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A coalition of higher education and student housing organisations have called on the government to make further changes to the Renters...
26 April 2024
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A national newspaper says the Renters Reform Bill is “on the brink of collapse” as Tory MPs are divided on their...
08 March 2024
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New research suggests that a majority of the British public believe the government should be doing more to support students find...
06 March 2024
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Labour has waded into the increasingly-fractious debate over the Renters Reform Bill. Activists in groups such as the Renters Reform Coalition and...
29 February 2024
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Shelter is asking for public support for radical changes to the Renters Reform Bill, now going through Parliament. The campaigning charity is...
26 February 2024
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The long-awaited Third Reading of the controversial Renters Reform Bill will not happen this week according to the Leader of the...
29 January 2024
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The first meeting has been held of the Housing Coalition, a new group including Propertymark and some landlord bodies. A statement from...
24 November 2023
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The Renters Reform Coalition - a collection of some 20 activist groups and charities demanding changes to the private rental sector...
24 October 2023
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The private rental sector could play a far greater role in helping to end homelessness in Scotland, according to a new...
21 August 2023
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The political alliance between the Scottish National Party and the Scottish Greens is likely to stay in place until 2026. Arguably the...
16 August 2023
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Housing Secretary Michael Gove is being lobbied to take urgent action over the growing problem of abandoned tenancies. Propertymark chief executive Nathan...
11 August 2023
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In a surprise move, Housing Secretary Michael Gove has given the stand-in leader of activist group Generation Rent a prime role...
17 May 2023
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Shelter is telling the government it “must deliver” on the revolution it pledges under the Renters Reform Bill. Chief executive Polly Neate...
17 May 2023
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A coalition of tenant activists has called a Day of Action to protest at delays in the government’s rental reform agenda. The...
24 February 2023
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A so-called Renters Union is organising a day of action after claiming letting agents are behind recent rent rises. London Renters Union...
14 November 2022
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It’s being reported in Scotland that Propertymark, along with other lettings sector trade bodies, are seeking legal advice on that country’s...
14 October 2022
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Campaigners who turned on the Prime Minister on Tuesday were cock-a-hoop just 24 hours later when Liz Truss did another U-turn...
13 October 2022
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Within two hours of Greg Clarke being appointed by Boris Johnson as the new Housing Secretary, the leader of Generation Rent...
08 July 2022
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An activist at the centre of a controversy involving a London letting agent has used a left-wing website to explain how...
25 April 2022
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Airbnb has backed the Scottish Government's backtrack on pledges to exercise more centralised regulation over short let properties. The country’s ruling SNP-Green coalition...
12 October 2021
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A group of rental campaign bodies have come together to claim that some 694,000 tenants apparently face eviction when the current...
15 April 2021
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ARLA and the NRLA have teamed up with charities - some usually critical of letting agents and landlords - to lobby...
01 September 2020
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One of the industry’s leading trade bodies has revealed that the number of laws creating an obligation on landlords in the...
04 November 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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Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt have been given a message from a consortium of groups this morning - Scrap Right To...
24 June 2019
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The Association of Residential Letting Agents is one of many industry groups in a new coalition calling for S21 repossessions to be...
04 June 2019
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There is a warning that the HMRC’s Let Property campaign, which received huge publicity and attention for some years, has so...
14 March 2019
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There are now well over 125 pieces of legislation and regulations - most introduced in modern times - governing the private...
13 July 2018
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The Conservatives should introduce rent controls to kick-start a seaside town renaissance, suggests an organisation set up originally by the David Cameron...
03 May 2017
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The campaigners against planned changes to mortgage interest tax relief - set to come into effect from April, phased over four...
29 December 2016
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The landlords behind the failed attempt to seek a Judicial Review of legislation reducing the mortgage interest tax relief for landlords...
07 October 2016
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The two landlords mounting a legal challenge to the mortgage interest tax changes proposed by Chancellor George Osborne have released a...
09 February 2016
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The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has teamed up with 62 other property bodies to launch “a global consultation on ethics...
29 January 2016
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As the Conservative Party conference continues, a leading Tory has warned that "there is much further to go" on removing buy...
05 October 2015
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The hearing that will determine whether there will be a judicial review of another council’s landlord licensing scheme will take place...
27 July 2015
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Nominations for Labour’s deputy leadership race close at midday today with Stella Creasy, an MP who has campaigned fiecely against letting...
17 June 2015
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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
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The head of lettings at Carter Jonas has warned the government not to rush ahead with a national rollout of immigration...
27 May 2015
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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
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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
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With the Conservatives now having an overall majority, there is speculation that the pilot immigration checks which letting agents and landlords...
11 May 2015
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After a night of remarkable election results, it looks likely that much of the residential property industry - which was strongly...
08 May 2015
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With another hung parliament looking increasingly likely, the so-called ‘challenger parties’ look set to have a major say in who forms...