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Propertymark says it will continue lobbying government for the implementation of the Regulation of Property Agents - even though the government...

Propertymark is urging the government to tackle the problem of banks closing down undesignated or pooled client accounts of letting agents. HM...

The letting agents’ trade body Propertymark has made the unexpected move of calling on banks to cut mortgage rates. Rates are typically...

Prominent MPs from the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties have renewed their onslaught on Airbnb and other short let platforms.  Former Lib...

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

The board of Foxtons is under pressure from a minority of shareholders to put the agency group up for sale, according...

A government minister has pledged to act on the threat to lettings agents posed by banks acting against pooled client accounts. Many...

A franchise lettings agency is reported to have agreed to stop potential tenants bidding against each other to secure rental properties. The...

The government has back-tracked on its decision to publish the long-awaited Renters Reform Bill this week. The Mirror newspaper reports that “procedural issues”...

Propertymark has renewed its call for Local Housing Allowance  - which has remained static since 2020 - to be increased. It says...

A council is introducing a service which it claims will help identify properties which cannon future be used as private rental...

South Hams council in south Devon - one of the UK’s top holiday spots - has unanimously agreed proposals for second...

A politician has called on Airbnb hosts in his local area to switch their properties to long-term rentals. Isle of Wight councillor...

Propertymark has set up a working group of experts, agents, landlords and stakeholders in response to radical reforms to the private...

Within two hours of Greg Clarke being appointed by Boris Johnson as the new Housing Secretary, the leader of Generation Rent...

A prominent lettings industry supplier says uncertainty over the details and timescales to implement rental reforms will dog the sector for...

The government is widely expected to announce that Section 21 eviction powers will be scrapped in new legislation coming to Parliament...

Activists in the Acorn campaign group are lobbying a council in a bid to - in its words - “ban slum...

The activist group Acorn is lobbying a local council to deny people the right to buy a second home or let...

Airbnb has backed the Scottish Government's backtrack on pledges to exercise more centralised regulation over short let properties. The country’s ruling SNP-Green coalition...

Propertymark - embracing the Association of Residential Letting Agents as well as sales agents, auctioneers and valuers - says it’s been...

The ARLA Propertymark president for the year ahead is a long-standing board member with significant experience in regulation. Angela Davey succeeds Phil...

Agents and landlords are urged to lobby MPs to highlight the threat of the current eviction ban and to urge no...

Airbnb and similar platforms have seen a collapse of business since the start of the Coronavirus crisis with some 70 per...

The chief executive of a new lettings sector trade body is to address his first conference next month, giving an indication...

Shelter, which routinely criticises lettings agents and landlords, has been slammed for the huge amount of public funding it receives -...

A council is lobbying the government to ask for landlords using Airbnb and other short let platforms to be charged business...

Number 10 briefings to the national media suggest that the scrapping of Section 21 - long talked about by the previous...

Lobbying government can work, at least in some circumstances, as the Association of Residential Lettings Agents has seen in Wales.  Letting agents...

Members of the industry’s two major landlord bodies have backed a merger which will now take place on January 1. Members of...

Momentum is building in the campaign to end ‘No DSS’ discrimination against private rental sector tenants in receipt of housing benefit. Late...

A trade body has spoken out about the lack of detail in government plans for Right To Rent, as contained in...

Propertymark has launched a new Client Money Protection system, Money Shield, with a support statement from much of the lettings sector...

The government has responded to a petition calling for it to abolish the 3% stamp duty surcharge and reintroduce full buy-to-let...

The new sole chair of the Association of Independent Inventory Clerks says he wants the service to be at the heart...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has taken the unusual step of making a fact sheet available to all agents, not...

An energy efficiency lobbying group says it backs new government energy efficiency guidelines to improve 300,000 private rented homes - but...

Lettings industry regulatory trade body the Association of Independent Inventory Clerks (AIIC) has announced the appointment of two new joint chairs...

Opponents of the proposed change to mortgage interest tax relief for landlords have promised what they call a “shock and awe”...

Saturday is traditionally the day many MPs hold their constituency surgeries, listening to grievances and opinions from their electors.    Conservative member of...

A Tory MP has taken to the internet to warn against what he calls the “unintended consequences” of a ban on...

The government has published a new set of guidelines for organisations, companies and individuals to lobby the Treasury ahead of the...

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

A group of landlords and buy to let investors that has already successfully persuaded a council to scrap plans for a...

Phillip Hammond has delivered his first Autumn Statement, tackling amongst other things, what he called “the housing challenge.” The speech made no...

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...

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

The Residential Landlords Association is asking the Welsh Assembly to scrap the three per cent stamp duty surcharge imposed on buy...

ARLA is stepping up its call for letting agents to have professional qualifications in a bid to combat fraud.   In a contribution...

Letting agents in Scotland have started to sign up to a new compliance programme which has the aim of stamping out...

ARLA is  lobbying Justice Secretary Michael Gove urging him to consider allowing High Court Enforcement Officers to enforce possession orders without...

The Citizens Advice charity is urging people to lobby for more controls over the private rental sector, letting agents and landlords,...

An electrical safety charity has written to the new intake of MPs to explain why electrical safety in Britain’s homes needs...

The quick-off-the-mark Residential Landlords Association appeared to earn brownie points for the entire private rental sector by sending a congratulatory message...

So, a sigh of relief.  Most agents will be pleased with the election result - even if they are not Tory supporters...

It is to the credit of our political parties - and our own industry’s lobbying - that so many housing-related matters...