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14 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Michael Gove turns the safety screws on reluctant freeholders](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
The government has won a landmark legal challenge against a freeholder forcing it to fix serious building safety issues in a...
13 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
![Backing for Ground Rent Cap being announced this week](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/House_pound-400x310.png)
An amendment is expected to be made by the government to its Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill. The Bill, put forward by...
23 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Gove accused of dragging his feet over agent regulation](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Estate_Agents-400x310.png)
The all-party House of Lords Industry and Regulators Committee has urged the government to get on with establishing a regulator of...
22 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Short Lets Clampdown - More campaigners back Gove](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews2-400x310.png)
Countryside campaigning charity CPRE has given a warm welcome to Michael Gove’s clampdown on short lets. Earlier this week Housing Secretary Michael...
23 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Gove’s Airbnb Crackdown - Criticism building](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/shutterstock_2198282283.jpg)
There’s growing anger over restrictions on private homeowners using their properties via Airbnb and other short let platforms. Earlier this week Housing...
21 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Radical changes to short let laws proposed by Michael Gove](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/A%20surveyor's%20guide%20to%20finding%20a%20profitable%20HMO.jpg)
Housing Secretary Michael Gove has this morning announced wholesale changes to planning and regulations surrounding short lets. His proposals include: - planning permission...
19 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Short Lets Shake Up - Gove slammed for “political posturing”](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews2-400x310.png)
The trade body representing short lets providers and support companies has reacted angrily to government proposals for a radical shake up. Housing...
19 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Purplebricks boss slams Tories in unexpected attack](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
While most agents remain relatively tight lipped about party politics, the chief executive of Purplebricks has said the Tories should take...
13 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Budget date revealed as Gove hints at new housing policies](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/2_MortgageCalculated.png)
The date has been set for the Spring Budget - the last before the General Election. It’s to be on Wednesday March...
28 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Freeholders slammed by former Tory housing minister](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews1-400x310.png)
Former housing minister Rachel Maclean - the victim of a shock sacking by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak last month - has...
15 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Section 21 - Angry MPs slam Michael Gove over ongoing delay](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Eviction-400x310%20(1).png)
A row has broken out over Section 21 between Michael Gove’s Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, and an all-party...
16 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Government announces changes to Renters Reform Bill](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
Changes put forward to the Renters Reform Bill to crack down on rogue landlords, protect vulnerable residents and improve the safety of...
15 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agents demand ground rent reform progress while consultation goes on](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/LearningAgents-400x310.png)
Propertymark wants Housing Secretary Michael Gove to continue with ground rent reforms for leaseholders following the launch of a consultation into this...
14 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Five ground rent options being considered by government](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews2-400x310.png)
The government is considering five different options for ground rent as the reform process for the sector begins. The government is committed...
13 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agents want tax reforms on top of pledge to avoid rent controls](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/TaxCoins-400x310.png)
Propertymark has welcomed the pledge by Housing Secretary Michael Gove not to introduce rent controls in England. The trade body says such...
31 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![No rent controls in England - government confirmation](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/House_pound-400x310.png)
Rent controls as currently in force in Scotland and under consideration in Wales will not be put into effect in England,...
25 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
![Foot Off The Gas - boiler ban deadline may be eased](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/BoilerInspection_1-400x310.png)
The Times is reporting that a delay to the controversial ban on gas boilers is being considered by the government as...
20 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![MPs complain that rental reform questions go unanswered](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews1-400x310.png)
The Select Committee that shadows the work of Michael Gove’s Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities is complaining that its...
20 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Abandoned Tenancies - agents press Gove for court solution](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/DamagedProperty-400x310.png)
Propertymark is pressing Housing Secretary Michael Gove to adopt a housing court system to solve the problem of abandoned tenancies. The agents...
07 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agency demands government clarity over new EPC rental targets](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/EnergyEfficiencyPlanning-400x310.png)
A leading property agency is demanding more certainty over new Energy Performance Certificate regulations. Fisher German says the government should act now...
04 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Abandoned Tenancies - Gove lobbied to take urgent action](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews2-400x310.png)
Housing Secretary Michael Gove is being lobbied to take urgent action over the growing problem of abandoned tenancies. Propertymark chief executive Nathan...
11 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agents tell Gove they’re disappointed with housing pledges](/upload/images/shutterstock_2083876012.jpg)
Propertymark has branded the plans by Housing Secretary Michael Gove to increase housebuilding “disappointing”. Nathan Emerson, Propertymark chief executive, says: “The UK...
26 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![EPC changes to rental properties to be ‘relaxed’ - Gove](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/_EPC5-400x310.png)
Housing Secretary Michael Gove has this morning said his government should ‘relax the pace’ of EPC reforms expected from private landlords. In...
23 July 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
![Renters Reform Bill - angry agent demands meeting with Michael Gove](/upload/images/shutterstock_1227135172.jpg)
A regional agent with 3,500 properties under management has written a long letter to Housing Secretary Michael Gove complaining about the...
27 June 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
![Pet Lovers and Renting Activists get lift up from Michael Gove](/upload/images/Pets/DogInHome(1)-400x310-min.jpeg)
In a surprise move, Housing Secretary Michael Gove has given the stand-in leader of activist group Generation Rent a prime role...
17 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![50 Tory MPs may vote against or abstain on Reform Bill - claim](/upload/images/vote.jpg)
An unnamed Conservative MP cited in a newspaper claims up to 30 colleagues may vote against the Renters Reform Bill in...
11 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Renters Reform Bill - just a delay or a major rethink?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/BuildToRent-400x310.png)
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”...
10 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
![Message to Gove: EPC rule changes “devastating” for rental sector](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/Energy_EfficientHome-400x310.png)
A lettings agency chief says tighter EPC targets will be “devastating” for the private rental sector. Ben Quaintrell - managing director of...
14 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![New eviction powers to get rid of anti social tenants](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Eviction-400x310.png)
Landlords and agents acting on their behalf are to be given more powers to evict unruly tenants who ruin neighbours’ lives...
27 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agent tells Gove: cease attacks on private rental sector](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
A prominent lettings agent in the north of England has written to Housing Secretary Michael Gove urging him to cease attacking...
22 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Council using planning powers to try to “control” Airbnbs](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Misc/airbnb400x310.jpg)
A council says it’s using planning powers to try to control the proliferation of Airbnbs, but suggests the real answer may...
07 February 2023
From: Breaking News
![Gove told of agents’ worries about rash of council licensing schemes](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/_licensing1-400x310.png)
Propertymark has written to Housing Secretary Michael Gove outlining its concerns about the latest licensing scheme proposal from a local council. The...
04 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Take That, Gove! Agents and landlords deliver warning letter](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews2-400x310.png)
A warning letter signed by 330 major players in the private rental sector has been delivered to Housing Secretary Michael Gove. The...
03 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Leading agent writes to Gove with ‘lay off the rental sector’ message](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/MichaelGove-400x310.jpg)
A prominent letting agent has written an open letter to Housing Secretary Michael Gove, calling for a halt on government attacks...
19 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Gove urged to appoint a ‘Healthy Housing Minister’](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Buy-to-let-400x310.png)
Housing Secretary Michael Gove is being asked to take urgent action over housing conditions across social and private rental sectors. Following the...
13 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agents angry at Gove scrapping meaningful housing targets](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/LearningAgents-400x310.png)
Agents have expressed their anger at the government effectively scrapping any meaningful house building targets. Housing Secretary Michael Gove scrapped the mandatory...
12 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Gove leans on competitions watchdog to probe house builders](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/MichaelGove2-400x310.png)
Housing Secretary Michael Gove has sent a letter to the Competitions and Markets Authority saying the watchdog is independent - but...
07 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Airbnb registration and short lets planning consent under consideration](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Misc/airbnb400x310.jpg)
The government is to open a consultation on whether residential properties should require planning consent to be used as short lets...
06 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agents and Labour back Gove’s clampdown on private rental sector](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/RightToRent1-400x310.png)
Propertymark has given its backing to a clampdown by Housing Secretary Michael Gove on private landlords - although landlords themselves appear...
25 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Revealed - the junior housing ministers working with Gove](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/MichaelGove-400x310.jpg)
As the Rishi Sunak government’s lower ranks finally take shape, the junior ministers working with Housing Secretary Michael Gove have been...
31 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![We need a Minister for Renting says lettings marketing chief](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/HousingVision-400x310.jpg)
A Build To Rent promotional website appears to be ruing the day that Boris Johnson sacked Michael Gove from his role...
16 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![Mayors may get new powers over Airbnb and short lets sector](/upload/images/Logos/AirbnbLogo-400x310.jpg)
Speculation in national newspapers suggests that the government is considering giving local mayors some powers over parts of the private rented...
28 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rental Reform White Paper - full details here](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/HappyLandlord-400x310.jpg)
The government has released the full details of what it calls the Fairer Private Rented Sector White Paper. This is to form...
16 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![Higher taxes on empty homes? OK with us, says Propertymark](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/Tax-400x310.png)
Propertymark says it welcomes measures in the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill that will mean swifter action to get the hundreds...
25 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Michael Gove slammed by agents over cladding comments](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/MichaelGove-400x310.jpg)
The criticism by landlords aimed at Housing Secretary Michael Gove for some of his comments regarding the cladding issue, has now...
25 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agents Alert - radical rental reforms shift power to tenants](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/MichaelGove2-400x310.png)
The government’s new Levelling Up White Paper, revealed this morning, includes a radical reshaping of the private rental sector. Section 21 eviction...
02 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Mandatory register and redress for landlords to be revealed this week](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/landlord-licencing400x310.png)
A radical shake up of the private rental sector is expected to be announced tomorrow by Housing Secretary Michael Gove. The main...
01 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Include Buy To Let in cladding action - government support demanded](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/CladdingScandal400x310.jpg)
Propertymark has entered the debate about whether buy to let landlords should be amongst those receiving help from the government in...