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![Renters Rights Bill promised by government in blizzard of new laws](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
A new Renters' Rights Bill is to be introduced into Parliament, it's been confirmed today. The announcement was made in the King's...
17 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Propertymark lukewarm on Labour housing reforms](/upload/images/3%20shutterstock_1487630333.jpg)
Propertymark has struck a lukewarm tone in its response to Labour’s housing ambitions. The trade body says that to meet its manifesto...
10 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![New Housing Secretary named by Sir Kier Starmer](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
Angela Rayner has been appointed Levelling Up Secretary with responsibility for housing - a role she has in addition to being...
05 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Labour’s Housing Policies - next five years start today](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/AgentHouseInHand_400x310.png)
The biggest rental sector headline from Labour’s manifesto may well be its pledge for the “immediate” abolition of Section 21 eviction...
05 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Shock as agency demands Renters Reform Bill be passed ASAP](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
The Leaders Romans Group lettings agency chain is demanding that the new government elected tomorrow brings back the Renters Reform Bill...
03 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Election result already priced-in to housing market, says top analyst](/upload/images/Election%20housing%20.jpg)
The result of the election isn’t likely to be a gamechanger for the housing market, a prominent business consultancy says. An analysis...
02 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Rightmove: Rental EPCs must be improved with government help](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/_EPC5-400x310.png)
A huge survey involving analysis of over 14,000 properties suggests an urgent need for the next government to help private rental...
26 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Activist claims “horrendous exploitation” by “profiteering” letting agents](/upload/images/shutterstock_2167511393.jpg)
The deputy chief executive of an organisation funded by the Nationwide Foundation claims to have suffered “horrendous exploitation” at the hands...
25 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Bidding Wars - letting agents mostly to blame, says campaigner](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HouseForSale_400x310.png)
A ban on so-called bidding wars, which Labour now proposes, would have to include letting agents as well as landlords a...
24 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Labour to ban bidding wars and high upfront rental payments](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
Labour has stepped up its programme clamping down on what it calls “unscrupulous landlords strangling growth.” Specifically this means ending bidding wars,...
20 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![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
![Renting Still Cheaper Than Buying with a 5% Deposit](/upload/images/shutterstock_2322919583.jpg)
Would-be buyers with a 5% deposit face paying £300 per month more in mortgage repayments than if they continued renting, says...
19 June 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
![Shelter backs Labour eviction and housing policies](/upload/images/shutterstock_1690158259.jpg)
Shelter has spoken out in favour of what it calls “bold” commitments by Labour on the private rental sector and house...
14 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Election and Lettings - free webinars explain what’s happening](/upload/images/shutterstock_1144449074.jpg)
Two webinars between now and General Election Day will seek to explain what the manifesto pledges mean for the lettings and...
14 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Section 21 to be scrapped by Labour immediately](/upload/images/shutterstock_2189665543.jpg)
Labour’s manifesto, just released, makes a pledge to enact the “immediate” abolition of Section 21 eviction powers, along with other private...
13 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![RICS rings alarm bells over state of lettings market](/upload/images/shutterstock_1313087447.jpg)
The latest residential market survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is raising a red flag over what it calls...
13 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Agents Distinctly Underwhelmed by Tories’ manifesto pledges](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews2-400x310.png)
Agents, and others in the lettings industry, have given a sceptical response to the Conservative manifesto and its varied pledges about...
12 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Word-for-Word - Conservative Rental and Housing Manifesto Pledges](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Taxes-400x310.png)
The Conservatives have this afternoon set out a 78-page manifesto, of which just over two pages are given to housing and...
11 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Agents’ Election Briefing - free webinar update on industry issues](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/PropTech/Webinar-400x310.png)
The future of the UK lettings market will be determined by the July 4 election and now PropTech player Reapit |...
11 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
![Forget party policies - check interest rate movement](/upload/images/shutterstock_2355420851(1).jpg)
A prominent housing market analyst says people shouldn’t bother reading election literature but instead study interest rates if they want to...
30 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Ground Rents defended by investors’ group](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/BusinessTeam-400x310.png)
The ongoing debate over ground rents within Government is rapidly becoming a Parliamentary farce that could soon lead to an economic...
01 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Gove hits back at critics after Renters Reform Bill wins key vote](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
Michael Gove’s Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities hit back overnight at critics of the government’s Renters Reform Bill. The Bill...
25 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Extraordinary 200 amendments to Renters Reform Bill in Commons today](/upload/images/shutterstock_1059911315.jpg)
There’s a huge number of amendments to the Renters Reform Bill, which has its Third Reading in the House of Commons...
24 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Agents Tell Politicians - Stop Arguing and Repair Private Renting](/upload/images/shutterstock_2307084393.jpg)
Political parties should stop bickering and instead work together to improve the private rental sector. That’s the view of the Lettings industry...
17 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Warning to Labour leader - no rent controls, yes to lower taxes](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/TaxMan-400x310.png)
The new Labour leader in Wales, Vaughan Gething, has received an early shot across the bows from Propertymark. Gething was elected Welsh...
18 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Tory MP reported to bring Renters Reform Bill “to brink of collapse”](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
A national newspaper says the Renters Reform Bill is “on the brink of collapse” as Tory MPs are divided on their...
08 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Renters Reform Bill - MPs set to be bombarded by emails](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Compliance-1-400x310.png)
A pressure group unhappy about lack of progress on the Renters Reform Bill wants MPs to be bombarded with complaint emails. Over...
12 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Shelter threatens government after big rise in Section 21 evictions](/upload/images/shutterstock_1848201151.jpg)
Shelter is warning that the government’s failure to abolish Section 21 evictions will backfire and that “renters will remember who stood...
09 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Propertymark’s ringing endorsement for Material Information changes](/upload/images/shutterstock_1141644755(3).jpg)
Propertymark’s property auction division - NAVA - has given ringing endorsement to the Material Information changes demanded under new Trading Standards...
05 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Build To Rent trade body beefs up its top team](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/BuildToRent-400x310.png)
The UK Apartment Association - effectively a trade body for the Build To Rent sector - is beefing up its top...
05 January 2024
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
![RICS tells Tories - do more to improve supply of rental properties](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews2-400x310.png)
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is launching its manifesto at this week’s Tory party conference - and improving the supply...
02 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Gove to be quizzed on Renters Reform Bill](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/HouseInspection_400x310.png)
Housing Secretary Michael Gove will address the main Conservative party Conference on Tuesday morning next week - but perhaps his most...
28 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Rent Controls at heart of Shelter’s General Election manifesto](/upload/images/shutterstock_2239146247.jpg)
Shelter has published what it calls a General Election manifesto with rent controls at its heart. Called The Way Home: a manifesto to...
25 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Tory MPs blamed for delaying Renters Reform Bill](/upload/images/shutterstock_564346558.jpg)
The Financial Times, using sources in the Parliamentary Conservative party, are blaming some Tory MPs for blocking the route of the...
18 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![MPs back to work but Renters Reform Bill clarity still awaited](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
Parliament resumes today following its summer recess but there is still a lack of detail on aspects of the Renters Reform...
04 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Ousted Green Party still arguing for rent controls in key battleground](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Property%20Budget.jpg)
The Green Party - which ran the Brighton and Hove council until being swept from office in May’s local elections -...
25 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![Rent Control political coalition likely to stay until 2026](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Property%20Budget.jpg)
The political alliance between the Scottish National Party and the Scottish Greens is likely to stay in place until 2026. Arguably the...
16 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![Renters Reform Bill published - full details](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
The pro-tenant anti-landlord Renters Reform Bill has at last been published by the government which first promised it in 2019. It has...
17 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Labour to allow councils to limit new build sales to first time buyers](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/NewBuild-2-400x310.png)
A newspaper says Labour is seeking to woo renter voters by allowing councils to restrict new build homes to first time...
11 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Renters Reform Bill - everything we know so far](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/_RentalHousingUK-400x310.png)
Housing Secretary Michael Gove says the long-awaited Renters Reform Bill, first promised in 2019, will finally be introduced into Parliament this...
09 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Section 24: Agents call for mortgage tax relief to be reinstated](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Taxes-400x310.png)
A new survey of lettings agents and landlords has put the reinstatement of Section 24 mortgage tax relief at the top...
21 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![PropTech ‘call to arms’ will demand urgent government action](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/ToLetBoard-400x310.png)
PropTech supplier Goodlord this week launches what it calls “a manifesto” demanding government help for the lettings industry. Few details of the...
17 April 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
![Improving rental sector EPCs will require cash - and plenty of it…](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/_EcoHome-400x310.png)
Propertymark wants to see more energy-efficient homes, but with realistic targets and incentives to act. In its submission to the government ahead...
31 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Buy To Let tax rise - agents angry at damage to rental sector](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/TaxRefund-400x310.png)
Letting agents in Scotland are angry at the Scottish Government for increasing the tax surcharge on buyers of buy to lets...
20 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Tax on buy to lets and second homes up to 6% - will rest of UK follow suit?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/TaxPlanning-400x310.png)
Land and Buildings Transaction Tax - the Scottish equivalent of stamp duty - has risen to six per cent for all...
16 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Sunak is new PM - here's what we know about his housing policies](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/Rishi%20Sunak%2003_400x310.png)
Rishi Sunak has won the Conservative leadership campaign and is set to become Prime Minister tomorrow. Over the summer Sunak set out...
24 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Section 21 WILL be abolished says Truss in new U-turn](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Eviction-400x310%20(1).png)
Prime Minister Liz Truss says Section 21 eviction powers WILL be scrapped after all. She made the explicit commitment at Prime Minister’s...
12 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agency boss condemns political party for “punitive” attack on rental sector](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/HousesofParliament-3-400x310.jpg)
One of the UK’s largest lettings groups has made an outspoken attack on the policies of a political party standing in...
27 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![Minister Madness! Industry supplier hits out at politicians](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/HousesofParliament-3-400x310.jpg)
A prominent industry supplier has hit out at what he calls “the merry go round of housing ministers” following yet another...
22 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rent Controls Now! Major newspaper backs activists’ campaign](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/rental-sector26615.png)
One of the country’s major regional newspapers has launched a campaign for the urgent introduction of rent controls. The Bristol Evening Post,...
08 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rent Control momentum building rapidly across UK](/upload/images/Locations/WalesFlag-400x310.jpg)
Politicians across the UK appear to be growing more vocal in their support for rent controls. The Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru...
17 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Government delays Rental Reform White Paper until 2022](/upload/images/Seasonal%20%26%20Holidays/2022Diary-400x310.png)
The Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities says the long-awaited Rental Reform White Paper will now not be published until...
29 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![Rent controls - agents warn politicians against hasty change](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/rental-sector26615.png)
ARLA Propertymark has voiced its concern over rent controls to a politicians who is leading the charge to introduce them to...
03 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Deal to introduce rent controls “ill thought out” say agents](/upload/images/library/PropertyMarket-2-400x310-min.jpg)
The deal to introduce rent controls in Scotland - the result of a deal between two parties in the Scottish Parliament...
27 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Labour and Generation Rent join forces again for rent controls](/img/default/lat.png)
The Generation Rent campaign group and Labour are again uniting to argue in favour of rent controls in London. Just last week...
15 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Indefinite Tenancies is key demand in campaigners’ reform manifesto](/img/default/lat.png)
Campaign group Generation Rent has set out a 10-point plan for reform of the private rental sector in favour of tenants. Its...
27 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Top Labour figure plans expanded ‘ethical lettings agency’ concept](/img/default/lat.png)
Greater Manchester’s Labour Mayor, Andy Burnham, says he wants to clamp down on the private rental sector. In his manifesto for next month’s...
19 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![Labour in Commons onslaught about Coronavirus evictions](/img/default/lat.png)
Two Labour MPs have made extensive claims about the number of evictions from the private rental sector likely to happen if...
15 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Section 21 Abolition - Labour offers to work with Tories](/img/default/lat.png)
Labour housing spokesperson Thangam Debbonaire has released details of a letter seeking further clarity and commitments on the rental sector eviction...
06 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Pro-Rent Controls group claims 4,000 members in London alone](/img/default/lat.png)
An organisation that wants rent controls, the scrapping of Section 21 and what it calls “indefinite tenancies” claims to have 4,000...
16 October 2020
From: Breaking News
![Renters Reform Bill pushed into the long grass?](/img/default/lat.png)
It appears that the Renters Reform Bill - a key measure in the 2019 Conservative General Election manifesto - has been...
25 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
![Tenants shouldn’t always pay their own removal costs - commission](/img/default/lat.png)
A commission investigating affordable homes in the UK has called for annual private sector rent increases to be limited to a...
05 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Steve Rad, Managing Director at InventoryBase](/img/default/lat.png)
Who are you and what is your role within the company? Steve Rad, Managing Director What is ‘company name’ and what does it...
30 January 2020
From: 60 Second Interview
![Labour group says move to end pet ban doesn’t go far enough](/img/default/lat.png)
A ginger group that supports the Labour party says the government’s bid to stop pet bans is meaningless and does not...
08 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Agents can beat S21 ban by working harder to avoid evictions - claim](/img/default/lat.png)
Letting agents can beat the upcoming ban on Section 21 by updating key documentation and automating arrears management to reduce the...
31 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Lifetime Deposits: ARLA sets out demands for safeguards](/img/default/lat.png)
The Association of Residential Letting Agents has set out its demands should the governmental go ahead with proposals for lifetime deposits. In...
30 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Shelter and Generation Rent jump for joy at scrapping of Section 21](/img/default/lat.png)
The government’s Queen’s Speech has confirmed what the industry has effectively been expecting for some months. There will be a new lifetime...
20 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Tories should adopt Labour housing policy, say anti-agent campaigners](/img/default/lat.png)
Generation Rent, a campaign group that is consistently critical of lettings agencies and landlords, says a priority of the new government...
16 December 2019
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
![Tories must deliver pledge on repossession powers - trade group](/img/default/lat.png)
A prominent industry trade group says the new government must honour its manifesto commitment to strengthen the right of “good landlords”...
16 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Labour policies “extreme, unrealistic, damaging” - trade body](/img/default/lat.png)
Labour’s policies for the private rental sector are “too extreme ... unrealistic and will be hugely damaging to housing supply in...
27 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Cautious welcome for Tory pledge on landlords' possession rights](/img/default/lat.png)
A broad commitment to strengthen landlords’ rights has been made in the Conservative manifesto - and it’s been welcomed by a...
26 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Tax credit idea for tenants whose rent is 30% or more of income](/img/default/lat.png)
The Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru is pledging tax credits for private tenants whose rent and utilities bills add up to...
26 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Labour tax proposals 'final nail in the coffin of buy to let' - warning](/img/default/lat.png)
Two specific elements of Labour’s tax proposals, outlined in its manifesto, could “drive a nail into the coffin of buy to...
25 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Tories’ Lifetime Deposits get backing from trade group and renters](/img/default/lat.png)
The Conservatives’ new concept of a so-called Lifetime Deposit has been welcomed by the Residential Landlords Association. Yesterday, Letting Agent Today revealed...
22 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Lifetime Rental Deposits backed by Tories as Labour revamps council housing](/img/default/lat.png)
On the day that Labour launches its proposals to reform the private rental sector, the Tories have announced so-called Lifetime Rental...
21 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
![Labour ditches Right To Buy for private tenants](/img/default/lat.png)
Labour has dropped its controversial policy under which private tenants would have been able to buy their homes at a discount. Press...
18 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Don’t scrap licensing, streamline it says accreditation scheme](/img/default/lat.png)
The safeagent accreditation scheme says the next government should not scrap landlord licensing as some trade groups have requested, but should...
12 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
![Reform rental sector to favour tenants, charity tells next government](/img/default/lat.png)
Citizens Advice wants the next government to radically alter the private rental sector in favour of tenants. The charity’s 2019 election manifesto,...
08 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
![Cut the red tape! Huge rise in laws governing private renting](/img/default/lat.png)
One of the industry’s leading trade bodies has revealed that the number of laws creating an obligation on landlords in the...
04 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Tenant activists demand rent controls and Section 21 scrapped](/img/default/lat.png)
A collective of activist renter groups has set out a manifesto of what it wants from the winner of next month’s...
04 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Tories - you have been warned, says lettings trade group](/img/default/lat.png)
One of the industry’s leading trade groups has repeated a warning to the Conservatives that they cannot rely on the votes...
01 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
![Vote for the Private Rental Sector! Manifesto launched by letting agents' chief](/img/default/lat.png)
With the country in febrile election mode, it’s perhaps unsurprising that the Association of Residential Letting Agents has got in on...
30 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![London Mayor told: Introduce deluded rent controls and you'll lose votes](/img/default/lat.png)
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has been told by a lettings industry body that he’ll lose votes if he introduces rent controls...
19 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Letting fees ban confirmed by Queen's Speech](/img/default/lat.png)
The Queen’s Speech, outlining the government’s proposals for the next two years, has confirmed a pledge to introduce a ban on...
21 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![Make independent inventories mandatory, government urged](/img/default/lat.png)
A trade body wants independent inventories to become mandatory across the lettings sector - and it pledges to mount a campaign...
20 June 2017
From: Breaking News
!['Fit for human habitation' amendment may be reconsidered after London fire](/img/default/lat.png)
A proposed amendment to the government's Housing and Planning Bill which suggests landlords are required to make homes 'fit for human...
15 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![Fees ban - Corporate agents and ARLA make last-ditch plea](/img/default/lat.png)
A string of corporate letting agencies plus ARLA Propertymark have again called on the government to reconsider its proposed ban on agents’...
02 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![Has Theresa May become an ally of 'hard-pressed renters'? asks Shelter](/img/default/lat.png)
In a blog which appears - perhaps surprisingly - to be supportive of Theresa May’s General Election manifesto, campaigning charity Shelter...