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Letting agents and others in the private rental sector have responded to the latest government intervention - a review into how...

The government has announced a review to assess how selective licensing is used and find out how well it is working...

The Independent online newspaper says Conservative MP Gary Streeter will tomorrow meet with Prime Minister Theresa May and urge her to...

The government has written to two senior MPs in a bid to clarify two detailed provisions in the Tenants Fees Bill,...

The growth of the private rental sector has slowed thanks to government intervention and economic uncertainty - but it will expand...

The lettings industry has hit out at the Welsh Government’s proposals to ban agents’ fees levied on tenants. A Bill was put...

Letting agents and landlords could be missing out on £61m of rent every month because families in temporary and emergency accommodation...

A Bill which is likely to end up banning letting agents’ fees levied on tenants in Wales has been introduced into...

Letting agents and landlords will have to win planning consent to erect To Let signs in student areas of Leicester from...

What is the biggest challenge in estate agency today? At the risk of sounding flippant, selling houses! It’s a unique industry...

The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants is now crowdfunding to pay for the Judicial Review of the government’s controversial...

The government’s flagship immigration Right To Rent policy is under threat on two fronts. Firstly a cross-party group of MPs has written...

A prominent PropTech startup is questioning whether long-term tenants need to go through the traditional referencing process when moving between rental...

A campaign opposing the government’s recent tax changes which have penalised buy to let investors has taken a leaf out of...

The High Court has this afternoon agreed to allow a judicial review of the government’s Right to Rent policy. Right to Rent...

An electrical testing equipment firm and an MP are setting up a national campaign to demand new laws on appliance testing...

The Nationwide has bucked the trend of many industry organisations by insisting that the private rental market is still in good...

A trade body is claiming that armed service personnel who let out their homes whilst stationed away are being hit by...

A major Scottish property management firm says agents and landlords south of the border should prepare now for the likely agency...

A high-profile landlord says the upcoming ban on letting agent fees 'can't come soon enough'. Writing a column in the Evening Standard's...

Over 70% of Conservative councillors and housing leads have indicated that £2 billion pledged for affordable housing is not enough to...

The government has responded to a petition calling for it to abolish the 3% stamp duty surcharge and reintroduce full buy-to-let...

The introduction of a 3% stamp duty surcharge on the purchase of buy-to-let properties and the phasing out of buy-to-let mortgage...

Letting agents - and anyone with ‘relevant expertise and experience or a special interest’ - have been invited to provide their...

A national charity is calling on the government to tighten the 'default fees' clause which is part of the Tenant Fees...

London landlords and letting agents could be missing out on up to £111 million of short-term rental revenue each year, according...

Today Trading Standards teams across the country will highlight the work they do to protect landlords and tenants from rogue letting...

An online petition which calls on the government to reintroduce full buy-to-let mortgage interest tax relief and abolish the 3% stamp...

Consumers' money remains at risk until April 1 2019 is the key message of this year’s SAFEagent Awareness Week. Over the next...

The government has announced that it is to formally consult on proposals for longer tenancies in the private rental sector. Although there...

LonRes, the data and agent network business specialising in central London, is entering into a strategic partnership with rental services provider...

A prominent campaigner for alternatives to traditional rental sector deposits is welcoming the government’s commitment to consider the issue in the...

One of the PropTech companies at the centre of the Rent Recognition Challenge contest is calling on letting agents to use...

A trade body has stepped up its calls on government to help the lettings industry do more for older renters. Responding to...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur says he welcomes reforms currently moving through Parliament to professionalise the lettings sector - but he wants...

The government has confirmed that all property agents in England will need to be part of an approved Client Money Protection...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Ben Robinson, Director of Agency Services at Landmark What is Landmark...

The industry has reacted angrily to the announcement yesterday that the Tenants’ Fees Bill is now formally starting its progress through...

The new Home Secretary Sajid Javid is being urged to look again at the Right To Rent policy and produce “a...

The government has announced that it’s launching a review into the requirement for carbon monoxide alarms in homes across England. The review...

New guidance over Right To Rent, issued by the government in what appears to be a panic response to the Windrush...

A leading property disputes solicitor has joined a growing chorus of criticism of how Right To Rent will cope with issues...

Spring – the season of rebirth, revitalisation and regeneration – is now upon us, and it’s a time of the year...

The government has been told is should simply adopt some Labour rental policies or risk losing the next General Election -...

Labour insists that if it forms the next government it will introduce ‘living rents’ in a new range of affordable homes...

Over half of mortgage brokers say they have been approached by buy to let investors seeking to diversify their portfolios within...

The Citizens Advice consumer charity claims that 28 per cent of private tenants who have experienced problems while renting have not...

MPs want a review of laws surrounding private rental standards, including councils having the right to confiscate buy to let properties...

Trade bodies have been responding to today’s report of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee deliberations on the private...

One of the six PropTech start-ups shortlisted to develop a system allowing tenants’ rental histories to count towards their creditworthiness says...

An influential think tank is calling on government to radically reform the private rental sector because a generation of young people...

A leading lettings sector trade body has repeated its call on government to offer a range of incentives to landlords and...

The new sole chair of the Association of Independent Inventory Clerks says he wants the service to be at the heart...

The Property Franchise Group has given an insight into the effect of the ban on lettings fees likely to be introduced...

Some 43 per cent of all stamp duty comes from buy to let investors and holiday home purchasers - and almost...

A new analysis by campaigning housing organisation Shelter claims the changes within the private rental sector could indirectly lose the next...

The number of buy to let investors in the UK has hit a record high of 2.5m in the latest tax...

A statement from the government has repeated its determination to clean up the private rental sector through a series of measures,...

The government’s review into building and fire safety regulations is missing the opportunity to assess fire safety regulations on a wider...

Ian Wilson, chief executive of The Property Franchise Group, says new rules for regulating the lettings sector will probably be clumsily...

ARLA has branded the government’s long-awaited database of rogue landlords as “pointless” because it will not be made public. The Ministry of...

Foxtons is warning that the private rental sector - traditionally a strong earner for the company even in times of challenging...

A leading Conservative peer says the government should cut taxes for buy to let investors and regard them as part of...

A consumer group says that the Tenants Fees Bill - which will eventually ban letting agents’ fees levied on renters -...

The Property Ombudsman is the latest property industry player to throw its support behind the introduction of mandatory qualifications and a...

Letting agents have responded with enthusiasm to the government’s announcement over the Easter weekend that the industry would in future have...

Academic research suggests tenants in England and Wales are missing out on £80m of interest to tenancy deposit schemes every single...

The government has this morning - Easter Sunday - announced a crackdown on rogue letting agents in the shape of a...

A Select Committee of MPs investigating the proposed ban on agents’ fees levied on tenants says the measure could save renters...

The controversial Right To Rent policy has been attacked as having failed “to demonstrate its worth” in encouraging immigration compliance. Under Right...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is warning that “thousands” of landlords simply are not ready for energy efficiency changes coming...

Proposals to cap security deposits for private rented housing to six weeks rent risk creating a charter for rent cheats warns...

The government says that later this year it will allocate a further £1.4m to PropTech firms looking at how tenants’ rent...

Increased volatility in the private rental sector and rising costs for landlords and investors have combined to lead to an increased...

A warning has come from a campaigning letting agent that London’s landlords agents could be costing themselves tenants by requiring them...

One of the client money protection schemes operating in the lettings sector says he believes agents and property managers could be...

A lettings trade body says a major house builder has blamed, in part, recent tax increases on private landlords as a...

The government has set out new measures to mitigate against overcrowded and dangerous living conditions of private tenants in shared homes. From...

The National Landlords Association has revealed a seven-point plan which would allow the Welsh Government greater powers over the private rental...

A trade body says new figures released by the independent Office for Budget Responsibility show that the government’s recent tax increases...

A trade body is calling on the government to repeal the fee that councils can now charge when an Article 4...

The British Property Federation is calling upon more councils to support Build To Rent following the government’s recognition of the sector in...

With only three weeks to go to the introduction of the first phase of Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards, a specialist mortgage...

Reaction to the government’s call for developers and planning authorities to be more flexible in their approach to increasing the housing...

Tax increases on the rental sector are leaving young people unable to access the homes they need, an industry body claims. The...

Experts suggest that Build To Rent is likely to be heavily promoted when the government announces its latest revamp to the...

The government has pledged to begin a review of the selective licensing across the private rental sector once MPs return from...

The Residential Landlords’ Association is upset at the government’s confirmation that the extension of mandatory HMO licensing will come into force...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is reminding its members to tell landlord clients that they have only a month to...

The Welsh Government’s housing minister has tweeted that the results of a formal consultation process on a ban on agents’ fees...

Some letting agencies and selected landlords are being asked to take part in a new survey investigating views and experiences in...

The cash value of tenancy deposits crooked landlords and letting agents have been convicted of pocketing in 2018 has already passed...

Senior Labour MPs have spoken out about what they believe are the anti-social and detrimental effects of short lets on surrounding...

A housing charity has called for the government to build more affordable social homes for rent to help families 'trapped' in...

Brent Council has confirmed that the government has approved its request to extend the local selective licensing scheme. The local authority, which...

The lettings sector is at the forefront of government proposals for a new redress system for customers of agents and others.  In...

The sittings of the select committee looking into government proposals to ban letting agents’ fees levied on tenants resume this week...

Crooked landlords and letting agents were convicted of stealing £1,162,037 of tenant’s cash in 2017 – a rise of 14 per...

The government has given the go ahead to what will be one of the UK’s largest selective licensing scheme outside of...

The city council in Nottingham claims it has taken action against no fewer than 561 unauthorised To Let boards under powers...

Trade bodies including ARLA, RICS, NALS and landlord organisations have met with the government to send a clear message - think...

An online petition urging MPs to make it compulsory for privately let properties to be subject to independent inventory reporting is...

A range of factors - including fierce competition under the supplied housing market, rising property prices and political uncertainty – have...

A new website called Vesta has launched aiming to sell investment properties with tenants in place.  The team behind the site describe...

One of the many firms that has sprung up to manage Airbnb-style short let accommodation says it backs the Labour Party’s...

Analysis of government figures by the Nationwide suggest that the buy to let sector is still growing despite tax changes and...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has described the introduction of a code of conduct and official register for letting agents...

The trend towards reducing or eliminating deposits at the same time as edging towards a ban on letting agents’ fees on...

The Residential Landlords’ Association has released details of the evidence it put to the Communities and Local Government Select Committee which...

Politicians in London and Scotland are looking at new controls which could be imposed on home owners letting out their properties...

The code sets out the standards to be met by anyone engaged in lettings including specific requirements around how clients’ money...

Research by NALS has revealed extensive increases in the cost of licensing of lettings properties and landlords by local authorities in...

The select committee monitoring the Department of Housing, Communities and Local Government will continue its deliberations today on the government’s ban...

Romans has thrown its weight behind the banning orders being introduced in April which could see rogue letting agents and landlords...

The chief operating officer of a leading PropTech company says government proposals to increase mandatory licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation...

The government has been accused by a lettings sector trade body of skewing the market to encourage more short-lets.  The claim comes...

The head of franchise giant Belvoir says government interference in the rental sector is likely to result in a rise in...

The chairman of the Residential Landlords Association has written in the Labour-supporting New Statesman magazine about the need for the lettings...

The How To Rent guide - the document which has to be given to new tenants by letting agents or landlords...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is the latest industry body to throw its weight behind the Private Members’ Bill that...

Lettings agency Haart says the government should go much further than the legislation it is supporting giving tenants the right to...

An accountancy trade body, the Association of Accounting Technicians, is advising the government to investigate what it calls “the questionable tax...

There have been more expressions of support from industry bodies for the Private Members’ Bill from Labour’s Karen Buck MP which...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has thrown its weight behind a Private Members Bill which wants tenants to have the...

The Private Members’ Bill that has won government backing - and which would give tenants the right to sue landlords over...

The government has taken the unusual step of working with a Labour MP to ensure her Private Members Bill can become...

In an unusual move the government has today, Sunday, announced that it wants tenants to have the right to take legal...

An Essex lettings agent has explained why he has set up an online petition calling for a reversal of the government’s...

The National Landlords Association says 20 per cent of its members plan to reduce the size of their portfolios in the...

The UK Association of Letting Agents has launched a deal with insurance firm Let Alliance to allow total loss client money...

This week’s news that the government will not be implementing the ban on letting agents’ fees on tenants in England until...

The government has explained why the ban on letting agents’ fees on tenants will not be implemented until spring 2019 -...

The government has told NALS that implementation of the ban on letting agents’ fees levied on tenants will not take place...

A lettings agency has written to MPs setting out an eloquent case for a cap on agents’ fees levied on tenants...

The UK’s army of buy to let landlords will still benefit from £16.7 billion worth of tax relief even after the...

At least one trade body has expressed an apparent scepticism about whether the rebranding of the Department of Communities and Local...

One of the lettings sector’s biggest lenders, Santander, is allowing its buy to let landlord borrowers to offer assured shorthold tenancies...

There has been a warm welcome for government changes to Universal Credit by the Residential Landlords Association.  The Department for Work and...

The Communities and Local Government committee of MPs will on Monday hear their first oral evidence of the year for the...

The government has started tweeting that it is to ban letting agents’ fees in England - but still isn’t revealing when...

The government has announced new minimum space requirements for private lettings in a bid to reduce problems of overcrowding. In addition to...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents and other trade bodies have not yet responded to the government’s announcement over the holiday...

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has used a holiday season interview to repeat his pledge to swing powers back towards private tenants...

Figures released by the government show huge support for the extension of the offences under which agents and landlords may in...

The government has released more details on long-discussed proposals to tighten up licensing in the private rental sector. It wants landlords in...

The government is being criticised for its latest consultation exercise on the new Minimum Energy Efficient Standards - because it ends...

Government proposals to ban letting agent fees levied on tenants next year are unlikely to make renting cheaper as new research...

The Residential Landlords Association says it welcomes the government’s decision to reduce the likely maximum payment by landlords for energy improvements...

Independent agents’ group CIELA is to launch after all, but now says it won’t be campaigning against the imminent ban on...

One of the industry’s leading trade bodies wants the government to halt the Right To Rent programme after evidence shows some...

HM Revenue & Customs has launched a consultation on adding tax checks to private rental sector licensing schemes - in other...

Prime minister Theresa May has repeated that the current government will not introduce rent controls in the private sector. The issue of...

A new team of investigative council officers are hitting the streets of the capital to tackle unlawful nightly letting using websites like...

A leasehold campaigner has called on the Queen to end her support for what he calls the UK's “feudal leasehold system” by changing the...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has come out against a single government-administered system for Client Money Protection in the private...

The government is offering £2m to budding PropTech and financial technology entrepreneurs who can develop an application that will enable Britain’s 11...

The Welsh Government has confirmed that the country will ban letting agents’ fees levied on tenants - the same ban still...

Changes to Universal Credit have made it easier for claimants to rent homes but the government needs to do more to...

The selective licensing scheme operated by Newham council in London is reported to have won government backing to be extended until...

A database of rogue letting agents and landlords and new banning orders, first promised in the Housing and Planning Act announced...

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

A large shake up of the private rental sector begins in Scotland tomorrow with the introduction of Private Residential Tenancies replacing...

You have only until 11.45pm tonight to have your say on government proposals to clamp down on letting and managing agents...

The House of Lords has given the Creditworthiness Assessment Bill its second reading and a step forward to ensuring that tenants’...

One of Britain’s best known and highest profile buy to let specialist lenders says the number of new BTL mortgages being...

The industry is awaiting details of the latest government consultation concerning the private rental sector which will consider longer tenancies. The consultation...

One of the senior figures in the UK’s burgeoning Build To Rent sector has called on the Chancellor to help this...

After the series of anti-buy to let measures contained in recent Budgets, it is perhaps unsurprising that a survey of landlords...

Mandatory Client Money Protection for lettings agents - currently the subject of a formal government consultation - will contribute towards making...

Reporting software company InventoryBase has backed a campaign urging for inventories to be made mandatory in the lettings sector. The Association of...

The Communities and Local Government Select Committee says it is to begin “pre-legislative scrutiny” of proposals to ban tenant fees imposed...

A trade body says there are 15 formal government consultations going on within the private rental sector - and now it’s...

A Birmingham agent has branded the government’s draft Tenant Fees Bill - which proposes a ban on letting agents’ fees on tenants...

A local authority currently consulting on private rental licensing is using improved energy efficiency as one of the criteria for landlords...

One of the government’s three approved official redress providers says companies operating in the Rent-to-Rent sector should be obliged to join...

The buy to let sector should prepare itself for issues which may arise if the government goes ahead with its intention...

A Welsh local authority is offering a cash payment of up to £1,200 to landlords who join a quasi-letting agency run...

The government's plan to cap tenancy deposits at six weeks rent threatens to cost Britain’s renters an average of £1391 –...

The will exists in the private rental sector to provide the longer term tenancies advocated by the government, says a trade...

Yet another formal government consultation is under way, this time into smoke and carbon monoxide alarms in the private rental sector...

An industry trade group says residents in high rise blocks of flats are being let down by a system in which...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has taken the unusual step of making a fact sheet available to all agents, not...

London’s Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has repeated his criticism of the government’s decision to cap security deposits at the level of...

Agency groups have spoken in favour of the government’s call for letting agents to be trained as a mandatory part of...

Campaigning lettings agency chief Ajay Jagota says he is unconvinced by government plans to make it a criminal offence for letting...

London Bishops have written to housing minister Alok Sharma calling on him to do more to protect vulnerable private tenants. The Bishops...

The controversial consultation period undertaken by the government in support of its proposed ban on letting agents’ fees levied on tenants...

Letting agents and landlords are being urged by a trade body to sign a petition calling on the government to make...

Trade organisatons have reacted predictably to the government’s latest announcements and publications concerning the private rental sector. Yesterday the Department of Communities...

The government has announced that all letting agents will be required to “satisfy minimum training requirements” in order to trade. The provision...

The draft Bill to ban letting agents’ fees levied on tenants has been published - it’s to be called the Tenants’...

A campaigning letting agent says that at the start of this financial year the total cash value of deposits held in...

It is 50 years since the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 became law and now a firm speciaising in enfranchisement extension wants the government...

A leading legal firm is staging a free and interactive seminar on sub-letting, aimed at letting agents. The event takes place on...

Kitemark-style scheme SAFEagent is calling on the government to ensure plans to make Client Money Protection schemes mandatory are not ignored...

A leading accountancy and business advice consultancy says residential landlords who want to downsize their portfolios because of recent tax changes...

MPs from the cross-party Parliamentary Group for Ending Homelessness have spoken out on the need to help homeless people into the...

The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration has started what is described as an official inspection of Right To Rent. Legislation...

  At Rent4sure we understand the challenges and increasing responsibilities that face every letting agent right now. With government plans for an outright...

PropTech company PayProp says the government’s outline proposal for greater regulation of the private rental sector should be treated as good...

One of the most dramatic changes in the UK’s private rental sector regulations is set to take place in five weeks...

Only two out of every 10 private rental sector landlords say they are willing to let to tenants in receipt of...

Leasehold enfranchisement specialist operator Leasehold Solutions is the latest to welcome the government’s suggestion of a regulatory watchdog to oversee leasehold...

Industry figures have broadly welcomed the latest consultations and proposed additional regulation for the lettings sector, announced by the government yesterday.   The...

The Secretary of State for Wales has called on the Welsh Government to take measures against what he calls “unjust fees...

Plans for new measures regarding leasehold tenancies to help create “a fairer property management system that works for everyone” have been...

The government has published long-awaited guidelines for the implementation of Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards in the private rental sector.   The hefty 95-page...

The Welsh Government has launched a consultation on draft regulations and guidance to implement the Fitness for Human Habitation requirements for...

Agents have until November 24 - two days after the next Budget - to submit evidence to the latest probe into...

The powerful and all-party Communities & Local Government Select Committee of MPs has launched a new enquiry into improving the quality...

Almost a third of renters in the UK do not have a life-saving carbon monoxide alarm in their property, with four...

PropTech firm PayProp has welcomed the latest measures to clamp down on rogue elements within the lettings industry - but warns...

The National Landlords’ Association says the extra £2 billion in funding made available by the government for additional affordable housing may...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has welcomed the government commitment to introduce regulation for agencies - but it is warning...

Pressure from the consumer lobby is building for the introduction of a ban on letting agents’ fees levied on tenants -...

Trade groups have reacted angrily to Labour’s proposal to introduce rent controls if the party enters government.   The announcement, made by Labour...

A trade body says the expanding Build To Rent sector will never be large enough to meet tenant demand and as...

Jeremy Corbyn has used his leader’s speech at the end of this week’s Labour conference in Brighton to commit the party...

Letting Agent Today understands that senior industry figures are working on the framework of a new attempt at regulation, including measures...

Letting agents are being warned that they can minimise the impact of the fees ban levied on tenants by being proactive...

The National Landlords’ Association appears to be first off the starting blocks with its submission to government ahead of the next...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has thrown its weight behind Gas Safety Week, which runs until tomorrow.  “As Gas Safety Week...

Housing minister Alok Sharma has been told face to face that he should rethink the government's plans to cap security deposits...

Labour's housing spokesman has called on the government to give councils greater powers over the regulation of the private rental sector.   In...

The Nationwide Building Society says it is assembling what it calls ‘an industry alliance’ to support the increasingly-beleaguered private rental sector.   The...

Housing minister Alok Sharma has once again confirmed that the ban on lettings’ agents fees levied on tenants in England will...

According to recent government figures, the average letting agent’s fee is £223 and 4.3 million householders pay this amount or thereabouts...

Housing minister Alok Sharma has told a major residential conference that rent controls will definitely not be a policy of the...

Letting agents across the UK must prepare now for a ban on fees charged to tenants says a PropTech company -...

Over a third of private landlords with tenants receiving Universal Credit say they are now in rent arrears, up by over...

The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks says it is not surprised the majority of complaints made to The Property Redress Scheme...

A trade body is seeking volunteers to meet with government officials to discuss future initiatives for the private rental sector.    The volunteers...

A survey for online letting agency Upad claims that 66 per cent of landlords are not going to change their property...

The majority of MPs speaking at a House of Commons debate yesterday acknowledged they are wary of the 'unintended consequences' of...

Almost a fifth of landlords say they are now less likely to let to EU nationals or people from the European...

A Westminster Hall debate for MPs on letting agent fees will take place this morning in the House of Commons. The debate...

The government is being urged by the Residential Landlords Association (RLA) to do more to enforce compulsory fee disclosure. Since May 2015,...

Belvoir, the UK's largest property franchise group, has reported an increase in profit and revenue in the first six months of...

A landlord who was found guilty of illegally converting a hotel into 26 flats has been given three months to pay...

An attempt by a Labour council to encourage letting agencies to get ahead of the curve and scrap fees for tenants...

Your Move says a shrinking supply of properties, in part created by government measures against the lettings sector, has led to...

Perhaps unsurprisingly, a survey reveals that most buy to let and other property investors want the three per cent stamp duty...

A leading trade body says a cap on damage deposits paid by tenants - as proposed by the government - could...

The Welsh Government’s communities and children secretary, Carl Sargeant, is calling on tenants to have their say on proposals to ban...

Rent payments should be included when calculating credit scores to support tenants wanting to buy a home of their own, says...

Belvoir is warning that some buy to let investors are quitting the sector.   “Although we are not currently seeing a huge exit...

An economics academic says the country’s taxpayers should be “very angry” with the government for failing to collect taxes to which...

An energy efficiency lobbying group says it backs new government energy efficiency guidelines to improve 300,000 private rented homes - but...

The results of a survey of 2,000 people conducted by an online letting agency appear to make sombre reading for letting...

Green Party politician Andy Wightman claims that £10.6m in taxes are being avoided this year due to the boom in private...

New government figures reveal that there are 80,855 Built To Rent homes either completed or planned.    It says investment in this element...

The Residential Landlords Association has established the Private renting Evidence, Analysis & Research Lab - PEARL - to better inform policy-making...

The government has been urged by a London council to act now to end letting fees for private renters.   Hackney council says...

It is being reported that one of the major providers of purpose-built student accommodation to let - Unite - could temporarily...

The head of an online letting agency specialising in student accommodation says the controversial Right To Rent legislation may have to...

A new licensing scheme in Nottingham has moved a step closer with the proposal being sent to the government for approval.    The council’s...

The Welsh Government is now kicking off a similar consultation process to that conducted by the Department for Communities and Local...

With a host of changing regulations hitting the private rental sector, some landlords may be put off using letting agents, but...

Beleagured housing minister Alok Sharma has been told by a London council that his decision over an application for a borough-wide...

The findings of the most recent English Housing Survey, an annual report published by the Department for Communities and Local Government,...

Ian Duncan Smith is the latest Conservative to criticise his own government’s fiscal policies regarding buy to let.   Writing on the Conservative...

The typical rent paid by tenants across Britain rose by an average of 1.8 per cent in the 12 months to...

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

Belvoir, which has over 300 high street offices, has acquired Brook Financial Services Ltd, which trades as Mortgage Advice Bureau, in...

The government has revealed that it has received over 4,700 responses to its official consultation over the proposed ban on letting...

The Residential Landlords’ Association has been told in no uncertain terms by the government that changes to Energy Performance Certificate scheduled...

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

Paragon Mortgages says its most recent survey of buy to let investors makes it clear that the vast majority want the...

The Prime Minister has confirmed that her minority Conservative government will press ahead with the ban on letting agents’ fees levied...

Far from being wealthy property investors, two thirds of individual landlords pay merely the basic rate of income tax according to...

A minister at the Departrment of Communities and Local Government has set out the government’s position in terms of the fire-related...

Proposals in Scotland for a minimum energy efficiency standard for privately let homes could damage the sector, especially in rural communities.   That’s...

The Residential Landlords’ Association says recent fiscal changes hitting the private rented sector are hurting tenants but failing to achieve their...

Almost one in seven private renters are spending more than half of their total income on rent, in stark contrast to...

The BBC is reporting that the Welsh government is offering private buy to let investors who have properties in high-rise buildings...

Skipton International has launched a guide to help expat buy to let investors trying to make sense of the UK government’s...

The head of the parent firm of mydeposits is warning tenants and landlords tempted to enter into new ‘no-deposit’ schemes to...

The Residential Landlords Association is urging checks on white goods in privately rented homes following the Grenfell Tower tragedy.    The association is...

Agents and landlords are unwittingly issuing incorrect Section 21 notices, resulting in thousands of pounds being wasted on aborted possession claims...

An alternative to traditional deposits, already tested in the German rental market, is now being introduced into the UK - and...

The substantial majority of landlords could soon be required to licence their properties in one London borough if the government agrees...

The National Landlords Association has come up with an unexpected possible side effect of the new Tenants’ Fees Bill - it...

The head of a property management company is calling on the government to introduce a tenants' register which would help rogue...

The controversial Right To Rent, which obliges letting agents and landlords to check the right of prospective tenants to live in...

The consumer group Citizens Advice says it welcomes the Queen’s Speech confirmation of the upcoming ban on letting agents’ fees levied...

ARLA has led a call by many letting agents on hearing the Queen’s Speech - what was the point of a...

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...

At the latest meeting of the Fair Fees Forum, members described the current approach towards landlord licensing as a 'post code...

The boss of 300 branch agency Belvoir has called on the government to appoint a cross-party housing tsar to work with...

Almost a fifth of British citizens could find it harder to access rental property, according to the Residential Landlords Association (RLA). The...