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Propertymark has urged Labour to licence letting agents under its plans to ‘fundamentally reform the private rented sector’. The trade body also...

One of Britain’s largest cities wants to regulate Airbnb and other short let platforms. The proposed scheme in Glasgow follows legal changes...

Propertymark is calling on candidates in next week's Northern Ireland Assembly elections to support policies that will increase housing supply and...

All private rented homes in Oxford will need a licence from this September, following a green light from the government. Some 49.3...

An agent’s plea to councillors to renew the HMO license for a landlord client fell on deaf ears in a controversial...

There are growing calls for so-called ‘exempt accommodation’ to face the same controls that are exerted over the rest of the...

A major north of England local authority wants to introduce landlord licensing for HMOs where three or four tenants live, following analysis...

A new piece of legislation has been invoked to ban a landlord from any involvement in the private rental sector for...

A landlord who made a perverted request to take photographs of a teenager in her underwear has had his request for...

A Shropshire man has become the first in England to be banned from being a landlord.  In a case brought by Telford...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents wants agents and tenants to have access to the government’s high profile but so far...

A council accused of paying over £500,000 to a landlord it had already ruled as unfit to rent out property is...

An agent has been banned from letting properties under ‘fit and proper person’ legislation in Scotland, following an incident in which...

Two landlords have been hit with hefty court fines for failing to comply with a local licensing scheme. The pair are the...

A survey by consumer group Which?, working with landlords’ associations, reveals that 70 local authorities now have selective or additional licensing...

Three one-day courses are being held this year - the first next week - aimed at updating letting agents on changes...

The man behind a leading lettings industry PropTech company says the new Code of Conduct to clean up the rental sector...

Letting Agent Today understands that Foxtons has been asked to appear at a hearing staged by a London council to prove...

The Conveyancing Association has made a wide-ranging response to the government’s call for evidence on the regulation of letting and managing...

Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says she has been “horrified” to read allegations of some property owners offering rent-free accommodation in...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is warning the government that some of its proposed changes to regulations governing HMOs may...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is warning that proposals to enforce minimum room sizes in HMOs in the privste rental...

The head of a lettings company who kept tenants' deposits worth almost £7,000 has been barred from renting out homes by...

Police in Scotland are clamping down on what they call “gangster landlords” who are using the lettings sector for money laundering.  A...

We’ve seen large numbers of local councils set up private rental accreditation systems, and a string of politicians from all major...

The Department of Communities and Local Government has published a summary of the 600 responses it has received to its recent...

A landlord who failed to properly manage a home he rented out has become the first landlord prosecuted under a council’s...

After celebrating its year anniversary this week, Boris Johnson’s London Rental Standard has been criticised for signing up only 12% of...