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![Reminder to agents - only a week remaining for fees ban consultation](/img/default/lat.png)
Only just over a week remains before the end of the formal consultation on the government’s proposal to ban letting fees...
25 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Build To Rent developers say they want three-year tenancies as the norm](/img/default/lat.png)
The British Property Federation says it is doing all it can to urge the fledgling Build To Rent sector to fall...
26 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Industry pours scorn and derision on fees ban consultation](/img/default/lat.png)
The government’s formal consultation on its proposed ban for fees levied on tenants by agents has been greeted with derision and...
10 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Fees ban consultation - Agents have until June 2 to respond](/img/default/lat.png)
The government has finally unveiled its formal consultation process on the proposal to ban letting agents levying fees on tenants in...
07 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Right To Rent: trade body's concern over 'further sanctions'](/img/default/lat.png)
The Residential Landlords’ Association has written to an immigration minister to express its concern over possible ‘further sanctions’ for landlords who...
30 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Industry joy as government formally backs mandatory CMP for agents](/img/default/lat.png)
There has been widespread pleasure from throughout the industry at the government’s decision to accept the recommendation of a working group...
29 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Minister confirms fee ban on its way but rental sector 'improving'](/img/default/lat.png)
Housing minister Gavin Barwell has confirmed that consultation on the government’s proposed ban on letting agency fees levied on tenants in...
23 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Trade group names MPs to target over buy to let tax changes](/img/default/lat.png)
The Residential Landlords Association has listed key MPs in marginal constituencies who should be lobbied ahead of the March 8 Budget...
24 February 2017
From: Breaking News
![Housing minister wants agents to say what they think of White Paper](/img/default/lat.png)
Housing minister Gavin Barwell is organising a series of regional meetings for property professionals to give him their view of his...
20 February 2017
From: Breaking News
![Shelter says government must deliver on longer tenancies](/img/default/lat.png)
Shelter - the campaigning charity many feel has had influence on government policies for the lettings sector - has now turned around and...
09 February 2017
From: Breaking News
![Agent says lettings sector starting to feel like a protection racket](/img/default/lat.png)
A campaigning lettings agent is demanding action over what he suggests is a tenancy deposit system that is in need of...
31 January 2017
From: Breaking News
![Government Housing White Paper now tipped to appear on February 6](/img/default/lat.png)
It’s been a long time coming but the government’s White Paper on Housing - tipped to contain major reforms affecting the...
26 January 2017
From: Breaking News
![Buy to let tax changes will affect just 20% of landlords, claims minister](/img/default/lat.png)
Housing minister Gavin Barwell says recent changes to buy to let mortgage interest relief and stamp duty will only affect a...
23 January 2017
From: Breaking News
![Government consults over 'banning orders' for rogue agents](/img/default/lat.png)
The government has launched an official consultation process on a package of measures to crack down on what it calls ‘rogue...
14 December 2016
From: Breaking News
![NALS 'fair fees' agents committed to making fee ban work](/img/default/lat.png)
The NALS ‘Fair Fees Forum’ - set up before last week’s announcement on the banning of letting agency fees levied on tenants...
29 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Confirmed - government WILL ban letting agents' fees on tenants](/img/default/lat.png)
The government will today announce that it is banning letting agents’ fees levied on tenants - meaning the fees will instead...
23 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Government reveals latest clampdown on buy to let sector](/img/default/lat.png)
The government’s wave of measures to clamp down on the private rental sector and introduce harsher regulations for investors and landlords...
19 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![Industry bodies wary of yet more rental sector licensing](/img/default/lat.png)
The Association of Residential Letting Agents has responded to the latest government recommendations for tighter controls on the private rental sector...
19 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![Next year's buy to let tax change will hit almost half a million](/img/default/lat.png)
The National Landlords Association claims that changes to buy to let mortgage interest tax relief being introduced in six months time...
19 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![Just one week for agents to comment on compulsory CMP debate](/img/default/lat.png)
Letting agents have just a week left to add their voice to the debate on whether mandatory Client Money Protection (CMP)...
26 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![More support for compulsory Client Money Protection review](/img/default/lat.png)
The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks (AIIC) is the latest industry body to back the Government's review of mandatory Client Money...
13 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![Letting agents urged to lobby MPs over mortgage interest tax changes](/img/default/lat.png)
A campaign group is urging letting agents to join with landlords in lobbying MP over the government’s change to buy to...
12 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![Momentum for mandatory Client Money Protection - now ARLA says yes](/img/default/lat.png)
Another major organisation within the private rental sector has thrown its weight behind mandatory Client Money Protection for letting agents in the...
25 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![Industry groups firmly behind call for mandatory Client Money Protection](/img/default/lat.png)
Several influential industry bodies have thrown their weight behind a review into whether Client Money Protection should be mandatory for letting...
24 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![Agents have until October 3 to comment on Client Money Protection](/img/default/lat.png)
Letting agents and others in the industry have until October 3 to respond to a new review in to Client Money...
23 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![Agency tells Minister: incentivise buy to let, reverse tax changes](/img/default/lat.png)
Belvoir is calling on the government to reverse its punitive tax policies against buy to let and introduce incentives to make...
18 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![Housing minister to meet campaigners against buy to let tax changes](/img/default/lat.png)
Housing minister Gavin Barwell has agreed to meet campaigners opposed to the clampdown on landlords’ mortgage interest tax relief. The measure -...
12 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![Housing minister says he backs longer private rental tenancies](/img/default/lat.png)
The new housing minister, Gavin Barwell, says he is behind the concept of longer tenancies for renters in the private sector. In...
09 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![New housing minister has gone on record opposing rental licensing](/img/default/lat.png)
The Residential Landlords’ Association says Gavin Barwell, the new housing minister appointed by Theresa May this week, is a known critic...