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The Information Commissioner’s Office has issued advice to agencies on how to comply with data protection law.  The UK data protection regulator...

A warning has gone out to politicians from lettings agency trade body ARLA Propertymark - don’t try to fix a system...

The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan wants is introducing a new qualification and training for borough council housing enforcement officers to...

A major Select Committee of MPs has launched an enquiry into so-called exempt rental sector accommodation - a niche sector that...

The government has released new forms for secure and assured tenancies - and agents who fail to use them risk having...

The government has announced changes to tenancy notice periods in line with the phased easing of the pandemic restrictions.  Whilst some notice...

The ban on private rental evictions in Scotland has been formally extended by two months, with a high expectation that a...

A top property law firm is questioning whether the government’s current eviction moratorium - effectively banning evictions until mid-January at the...

The main trade body representing lettings agents has described the government’s latest eviction ban as “a further blow” for the sector. At...

The government has formally announced a pause in evictions in England until January 11 at the earliest. The only exceptions to this...

Labour has written to Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick demanding the return of the eviction ban - even though, to all intents...

It is thought likely that the new four week lockdown in England coming into effect on Thursday will mean evictions will...

The government has accused campaign group Generation Rent of peddling “unreliable and misleading” figures about potential evictions in the private rental...

A definitive document has been published by the House of Commons library listing every eviction-related measure taken by UK governments during...

Ahead of the evictions ban being lifted on Sunday, ARLA Propertymark has written to Housing Minister Robert Jenrick, setting out a...

Landlords operating in England are increasingly seeking evictions advice from their Scottish counterparts, according to property management firm Apropos. The platform says...

Last month, we were all caught by the surprise news that the government was extending the temporary ban on evictions just...

Agents and landlords must now give tenants six months’ notice before they can evict, except in the most serious of cases,...

The Generation Rent campaign group has written to Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick demanding answers to five questions regarding the eviction extension...

The government has made a last minute U-turn on the eviction ban - extending it for four weeks until September 20. Housing...

The housing minister says the resumption of eviction possession court cases at the end of next month must be done in...

A lettings sector trade body, acting with homelessness charities, is urging the government to do more as young people in rented...

The National Residential Landlords Association has dismissed the latest claims by campaigning charity Shelter that landlords have not done enough to...

The extension to the evictions ban will compound the suffering of victims of domestic violence and anti-social behaviour. That’s the view of...

A lettings sector group says there was never any eviction crisis looming for private tenants, contrary to a slew of recent claims. New independent...

A leading trade body is pleading with the government not to make it harder for landlords or their agent representatives to...

Fergus Wilson, arguably Britain’s most controversial landlord and almost certainly the individual with the largest number of buy to lets in...

There’s been general support for last week’s judgment by the High Court that the government’s Right To Rent policy breaches human...

The industry’s first property management franchise scheme, SDL Property Partners, has been given a presentation on how members could be key...