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05 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Leasehold Reform Is Far From Over, Whoever Wins on July 4](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
Leasehold reform still has a long way to run, according to the Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners (ALEP). The major party manifestos...
17 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Stamp Duty Challenge - Tories pledge 'no change' but will Labour follow?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/StampDuty--2-400x310.png)
The housing market has suddenly become a major part of the General Election campaign as a result of a challenge thrown...
07 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Beware 1% Deposits - Knight Frank lays into government](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/MortgageRates1_400x310.png)
Knight Frank has taken the unusual step of suggesting a government proposal for the housing market is high-risk and could even...
23 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![House builders overwhelmingly want Labour to win General Election](/upload/images/383356447.png)
A Knight Frank survey of 50 house builders shows a staggering 70 per cent support for Labour to win the next...
29 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Row over government bid to turn renters into first time buyers](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/BuyRent-400x310.png)
Controversy surrounds a government idea - floated over the weekend - to allow renters to secure mortgages with just one per...
22 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Politicians demand Christmas ban on Section 21 evictions](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Eviction-400x310.png)
The Liberal Democrats have called on the government to bring in an emergency ban on no fault evictions and banks repossessing people’s homes...
21 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![New Eviction Ban Call - government under pressure from MPs](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Eviction-400x310.png)
The government is under new pressure to introduce a last minute eviction ban to avoid private renters facing homelessness over Christmas. Liberal...
15 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agent justifies rent level after politician brands it “disgraceful”](/upload/images/PropTech%20%26%20Online/Internet-400x310.jpg)
A lettings agency in Kent has been drawn into a spat about rent levels following a councillor’s comment on Twitter. Liberal Democrat...
01 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rental reform may be bogged down after elections, warns supplier](/upload/images/Logos/aiic-logo400x310.png)
Last month’s local election results could yet impact on the private rental sector, a prominent industry supplier claims. The Association of Independent...
06 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![Vote 2022 - today's elections could change course of rental reform](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/Conservative-logo400x310.png)
A leading lettings sector commentator believes today’s local elections may not directly change the private rental sector but could have a...
05 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Airbnb lettings ‘racket’ condemned by prominent newspaper](/upload/images/Logos/Airbnb-Alt-400x310.jpg)
One of the country’s best-read and respected regional newspapers has accused Airbnb of a ‘racket’ by advertising homes on its short-let...
25 January 2022
From: Breaking News
![Lib Dems want big rental sector controls ‘to solve housing crisis’](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/HousesofParliament-3-400x310.jpg)
The Liberal Democrats have proposed sharp restrictions on holiday rentals at the heart of the party’s plans to solve the housing...
11 January 2022
From: Breaking News
![HMOs in the firing line: Another city ponders a clampdown](/img/default/lat.png)
Another local authority is considering a clampdown on the spread and condition of HMOs. Bath and North East Somerset Council, which is...
10 December 2020
From: Breaking News
![ARLA Propertymark slams last-ditch bid to stop evictions](/img/default/lat.png)
ARLA Propertymark has hit out against last minute attempts to effectively reinstate the eviction ban which finally came to an end...
24 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Shock bid to block evictions to be made this week in House of Lords](/img/default/lat.png)
A Liberal Democrat Baroness says she is to make a last-ditch bid in the House of Lords tomorrow to stop evictions...
22 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Labour and LibDems claim evictions may cause ‘homelessness wave’](/img/default/lat.png)
A group of Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs have together claimed that England could witness "a new wave of homelessness" when...
18 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Section 21: Lib Dems want government to finally scrap it](/img/default/lat.png)
A Liberal Democrat bid is underway to accelerate the government timetable to scrap Section 21. The Renters’ Rights Bill put forward by government...
27 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Politicians Beware! Landlords could decide General Election](/img/default/lat.png)
A trade body suggests that the votes of private landlords could decide the results in over 100 constituencies in next week’s...
03 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Labour to end Right To Rent but shift rental sector power to tenants](/img/default/lat.png)
As the battle of political policies continues ahead of next month’s General Election, now Labour has unveiled a raft of initiatives...
22 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Mandatory licensing, long tenancies, rent controls advocated by LibDems](/img/default/lat.png)
The Liberal Democrats is the first of the major parties to release its party manifesto for the December 12 manifesto, and...
21 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Conservatives likely to oppose rent controls in election manifesto](/img/default/lat.png)
It looks likely that the Conservative party is set to formally oppose rent controls when it publishes its manifesto, probably in...
11 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Confirmed: Lib Dems will scrap Section 21 if they win power](/img/default/lat.png)
As expected, the Liberal Democrats’ conference in Bournemouth has backed a motion calling for the scrapping of Section 21 - effectively...
18 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Section 21 - Liberal Democrats to debate call to scrap landlords’ rights](/img/default/lat.png)
The Liberal Democrat conference, which begins on Saturday, is to debate a resolution calling for the scrapping of Section 21 -...
12 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Property investors urge government to scrap stamp duty surcharge](/img/default/lat.png)
Property investors are calling for the government to provide more support to the UK property market. A survey of investors, carried out...
05 July 2019
From: Breaking News
!['Pro-lettings sector' group may be set up by political party](/img/default/lat.png)
A Liberal Democrat activist is considering establishing a landlords’ group consisting of party members. Tony Harris, writing on the LibDem Voice website,...
24 April 2019
From: Breaking News
![Rent To Buy - might this be the next big idea from the government?](/img/default/lat.png)
The Independent online newspaper says Conservative MP Gary Streeter will tomorrow meet with Prime Minister Theresa May and urge her to...
19 June 2018
From: Breaking News
![Councils accused of inadequately policing private rental sector](/img/default/lat.png)
Almost 60 per cent of councils across Britain have not prosecuted any landlord for any offence in the past year according...
31 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![Lib Dems want rent and deposit caps as well as agents' fees ban](/img/default/lat.png)
The Liberal Democrats want a raft of additional controls on the private rented sector aimed at addressing what it describes as...
18 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Liberal Democrats back more Build To Rent and more online reviews](/img/default/lat.png)
A Liberal Democrat spokesman has used a lettings sector trade body website to outline his party’s support for a range of...
05 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Liberal Democrats take 'credit' for letting agents' fees ban](/img/default/lat.png)
The Liberal Democrats appear to be taking what they see as the credit for the government’s commitment to ban letting agents’...
13 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Massive variation in councils' lettings sector enforcement action](/img/default/lat.png)
Councils in eight of London's 32 boroughs have failed to prosecute even a single landlord for providing unsafe accommodation during the...
02 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Inventory clerks want rethink on proposed letting agencies' fees ban](/img/default/lat.png)
The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks says the government should not back a provision in the Renters' Rights Bill which would...
30 June 2016
From: Breaking News
![Liberal Democrats latest to demand ban on letting agents' fees](/img/default/lat.png)
The Liberal Democrats are following in the footsteps of some Green and Labour politicians in calling for a ban on letting...
03 May 2016
From: Breaking News
![Letting agent angered by Lib Dem canvassing email](/img/default/lat.png)
A London letting agent has expressed their dismay with a canvassing email sent by Liberal Democrat London mayoral candidate Caroline Pidgeon. The...
14 March 2016
From: Breaking News
![Right To Rent: Peer accuses government of hypocrisy over migrant checks](/img/default/lat.png)
A Liberal Democrat peer has accused the government of being “a bit rich” in its willingness to jail letting agents or...
25 February 2016
From: Breaking News
![MPs table motions in bid to kill Right To Rent stone dead](/img/default/lat.png)
Liberal Democrat MPs in the Commons and the Lords have tabled motions aimed at stopping the Right To Rent policy, which...
14 January 2016
From: Breaking News
![Immigration check roll-out to be announced tomorrow](/img/default/lat.png)
Tomorrow’s Queen’s Speech outlining legislation for the next 12 months will include a pledge to roll out across England and Wales...
26 May 2015
From: Breaking News
![Election results: what they mean for agents](/img/default/lat.png)
After a night of remarkable election results, it looks likely that much of the residential property industry - which was strongly...
08 May 2015
From: Breaking News
![We don't know what UKIP stands for say landlords](/img/default/lat.png)
The National Landlords’ Association has set out a table of where the political parties stand on issues of lettings sector reform...