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25 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Zoopla demands mandatory training for all lettings agents](/upload/images/shutterstock_2238369719.jpg)
Zoopla lettings chiefs have told the government it should tighten up its imminent Renters Rights Bill by demanding all lettings agents...
24 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Get Stuck In! - Agents told to campaign to change Labour’s Renters Rights Bill](/upload/images/shutterstock_2250668215.jpg)
Agents are being urged to campaign to change Labour’s Renters Rights Bill to stop it damaging the lettings industry. Neil Cobbold, commercial...
22 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![No details of Renters Rights Bill until October - expert](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
David Cox, the former chief executive of ARLA Propertymark and now a senior executive at Rightmove, says it’s unlikely we’ll see...
18 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Call for Starmer to review Energy Performance Certificates](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/GreenHome-400x310.png)
There’s a call from a prominent international building science service for the new Labour government to review the Energy Performance Certificates. EPCs...
10 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Get the Rent To Rent house in order, demands Propertymark](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews2-400x310.png)
Propertymark has come out in support of the National Trading Standards Estate and Lettings Agency Team’s probe into Rent-to-Rent. NTSELAT has...
17 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Half of Tenants 'get stuck' if letting agents fail to solve problems](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/TenantDispute-400x310.png)
Half of all private renters would not know where to turn to if a letting agent failed to address a problem...
30 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Gove hits back at critics after Renters Reform Bill wins key vote](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
Michael Gove’s Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities hit back overnight at critics of the government’s Renters Reform Bill. The Bill...
25 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Tenant awareness of Renters Reform Bill very low, says charity](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews2-400x310.png)
The substantial majority of tenants are completely unaware of the Renters Reform Bill, it’s been alleged. A survey of over 2,000 private...
02 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Agents slam government for failing to win industry support for reform](/upload/images/shutterstock_1746444971(1).jpg)
The Renters Reform Bill cannot succeed without proper engagement with letting agents and landlords, Propertymark argues. According to a Freedom of Information...
31 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Problem properties hit two thirds of renters, claim lettings group](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/DamagedProperty-400x310.png)
Two thirds of private renters have experienced a problem with the quality or condition of their property in the past six...
26 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Propertymark backs extending agency regulation and decent homes standard](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/AgentHouseInHand_400x310.png)
Qualifications for property managers in the social housing sector should be extended to the private rental sector too. That’s the view of...
22 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Phil Spencer warns that Summer will be hectic for lettings sector](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Special%20Logo's/Phil%20Spencer.png)
Summer looks like it’s going to be a hectic period for lettings agents and the private rental sector according to TV...
17 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Labour to ban bidding wars and offer new anti-social behaviour rules](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
A prominent housing market commentator says Labour would introduce a tougher version of the Renters Reform Bill if it forms the...
27 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Will 2024 see the end of private rental sector licensing?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/_licensing-400x310.png)
Housing Secretary Michael Gove has given what some commentators have interpreted as a sign that private rental sector licensing from councils...
27 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Renters Reform Bill at risk if councils aren’t given more cash - MPs](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HousePrices_balancing-400x310.png)
Measures contained in the Renters Reform Bill will fail without sufficient resources to ensure they can be enforced. The warning comes from...
13 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agents list major problems with Renters Reform Bill](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/LearningAgents-400x310.png)
Propertymark has set out its pro-agency position on a range of issues contained in the Renters Reform Bill, currently trundling through...
07 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Renters Reform Bill - webinar to update agents on latest changes](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews2-400x310.png)
A webinar is being held tomorrow, aimed to urging agents to get ahead of changes to the industry likely to be...
27 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Government announces changes to Renters Reform Bill](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
Changes put forward to the Renters Reform Bill to crack down on rogue landlords, protect vulnerable residents and improve the safety of...
15 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Shock figures claim to show scale of mould on rental properties](/upload/images/shutterstock_2135683647(1).jpg)
Some 48 per cent of tenants are currently living with one or more housing disrepair issues, it’s being claimed. The problems include...
27 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Renters Reform Bill to cost letting agents millions - new analysis](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/2_MortgageCalculated.png)
The Renters Reform Bill will cost letting agents over £275m in the next decade as fewer landlords use their services. That’s the...
26 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Phil Spencer urges letting agents to go on the offensive](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Special%20Logo's/Phil%20Spencer.png)
I was surprised the other day to read statistics from the English Housing Survey about how many landlords use letting agents. In...
05 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![Older tenants will benefit most from Renters Reform Bill - claim](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Over55Tenant-400x310.png)
The Centre for Ageing Better claims older tenants will benefit most from some of the provisions in the Renters Reform Bill. As...
18 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Renters Reform Bill published - full details](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
The pro-tenant anti-landlord Renters Reform Bill has at last been published by the government which first promised it in 2019. It has...
17 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Renters Reform Bill - just a delay or a major rethink?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/BuildToRent-400x310.png)
The government has back-tracked on its decision to publish the long-awaited Renters Reform Bill this week. The Mirror newspaper reports that “procedural issues”...
10 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Renters Reform Bill - everything we know so far](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/_RentalHousingUK-400x310.png)
Housing Secretary Michael Gove says the long-awaited Renters Reform Bill, first promised in 2019, will finally be introduced into Parliament this...
09 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Renters Reform Bill - date announced](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/AgentHouseInHand_400x310.png)
The Renters’ Reform Bill is finally due to be published and introduced into Parliament next week. Housing Secretary Michael Gove has told Sky...
04 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Revealed - the cost of improving a rental home’s EPC](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/shutterstock_1188343747.jpg)
New analysis of the English Housing Survey by the Building Research Establishment has found that excessively cold homes in England could...
02 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![MPs' idea for Rental Sector Ombudsman slammed by letting agents](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews1-400x310.png)
Propertymark has hit out at a proposal from a group of MPs that there should be a single Ombudsman covering the...
13 February 2023
From: Breaking News
![Make evictions even tougher to execute - Baroness speaks out](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Eviction-400x310.png)
The activist group Generation Rent is backing a call by MPs for the government to tighten up proposals to scrap Section...
10 February 2023
From: Breaking News
![Labour launches major review of private rental sector](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Viewing-Tenants-400x310.png)
The Labour Party is to launch a major review of the private rental sector, led by the head of a London...
30 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Gove urged to appoint a ‘Healthy Housing Minister’](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Buy-to-let-400x310.png)
Housing Secretary Michael Gove is being asked to take urgent action over housing conditions across social and private rental sectors. Following the...
13 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Councils given public cash to tackle poor rental housing standards](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/AgentHouseInHand_400x310.png)
Three councils will be sharing £1.21m in public cash over the next two years to tackle poor quality properties in the...
06 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agents and Labour back Gove’s clampdown on private rental sector](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/RightToRent1-400x310.png)
Propertymark has given its backing to a clampdown by Housing Secretary Michael Gove on private landlords - although landlords themselves appear...
25 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Ignore Critics! Rental reform popular with vast majority of industry - claim](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Compliance-2-400x310.png)
The large majority of players in the lettings industry wants the rental reform programme outlined by the government, an agent claims. Laura...
23 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agents should have policies on minimum housing standards - Propertymark](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/UKHomes--1-400x310.png)
Propertymark says letting agents should have clear policies and priorities to help ensure properties are kept to the highest standards possible. The...
23 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Decent Homes Standard - councils need massive resources to enforce it](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/NewBuild-2-400x310.png)
Propertymark backs government plans to introduce a social housing-style Decent Homes Standard in the private sector. But it says there must be...
11 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Government delay is pushing landlords away says leading agent](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/BusinessChain-400x310.png)
The time taken to introduce legislation reforming the private rented sector is triggering an exodus of landlords, a lettings industry chief...
28 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Labour's plans for private renting - if it wins the next election](/img/default/lat.png)
Shadow housing minister Lisa Nandy has unveiled a Charter for Renters which she says will be implemented within 100 days of...
27 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rental properties are getting smaller, claims new survey](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/CoinsHouses-2019-400x310.jpg)
Private renters’ average floor space per person in England has fallen by 16 per cent over the past 20 years while...
21 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agency warns government - don’t forget small scale landlords](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/Visit-400x310.png)
A leading lettings agency has warned the government not to forget the importance of small-scale landlords in its plans for the...
07 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![What’s your view on Rental Reform proposals? An unusual invitation…](/upload/images/Back-link-images/Man%20with%20a%20speaker.jpg)
Agents are being invited to comment on the government’s Fairer Private Rented Sector White Paper. And unusually the invitation comes not from any...
03 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![MPs want agent feedback on Rental Reform - but be quick…](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/HousesofParliament-3-400x310.jpg)
Agents have only four weeks to respond to a committee of MPs’ ‘call for evidence’ ahead of an investigation into the...
25 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![White Paper fall-out - private rental sector set to contract](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/Parliament-Summer-400x310.jpg)
It looks as if the private rental sector will contract as a result of the threat of new regulations contained in...
04 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Public kick back against rental reform proposals](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/Protest-400x310.jpg)
An interesting survey conducted by the Lincolnshire Live news website suggests a lack of support for some proposals in the government’s...
24 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![Zoopla backs rental reforms despite agents’ reservations](/upload/images/Logos/ZooplaNewLogo2016-400x310.jpg)
Zoopla - which in recent years has gone out of its way to win agent support - has come out strongly...
17 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rental Reform White Paper - full details here](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/HappyLandlord-400x310.jpg)
The government has released the full details of what it calls the Fairer Private Rented Sector White Paper. This is to form...
16 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![Is rental reform a distraction from government failures elsewhere?](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/HousesofParliament-3-400x310.jpg)
A prominent lettings industry supplier has asked whether the earlier-than-expected arrival of the rental reform white paper was a distraction from...
16 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rental Reforms to be unveiled by government tomorrow](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/ParliamentView-400x310.jpg)
What looks suspiciously like a government leak to the Daily Mail says the long-awaited Rental Reform White Paper will be unveiled...
15 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![Section 21 and rental legal threats under discussion at webinar](/upload/images/Back-link-images/computer_2.jpg)
A property law expert is aiming to demystify the upcoming rental legislation for agents at a webinar tomorrow. Robert Bolwell, senior partner...
15 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![Redress expert to tell agents latest news on rental reform](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/agent_and_homes_360x280.png)
Sean Hooker, head of redress at the Property Redress Scheme, will discuss the latest rental reform proposals and answer letting agents'...
19 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rental Reform aimed mostly at north of England, government admits](/upload/images/Locations/EnglandMap-400x310.jpg)
The government is admitting that its rental reform agenda is aimed primarily at the north of England - which just happens...
12 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Inventories key to ensuring agents comply with law, claims supplier](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/HousingMarket2020-400x310.jpg)
Inventories are a key tool to ensuring they, and the properties they let, comply with the law. That’s the claim from industry...
04 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![PropTech Today – supporting smarter, more streamlined enforcement with PropTech](/upload/images/PropTech%20%26%20Online/PropTech-TouchScreen-400x310.jpg)
Housing is back on the political agenda with a bang. The government’s new Levelling Up White Paper sets out sweeping reforms...
23 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Automation set to help agents meet Levelling Up agenda](/upload/images/PropTech%20%26%20Online/OnlineAgentConcept-400x310.jpg)
A PropTech supplier claims that increased automation can help letting agents meet the demands of the government’s Levelling Up agenda. Openview –...
24 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Clampdown on agents by council officers with qualifications](/upload/images/Locations/GreaterLondon-400x310.jpg)
The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan wants is introducing a new qualification and training for borough council housing enforcement officers to...
17 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Further Rental Reform White Paper scheduled for the spring](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/HousesofParliament-3-400x310.jpg)
It’s now been made clear that there will be a detailed White Paper in the spring explaining radical changes to the...
07 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Who’s going to police new higher standards for rental sector?](/upload/images/Logos/ARLA-PropertyMark-400x310.jpg)
ARLA Propertymark has identified a key weakness in the government’s ambitious plans to reform the private rental sector as part of...
03 February 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
![Mandatory register and redress for landlords to be revealed this week](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/landlord-licencing400x310.png)
A radical shake up of the private rental sector is expected to be announced tomorrow by Housing Secretary Michael Gove. The main...
01 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Give tenants power to trigger energy improvements - Generation Rent](/img/default/lat.png)
Campaign group Generation Rent says private tenants could miss out on an energy efficiency drive if they are not given the...
31 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Rental sector can do more to raise housing standards - PropTech chief](/img/default/lat.png)
A leading PropTech expert says there’s still more that can be done by the rental sector to drive up the quality...
18 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![More tenant-power and rent controls demanded by key think-tank](/img/default/lat.png)
An influential think tank is calling on government to radically reform the private rental sector because a generation of young people...