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![Renters Reform Bill at risk if councils aren’t given more cash - MPs](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HousePrices_balancing-400x310.png)
Measures contained in the Renters Reform Bill will fail without sufficient resources to ensure they can be enforced. The warning comes from...
13 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Letting agents accused of “profiteering” rent rises](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HousePrices_pound-400x310.png)
A new manifesto calling for rent controls and a raft of other measures is accusing the current rent rises of being...
06 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![New How To Rent Guide to be issued today](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
The Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities says a new How To Rent guide will be issued today, October 2. Letting...
02 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Law Society speaks out about Section 21 evictions](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Eviction-400x310.png)
Housing legal aid is increasingly out of reach for tenants who need help, the Law Society of England and Wales claims. Quarterly...
14 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![Propertymark's legal plea to government - ‘be fair to rental sector’](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
Propertymark has issued another plea to the government to be fair to the private rental sector - this time regarding a...
03 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![Legal concern over new aid for tenants in eviction cases](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/EvictionNotice-400x310.png)
The Law Society is raising concerns over the effectiveness of a new support service aimed at tenants at risk of losing...
03 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![Evictions set to take longer and cost more from today](/upload/images/shutterstock_1783457318.jpg)
The new Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service kicks in today - it offers early legal advice, free of charge, to anyone...
01 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![Sex For Rent Scandal - letting agents accused by activists](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews2-400x310.png)
The issue of ‘rent for sex’ - tenants offered free or discounted rent in return for sexual favours - is now...
03 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Lawyers warn of “huge gaps” in legal aid for evicted tenants](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/LegalAdvice-400x310.png)
Large areas of the country will remain without vital legal advice to prevent evictions if the government fails to persuade law...
14 February 2023
From: Breaking News
![Evicted tenants must be given Legal Aid, insists solicitors’ chief](/img/default/lat.png)
The president of the Law Society of England and Wales says tenants facing eviction as a result of the ban being...
01 June 2021
From: Breaking News
![Eviction mediation scheme - lawyers raise concerns](/img/default/lat.png)
The Law Society is raising concerns about the government’s mediation scheme announced at the time of the last eviction ban decision. The...
09 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Law Society calls for more Legal Aid help to tenants facing eviction](/img/default/lat.png)
The legal industry says the end of the eviction ban must be the moment to ensure the widest number of tenants...
22 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Legal aid for evicted tenants once ban ends, demands Law Society](/img/default/lat.png)
The Law Society for England and Wales says legal aid should be made available for tenants who face eviction once the...
11 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Porsche-driving agent crook repays just £43,000 of missing £241,000](/img/default/lat.png)
A jailed letting agent in a long-running legal saga has now been told she must repay her victims some £43,000 -...
25 February 2020
From: Breaking News
![Scrap Section 21 now, says top lawyers’ society](/img/default/lat.png)
One of the country’s top law groups has backed government moves to scrap Section 21. The call comes from the Law Society for...
28 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Crooked lettings agent in court again after row over solicitors](/img/default/lat.png)
A lettings agent jailed in March for taking £220,000 from tenants and landlords is now in trouble over her legal representation. Heather...
14 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Shelter on the warpath again over default fees](/img/default/lat.png)
Shelter is campaigning for the outlawing if default fees levied on tenants by agents in Wales. While the campaigning group welcomes the Renting...