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Propertymark is pressing Housing Secretary Michael Gove to adopt a housing court system to solve the problem of abandoned tenancies. The agents...

We’re only in February and it’s already clear that this year will set the future direction of the private rented sector...

A controversial database which will allow widespread access to the identities of rogue letting agents and landlords has been backed by...

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

A landlord in one of the most scenic parts of Devon had been served with a £18,000 civil penalty because he...

Councils that have been awarded additional cash injections by government could use their windfalls to enhance their enforcement of the private...

A new piece of legislation has been invoked to ban a landlord from any involvement in the private rental sector for...

There’s been a sceptical response to news leaked from government over the weekend suggesting that a database of rogue landlords would...

A managing agent who used ‘ghost tenants’ as a front so that she could cram 16 people into one overcrowded house...

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

An Essex council claims it is one of the first to be granted a rent repayment order - part of legislation...

Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, will is to reveal his vision for the private rental sector to a Residential...

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

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

The London council of Newham is thought to be the first local authority in the UK to use new powers to...

A leading letting agent campaigning against rental sector deposits is warning that the industry might be hit with “astronominal” insurance premiums...

At the end of an already-challenging week for the industry, a landlord group has distanced itself from comments made in its...

Some industry organisations have spotted that under new legislation now in effect, tenants’ associations are being given the right to gain...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents and the National Association of Estate Agents have asked new housing minister Gavin Barwell to...

Some 36% of UK landlords have had a property abandoned by tenants, according to research. Abandonment - which occurs when a tenant...