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A broad commitment to strengthen landlords’ rights has been made in the Conservative manifesto - and it’s been welcomed by a...

So here it is … a very Merry Christmas from Letting Agent Today and Angels Media, with our very best wishes...

Political uncertainty across the UK and increased restrictions on buy to let are leading many landlords to raise rents and review...

Activity in the super prime London market, where tenants are prepared to pay £5,000 or more per week for a home,...

A trade body has welcomed a government U-turn on implementing the ‘Making Tax Digital’ initiative - but it says the decision...

The government’s proposal to limit tenancy deposits to one month of rent and reservation fees to one week of rent will...

Rents in Scotland dropped 2.3 per cent on average in the month leading up to the General Election according to Your...

After criticism of many younger voters allegedly failing to turn out during the June 2016 EU Referendum, new analysis of voter...

The Queen’s Speech, outlining the government’s proposals for the next two years, has confirmed a pledge to introduce a ban on...

A trade body wants independent inventories to become mandatory across the lettings sector - and it pledges to mount a campaign...

A group of letting agencies in Yorkshire have proposed to the government a radical alternative to the proposed fees ban -...

A string of corporate letting agencies plus ARLA Propertymark have again called on the government to reconsider its proposed ban on agents’...

ARLA Propertymark says the number of properties managed per member increased marginally last month, from 183 to 185 - but there was...

In a blog which appears - perhaps surprisingly - to be supportive of Theresa May’s General Election manifesto, campaigning charity Shelter...

Only just over a week remains before the end of the formal consultation on the government’s proposal to ban letting fees...

The Residential Landlords’ Association is demanding that the new government improves the “slow, complex, and underfunded” system which means that it...

Some 1,500 landlords have responded to a trade group’s campaign calling for them to press General Election candidates to oppose changes...

The Liberal Democrats want a raft of additional controls on the private rented sector aimed at addressing what it describes as...

A Liberal Democrat spokesman has used a lettings sector trade body website to outline his party’s support for a range of...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it has so far received over 700 detailed responses to its consultation on the...

The Conservatives should introduce rent controls to kick-start a seaside town renaissance, suggests an organisation set up originally by the David Cameron...

Labour says there would be a ‘consumer rights revolution’ for the private rental sector if the party won the June 8...

A local authority consultation exercise on a licensing system for local landlords has been postponed until June 12, four days after...

A senior Labour spokesman has refused to rule out rent controls as a possible manifesto commitment for the June 8 General...

The anti-letting agency fee pressure group Generation Rent is urging its supporters to participate in the government formal consultation over agents’...

The Residential Landlords Association has repeated its calls for a new housing court “to speed up justice for landlords and tenants.”   The...

A trade body has suggested that the General Election on June 8 may lead to a government with new priorities, meaning...

A prominent campaigning letting and sales agent predicts that the Conservatives are likely to put their proposed ban on letting agency...

The Department of Communities and Local Government is scrapping a series of workshops for letting agents to discuss the proposed ban...

The ban on letting agents in England imposing fees on tenants is unlikely to be implemented before late next year according...