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The Property Franchise Group says that in the past year the number of managed properties it handles has risen from 58,000...

The number of prospective tenants asked to provide guarantors ahead of renting has risen by a huge 36 per cent over...

The property industry has broadly welcomed Michael's Gove appointment as Housing Secretary after he replaced Robert Jenrick yesterday afternoon. “We welcome today’s...

As the summer begins to draw to a close and the letting market regains its stride, attention is turning to the...

Rent controls are to be introduced into part of the UK as a result of a deal between two political parties. The...

Labour shadow housing secretary Lucy Powell has resuscitated the eviction ban, this time for furloughed workers whose government support ends in...

A property investment platform has taken the unusual approach of accusing the government of driving up homelessness through its policy of...

Labour’s Lucy Powell, the party’s new housing spokesperson, says she wants to work with the Conservatives to scrap Section 21 eviction...

ARLA Propertymark says its disappointed over the latest extension to an eviction ban and the requirement for six months notice to tenants. The latest...

The head of a lettings agency says there are up to 60 enquiries for every rental property he lists - and those...

A think tank says large scale intervention in the rental market via loans to tenants is the only way of addressing...

There could be 700,000 private tenants in arrears by the end of this year - an unsustainable burden on agents and landlords,...

Labour claims over 350 households in London alone were issued with a Section 21 notice during the first lockdown in spring...

Housing Minister Chris Pincher says the eviction ban is formally over but the situation remains under “constant review” as the second...

The lettings industry is today preparing for the current ban on repossessions to be lifted on Sunday with courts to hear...

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...

Campaigners against evictions during the Coronavirus crisis have launched a last-ditch call for the government to grant another extension to the current...

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,...

ARLA and the NRLA have teamed up with charities - some usually critical of letting agents and landlords - to lobby...

In the latest twist in the long-running saga of the eviction ban, the government has revealed changes to notice periods. The changes...

A prominent lettings agent has come out in favour of the eviction ban extension - but he wants government cash help...

The latest survey of buy to let landlords suggests a relatively healthy private rental sector notwithstanding the challenges of the Coronavirus...

A specialist mortgage operator is warning letting agents and landlords to gear up for a winter of discontent as a result...

The Citizens Advice charity is calling for tenants with arrears directly created by the Coronavirus to be offered government grants to...

One of the leading figures in the lettings industry has described the government’s eviction ban U-turn as “devastating.” Paul Shamplina, founder of...

The Law Society has set out exactly what the extension of the eviction ban, announced on Friday, means to agents, landlords...

The Generation Rent pressure group has made a last-ditch argument in favour of keeping the evictions ban, which will lapse at the...

The anti-letting agent group ACORN is to stage protests in 10 to 15 UK cities this weekend according to an activists’...

Labour’s housing spokeswoman says “after the incompetent handling of the exams fiasco, the government must act now to avoid more chaos...

A group of Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs have together claimed that England could witness "a new wave of homelessness" when...

The campaigning pressure group Generation Rent has returned to the battle to win an extension to the current evictions ban in...

The chief executive of campaigning charity Shelter says she is expecting a “deluge” of cases when the eviction ban ends, but...

Activists who praised the government for its eviction ban in recent months have now turned on it in a last-ditch attempt...

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

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has given Letting Agent Today a statement trying to soothe critics of its...

The government appears to have confirmed that the evictions ban will end in late August and courts will resume hearing possession...

A call has gone out for agents to offer extra support to landlords in the coming months as arrears may well...

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

The industry’s major landlord trade body is urging its members to write to MPs to explains what it calls “the devastating...

The managing director of an insurer and legal services supplier to the lettings industry has accused some tenants of using the...

Campaigning organisations that demanded an extension to the evictions ban imposed because of the Coronavirus crisis have been quick to return...

A prominent figure in the lettings industry has warned that any extension to the current evictions ban would risk hurting the...

The campaigning charity Shelter says young adults are more in danger of homelessness than any other age group - and puts...

Activists in a body called the London Renters Union has returned to the theme of calling for tenants to not pay...

A mailing list operated by the left wing activists’ group Momentum has been used to win support for a rent strike...

A group of private rental activists says Labour proposals to give tenants two years to repay arrears accrued during the virus...

Labour is on the warpath against the government following the surprise contents of the Coronavirus Emergency Bill, apparently watering down the...