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![No explicit pledge to spread rent controls further in Scotland - SNP](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews2-400x310.png)
The Scottish National Party, which as part of an alliance with the Greens introduced controversial rent controls in Scotland in 2022,...
20 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Councils ‘must take over ex-private rental Right To Buy flats’](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews2-400x310.png)
A pro-tenant group wants the next government to take Right To Buy properties back to public ownership when they come up...
05 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Almost No Reduction in Buy To Let Supply, insists think tank](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Buy-to-let-2-400x310.png)
There’s been at most a one per cent reduction in landlords in the buy to let sector, a think tank claims...
08 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Local Housing Allowance - momentum grows for annual increase](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/2_MortgageCalculated.png)
Propertymark is joining a growing chorus demanding an annual uprate of working age benefits and Local Housing Allowance. LHA rates have been...
25 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Agency to manage getting empty homes into private rental sector](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/NewBuildHomes-400x310.png)
Owners of vacant properties are being offered an improved incentive to bring their house back into use. Plymouth council is re-launching its...
14 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Local Housing Allowance - call for even more help for low-income renters](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/2_MortgageCalculated.png)
Low-income renters will get a boost next spring - but a pressure group wants more government help for this sector. The Chancellor’s...
12 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Hunt’s lack of support for rental sector still subject of criticism](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/ToLetBoard-400x310.png)
Last week’s Autumn Statement - which fell short of expectations in terms of help for the private rental sector - is...
27 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Tax and Benefit Changes announced to impact housing market](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Help%20to%20buy%20equity%20loan.jpg)
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has used his Autumn Statement to reveal measures affecting both the rental market and the wider property industry. The Local Housing...
23 November 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
![Renters Reform Bill measures may be extended - BBC report](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews2-400x310.png)
The BBC says discussions are underway to extend the Renters Reform Bill to specifically outlaw any rental listing banning families and benefit recipients...
06 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![‘Bad to disastrous’ - sharp fall in private rental listings](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/DemandDown-400x310.jpg)
New research shows a 41 per cent reduction in the number of London properties available for private rent since the Covid-19...
06 July 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
![Agents Tell Government: boost help for increasingly poor tenants](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Fine-2-400x310.png)
Propertymark has set out the case for an increase in benefits for private tenants. Timothy Douglas, Propertymark's Head of Policy and Campaigns...
03 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Politicians told to do more to help tenants on benefits](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/LandlordNews-400x310.png)
Propertymark has told a group of MPs that many benefit recipients are excluded from the private rented sector due to the...
15 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agents step up call for scrapping of LHA freeze](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Rent_Freeze2-400x310.png)
Propertymark has renewed its call for Local Housing Allowance - which has remained static since 2020 - to be increased. It says...
05 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![Tenant demand still on the rise as RICS calls for Budget help](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/HappyLandlord-400x310.png)
The latest market snapshot from the Royal Institution for Chartered Surveyors - out today - shows tenant demand continuing to increase...
09 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Rental Reform Now! Councils want immediate government action](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Eviction-400x310%20(1).png)
The Local Government Association, which comprises 331 of the 333 councils in England and all 22 Welsh unitary councils, is calling on...
02 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Reinstate Mortgage Interest Tax Relief - agents’ plea to government](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/FinanceCalculator-400x310.png)
Propertymark has told the government it should have three priorities for next month’s Budget. 1. Improving welfare system for vulnerable and low-waged...
02 February 2023
From: Breaking News
![Rents soar ahead of frozen benefits, triggering homelessness fear](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/StressedTenant-2-400x310.png)
The average gap between housing benefit rates and the actual cost of rents has grown by more than 40 per cent...
31 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Immediate Eviction ban must be introduced says government adviser](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/agent_and_homes_360x280.png)
The cost of living crisis could have a ‘catastrophic’ impact on homelessness unless an immediate eviction ban is introduced. That’s the view...
22 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Homelessness spike threat as private rents soar even higher - claim](/upload/images/library/Homeless-1-400x310.jpg)
London faces a possible homelessness spike this winter due to the cost-of-living crisis and increases in private rents, a group of...
05 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Government relies on private rentals to keep Homes For Ukraine afloat](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/Property-Newspaper-400x310.jpg)
The government is relying on the private rented sector to bolster its high-profile Homes for Ukraine programme - despite a series...
10 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![MPs slammed by agents for failing to help private renters](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/Parliament-Night-400x310.jpg)
MPs on a key Select Committee have been criticised by the letting agents’ trade body for failing to probe how Local...
28 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Labour pushing for even more radical reforms plus rent controls](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/Labour-logo400x310.png)
The sweeping reforms for the private rental sector announced by the government at the end of last week do not go...
21 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![Generation Rent claims economy stacked against private tenants](/upload/images/Logos/GenerationRent-logo400x310.png)
The leader of the Generation Rent campaign group has accused Chancellor Rishi Sunak of “stacking the economy against private renters who...
28 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Councils warn that Airbnbs threaten mainstream rental supply](/upload/images/Logos/airbnb-logo400x310.png)
Landlords selling up or converting to short lets have led to a growing housing crisis, according to a trade body of...
14 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![Propertymark steps up attack on government benefit cuts](/upload/images/Logos/NAEA-ARLA-Propertymark-400x310.jpg)
Earlier this week Propertymark revealed it had co-signed an open letter criticising proposed government cuts to benefits. That open letter was co-signed...
19 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Eviction Ban: government accused of hypocrisy over tenants’ rights](/img/default/lat.png)
Baroness Alicia Kennedy has accused the government of hypocrisy over its diverging approach to evictions for commercial and residential tenants. On Wednesday...
18 June 2021
From: Breaking News
![Private sector could benefit from letting to social tenants - claim](/img/default/lat.png)
A property investment platform has taken the unusual approach of accusing the government of driving up homelessness through its policy of...
15 June 2021
From: Breaking News
![Tenant loans the only answer to growing arrears, says think tank](/img/default/lat.png)
A think tank says large scale intervention in the rental market via loans to tenants is the only way of addressing...
16 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agents tell government - Use Budget to help private rental sector](/img/default/lat.png)
ARLA Propertymark has issued a list of 10 demands for Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s long-awaited Budget on March 3, with a financial...
04 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Government must act on eviction backlog and landlord hardship - ARLA](/img/default/lat.png)
ARLA Propertymark has given a detailed response to a government consultation on how the pandemic has hit the private rental sector. The...
04 December 2020
From: Breaking News
![Arrears set to worsen as a result of Sunak’s LHA freeze](/img/default/lat.png)
There’s widespread concern that a freeze on the Local Housing Allowance will worsen rental arrears. Although Chancellor Rishi Sunak failed to mention...
26 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![Rent guarantee scheme for private sector launched by council](/img/default/lat.png)
A council says it’s let 21 properties thanks to a rent guarantee system launched to woo private landlords to supply homes...
26 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![Private tenants should get bigger benefits says Generation Rent](/img/default/lat.png)
Generation Rent’s campaign for more public funds for private tenants continues unabated with a call on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to increase...
25 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![‘We want public funds to pay rent arrears’ - campaigners renew call](/img/default/lat.png)
The Generation Rent campaign has renewed its call for public money to be allocated to clear at least some rent arrears...
23 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![“Thousands” of Tier 3 private tenants face eviction, claim activists](/img/default/lat.png)
Campaign group Generation Rent says thousands of tenants in areas of the country under Tier 3 Coronavirus restrictions are in danger...
23 October 2020
From: Breaking News
![Everything you ever wanted to know about evictions - and more...](/img/default/lat.png)
A definitive document has been published by the House of Commons library listing every eviction-related measure taken by UK governments during...
22 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Eviction ban ends but it’s under “constant review” insists minister](/img/default/lat.png)
Housing Minister Chris Pincher says the eviction ban is formally over but the situation remains under “constant review” as the second...
21 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Latest eviction change: Six months notice and no Christmas evictions](/img/default/lat.png)
The latest announcement from Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick suggests the eviction ban WILL end at last on September 20. However, more concessions...
11 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Agents urged by ARLA to lobby MPs over cash help to tenants](/img/default/lat.png)
The Association of Residential Letting Agents is urging its members to write to their MPs over the provision of cash help...
07 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Councils and Labour add to calls to scrap Section 21 eviction powers](/img/default/lat.png)
The Local Government Association, which represents almost all councils in England, is calling on the government to scrap section 21. The call comes...
30 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Council seeks private rental sector help to ease waiting list problems](/img/default/lat.png)
A local authority has set up what it calls The Private Sector Landlord service to try to harness some private property...
24 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Campaigning Baroness slams Sunak over possible “mass homelessness”](/img/default/lat.png)
Former Labour Baroness Alicia Kennedy, the new director of the campaign group Generation Rent, claims 500,000 renters are in arrears as...
09 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Government must help young renters hit by furlough end - lettings group](/img/default/lat.png)
A lettings sector trade body, acting with homelessness charities, is urging the government to do more as young people in rented...
07 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Eviction ban ending: government tries to soothe critics](/img/default/lat.png)
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has given Letting Agent Today a statement trying to soothe critics of its...
06 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Baroness kicks off campaign to have all arrears evictions suspended](/img/default/lat.png)
A pro-tenant campaign group has this morning kicked off its campaign to have the eviction ban - already extended until late...
01 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Labour silent on whether pre-Covid evictions should go ahead](/img/default/lat.png)
Labour has thrown its weight behind campaigning pressure groups in a general call to avoid what the party’s housing spokeswoman calls...
17 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Eviction Ban: Campaign launched to tell MPs how it's hurting industry](/img/default/lat.png)
The industry’s major landlord trade body is urging its members to write to MPs to explains what it calls “the devastating...
15 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![There never was eviction crisis looming, insists lettings group](/img/default/lat.png)
A lettings sector group says there was never any eviction crisis looming for private tenants, contrary to a slew of recent claims. New independent...
08 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Many tenants worried about paying rent after furlough ends - claim](/img/default/lat.png)
More than a third of furloughed private renters are worried about being able to pay their rent when the coronavirus lockdown...
05 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Call for loans-for-landlords as part of anti-eviction plan](/img/default/lat.png)
The Chartered Institute of Housing has published proposals aimed at avoiding a spike in private rental sector evictions when the current...
02 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Industry body backs call for extra financial aid for tenants during virus](/img/default/lat.png)
A leading trade body is backing calls by MPs for additional financial support to tenants during the Coronavirus crisis. The National Residential...
26 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Extra buy to let mortgage holiday opposed by activists group](/img/default/lat.png)
The possibility of an extended mortgage holiday being introduced, for landlords as well as home owners, has been sharply criticised by...
22 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Untrue! Generation Rent claim is wrong says top lettings body](/img/default/lat.png)
The Generation Rent pressure group is wrong to claim that the majority of landlords are failing to support tenants needing help...
13 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Labour wants tenants to have two years to pay back virus arrears](/img/default/lat.png)
Labour wants tenants running up arrears during the Coronavirus crisis to have two years to repay them, as part of a...
11 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Shelter claims thousands of renters face eviction as lockdown ends](/img/default/lat.png)
Shelter has delivered a 14,000-signature petition claiming that thousands of private renters who have lost their jobs could be facing eviction...
11 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Lettings body backs Labour call for private rents to have ‘benefit cover’](/img/default/lat.png)
The new National Residential Landlords Association has backed calls from the Labour Mayor of London to ensure the benefits system covers...
23 April 2020
From: Breaking News
![No rent rises for a year! Anti-agent group demands a ban on increases](/img/default/lat.png)
The Generation Rent pressure group, fiercely critical of agents and landlords in recent months, wants the government to implement a 12 month...
14 April 2020
From: Breaking News
![Conquering Corona - self-employment webinar, more PropTech offers](/img/default/lat.png)
Good morning and welcome to today’s edition, helping agents find a way through the Coronavirus crisis by sharing information with the...
07 April 2020
From: Breaking News
![All court possession orders suspended immediately](/img/default/lat.png)
All court possession orders are being suspended from today as part of the changes to the private rental sector to cope...
27 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![Many tenants unable to afford rent despite allowance reform](/img/default/lat.png)
Plans to end the freeze on housing benefits will still leave many tenants unable to afford rent say landlords. Following the announcement...
15 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Section 8 reform and new Housing Court 'should be early Johnson priorities'](/img/default/lat.png)
The National Landlords’ Association says the new Conservative government must do two things in its early phase in office. The NLA, which...
16 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Labour’s shock £100,000 fines for substandard rental properties](/img/default/lat.png)
Labour has given shocking new details of its proposals for the private rental sector including £100.000 fines if properties are deemed...
25 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Industry wants short-let controls, review of landlord tax and stamp duty eased](/img/default/lat.png)
The Association of Residential Letting Agents and the National Association of Estate Agents have issued their manifesto for next month’s General...
05 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Scrap stamp duty on buy to let! Trade body sets Election demand](/img/default/lat.png)
One of the leading lettings sector trade bodies has unveiled what it describes as “a positive vision for the private rented...
31 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Tenants’ arrears up because of Universal Credit - claim](/img/default/lat.png)
Universal Credit is causing tenants to fall behind with their rent according to lettings sector trade body the Residential Landlords Association. It...
27 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![Thumbs up for Zoopla's 'No DSS' listings ban](/img/default/lat.png)
The Residential Landlords Association has given its backing to Zoopla’s ban on agents and landlords advertising properties to rent as ‘No...
18 March 2019
From: Breaking News
![Government to blame for high poverty in rental sector, claims lettings body](/img/default/lat.png)
A lettings sector trade body has put the blame firmly on government for the scale of poverty amongst those who privately...
11 February 2019
From: Breaking News
![Homelessness triggered by Housing Benefit not private rental sector](/img/default/lat.png)
A substantial study by university academics suggests that changes to the benefit system lie behind the long-term rise in homelessness from...