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There have been “significant leaps forward” in the standards of the private rental sector in the past four years, but safety...

A new study shows that 43 per cent of tenants want the system of private rental deposits to be dropped and...

The lettings director at Urban, the online agency recently snapped up by Emoov, says the rental market is faced with significant...

Barbon Insurance Group, which trades as HomeLet and Rentshield Direct, has now snapped up Movem. Movem uses personal online banking transaction data...

A landmark report on private renting provides the opportunity to stop blaming letting agents and landlords for the sector’s problems, a...

It’s been announced that the next stage of the Tenants’ Fees Bill through Parliament will be its Second Reading in the...

Shadow housing minister John Healey has given his backing to a Labour MP’s attempt to introduce a mandatory national register for...

The National Landlords Association is the latest trade body to back what is being described as a landmark review of the...

MPs have proposed a series of amendments to the Tenant Fees Bill as part of its Report Stage and Third Reading...

Reports have emerged this week that the government is planning a U-turn on its proposals to introduce mandatory three-year minimum tenancies...

Rent recognition platform CreditLadder, which enables renters to add their payments to their credit history, has announced a partnership which aims...

The House of Commons has published a briefing paper on tenancy deposit schemes ahead of the Report Stage of the Tenant...

The government's director of rented housing is set to address the industry at an upcoming event open to letting agents and...

A top London letting agent working for Knight Frank has commented on the 'irony' that the government's series of tax changes...

In our previous 2 blogs we have covered the definitions of the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations (CPRs) and what...

The Money Laundering Regulations 2017 require estate agents to risk assess their business relationships and apply an appropriate level of investigation...

Last week Shelter and the National Housing Federation took a swipe at lettings agents, and now Citizens Advice has joined the...

A trade body says it has been assured by the government that there will be no premature announcement introducing longer tenancies...

Belvoir says more landlords are selling up and fewer newcomers are investing in the private rental sector because of increased legislation...

The ongoing debate over some letting agents and landlords allegedly refusing to accept tenants in receipt of housing benefit has now...

Lettings agents for or against the government’s proposals for longer tenancies have only a very short time left to respond to...

Propertymark has launched a new Client Money Protection system, Money Shield, with a support statement from much of the lettings sector...

Lettings agents’ representatives have hit back at an accusation of discrimination made against the industry. A report by Shelter and the National...

A new analysis of the buy to let market forecasts more bad news for agents, landlords and investors over the next...

The ownership of buy to let property is much more evenly split between women and men than amongst other forms of...

Speculation is growing that three year tenancies for private renters - long favoured by the government - could be announced as...

One of the lettings industry’s senior figures has welcomed the introduction of mandatory five yearly inspections of electrical installations in private...

The Rent Recognition Challenge, an initiative to use technology to help share renters' payment histories with lenders and credit reference agencies,...

The Scottish Government’s private rental reforms are shaking up the sector according to new data, which reveals rental property sales have...

Agents and others wishing to respond to the official consultation on government proposals for longer tenancies have only until late evening...

The government has outlined increases in powers it wants to give social housing tenants - but no details of increases in social housing building. The...

Just under a third of people moving from one privately rented property to another in the past two years had to...

A leading trade body says EU citizens living in the UK run the risk of losing their rental homes without swift...

The government’s controversial Right To Rent policy is to be challenged in the High Court just before Christmas. It was announced in...

Rents are expected to surge 15 per cent over the next five years thanks to increasing demand and limited supply following...

Negative media portrayals of the buy to let sector could help to tip Britain into a housing crisis, claims an online...

The government should be more ambitious when it comes to ensuring the private rented sector becomes increasingly energy efficient. That’s the message...

Opposition is growing fast to the threat of another stamp duty attack on the buy to let sector, rumoured to be...

A newspaper in warning that the beleaguered buy to let sector may be under attack yet again with the government considering...

The proportion of visitors to Edinburgh using Airbnb surged 70 per cent in 2017 compared to the previous year. Commercial agency Colliers,...

A date has been set for the next stage of the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Bill, which is being promoted...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur says lettings agents should be more vocal in providing the government with feedback on council rental licensing...

Government plans aimed at stopping the abuse of the current Rent A Room tax perk may overcomplicate the system and deter...

The government’s announcement that it will bring in mandatory electrical checks in the private rented sector has been welcomed - perhaps...

The government has produced new guidelines on setting up client money protection schemes for the private rented sector. They are evidently aimed...

The government has announced that the Report Stage for the Tenants’ Fees Bill will be held on September 5, the day...

The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks says it still believes there is an opportunity for the government to introduce mandatory inventory...

It’s a conundrum for many, especially those moving to the capital...but portal OnTheMarket claims it knows exactly where it is cheapest...

Britain’s most controversial landlord, Fergus Wilson, says the recent changes in buy to let legislation means that if he was starting...

An insurer is launching a new referral scheme for letting agents to market to landlords and tenants as a way of...

Which?, the consumer body that appears to be taking an increasingly-aggressive line against letting agents and landlords, has now issued a...

Campaigning group Generation Rent has secured over 20,000 signatures for a petition it says will “end unfair evictions”. The petition, on the...

All privately-let homes must have electrical installations checked every five years under new rules announced by the Ministry of Housing, Communities...

The lettings agency Elet, based in Harrogate, has appointed liquidators.  A Letting Agent Today reader spotted an announcement about the move in...

An online lettings agency is the latest to voice opposition to the government’s proposed three year standard tenancies for the private...

A trade body is backing a call by a parliamentary committee for the government to fund certain fire safety improvements in...

A new analysis reveals that it takes an average of 118 days for court-appointed bailiffs to remove tenants from private homes...

Airbnb, which is facing tough local restrictions in many of the largest cities in which it operates, says its new link...

The pressure group Generation Rent has joined forces with other critics of the private rental sector to demand an end to...

There are now well over 125 pieces of legislation and regulations - most introduced in modern times - governing the private...

A trade body says the country faces a net loss of 133,000 homes for private rent over the next year -...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has heaped praise on a local authority which has fined 27 lettings and managing agents...

The government has issued a new How To Rent guide - a key document which agents or landlords managing their properties...

The major legislative changes introduced in Scotland’s letting sector are a major turning point but should not be feared, says one...

The government has suggested that it is at least considering changing the terms of its Rent A Room system which could...

Yet another leading lettings agent has hit out at the government over its proposals for three year tenancies being the norm...

A respected property lawyer says she wants a change in the law to prevent unscrupulous landlords from offering accommodation in return for sex.  Liz...

The British Property Federation says there are now 124,037 Build To Rent homes complete, under construction and in planning across the...

A Tory activist has made an outspoken attack on the government’s policies towards the private rental sector on the pages of...

There has been strong support for an e-petition calling for the scrapping of the stamp duty surcharge on buy to let...

Two senior London politicians are backing a campaign to scrap the powers of agents and landlords to evict tenants under Section...

Well-respected London lettings agent and former ARLA president Lucy Morton is the latest key figure to pour cold water on government...

A petition has appeared on the government’s e-petition website calling for a review of a city council’s newly-introduced selective licensing system. Nottingham...

Close examination of the consultation document on possible three year tenancies issued by the government suggest that it may want rent...

Rural landlords say the government’s idea of making three year tenancies the norm across the private rental sector would damage the...

Buy to let landlords are welcoming proposals being considered by the government to provide financial incentives for those offering longer tenancies. In...

The next phase of the government’s Rent Recognition Challenge takes place this week, as six short-listed PropTech companies know which will...

The Money Laundering Regulations 2017 require estate agents to risk assess their business relationships and apply an appropriate level of investigation...

Arguments have already started over the government’s proposals to make three year tenancies the norm in the private rental sector. Letting Agent...

Leaks from government sources to at least two mainstream news outlets today suggest that radical proposals on longer tenancies and possible...

The National Approved Letting Scheme has unveiled a new specialist training course for letting agents. The NALS Level 3 Award in Letting...

The government should scrap the tax on new homes which is punishing those in need of a home to rent, the...

A PropTech company chief is backing the controversial idea of spot checks on private rental sector properties in a bid to...

Tenants, landlords and buy to let investors are the targets for new online rental guides introduced by the Ministry of Housing,...

Landlords are most likely to have invested in a boiler upgrade in the last 12 months to boost the energy efficiency...

The conclusions of a new think tank analysing the private rental sector are “fundamentally wrong” according to a trade body.  The Residential...

The Money Laundering Regulations 2017 require estate agents to risk assess their business relationships and apply an appropriate level of investigation...

The chief executive of franchise giant Belvoir says government interference in the lettings sector will be to blame for higher rent...

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...