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![Gove’s Airbnb Crackdown - Criticism building](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/shutterstock_2198282283.jpg)
There’s growing anger over restrictions on private homeowners using their properties via Airbnb and other short let platforms. Earlier this week Housing...
21 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![PropTech: yet another coup for fast-growing licensing platform](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/_licensing1-400x310.png)
PropTech firm Kamma - which specialises in information about landlord licensing - has inked another partnership. This latest link is with Goodlord. Kamma’s...
07 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Crackdown on HMOs across large London borough](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
Buy to let investors who want to convert family homes into HMOs in Hounslow for three to six tenants will now...
17 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Root and branch HMO crackdown on the agenda for council](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
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
From: Breaking News
![Anti-Social Short Lets - Airbnb reveals crackdown details](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/shutterstock_1251325300.jpg)
Airbnb claims there has been a 75 per cent drop in party reports made to Airbnb in the UK since its...
07 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![PropTech may help agents overcome client account crisis - claim](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/PropTech/PropTech2-400x310.png)
The Guild of Property Professionals says PropTech may be the answer to the ongoing problem with client accounts. Since 2019 many banks...
28 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![Short lets to be ‘banned’ from city claim landlord reps](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Misc/airbnb400x310.jpg)
A crackdown on Airbnbs and other short lets in the Scottish capital, Edinburgh, has infuriated landlord’s’ representatives. In line with the rest...
07 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Warning To Agents - compliance crackdown starting shortly](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/ComplianceStamp-400x310.jpg)
Fourteen Trading Standards authorities across a swathe of England are embarking on an enforcement project to check lettings agency compliance. The Central England...
15 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Shock figures on banks’ client accounts services to agencies](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/UK-Cash-20-400x310.jpg)
Shocking figures have emerged regarding the long-running problems caused by banks demanding that agencies have a designated client account for each...
06 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Supplier claims to conquer banks’ designated accounts problem](/upload/images/PropTech%20%26%20Online/OnlineProperty2-400x310.jpg)
A PropTech supplier says it’s created a solution to letting agents and landlords who must remain compliant and who want to...
28 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![Criminal record checks may be introduced as part of HMO rules](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/Handcuffs2-400x310.jpg)
A council says it’s considering introducing criminal record checks on individuals who apply to run HMOs as part of a wide-ranging...
24 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agents Alert - radical rental reforms shift power to tenants](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/MichaelGove2-400x310.png)
The government’s new Levelling Up White Paper, revealed this morning, includes a radical reshaping of the private rental sector. Section 21 eviction...
02 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agents urged to beware council compliance crackdown and heavy fines](/img/default/lat.png)
Agents are being warned about a crackdown on compliance issues surrounding rental property management. No Letting Go, the country’s largest provider of...
07 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Clampdown on letting agents backed by local councils](/img/default/lat.png)
A huge trading standards operation clamping down on lettings agents who fail to abide by Client Money Protection rules has been...
25 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Huge crackdown on letting agents failing to honour CMP laws](/img/default/lat.png)
A clampdown on letting agents who fail to safeguard landlords’ and tenants’ money is now underway. A statement from the National Trading Standards...
24 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Huge licensing crackdown in 2021 gives agents a chance to shine - claim](/img/default/lat.png)
A new assessment of legislation and council rules surrounding the private rental sector suggests a severe crackdown may be coming in...
02 December 2020
From: Breaking News
![Short lets like Airbnb out of control and activists want crackdown](/img/default/lat.png)
Generation Rent - an outspoken organisation sharply critical of lettings agents and many aspects of the private rental sector - is...
06 February 2020
From: Breaking News
![Dawn raids on rental properties as part of licensing crackdown](/img/default/lat.png)
Officers from a local council simultaneously staged 10 dawn raids on properties owned by unlicensed landlords. All the terraced homes, in Slough,...
24 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![New government cash for rental sector ‘nowhere near enough’](/img/default/lat.png)
The government has announced an additional £4m in funding for local councils to combat rogue agents and landlords - but it’s...
03 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![“Not enough!” - new cash to police rental sector deemed insufficient](/img/default/lat.png)
A leading trade body says the government’s latest injection of funds to help local councils root out rogue operators in the...
06 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Labour council warns of “no hiding place” in rental crackdown](/img/default/lat.png)
A statement from Hackney council in north east London says those who break its licensing provisions for the private rental sector...
21 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Trading Standards crackdown finds most agency websites illegal](/img/default/lat.png)
A crackdown on letting agency websites by a Trading Standards team has found the significant majority of them to be breaking...
30 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Big fine for landlord without HMO but letting to 11 migrant workers](/img/default/lat.png)
A landlord has been ordered to pay £14,500 after he was found to be illegally letting his property out to 11...
09 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Surge in landlords declaring unpaid tax following HMRC crackdown](/img/default/lat.png)
The number of landlords admitting to not paying tax has soared in the past year, according to new data. During 2018/2019, 16,110...
08 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Council crackdown on buy to let rogues gets new online back-up](/img/default/lat.png)
The government has beefed up its support for councils identifying and prosecuting rogue landlords. Yesterday the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local...
10 April 2019
From: Breaking News
![Dawn raid on HMO as London council continues crackdown](/img/default/lat.png)
A dawn raid on unlicensed HMOs in north London last week were the latest sign of a crackdown on rogue operators...
19 March 2019
From: Breaking News
![New funding for government crackdown on buy to let rogue operators](/img/default/lat.png)
Local authorities across the UK are to get another £2m to crack down on rogue operators in the buy to let...
08 November 2018
From: Breaking News
![New government lettings documents include updated 'How To Rent'](/img/default/lat.png)
Tenants, landlords and buy to let investors are the targets for new online rental guides introduced by the Ministry of Housing,...
27 June 2018
From: Breaking News
![More industry backing for government's crackdown on agents](/img/default/lat.png)
The Property Ombudsman is the latest property industry player to throw its support behind the introduction of mandatory qualifications and a...
04 April 2018
From: Breaking News
![Government reveals letting agents' mandatory qualification and code of conduct](/img/default/lat.png)
The government has this morning - Easter Sunday - announced a crackdown on rogue letting agents in the shape of a...
01 April 2018
From: Breaking News
![Council drops lettings licensing plan after massive backlash](/img/default/lat.png)
This is a rare story: a council has dropped a plan for a lettings licensing scheme as a result of 900...
13 February 2018
From: Breaking News
![Crackdown continues on 'self managing landlords' in Wales](/img/default/lat.png)
Landlords in Wales who manage their own properties are being reminded that they must submit their licence application to Rent Smart...
06 February 2018
From: Breaking News
![Government outlines new clampdown on private rental sector abuse](/img/default/lat.png)
The government has released more details on long-discussed proposals to tighten up licensing in the private rental sector. It wants landlords in...
28 December 2017
From: Breaking News
![Surge in Airbnb-style short lets 'is down to tax relief change'](/img/default/lat.png)
More landlords are quitting conventional letting and resorting to holiday lets or, increasingly, Airbnb-style short lets. The move is particularly acute in...
24 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Council clocks up 101 private rental criminal prosecutions](/img/default/lat.png)
More than 100 criminal prosecutions have been secured against landlords since the start of an enforcement crackdown by Brent council in...
25 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![Agents hit with fines after failing to abide by new consumer legislation](/img/default/lat.png)
Lettings agents have been issued fines totalling £14,100 by a local authority for failing to comply with consumer rights laws. Officers from...
11 January 2017
From: Breaking News
![Council pledges to reveal crackdown on HMOs next month](/img/default/lat.png)
Bexley council in south east London says it is going to announce what it describes as a “crackdown” on HMOs next...
29 June 2016
From: Breaking News
![Agents fail in their appeals against 'no redress scheme' fines](/img/default/lat.png)
Two letting agencies in the London borough of Camden have lost their appeal against fines for failing to join a redress...
01 December 2015
From: Breaking News
![Massive £85,000 fine for landlord who illegally let basement flat](/img/default/lat.png)
A landlord has a bill of more than £85,000 for unlawfully letting a basement flat. As part of a council planning enforcement...
26 October 2015
From: Breaking News
![Letting agency announces support for new immigration rules](/img/default/lat.png)
A letting agency has announced its support for new rules which will allow landlords to evict illegal immigrants without a court...