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Political parties should stop bickering and instead work together to improve the private rental sector. That’s the view of the Lettings industry...

Labour has waded into the increasingly-fractious debate over the Renters Reform Bill. Activists in groups such as the Renters Reform Coalition and...

According to the BBC, the Government is no longer committed to increase the amount disabled people in England can claim to...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has given what some commentators have interpreted as a sign that private rental sector licensing from councils...

The government has pledged that section 21 repossessions will not be scrapped until improvements have been made to the way courts...

Propertymark has fired a broadside at Labour saying it must provide agents with a proper court system to handle evictions. Labour deputy leader...

The Leaders Romans Group of lettings agencies has signed a deal with the National Residential Landlords Association. LRG will become the NRLA’s...

A lettings trade body is urging the government to make clear how it will help courts tackle a growing backlog of...

The Nationwide Foundation - a pressure group funded by the Nationwide - says more effective enforcement is required for the private...

Private landlords and lettings agents are being offered free advice and information at a networking event. Cumberland council says property owners and...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is today charing a crisis meeting of mortgage lenders, as calls mount for him to take action to...

The National Residential Landlords Association is looking for help from letting agents in building a case against rent controls. The association is...

Two prominent trade bodies representing elements of the private rental sector are fighting back against the latest attempt to impose rent...

The main landlord body wants more details behind the soundbite rhetoric of the Renters Referm Bill, launched today in Parliament. Ben Beadle,...

Landlords and agents acting on their behalf are to be given more powers to evict unruly tenants who ruin neighbours’ lives...

A new How To Rent guide is to be issued on Friday, according to a government communication with the National Residential...

We’re only in February and it’s already clear that this year will set the future direction of the private rented sector...

The private rented sector has an important economic and social role to play across the country, according to a new report...

Students face chaos as government plans to reform the rental market threaten to cause widespread uncertainty as to whether housing will...

Labour’s Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, held a summit yesterday about the capital’s private rental sector - but he did not...

The landlords’ main trade body is directly challenging a Tory MP who has called for a rent freeze. Natalie Elphicke - in...

Agents are being invited to comment on the government’s Fairer Private Rented Sector White Paper. And unusually the invitation comes not from any...

New details from a survey conducted by industry organisations concerning pets in rental properties show the extent of the problem. Some 537...

Letting agents are to be quizzed to establish the true cost of damages to rental accommodation by tenants. The “What’s the damage?”...

The Property Investor Show is back for its 20th year with 100 property sector experts and exhibitors in London this week. The...

Housing is back on the political agenda with a bang. The government’s new Levelling Up White Paper sets out sweeping reforms...

The criticism by landlords aimed at Housing Secretary Michael Gove for some of his comments regarding the cladding issue, has now...

New research commissioned by the landlords’ trade body shows that the UK needs almost 230,000 new private rented homes a year...

The National Residential Landlords Association says average rent debt owed by tenants as a direct result of the pandemic is still...

There are fewer than 70 tickets left for December 7's rescheduled 25th ARLA Propertymark Conference and Exhibition. Originally due to take place in...

Letting agents in England with tenants in rent arrears because of Covid are to be helped via a council-run £65m rent fund. Although...

Propertymark has told the government that imposing the same solution to the Net Zero challenge on all of the private rental...

The chief executive of Shelter says the experience of Scotland shows that the scrapping of S21 eviction powers produces benefits that...

Landlords in Wales have been told that rules giving tenants six months’ notice to vacate a property will remain in place...

Private tenants and landlords across the country face a cliff edge as the end of furlough coincides with cuts to benefit...

The property industry has broadly welcomed Michael's Gove appointment as Housing Secretary after he replaced Robert Jenrick yesterday afternoon. “We welcome today’s...

Demand for private rental housing is now at a five year high according to the National Residential Landlords Association. In the association’s...

Propertymark has joined a series of charities and a landlord body to warn about the poverty risk of expected changes to...

A leading private rental trade body says only bespoke financial help can ensure the private rental sector meets government energy efficiency...

Research by a lettings sector trade body has revealed precisely how outdated some regulations are.  According to the latest analysis, by the...

A leading trade body says the rental sector must not discriminate against tenants on benefits - and has told government it...

Helping those in the private rental sector understand the latest changes to regulations due to Covid-19 is one of the aims...

A local authority has explained its role in ensuring that a private landlord could arrange for an electrical safety inspection to...

The ban on bailiff-enforced evictions is now finally at an end and from today there is a change to the notice...

The head of the tenants’ campaign group Generation Rent has condemned the government as “reckless” for ending the eviction ban on May...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says the government is willing to listen to agents and other industry players ahead of...

Labour’s candidate for London Mayor wants to control private rents - and he wants the capital to be a template for...

A major trade body has called for a tapering down of notice periods for Section 8 and Section 21. The government has...

Rent guarantees and upfront cash payments from local authorities are the most effective means of opening the private rented sector to...

An estimated 840,000 private tenants have arrears over the past year since the first eviction ban was announced, according to a...

A lettings trade body says the sector - and local councils - should do more to cater for the older and...

ARLA Propertymark says its disappointed over the latest extension to an eviction ban and the requirement for six months notice to tenants. The latest...

Labour says the latest extension to the ban on bailiff-enforced evictions doesn’t go far enough to help tenants. The extension to the...

The government has announced yet another ban on bailiff-enforced evictions in the private rental sector. The existing ban was due to expire...

Government data suggests that scare stories talking of a glut of evictions if the current ban is lifted are simply unfounded. Data...

There’s a been a slight fall in the size of the private rental sector in England according to government figures.  Latest data...

A call has gone out for the longer-term buy to let rental sector to have a similar tax regime as the largely-unregulated...

It is “extremely likely” there will be an extension to the current ban on bailiffs conducting evictions even after court orders...

There’s widespread concern that a freeze on the Local Housing Allowance will worsen rental arrears. Although Chancellor Rishi Sunak failed to mention...

A new nationally recognised letting agent qualification is being launched by a landlord body. The Managing Property and Residential Lettings Level 3...

ARLA Propertymark is backing a cross-industry call for more information to be provided to politicians who go on to make housing...

A leading trade body has broadly welcomed the Winter Economy Plan outlined by Chancellor Rishi Sunak yesterday, but says this still...

Housing Minister Chris Pincher says the eviction ban is formally over but the situation remains under “constant review” as the second...

The Citizens Advice charity claims that new figures suggest concern is building amongst renters about the possibility of losing their home.  It...

The lettings industry is today preparing for the current ban on repossessions to be lifted on Sunday with courts to hear...

The National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) has slammed London Mayor Sadiq Khan's call for a rent freeze in the capital. Yesterday, ahead...

The latest announcement from Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick suggests the eviction ban WILL end at last on September 20. However, more concessions...

The first attempt to assess the loss of rental income as a result of Coronavirus calculates 22 per cent of private landlords...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is urging its members to write to their MPs over the provision of cash help...

Letting agents and landlords in Wales can now direct struggling tenants to a new independent advice service. The Private Rented Sector Helpline...

ARLA and the NRLA have teamed up with charities - some usually critical of letting agents and landlords - to lobby...

In the latest twist in the long-running saga of the eviction ban, the government has revealed changes to notice periods. The changes...

A leading trade body has told Prime Minister Boris Johnson that some landlords face receiving no rent for two years.  In a...

A leading lettings sector trade body has set out reasons why the eviction ban should be lifted - which may help...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has been accused of causing needless fear for renters by claiming all those in arrears due to...

The largest survey yet conducted about rent payments during the pandemic shows the claims of pressure groups about widespread evictions are unfounded. Over...

The Welsh Government has launched a new Tenancy Saver Loans scheme to allow tenants to borrow to pay off arrears built up...

The National Residential Landlords Association is giving the thumbs up to the government’s Green Homes Grant, which it claims has taken...

Leading housing lawyer David Smith has become the legal counsel for the new National Residential Landlords Association. Smith is a partner at...

The government has outlined new court procedures to address the expected backlog of cases when eviction proceedings resume on August 24. For...

There’s been another increase in the proportion of private tenants saying they are satisfied with their housing according to data published...

A lettings sector trade body, acting with homelessness charities, is urging the government to do more as young people in rented...

The National Residential Landlords Association has dismissed the latest claims by campaigning charity Shelter that landlords have not done enough to...

ARLA Propertymark has expressed its pleasure that the eviction ban, already extended by two months, will now expire at the end...

The government appears to have confirmed that the evictions ban will end in late August and courts will resume hearing possession...

One of the rental sector’s highest-profile trade bodies has accused pro-tenant group Generation Rent of needlessly scaring renters with the spectre...

Agents and landlords are urged to lobby MPs to highlight the threat of the current eviction ban and to urge no...

Successes for the private rental sector may seem few and far between these days but the Court of Appeal has now...

The extension to the evictions ban will compound the suffering of victims of domestic violence and anti-social behaviour. That’s the view of...

The industry’s major landlord trade body is urging its members to write to MPs to explains what it calls “the devastating...

Landlords have expressed disappointment at the government decision to extend the ban on evictions by a further two months.  It will be...

A lettings sector group says there was never any eviction crisis looming for private tenants, contrary to a slew of recent claims. New independent...

Accreditation service NAPIT has produced a publication for the rental sector ahead of new electrical safety checks coming into force for...

A leading trade body is backing calls by MPs for additional financial support to tenants during the Coronavirus crisis. The National Residential...

A leading trade body is pleading with the government not to make it harder for landlords or their agent representatives to...

Activists in a body called the London Renters Union has returned to the theme of calling for tenants to not pay...

The Generation Rent pressure group is wrong to claim that the majority of landlords are failing to support tenants needing help...

A group of local landlords and others in the private rental sector are challenging a local authority’s licensing proposals with their...

Coventry council has been branded as irresponsible by a leading trade body for allegedly ignoring government advice on licensing schemes during...

A consumer charity has been blasted by a landlords' trade body for making “irresponsible” claims about tenants and the Coronavirus crisis. Research...