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31 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Lifetime Deposits: ARLA sets out demands for safeguards](/img/default/lat.png)
The Association of Residential Letting Agents has set out its demands should the governmental go ahead with proposals for lifetime deposits. In...
30 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![No timetable for controversial Renters’ Reform Bill](/img/default/lat.png)
No date has been set by government for the second reading of the Renters' Reform Bill 2019-20. The Bill was announced in...
27 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Agents’ qualifications must be priority for new government says ARLA](/img/default/lat.png)
The new government must prioritise the implementation of proposals to ensure letting agents and others in the industry are appropriately qualified. That’s...
19 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Warnings that further rental reform mustn’t jeopardise supply](/img/default/lat.png)
Richard Donnell, research director at Zoopla, is warning the government that future reform of the private rental sector must not jeopardise...
18 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Section 21 WILL be scrapped - it’s in Thursday’s Queen’s Speech](/img/default/lat.png)
Number 10 briefings to the national media suggest that the scrapping of Section 21 - long talked about by the previous...
17 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Chinese buy to let investors buoyed by Tory landslide](/img/default/lat.png)
Reports from China suggest that property investors from that country - a staple in the buy to let market in many...
17 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Tories should adopt Labour housing policy, say anti-agent campaigners](/img/default/lat.png)
Generation Rent, a campaign group that is consistently critical of lettings agencies and landlords, says a priority of the new government...
16 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Section 8 reform and new Housing Court 'should be early Johnson priorities'](/img/default/lat.png)
The National Landlords’ Association says the new Conservative government must do two things in its early phase in office. The NLA, which...
16 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Tories must deliver pledge on repossession powers - trade group](/img/default/lat.png)
A prominent industry trade group says the new government must honour its manifesto commitment to strengthen the right of “good landlords”...
16 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Help the rental sector! Trade body demands new government action](/img/default/lat.png)
A trade body is warning of a crisis in the private rental market as new figures show a sharp drop in...
13 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![High-end agency claims best ever month for lettings division](/img/default/lat.png)
The sales market in London continues to wreak havoc with agencies, as yesterday’s Foxtons story revealed, but one lettings agency is...
12 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Politicians Beware! Landlords could decide General Election](/img/default/lat.png)
A trade body suggests that the votes of private landlords could decide the results in over 100 constituencies in next week’s...
03 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Good news for lettings - upbeat market forecast for next five years](/img/default/lat.png)
There’s been an upbeat assessment of how the private rental sector will fare in the next five years from a leading...
28 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Buy to let lender welcomes some Labour plans for rental sector](/img/default/lat.png)
Specialist buy to let mortgage lender Paragon has welcomed Labour's General Election pledge to force rental properties to undergo an annual...
28 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Labour policies “extreme, unrealistic, damaging” - trade body](/img/default/lat.png)
Labour’s policies for the private rental sector are “too extreme ... unrealistic and will be hugely damaging to housing supply in...
27 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Shelter resumes attack on ‘unaffordable’ private rents](/img/default/lat.png)
Controversial housing charity Shelter claims that private renters are collectively paying out £11 billion more a year – around £425 a...
27 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Tax credit idea for tenants whose rent is 30% or more of income](/img/default/lat.png)
The Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru is pledging tax credits for private tenants whose rent and utilities bills add up to...
26 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Renters group urges ‘mass voter registration’ to sway Election](/img/default/lat.png)
A pressure group that has spoken out against letting agents and landlords is urging private tenants to take part in a...
25 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Tories' Lifetime Deposit idea is fundamentally flawed - claim](/img/default/lat.png)
A leading provider of deposit alternatives has voiced concern at the Conservatives’ proposal to have a lifetime deposit scheme to make...
25 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Labour to end Right To Rent but shift rental sector power to tenants](/img/default/lat.png)
As the battle of political policies continues ahead of next month’s General Election, now Labour has unveiled a raft of initiatives...
22 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Lifetime Rental Deposits backed by Tories as Labour revamps council housing](/img/default/lat.png)
On the day that Labour launches its proposals to reform the private rental sector, the Tories have announced so-called Lifetime Rental...
21 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Mandatory licensing, long tenancies, rent controls advocated by LibDems](/img/default/lat.png)
The Liberal Democrats is the first of the major parties to release its party manifesto for the December 12 manifesto, and...
21 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Scrap Section 21: Anti-agency group steps up campaign](/img/default/lat.png)
The pressure group Generation Rent, which in the past has been highly critical of letting agents and other aspects of the...
20 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![A Farce! Council issues rental licences to just 3% of applicants](/img/default/lat.png)
A controversial private rental licensing regime that has already made the headlines for the wrong reasons has now been branded a...
19 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Labour ditches Right To Buy for private tenants](/img/default/lat.png)
Labour has dropped its controversial policy under which private tenants would have been able to buy their homes at a discount. Press...
18 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Tenants’ biggest election issue? Well, it’s not housing...](/img/default/lat.png)
One might have thought that if private rental tenants were as badly treated as some people suggest, housing would be their...
18 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Rent Controls: “They sound great but they don’t work” says agent](/img/default/lat.png)
A leading agent is the latest industry figure to speak out against rent controls, which continue to be advocated by Labour...
13 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Don’t scrap licensing, streamline it says accreditation scheme](/img/default/lat.png)
The safeagent accreditation scheme says the next government should not scrap landlord licensing as some trade groups have requested, but should...
12 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Confidence in lettings sector plummets to all-time low amongst landlords](/img/default/lat.png)
Landlords’ confidence in their lettings business has slumped to an all-time low, according to research by the National Landlords Association. In a...
12 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Conservatives likely to oppose rent controls in election manifesto](/img/default/lat.png)
It looks likely that the Conservative party is set to formally oppose rent controls when it publishes its manifesto, probably in...
11 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Rising rent is “a headwind” battering poor tenants, says think tank](/img/default/lat.png)
Higher housing costs - including private sector rents - have reduced incomes and increased inequality as the poorest families have borne...
11 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Industry wants short-let controls, review of landlord tax and stamp duty eased](/img/default/lat.png)
The Association of Residential Letting Agents and the National Association of Estate Agents have issued their manifesto for next month’s General...
05 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Tenant activists demand rent controls and Section 21 scrapped](/img/default/lat.png)
A collective of activist renter groups has set out a manifesto of what it wants from the winner of next month’s...
04 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Rental standards at centre of Corbyn’s Labour Election campaign](/img/default/lat.png)
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has launched his party’s General Election campaign with an attack on what he describes as “dodgy landlords.” He...
01 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Tories - you have been warned, says lettings trade group](/img/default/lat.png)
One of the industry’s leading trade groups has repeated a warning to the Conservatives that they cannot rely on the votes...
01 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Scrap stamp duty on buy to let! Trade body sets Election demand](/img/default/lat.png)
One of the leading lettings sector trade bodies has unveiled what it describes as “a positive vision for the private rented...