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10 January 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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Today sees the return of MPs to Parliament following the Christmas break, and one early task is to hear oral evidence...
08 January 2018
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The Communities and Local Government committee of MPs will on Monday hear their first oral evidence of the year for the...
05 January 2018
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The government has announced new minimum space requirements for private lettings in a bid to reduce problems of overcrowding. In addition to...
02 January 2018
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The Association of Residential Letting Agents and other trade bodies have not yet responded to the government’s announcement over the holiday...
02 January 2018
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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
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The selective licensing scheme operated by Newham council in London is reported to have won government backing to be extended until...
05 December 2017
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A database of rogue letting agents and landlords and new banning orders, first promised in the Housing and Planning Act announced...
04 December 2017
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You have only until 11.45pm tonight to have your say on government proposals to clamp down on letting and managing agents...
29 November 2017
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The Communities and Local Government Select Committee says it is to begin “pre-legislative scrutiny” of proposals to ban tenant fees imposed...
20 November 2017
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A trade body says there are 15 formal government consultations going on within the private rental sector - and now it’s...
20 November 2017
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One of the government’s three approved official redress providers says companies operating in the Rent-to-Rent sector should be obliged to join...
16 November 2017
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The will exists in the private rental sector to provide the longer term tenancies advocated by the government, says a trade...
10 November 2017
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Yet another formal government consultation is under way, this time into smoke and carbon monoxide alarms in the private rental sector...
09 November 2017
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A campaigning letting agent says that at the start of this financial year the total cash value of deposits held in...
30 October 2017
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Kitemark-style scheme SAFEagent is calling on the government to ensure plans to make Client Money Protection schemes mandatory are not ignored...
26 October 2017
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Industry figures have broadly welcomed the latest consultations and proposed additional regulation for the lettings sector, announced by the government yesterday. The...
19 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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Plans for new measures regarding leasehold tenancies to help create “a fairer property management system that works for everyone” have been...
18 October 2017
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Agents have until November 24 - two days after the next Budget - to submit evidence to the latest probe into...
16 October 2017
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The powerful and all-party Communities & Local Government Select Committee of MPs has launched a new enquiry into improving the quality...
13 October 2017
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The Association of Residential Letting Agents has welcomed the government commitment to introduce regulation for agencies - but it is warning...
03 October 2017
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A trade body is seeking volunteers to meet with government officials to discuss future initiatives for the private rental sector. The volunteers...
08 September 2017
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A council claims that up to 13,000 private landlords are “of interest” to HM Revenue and Customs, where there are alleged...
15 August 2017
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The Welsh Government is now kicking off a similar consultation process to that conducted by the Department for Communities and Local...
21 July 2017
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A minister at the Departrment of Communities and Local Government has set out the government’s position in terms of the fire-related...
05 July 2017
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At the latest meeting of the Fair Fees Forum, members described the current approach towards landlord licensing as a 'post code...
19 June 2017
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A group of letting agencies in Yorkshire have proposed to the government a radical alternative to the proposed fees ban -...
05 June 2017
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The anti-letting agency fee pressure group Generation Rent is urging its supporters to participate in the government formal consultation over agents’...
27 April 2017
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Twenty agency groups have backed a call by the Association of Residential Letting Agents urging the government to extend or scrap its...
26 April 2017
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A prominent campaigning letting and sales agent predicts that the Conservatives are likely to put their proposed ban on letting agency...
21 April 2017
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The Department of Communities and Local Government is scrapping a series of workshops for letting agents to discuss the proposed ban...
20 April 2017
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The Association of Residential Letting Agents has told its agent members that they should urgently lobby their Members of Parliament to...
18 April 2017
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The government has issued a new statement saying unequivocally that letting agents’ fees on tenants will be banned in England -...
07 April 2017
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The working group set up by the Department of Communities and Local Government to consider Client Money Protection says the scheme...
28 March 2017
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It seems prop-tech is exploding at a scary rate, and the latest brands are all trying to grab our attention by...
17 March 2017
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The government’s Housing White Paper may have made many broad pledges aimed at the private rental sector, but it still remains...
08 February 2017
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The Fair Fees Forum, a platform for letting agencies and trade bodies set up by the National Approved Lettings Scheme, has...
18 January 2017
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The Association of Residential Letting Agents is warning the government that some of its proposed changes to regulations governing HMOs may...
19 December 2016
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The number of tenancy deposit disputes reached a record high in 2015-16, but still represents only a fraction of all deposits. Figures...
27 September 2016
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An industry body has backed a Conservative MP's anti-homelessness Bill, which has been published by the Communities and Local Government Select Committee. The...
30 August 2016
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The new housing minister, Gavin Barwell, says he is behind the concept of longer tenancies for renters in the private sector. In...
09 August 2016
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The Council of Mortgage Lenders has ticked off the government for not updating its Private Landlords’ Survey for some six years...
24 March 2016
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A failed bid by a council to introduce a blanket landlord licensing scheme was both unnecessary and unjustified according to the...
24 December 2015
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The Secretary of State for Department of Communities and Local Government, Greg Clark, has rejected a council’s call for a blanket...
23 December 2015
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Councils that charge landlords for licences solely to collect information on the number of landlords in an area have been accused...
19 November 2015
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The Department of Communities and Local Government has published a summary of the 600 responses it has received to its recent...
16 November 2015
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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
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London Mayor and Tory leadership wannabee Boris Johnson wants rogue operators in the private rental sectors to be banned with repeat...
08 September 2015
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The National Landlords’ Association has met with the Home Office and the Department of Communities and Local Government - and has...
06 August 2015
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Letting agents and other industry professionals are being consulted ver changes to the sector’s regulation - including possible blacklisting of rogue...
05 August 2015
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Three multi-million pound deals will provide over 1,000 new homes specifically for private rent in London, under the government’s Build To...
19 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...