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A new guide from Propertymark explains the rights which private rental tenants have - and sets out how they can challenge...

Propertymark is urging the Sunak government to introduce specialist housing courts with expert Judges who can expedite cases and create a...

A deposit alternative service claims online searches by tenants reflect increased uncertainty over affordability. Deposit alternatives are under scrutiny at the moment...

One of the players in the controversial Deposit Alternative field is stepping up its case for this kind of service to...

The average rental deposit in the UK is now £1,434, based on the requirement that a deposit is set at up...

The Competition and Markets Authority’s in depth investigation into the controversial deposit alternative concept has been welcomed by one of the...

Propertymark is backing a call for financial help for landlords who improve the energy efficiency of their properties. The think tank E3G...

The new Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service - introduced this month - will make possession court case delays even worse. That’s the...

Citizens Advice is calling on the government to provide an unspecified amount of assistance to renters during the current cost of...

Citizens Advice is the latest charity to argue for improved housing standards in the private rental sector. It claims that its research...

Trading Standards is calling for more due diligence checks to be made following the jailing of a rogue letting agent for...

A county council is urging people to complain if they believe letting agents are failing to comply with consumer legislation. Staffordshire county...

More than one in eight private renters may miss out on support to cope with rising energy costs, Citizens Advice claims.  The...

The Citizens Advice consumer charity is warning that fake investment scams are amongst the fraudulent activity that’s on the rise across...

A charity is calling for a new national body to oversee the private rental sector. Citizens Advice makes this one of three...

Another council wants an extension to the existing ban on bailiff-enforced evictions, which is scheduled to end on February 22.  Yesterday our...

The charity Citizens Advice - which claims a “unique, real-time insight into the challenges people are facing as a result of Coronavirus"...

A charity claims that private tenants in the areas with the higher tiers of Coronavirus measures face “harsh enforcement” if they...

Consumer charity Citizens Advice has given guidance to student tenants who may have to return home early this term because of...

The Citizens Advice charity claims that new figures suggest concern is building amongst renters about the possibility of losing their home.  It...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is urging its members to write to their MPs over the provision of cash help...

Letting agents and landlords in Wales can now direct struggling tenants to a new independent advice service. The Private Rented Sector Helpline...

ARLA and the NRLA have teamed up with charities - some usually critical of letting agents and landlords - to lobby...

The Citizens Advice charity is calling for tenants with arrears directly created by the Coronavirus to be offered government grants to...

The Citizens Advice charity is warning it has seen a huge surge in private renters worried about arrears.  And it says many...

Labour has thrown its weight behind campaigning pressure groups in a general call to avoid what the party’s housing spokeswoman calls...

Campaigning organisations that demanded an extension to the evictions ban imposed because of the Coronavirus crisis have been quick to return...

Citizens Advice claims that in the two months since the lockdown began it has helped over 10,000 people with issues related...

A consumer group wants buy to let properties to be re-let only if the tenants in them want to move. The call...

A group of private rental activists says Labour proposals to give tenants two years to repay arrears accrued during the virus...

A consumer charity has been blasted by a landlords' trade body for making “irresponsible” claims about tenants and the Coronavirus crisis. Research...

The Citizens Advice charity is the latest organisation to call for more help for private tenants following what appears to be...

The government’s announcement that no new eviction proceedings from either social or private rented accommodation can start for at least three...

Good morning and welcome to the industry’s daily update on how we cope with the challenge of social distancing and self-isolation...

Citizens Advice wants the next government to radically alter the private rental sector in favour of tenants.  The charity’s 2019 election manifesto,...

Three criminals have been sentenced after pleading guilty to money laundering involving an online lettings agency. The sentences follow an investigation spearheaded...

Consumer charity Citizens’ Advice says government proposals to reform or possibly scrap S21 eviction rights do not go far enough.  The group...

London Trading Standards has made the startling claim that 46 per cent of almost 2,000 agents it has surveyed are falling...

The Labour Party appears to be entering the arena of organising private rental sector tenants who have grievances. Party leader Jeremy Corbyn...

The vast majority of letting agents and private landlords with experience of using the courts to repossess properties say the system...

Weak regulation of private renting is leaving hundreds of thousands of tenants living in hazardous homes in England, claims Citizens Advice. A...

The consumer charity Citizens Advice has hailed the Tenant Fees Act and the ban on letting agents’ charges to renters as...

The government has issued new guidance notes on the Tenant Fees Act, aimed at agents, landlords and tenants. The publications come ahead...

The Residential Landlords Association says the government’s changes to Universal Credit don’t go far enough to prevent rent arrears. The RLA says...

The government’s new redress system, announced last week and to be implemented later this year, must be free for renters to...

The chief executive of the Citizens Advice consumer charity says she wants government “to do even more to strengthen the hand...

A call has been made for the Tenants’ Fees Bill to be made even stricter following a claim that over a...

Trading Standards departments in London are asking renters to name and shame letting agents who are not complying with the law...

Last week Shelter and the National Housing Federation took a swipe at lettings agents, and now Citizens Advice has joined the...

Tenants, landlords and buy to let investors are the targets for new online rental guides introduced by the Ministry of Housing,...

A national charity is calling on the government to tighten the 'default fees' clause which is part of the Tenant Fees...

The Citizens Advice consumer charity claims that 28 per cent of private tenants who have experienced problems while renting have not...

A consumer group says that the Tenants Fees Bill - which will eventually ban letting agents’ fees levied on renters -...

London’s Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has repeated his criticism of the government’s decision to cap security deposits at the level of...

Pressure from the consumer lobby is building for the introduction of a ban on letting agents’ fees levied on tenants -...

Private renters aren’t pressing agents and landlords to carry out repairs to their home over fears they’ll be evicted, claims Citizens...

The consumer group Citizens Advice says it welcomes the Queen’s Speech confirmation of the upcoming ban on letting agents’ fees levied...

A survey conducted for a property sales platform shows a very substantial majority of the public against any agents' fees being...

Citizens Advice has spoken out about soon-to-be-banned letting agent fees charged to tenants. The organisation's 'A State of Disrepair' report says that...

Agents, tenants and landlords on Jersey in the Channel Islands are to receive updated advice on the returning of deposits.   ITV News...

Citizens Advice says some 39 per cent of people living with their children in rented homes have a tenancy of six months...

Councils have been told to up their game to protect tenants from a minority of landlords providing sub-standard accommodation.   The call, being...

Two charities that have been at the forefront of campaigns to have a ban on letting agents’ fees on tenants have...

Three quarters of a million private renters are stuck in the coldest and draughtiest homes, claims the Citizens Advice organisation -...

SAFEagent, the kitemark scheme for agents offering Client Money Protection, has backed the National Approved Lettings Scheme's (NALS) call for a...

Citizens Advice has recorded an increase in the number of problems with letting agents reported by tenants, with a sharp rise...

A report from Citizens Advice claims to show that a city’s letting agents charge a complex array of fees - with...

Citizens Advice claims that 2,087 people asked it for help after being threatened with what it describes as ‘illegal eviction’ in...

The Citizens Advice Bureau consumer charity has stepped up its campaign about poor standards in the private rental sector. It claims private...

It’s been a bad weekend for the image of the private rental sector with a series of reports and press stories...

The Citizens Advice charity is urging people to lobby for more controls over the private rental sector, letting agents and landlords,...

This month has marked a real change in the way the private lettings sector is perceived - and it’s a perception...

The Citizens Advice organisation has returned to the attack on the private rental sector, accusing rogue landlords of raking in £5.6...

The Residential Landlords Association is calling for better enforcement of existing laws and regulations to protect tenants in private rented housing. In...

The National Landlords Association has accused the Citizens Advice report of using “loose definitions to compound a perception that private housing...