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28 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Almost no agent ready for revised tenancy arrangements](/upload/images/shutterstock_635148143.jpg)
A snap poll of letting agents has revealed that only a tiny percentage have taken steps to prepare for the shift...
08 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Agents urged to understand key tenancy agreement differences](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Buy-to-let-400x310.png)
A call has gone out from an industry group for letting agents to be sure they know the distinctions between statutory...
01 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Business Boost - Landlord champion urges more use of lettings agents](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/3%20CoupleMakingOffer-400x310.png)
Landlords’ champion Paul Shamplina says more landlords should use lettings agents, who he describes as their “allies” in the battle to...
10 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Low level of landlord awareness about Reform Bill contents](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/LandlordNews-400x310.png)
The removal of Section 21 notices and the end of fixed-term tenancies are the two issues that concern landlords the most,...
21 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![No scrapping fixed term tenancies - new appeal over Renters Reform Bill](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews1-400x310.png)
Propertymark has emphasised the importance of retaining fixed term tenancies under the Renters Reform Bill. Propertymark chief executive Nathan Emerson met Housing...
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
Labour has waded into the increasingly-fractious debate over the Renters Reform Bill. Activists in groups such as the Renters Reform Coalition and...
29 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Seven Tips this lettings agency is giving its landlord clients](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/LearningAgents2-400x310.png)
Online rental platform Lettingaproperty is telling landlords to take a strategic approach to property management in 2024, to help navigate legislative...
08 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Scrap Renters Reform Bill! Leading agent makes dramatic plea](/upload/images/shutterstock_529322344.jpg)
A prominent agent has called on politicians to scrap the Renters Reform Bill . He says it’s “ill thought-through and would be...
25 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Renters Reform Bill - Agents urged to lobby MPs with amendments](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
A prominent industry supplier is urging agents and landlords to lobby MPs to suggest improvements to the Renters Reform Bill. PayProp UK...
21 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Rents to rise throughout summer - agency’s warning](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/1-HousePriceRising.png)
Lettings chain Fine & Country says rents are likely to steadily rise through the summer. Nicky Stevenson, managing director of Fine &...
15 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![Save ASTs - agents urged to sign petition to stop Periodic Tenancies](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/BTR-400x310.png)
Agents are being urged to sign a new petition has been launched on the UK Parliament website to reverse the move...
14 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![Renters Reform Bill prompts agents’ calls to helpline](/upload/images/shutterstock_1343411174.jpg)
A webinar says the Renters Reform Bill is the biggest challenge facing lettings agents - and it’s prompted calls to a...
31 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Warning to government - reform agenda is WRONG for HMOs!](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/EvictionNotice-400x310-min.jpeg)
A network of professional landlords is warning the government that its reform agenda for the private rental sector is plain wrong...
30 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![Periodic Tenancies - new data shows threat to private renting](/upload/images/Tables%2C%20Graphs%2C%20Infographics/HousingMarket-7-400x310.jpg)
HMOs rented by students can be up to £30 a week cheaper than purpose built student accommodation in halls of residence. That’s...
04 August 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
![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
![The legal updates which impacted letting agents the most in 2021](/upload/images/adv-2021/sponsored-content/Legislate/Legislate%20360x280px.png)
How up to date is your knowledge on notice periods, pets in rentals, electrical safety inspections and lodgers? This year we’ve...
18 August 2021
From: Sponsored Content
![Fitness For Human Habitation](/img/default/lat.png)
The Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act came into force across the country on the 20th March 2019. The act is designed...
11 March 2020
From: Sponsored Content
![Fees Act confusion could trigger surge in complaints about agents](/img/default/lat.png)
Confusion among renters over the complex Tenant Fees Act could trigger a surge in complaints about agents to redress schemes -...
12 February 2020
From: Breaking News
![Agents Beware: New lettings laws being introduced in 2020](/img/default/lat.png)
A leading lettings sector trade body has outlined key pieces of legislation that will hit the private rental sector in 2020. The...
02 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Beware: Tenant Fees ban may impact Section 21 notices](/img/default/lat.png)
A warning has been issued to lettings agents to review tenancy agreements to see if they are fit for purpose when...
22 January 2019
From: Breaking News
![Tenants one step closer to being able to sue landlords over conditions](/img/default/lat.png)
Tenants are now a step closer to being able to sue landlords if they do not properly maintain their properties. The Commons...
29 October 2018
From: Breaking News
![MPs to debate tenants' powers to sue over property conditions](/img/default/lat.png)
MPs in the House of Commons will today debate the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Bill, promoted by a Labour backbencher...
26 October 2018
From: Breaking News
![Industry support for Human Habitation Bill continues to pile in](/img/default/lat.png)
There have been more expressions of support from industry bodies for the Private Members’ Bill from Labour’s Karen Buck MP which...
18 January 2018
From: Breaking News
![Industry relief at Appeal Court decision on buy to let council tax](/img/default/lat.png)
There has been relief within the industry following an Appeal Court judgement that landlords are not responsible for paying the council...
18 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Mayor and council back anti-letting agent group's new 'charter'](/img/default/lat.png)
The newly-elected mayor of Bristol and the city’s council have endorsed a so-called ethical lettings charter created by a group known...
12 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![Seven letting agencies back so-called 'ethical lettings charter'](/img/default/lat.png)
An ‘ethical lettings charter’ set up over a year ago by a pressure group for improved private rental sector housing has...
10 May 2016
From: Breaking News
![Inventory clerks offer to handle smoke and carbon monoxide alarm burden](/img/default/lat.png)
Letting agents and landlords can use AIIC independent inventory clerks to conduct the checks on smoke detectors and carbon monoxide alarms...
29 September 2015
From: Sponsored Content
![Deposit protection deadline just one week from today](/img/default/lat.png)
The Deposit Protection Service is reminding letting agents and landlords that they have to act with extreme urgency over older tenancy...
16 June 2015
From: Breaking News
![Letting agents warned over new tenancy deposit deadline](/img/default/lat.png)
The Association of Residential Letting Agents says the government’s controversial Deregulation Act, which is now in force, is creating critical new...
11 June 2015
From: Breaking News
![Landlords must register old tenancy deposits – now!](/img/default/lat.png)
In 2007, the government introduced a compulsory deposit protection scheme as part of the Housing Act 2004 to help protect tenants...
22 May 2015
From: Features
![Activists to award 'ethical letting agents'](/img/default/lat.png)
A group of renters who have formed the Acorn group in Bristol - which has already held protests against letting agents...