A lettings agent in London has been fined for the third time in as many years – this time for failing...
14 August 2019
From: Breaking News
The government has blocked a council rolling out selective licensing across no fewer than 3,000 homes in its patch. Under Stoke on...
13 August 2019
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The Mirror newspaper says eight members of the new Boris Johnson-led Cabinet are buy to let investors - and it accuses...
06 August 2019
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Private landlords are being asked to consider letting out their properties through the local council. Slough council is looking for flats and...
13 June 2019
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One of the most pro-licensing local authorities in the country has extended its own scheme to include the entire centre of...
05 April 2019
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Council enforcement officers have raided a house in Wembley, north London, and found 19 tenants paying a landlord £1,000 a week. Brent council’s...
08 February 2019
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An angry lettings agent has emailed Cabinet minister James Brokenshire to show his disgust at the government’s U-turn over deposit caps. In...
06 December 2018
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Croydon council is reported to have become the first local authority to back the scrapping of Section 21 of the 1988...
10 October 2018
From: Breaking News
Opposition is growing fast to the threat of another stamp duty attack on the buy to let sector, rumoured to be...
07 August 2018
From: Breaking News
A head tenant who changed the locks on a property that was illegally sublet to no fewer than 35 men has...
22 June 2018
From: Breaking News
Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, will is to reveal his vision for the private rental sector to a Residential...
16 March 2018
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Local media in Bristol say politicians in the city are considering supporting a controversial website that allows tenants to rate and...
12 March 2018
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Landlords in Wales who manage their own properties are being reminded that they must submit their licence application to Rent Smart...
06 February 2018
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At least one trade body has expressed an apparent scepticism about whether the rebranding of the Department of Communities and Local...
09 January 2018
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It’s been reported that Theresa May and her husband Philip jointly own a London apartment which is now let out and...
30 October 2017
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The Secretary of State for Wales has called on the Welsh Government to take measures against what he calls “unjust fees...
19 October 2017
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The substantial majority of landlords could soon be required to licence their properties in one London borough if the government agrees...
28 June 2017
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A senior Labour politician in a London borough has branded so-called ‘rip off landlords’ as “the scourge of London.” Councillor Laila Butt,...
03 February 2017
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A new task group is being set up to explore how a council can tackle what it calls “problems with private...
26 January 2017
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The chief executive of an agency in Stoke is offering £500 for information leading to the conviction of individuals who ransacked...
23 December 2016
From: Breaking News
Belvoir has been celebrating its very first franchise owner, 20 years ago this month - and the business, in Moray, is...
29 July 2016
From: Breaking News
The Residential Landlords’ Association says Gavin Barwell, the new housing minister appointed by Theresa May this week, is a known critic...
22 July 2016
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Haringey Council in North London is the latest local authority to launch its own letting agency for private tenants. Move 51⁰ North...
15 March 2016
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Former Conservative cabinet minister Michael Portillo and the woman behind one of the world’s most successful fragrance brands, Jo Malone, are...
29 October 2015
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About 80 per cent of tenants think that their landlords should pay for damage they have caused when their tenancy ends. That...
23 October 2015
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There has been a sharp and rapid rebuttal of comments made by new shadow chancellor John McDonnell suggesting that private sector...
29 September 2015
From: Breaking News
The council which became a standard bearer for so-called ‘landlord licensing’ - Enfield in north London - appears to have abandoned...
10 July 2015
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Britain’s tenants would overwhelmingly support the appointment of a government minister solely responsible for tenancy issues, according to agents Your Move...
29 May 2015
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This week RICS reported a further drop in the number of people putting their homes up for sale; new instructions fell...
15 May 2015
From: Features
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
Generation Rent, the pressure group advocating extensive restrictions on letting agents and private landlords, is now offering an alternative Queen’s Speech...