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Labour has waded into the increasingly-fractious debate over the Renters Reform Bill. Activists in groups such as the Renters Reform Coalition and...

Propertymark says it’s delivering a powerful message to the Scottish Government - despite losing a recent key legal case. The agents trade...

The Scottish Greens - who are in effect the architects of rent controls north of the border - have welcomed a...

There’s been widespread dismay in the industry as the outcome of a Judicial Review has backed the Scottish Government’s objective of...

The leader of the council that was rebuffed by a court when it tried to control the spread of Airbnb-style short...

A left-leaning think tank which says it champions ‘left-behind Londoners’ is demanding a turbo-charged version of selective licensing to be run...

Propertymark is one of three lettings organisations behind a bid to get a Judicial Review of the Scottish Government’s rent controls...

The controversial ban on private rental sector rent rises and evictions is to continue in Scotland for another six months at...

Liverpool’s Labour council, which was prevented by the government from extending its city-wide licensing scheme for another five years, is seeking...

Landlords in a part of Teesside are to be allowed to operate a “collaborative” licensing scheme after a council backed down...

It can be done - a council has U-turned on plans for a licensing scheme for landlords. The move by Hounslow council...

Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt have been given a message from a consortium of groups this morning - Scrap Right To...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) is threatening Oxford Council with a judicial review of its landlord and letting agent accreditation scheme. The...

The High Court today begins a Judicial Review of the government’s controversial Right to Rent scheme. The scheme began operating nationwide in...

The Residential Landlords Association is threatening a council with a judicial review because of unresolved concerns over the authority’s selective licensing...

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

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

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

The Residential Landlords Association has reiterated its support for a legal challenge to Right To Rent which is to be made...

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

The Residential Landlords Association has reiterated its opposition to Right To Rent, and is backing two legal challenges to the measure. Letting...

A landlord has set up a company to handle the ownership and management of buy to let properties - and the...

A property firm at the centre of the campaign against phasing out landlords’ mortgage interest relief says is urging tenants to...

Steve Bolton, founder of investment consultancy Platinum Property Partners and one of two landlords who have led a campaign against restricting...

The campaigners against planned changes to mortgage interest tax relief - set to come into effect from April, phased over four...

The Residential Landlords’ Association has revealed that it is to meet with Treasury officials ahead of next month’s Autumn Statement -...

Some of the property professionals behind the campaign against the changes to buy to let landlords’ taxation have compiled a comprehensive...

The landlords behind the failed attempt to seek a Judicial Review of legislation reducing the mortgage interest tax relief for landlords...

The attempt to seek a Judicial Review of legislation reducing the mortgage interest tax relief for landlords has failed. The case was...

Legal represenatives for two landlords will today make the case for a judicial review of Section 24 of the Finance (No.2)...

The case made by two landlords to have a judicial review of section 24 of the 2015 Finance Act - triggering...

A campaign group is urging letting agents to join with landlords in lobbying MP over the government’s change to buy to...

The date for the court hearing to decide whether there should be a judicial review of the buy to let tax...

Housing minister Gavin Barwell has agreed to meet campaigners opposed to the clampdown on landlords’ mortgage interest tax relief. The measure -...

The people behind the bid for a judicial review into Clause 24 of the Finance Act 2015 - limiting mortgage interest tax...

The landlords campaigning for a judicial review of the legislation curtailing mortgage interest tax relief for buy to let landlords have...

There appears no change in government policy on changing buy to let tax breaks - at least not yet - despite...

On the day of the campaign rally to galvanise support for a bid to win a judicial review of George Osborne’s...

The line-up has been revealed for the so-called "Tenants’ Tax Summit” this week - the campaign rally for supporters of a...

There has been a new development in a long-running spat between a website and the BBC over the corporation’s news coverage...

More details have emerged of the campaign rally to be held next month in support of the bid for a judicial...

The two landlords campaigning to win a judicial review of George Osborne’s restrictions on buy to let mortgage tax relief have...

Another £50,000 has already been raised through crowd-funding to help meet the costs of mounting a legal challenge to George Osborne’s...

The two landlords hoping to secure a judicial review of the legislation restricting mortgage interest tax relief on buy to let...

The two landlords spearheading a campaign to challenge the change to buy to let mortgage interest tax relief have launched another...

The people behind the campaign to seek a judicial review of the buy to let tax changes proposed by Chancellor George...

The two landlords behind the bid to seek a judicial review of George Osborne’s buy to let mortgage interest relief tax...

HM Revenue & Customs and the Treasury have at last responded to the legal team representing two landlords challenging beleaguered Chancellor...

Martin & Co - one of Britain’s largest letting agency networks with 192 offices across the country - says it may...

The attempt to see judicial review of George Osborne’s buy to let tax change continues apace, with the government now having...

The latest step in the legal challenge to Chancellor George Osborne’s proposal to limit landlords’ mortgage interest tax relief comes in...

The two landlords mounting a legal challenge to the mortgage interest tax changes proposed by Chancellor George Osborne have released a...

The franchise letting agency chain Belvoir is urging its landlord clients to offer fiancial support to the national campaign to fight...

The legal challenge to Chancellor George Osborne’s controversial buy to let tax change is underway with a letter sent to HMRC...

The two buy to let investors behind a campaign to seek a judicial review of George Osborne’s controversial mortgage interest tax...

The two landlords behind the possible legal challenge to George Osborne’s buy to let tax changes are appealling for “experts, mentors...

A legal opinion is expected in the next few days as the legal challenge to George Osborne’s buy to let tax...

The latest £50,000 target to fund a legal challenge to Chancellor George Osborne’s proposed tax changes for buy to let landlords...

The man behind the Platinum Property Partners company are mounting a legal challenge to this year’s buy to let tax changes...

A group of letting agents, landlords and investors has failed in its bid to force a high profile council to reconsider...

The hearing that will determine whether there will be a judicial review of another council’s landlord licensing scheme will take place...

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

A bid to take Rotherham council to a judicial review over a selective licensing scheme for private sector landlords has failed. All...