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![More politicians demand rent freeze and evictions ban](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/Tory-Labour-LibDem-400x310.jpg)
Welsh nationalists have called for a rent freeze and eviction ban to emulate that happening now in Scotland. Plaid Cymru, the party...
07 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agency giant announces huge jump in managed properties](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/PropertyMarket-2-400x310-min.jpg)
The Property Franchise Group says that in the past year the number of managed properties it handles has risen from 58,000...
06 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![Huge rise in guarantors as Covid rattles lettings market](/upload/images/Coronavirus/Coronavirus6-400x310-min.jpeg)
The number of prospective tenants asked to provide guarantors ahead of renting has risen by a huge 36 per cent over...
14 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Industry welcomes Gove as new Housing Secretary](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/Parliament-Night-400x310.jpg)
The property industry has broadly welcomed Michael's Gove appointment as Housing Secretary after he replaced Robert Jenrick yesterday afternoon. “We welcome today’s...
16 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![How agents can best prepare for post-pandemic business](/img/default/lat.png)
As the summer begins to draw to a close and the letting market regains its stride, attention is turning to the...
25 August 2021
From: Legislation & Compliance
![Rent controls to be introduced after deal between politicians](/img/default/lat.png)
Rent controls are to be introduced into part of the UK as a result of a deal between two political parties. The...
23 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Eviction Ban Return? Labour wants it for furloughed workers](/img/default/lat.png)
Labour shadow housing secretary Lucy Powell has resuscitated the eviction ban, this time for furloughed workers whose government support ends in...
12 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Private sector could benefit from letting to social tenants - claim](/img/default/lat.png)
A property investment platform has taken the unusual approach of accusing the government of driving up homelessness through its policy of...
15 June 2021
From: Breaking News
![Labour’s new housing chief wants to work with Tories to scrap S21](/img/default/lat.png)
Labour’s Lucy Powell, the party’s new housing spokesperson, says she wants to work with the Conservatives to scrap Section 21 eviction...
02 June 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agent anger about latest extension of six month notice period](/img/default/lat.png)
ARLA Propertymark says its disappointed over the latest extension to an eviction ban and the requirement for six months notice to tenants. The latest...
19 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Supply shortage worsened by eviction ban, claims lettings chief](/img/default/lat.png)
The head of a lettings agency says there are up to 60 enquiries for every rental property he lists - and those...
12 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Tenant loans the only answer to growing arrears, says think tank](/img/default/lat.png)
A think tank says large scale intervention in the rental market via loans to tenants is the only way of addressing...
16 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![700,000 tenants in arrears by the end of 2021 warns supplier](/img/default/lat.png)
There could be 700,000 private tenants in arrears by the end of this year - an unsustainable burden on agents and landlords,...
11 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Labour claims hundreds of S21s during Lockdown1, despite ban](/img/default/lat.png)
Labour claims over 350 households in London alone were issued with a Section 21 notice during the first lockdown in spring...
09 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![Eviction ban ends but it’s under “constant review” insists minister](/img/default/lat.png)
Housing Minister Chris Pincher says the eviction ban is formally over but the situation remains under “constant review” as the second...
21 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Industry prepares for end of evictions ban after six-month shutdown](/img/default/lat.png)
The lettings industry is today preparing for the current ban on repossessions to be lifted on Sunday with courts to hear...
18 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Evictions ban: agents set out wishlist as landlord costs top £530m](/img/default/lat.png)
Ahead of the evictions ban being lifted on Sunday, ARLA Propertymark has written to Housing Minister Robert Jenrick, setting out a...
17 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Evictions: English landlords seek advice from Scottish counterparts](/img/default/lat.png)
Landlords operating in England are increasingly seeking evictions advice from their Scottish counterparts, according to property management firm Apropos. The platform says...
15 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Anti-eviction campaigners launch last ditch call for extension](/img/default/lat.png)
Campaigners against evictions during the Coronavirus crisis have launched a last-ditch call for the government to grant another extension to the current...
14 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Phil Spencer: Agents can help ensure court evictions remain a last resort](/img/default/lat.png)
Last month, we were all caught by the surprise news that the government was extending the temporary ban on evictions just...
07 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![In full - all the new tenancy notice periods and rules](/img/default/lat.png)
Agents and landlords must now give tenants six months’ notice before they can evict, except in the most serious of cases,...
01 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Letting agents link with critics to demand public cash for renters](/img/default/lat.png)
ARLA and the NRLA have teamed up with charities - some usually critical of letting agents and landlords - to lobby...
01 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Agents’ Alert: surprise changes to notice periods](/img/default/lat.png)
In the latest twist in the long-running saga of the eviction ban, the government has revealed changes to notice periods. The changes...
28 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Agent backs eviction ban extension but wants cash help for landlords](/img/default/lat.png)
A prominent lettings agent has come out in favour of the eviction ban extension - but he wants government cash help...
27 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Rental sector relatively strong despite Covid and eviction issues](/img/default/lat.png)
The latest survey of buy to let landlords suggests a relatively healthy private rental sector notwithstanding the challenges of the Coronavirus...
26 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Buy To Let sector warned: Stand by for a Winter of Discontent](/img/default/lat.png)
A specialist mortgage operator is warning letting agents and landlords to gear up for a winter of discontent as a result...
25 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Charity demands grants for tenants with Coronavirus arrears](/img/default/lat.png)
The Citizens Advice charity is calling for tenants with arrears directly created by the Coronavirus to be offered government grants to...
25 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![“Devastating” - fears for industry after government U-turn](/img/default/lat.png)
One of the leading figures in the lettings industry has described the government’s eviction ban U-turn as “devastating.” Paul Shamplina, founder of...
24 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Exactly what the ban extension means to agents and tenants](/img/default/lat.png)
The Law Society has set out exactly what the extension of the eviction ban, announced on Friday, means to agents, landlords...
24 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Generation Rent in last-ditch bid to keep evictions ban](/img/default/lat.png)
The Generation Rent pressure group has made a last-ditch argument in favour of keeping the evictions ban, which will lapse at the...
21 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Anti-agent group to protest in 10 or more cities this weekend](/img/default/lat.png)
The anti-letting agent group ACORN is to stage protests in 10 to 15 UK cities this weekend according to an activists’...
20 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Labour likens evictions ban ending to Tories’ exams fiasco](/img/default/lat.png)
Labour’s housing spokeswoman says “after the incompetent handling of the exams fiasco, the government must act now to avoid more chaos...
20 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Labour and LibDems claim evictions may cause ‘homelessness wave’](/img/default/lat.png)
A group of Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs have together claimed that England could witness "a new wave of homelessness" when...
18 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Generation Rent returns to warpath over eviction fears](/img/default/lat.png)
The campaigning pressure group Generation Rent has returned to the battle to win an extension to the current evictions ban in...
17 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Shelter expects evictions “deluge” but wants public cash](/img/default/lat.png)
The chief executive of campaigning charity Shelter says she is expecting a “deluge” of cases when the eviction ban ends, but...
24 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Activists make last-ditch bid to keep evictions ban indefinitely](/img/default/lat.png)
Activists who praised the government for its eviction ban in recent months have now turned on it in a last-ditch attempt...
06 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Shelter's latest allegations batted away by lettings trade body](/img/default/lat.png)
The National Residential Landlords Association has dismissed the latest claims by campaigning charity Shelter that landlords have not done enough to...
06 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Eviction ban ending: government tries to soothe critics](/img/default/lat.png)
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has given Letting Agent Today a statement trying to soothe critics of its...
06 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Eviction ban WILL end in late August, government hints](/img/default/lat.png)
The government appears to have confirmed that the evictions ban will end in late August and courts will resume hearing possession...
01 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Agents must help landlords as Corona-fuelled arrears grow - call](/img/default/lat.png)
A call has gone out for agents to offer extra support to landlords in the coming months as arrears may well...
19 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Eviction ban puts domestic abuse victims at greater risk - claim](/img/default/lat.png)
The extension to the evictions ban will compound the suffering of victims of domestic violence and anti-social behaviour. That’s the view of...
16 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Eviction Ban: Campaign launched to tell MPs how it's hurting industry](/img/default/lat.png)
The industry’s major landlord trade body is urging its members to write to MPs to explains what it calls “the devastating...
15 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Some tenants use Corona as excuse to skip rent, claims legal insurer](/img/default/lat.png)
The managing director of an insurer and legal services supplier to the lettings industry has accused some tenants of using the...
10 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Eviction ban extension still not enough to satisfy campaigning critics](/img/default/lat.png)
Campaigning organisations that demanded an extension to the evictions ban imposed because of the Coronavirus crisis have been quick to return...
09 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Longer eviction ban will hurt most vulnerable and damage rental sector](/img/default/lat.png)
A prominent figure in the lettings industry has warned that any extension to the current evictions ban would risk hurting the...
03 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Shelter says high private rents lead to young adult homelessness](/img/default/lat.png)
The campaigning charity Shelter says young adults are more in danger of homelessness than any other age group - and puts...
03 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Activists step up call for tenants to pay no rent at all](/img/default/lat.png)
Activists in a body called the London Renters Union has returned to the theme of calling for tenants to not pay...
20 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Labour-supporting tenants invited to “eviction resistance training”](/img/default/lat.png)
A mailing list operated by the left wing activists’ group Momentum has been used to win support for a rent strike...
18 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Labour’s two-year delay for rent arrears “not enough” say activists](/img/default/lat.png)
A group of private rental activists says Labour proposals to give tenants two years to repay arrears accrued during the virus...