A politician has called on Airbnb hosts in his local area to switch their properties to long-term rentals. Isle of Wight councillor...
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19 July 2022
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Propertymark has set up a working group of experts, agents, landlords and stakeholders in response to radical reforms to the private...
18 July 2022
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Within two hours of Greg Clarke being appointed by Boris Johnson as the new Housing Secretary, the leader of Generation Rent...
08 July 2022
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A prominent lettings industry supplier says uncertainty over the details and timescales to implement rental reforms will dog the sector for...
30 June 2022
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The government is widely expected to announce that Section 21 eviction powers will be scrapped in new legislation coming to Parliament...
10 May 2022
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Activists in the Acorn campaign group are lobbying a council in a bid to - in its words - “ban slum...
05 April 2022
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The activist group Acorn is lobbying a local council to deny people the right to buy a second home or let...
25 March 2022
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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...
12 October 2021
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Propertymark - embracing the Association of Residential Letting Agents as well as sales agents, auctioneers and valuers - says it’s been...
18 March 2021
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The ARLA Propertymark president for the year ahead is a long-standing board member with significant experience in regulation. Angela Davey succeeds Phil...
03 September 2020
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Agents and landlords are urged to lobby MPs to highlight the threat of the current eviction ban and to urge no...
30 June 2020
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Airbnb and similar platforms have seen a collapse of business since the start of the Coronavirus crisis with some 70 per...
02 April 2020
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The chief executive of a new lettings sector trade body is to address his first conference next month, giving an indication...
09 March 2020
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Shelter, which routinely criticises lettings agents and landlords, has been slammed for the huge amount of public funding it receives -...
24 February 2020
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A council is lobbying the government to ask for landlords using Airbnb and other short let platforms to be charged business...
17 January 2020
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Number 10 briefings to the national media suggest that the scrapping of Section 21 - long talked about by the previous...
17 December 2019
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Lobbying government can work, at least in some circumstances, as the Association of Residential Lettings Agents has seen in Wales. Letting agents...
11 December 2019
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Members of the industry’s two major landlord bodies have backed a merger which will now take place on January 1. Members of...
18 September 2019
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Momentum is building in the campaign to end ‘No DSS’ discrimination against private rental sector tenants in receipt of housing benefit. Late...
05 March 2019
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A trade body has spoken out about the lack of detail in government plans for Right To Rent, as contained in...
24 December 2018
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Propertymark has launched a new Client Money Protection system, Money Shield, with a support statement from much of the lettings sector...
23 August 2018
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The government has responded to a petition calling for it to abolish the 3% stamp duty surcharge and reintroduce full buy-to-let...
29 May 2018
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The new sole chair of the Association of Independent Inventory Clerks says he wants the service to be at the heart...
13 April 2018
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The Association of Residential Letting Agents has taken the unusual step of making a fact sheet available to all agents, not...
06 November 2017
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An energy efficiency lobbying group says it backs new government energy efficiency guidelines to improve 300,000 private rented homes - but...
10 August 2017
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Lettings industry regulatory trade body the Association of Independent Inventory Clerks (AIIC) has announced the appointment of two new joint chairs...
07 June 2017
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Opponents of the proposed change to mortgage interest tax relief for landlords have promised what they call a “shock and awe”...
16 February 2017
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Saturday is traditionally the day many MPs hold their constituency surgeries, listening to grievances and opinions from their electors. Conservative member of...
10 February 2017
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A Tory MP has taken to the internet to warn against what he calls the “unintended consequences” of a ban on...
10 January 2017
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The government has published a new set of guidelines for organisations, companies and individuals to lobby the Treasury ahead of the...
03 January 2017
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The campaigners against planned changes to mortgage interest tax relief - set to come into effect from April, phased over four...
29 December 2016
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A group of landlords and buy to let investors that has already successfully persuaded a council to scrap plans for a...
07 December 2016
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Phillip Hammond has delivered his first Autumn Statement, tackling amongst other things, what he called “the housing challenge.” The speech made no...
23 November 2016
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The landlords behind the failed attempt to seek a Judicial Review of legislation reducing the mortgage interest tax relief for landlords...
07 October 2016
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The attempt to seek a Judicial Review of legislation reducing the mortgage interest tax relief for landlords has failed. The case was...
06 October 2016
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A campaign group is urging letting agents to join with landlords in lobbying MP over the government’s change to buy to...
12 September 2016
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The Residential Landlords Association is asking the Welsh Assembly to scrap the three per cent stamp duty surcharge imposed on buy...
20 July 2016
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ARLA is stepping up its call for letting agents to have professional qualifications in a bid to combat fraud. In a contribution...
13 July 2016
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Letting agents in Scotland have started to sign up to a new compliance programme which has the aim of stamping out...
25 May 2016
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ARLA is lobbying Justice Secretary Michael Gove urging him to consider allowing High Court Enforcement Officers to enforce possession orders without...
22 January 2016
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The Citizens Advice charity is urging people to lobby for more controls over the private rental sector, letting agents and landlords,...
17 August 2015
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An electrical safety charity has written to the new intake of MPs to explain why electrical safety in Britain’s homes needs...
01 June 2015
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The quick-off-the-mark Residential Landlords Association appeared to earn brownie points for the entire private rental sector by sending a congratulatory message...
13 May 2015
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So, a sigh of relief. Most agents will be pleased with the election result - even if they are not Tory supporters...