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Michael Gove’s Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities hit back overnight at critics of the government’s Renters Reform Bill. The Bill...

The government has done a U-turn on its original policy to relax HMO regulations on private rental properties used by asylum...

Labour is using a Bill currently going through Parliament as a backdoor method to introduce the regulation of lettings, estate and...

Senior Labour MP Clive Betts says the party’s official house building policy won’t actually solve the shortage of homes. Labour deputy leader...

Labour deputy leader and shadow housing secretary Angela Rayner has given her party’s conference an outline of future policy plans. She says:...

A property firm has been fined £8,000 for operating an HMO on one of Britain’s most famous roads. Westminster council has won...

One of Connells’ high end branch, Hamptons, is releasing a TV advertisement on Boxing Day.  The advert, in 30 and 60 second...

The Observer newspaper has investigated the way letting agents apply so-called zero deposit schemes - and claims that in some cases...

The residential arm of global property consultancy Knight Frank - one of the highest profile lettings services in the UK -...

Some 39 agents and landlords have had banning orders over the past three years according to a report in The Guardian. Under the...

Leaders Romans Group has acquired another lettings agency - the fourth lettings-led acquisition this year. This time it is Guardian Residential Lettings...

Activists are attempting to build rent strike momentum amongst students who rent property across the country. ‘Rent Strike” is a national network...

A property company that owns and manages premises occupied by a politician has returned some £10,000 in furlough money received under...

The chief executive of campaigning charity Shelter claims some lettings agencies are ignoring the recent ruling that private landlords cannot discriminate against...

A foundation which receives substantial funding from trade unions and a charity linked to the Nationwide is calling for rents to...

A consumer charity has been blasted by a landlords' trade body for making “irresponsible” claims about tenants and the Coronavirus crisis. Research...

A campaign group that has held protests outside letting agents’ branches and has been fiercely critical of fees, says it’s seen a...

A company that slots temporary tenants into properties that it manages has been found guilty of 15 charges connected with Homes...

A north of England letting agent who conned home owners out of thousands of pounds has been ordered to pay it back...

The government has published proposals for far-reaching changes to the way estate and letting agents are regulated, trained and licensed. The proposals...

The management company of a private New York City rental apartment complex is to install a facial recognition system which must...

An online lettings agency that has been operating for 12 years has now opened a High Street office. Nantwich-based LetLord, founded in...

Foxtons has been named as one of almost 100 firms which will be highlighted for failing to boost the number of...

The scrapping of Section 21 eviction powers has been welcomed by the London Assembly - but apparently it doesn’t go far...

A Freedom of Information request by The Guardian newspaper has produced the startling admission from government that not even one landlord...

Labour’s proposal to introduce indefinite tenancies along the lines in a bid to emulate the German model reveals the party’s “fundamental...

TV property pundit Phil Spencer, who now runs property advice site MoveIQ, says letting agents may introduce new administration fees on...

There’s been an angry reaction to the suggestion that London’s Labour mayor, Sadiq Khan, is seeking to introduce rent controls in...

A council accused of paying over £500,000 to a landlord it had already ruled as unfit to rent out property is...

Embattled London Labour mayor Sadiq Khan says he wants rent controls to be introduced in the capital’s private rental sector, but...

The Labour MP who chairs the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee in the House of Commons is pressing the government...

Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has made a clear pledge to tighten regulations surrounding the private rental sector. In an interview with The...

The Guardian says the government is committed to making a datebase of rogue letting agents and landlords available to tenants. The newspaper quotes...

A London council has fined a letting agency over £10,000 for failing to install smoke alarms in a rental property. Waltham Forest...

The University of Surrey’s in-house private lettings agency has won a gong at the Guardian University Awards 2018. The ‘Student Experience’ award...

Research by The Guardian newspaper reveals that massive numbers of local authority councillors are also buy to let investors - and...

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

Two board members of Shelter who have links with the Grenfell Towers fire tragedy have resigned, according to a report in...

Campaign group Generation Rent has provided material to The Guardian newspaper suggesting that a typical two-adult household is being charged letting agents’...

The founder of a PropTech start up called No Agent says despite his firm’s name he does not want to see...

Hybrid agency Purplebricks has entered the debate over the £835.38p reportedly charged by a branch of Winkworth when it changed the...

The Guardian has accused a branch of Winkworth letting agency in south London of “grubby overcharging” for allegedly asking a new...

Controversial Labour MP Stella Creasy has presented her annual awards to estate and letting agents in her London constituency of Walthamstow...

A damning critique of the one-year-old Right To Rent legislation in England suggests that the government is largely unaware of its...

Britain’s biggest buy to let landlord, Fergus Wilson, says new investors now will never be able to enjoy the scale of...

A law firm called CaseHub says it is launching a “once-in-a-generation fight back against extortionate letting agent practices” in the shape of...

It started off as an idea from Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign to become Labour leader but today it’s being backed by a...

The most common reason people give for not writing a will is that they “haven’t got around to it yet”. Sound...

An outspoken attack on Chancellor George Osborne’s fiscal measures against the private rental sector have questioned whether he is really a...

The financial editor of The Guardian newspaper claims that - despite widespread criticism within the lettings industry of the latest buy...

The Guardian newspaper has taken a perhaps-predictable swipe at letting agents and property portals for the way in which they display...

An industry body has asked classified listings online service Gumtree to issue its users clear warnings about possible scams involving fake...

A letting agency that has been the subject of a BBC investigation and has gone into liquidation in controversial circumstances has...

Labour MP Karen Buck is accusing local authorities of taking a ’softly, softly’ approach to rogue letting agents and landlords. Buck, whose...

Fergus and Judith Wilson, regarded as Britain’s biggest buy to let landlords, are reported to have sold their empire of hundreds...

A letting agent featured on a BBC Watchdog ‘Rogue Traders’ show has told a local newspaper that he is pursuing legal...

Letting Agent Today last week reported on Lancaster Property Network Management when it went into voluntary liquidation - now the agency...

It’s been a bad weekend for the image of the private rental sector with a series of reports and press stories...

The manager of a Lancaster letting agency dealing chiefly with students says he will co-operate with any police investigation into his...

Government proposals forcing agents and landlords to check the immigration status of tenants risk a serious breach of human rights according...

Landlords may be mistakenly claiming back VAT they are not entitled to because of an error by a local council.  The Croydon...

The country’s biggest buy to let landlord is to raise rents by up to 33 per cent, and puts the blame...

A letting agent who fled Britain to India, leaving landlords and tenants out of pocket and his staff’s wages unpaid, has...

David Lammy, MP for Tottenham and one of Labour's prospective candidates for next year's London mayoral election, has warned that the...

In the nine months since new Right To Rent immigration checks have been implemented across the West Midlands only seven landlords...

Campaigning charity Shelter appears for the first time to have acnowledged that rent caps may backfire and end up harming tenants...

The internet and rapidly evolving digital landscape has revolutionised the way people buy and sell properties. With some reports suggesting 95 per...

Landlords have launched a legal challenge to plans by a local authority to charge for licences to manage properties. The Croydon Guardian...

The new shadow chancellor has said that he is against a ‘crack down’ on letting agencies and rent controls.  Labour’s Chris Leslie,...

A former Andrews letting agent and his ex-girlfriend are reported to have pleaded guilty to forging tenancy applications for properties which...

An analysis by The Guardian newspaper shows that 153 MPs from the last Parliament declared an income from renting out at...