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Propertymark is hosting a webinar where Scott Bailey - policy manager at the Home Office - will answer questions on Right...

An organised crime group involved in producing and distributing an estimated £2.4m of cannabis has been found to have e used...

A revised code of practice for Right To Rent has been issued to agents and landlords. This sixth revision supersedes the previous...

Law firm Brevis Law is shedding light on the difficulties agents and landlords have in meeting Right To Rent requirements in...

Agents who allow rental properties to be let to migrants who do not have the right to be in the UK...

The Labour-run London Assembly says it is concerned about government plans to allow landlords to house asylum seekers for two years without...

Last week the tax firm Blick Rothenberg advised John Lewis and Lloyds Bank to stay out of the private rental sector...

If you think 2020 has been complicated, just wait until 2021: that’s the claim of a rental guarantor service which warns...

A new report from the Nationwide and campaigning charity Shelter puts letting agents in the dock over the standards in the...

The Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of the government’s controversial Right To Rent scheme, overturning a decision reached last...

The Generation Rent pressure group, fiercely critical of agents and landlords in recent months, wants the government to implement a 12 month...

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The government says it’s working on an online digital Right To Rent status checking service for agents and landlords to use,...

Landlords’ confidence in their lettings business has slumped to an all-time low, according to research by the National Landlords Association. In a...

A council has used a drone with a thermal imaging camera to identify illegal ‘sheds’ where tenants are being rented beds...

A Labour council which has become famous for its critical approach to the private rental sector has now been given almost £200,000...

New guidance from the government on its controversial Right To Rent scheme would see agents and landlords breaking the law if...

Both sides of the Right To Rent debate are squaring up for their latest court battle. Earlier this year the High Court...

Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt have been given a message from a consortium of groups this morning - Scrap Right To...

With the government already on the ropes over Brexit, there’s a call today for one of its flagship immigration policies to...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has asked the government for urgent clarification on how Right To Rent will work post-Brexit...

There’s been general support for last week’s judgment by the High Court that the government’s Right To Rent policy breaches human...

The High Court has ruled that the government’s Right to Rent scheme breaches human rights law. Under the Right to Rent landlords are...

The High Court today begins a Judicial Review of the government’s controversial Right to Rent scheme. The scheme began operating nationwide in...

The Home Secretary has been asked by a leading lettings sector trade organisation to ensure hard copy documents are given to...

The Home Office is to reconvene its private rental sector stakeholder panel on Right to Rent. This follows a controversial period for...

The government’s controversial Right To Rent policy is to be challenged in the High Court just before Christmas. It was announced in...

The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants is now crowdfunding to pay for the Judicial Review of the government’s controversial...

The government’s flagship immigration Right To Rent policy is under threat on two fronts. Firstly a cross-party group of MPs has written...

The High Court has this afternoon agreed to allow a judicial review of the government’s Right to Rent policy. Right to Rent...

The Residential Landlords Association has reiterated its support for a legal challenge to Right To Rent which is to be made...

The controversial Right To Rent regime whereby agents and landlords are expected to check the immigration status of would-be tenants is...

New guidance over Right To Rent, issued by the government in what appears to be a panic response to the Windrush...

The controversial Right To Rent policy has been attacked as having failed “to demonstrate its worth” in encouraging immigration compliance. Under Right...

The Residential Landlords Association has reiterated its opposition to Right To Rent, and is backing two legal challenges to the measure. Letting...

It’s been revealed this morning that there are two legal challenges being mounted against the Right To Rent policy, which obliges...

One of the industry’s leading trade bodies wants the government to halt the Right To Rent programme after evidence shows some...

The Nationwide has set out a comprehensive study of how migrstion impacts on housing demand in the UK, especially in the...

The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration has started what is described as an official inspection of Right To Rent. Legislation...

The BBC says Right To Rent legislation is fuelling a burgeoning market in fake IDs - in some cases creating access...

The head of an online letting agency specialising in student accommodation says the controversial Right To Rent legislation may have to...

The crowdfunding campaign for a legal challenge against the rollout of the Right to Rent scheme across the UK has exceeded...

A crowdfunding campaign for a legal challenge against the rollout of the Right to Rent scheme is nearing its funding target. With...

Immigration charity Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) has this week launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for...

A report out today claims foreigners and Britons without passports, particularly from ethnic minorities, are being discriminated against in the lettings...

A damning critique of the one-year-old Right To Rent legislation in England suggests that the government is largely unaware of its...

Right To Rent legislation means British nationals without a passport face difficulties according to the Residential Landlords’ Association.    According to its latest...

MPs have approved measures that relax the previous threat of ‘immediate criminality’ for agents or landlords waiting to evict illegal immigrants. Changes...

The ability of the government to enforce controversial elements of the Right To Rent policy has been thrown into doubt by...

An industry body is suggesting that the outcome of a court case may significantly reduce the government’s ability to enforce its Right...

A senior relocation and human resources expert says Right To Rent will not change the behaviour of any letting agent or...

If there was evidence needed as to why landlords may need the expertise of letting agents, a new survey about Right...

New funding will help up to 65 councils tackle rogue landlords who let out substandard homes including the hated Beds In...

There has been a mixed response from the private rental industry following the announcement that Right To Rent checks will become mandatory...

The Immigration Bill containing controversial Right To Rent measures has been given a second reading by the House of Commons despite...

Government proposals forcing agents and landlords to check the immigration status of tenants risk a serious breach of human rights according...

The publication of the Immigration Bill giving details of the government's expectations of letting agents and landlords to conduct checks on...

One of the UK letting industry’s leading agents says politicians should defer the new Right To Rent immigration checks until the start...

The country’s biggest buy to let landlord is to raise rents by up to 33 per cent, and puts the blame...

Right To Rent immigration checks is leading to a situation where lawful tenants are being refused housing according to the Residential...

The Right To Rent pilot project has forced letting agents and landlords into ‘increased racial profiling’ according to the Joint Council...

A letting agency has announced its support for new rules which will allow landlords to evict illegal immigrants without a court...

Fergus Wilson, the controversial buy to let guru who reportedly owns around 1,000 rental properties, is to stand for Police and...

There has been a mixed reaction to the government’s announcement that agents and landlords face jail if they fail to conduct...

Controversial buy to let property mogul Fergus Wilson has given his backing to the government over its controversial extension of Right...

Agents and landlords who fail to identify and evict tenants who are illegal immigrants face up to five years in jail...

Few subjects have generated as much discussion among the private rented sector in recent months as the government's Right to Rent...

I don't think there is one person in lettings and property management who isn't alarmed at the scenes just over the...

The controversial Right To Rent immigration checks on tenants conducted by letting agents and landlords in the West Midlands since early...

The immigration charity the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants says it is working with a range of other bodies...

Tomorrow’s Queen’s Speech outlining legislation for the next 12 months will include a pledge to roll out across England and Wales...