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Rightmove says there’s been a big rise in the number of prospective tenants contacting letting agents via its website. The portal says...

Unite Students, one of the UK's leading student accommodation providers, is giving tenants a rent reduction. Students will be able to apply...

A Sheffield agency has suffered two break-ins over just four days, with computers stolen and offices damaged. MorfittSmith’s sales office was the...

A landlord has been banned for two and half years after repeatedly putting tenants’ lives at risk by letting unsafe housing. This...

Tenant deposit protection scheme TDS will be in London in February to host a ‘hands-on’ half-day workshop for agents and landlords. Part...

A group of criminals threw a large concrete block through a window to gain access to an estate and letting agency. The...

ARLA Propertymark representatives have met with Home Office officials in Cardiff and Edinburgh ahead of the government’s roll-out of Right To...

An immigration minister has revealed that 91 landlords have been issued with civil penalties since the Right to Rent scheme was...

A letting agency is being investigated by a local council and the police after it closed suddenly last month. Dukes Letting Department,...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has obtained clarification from the government in relation to existing tenancies where an additional occupier...

Liberal Democrat MPs in the Commons and the Lords have tabled motions aimed at stopping the Right To Rent policy, which...

The Home Office has issued a statement overnight saying letting agents and landlords can begin the controversial Right To Rent checks...

Chancellor George Osborne has “effectively declared war on individual landlords” according to the Residential Landlords’ Association - but don’t expect a...

Letting agents or landlords who will be legally obliged to conduct Right to Rent checks on tenants from February 1 actually...

A tenant referencing service, FCC Paragon, says 17.6 per cent of all requests it has received in the past 12 months...

The Property Ombudsman has warned letting agents not to forget their responsibilities under the Right To Rent immigration checks that become...

The published results of the Right to Rent pilot scheme are disappointing and mostly unhelpful insists the Association of Independent Inventory...

There has been a mixed response from the private rental industry following the announcement that Right To Rent checks will become mandatory...

Right To Rent checks will become mandatory in England from February 1st, the government has announced. Under the new rules, landlords who...