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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
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
A prominent lettings agency has taken the unusual step of warning tenants that parties using the sector for political capital may...
04 April 2023
From: Breaking News
An agent claims that if Labour wins the next General Election there will be what he calls “misguided meddling” across the...
01 March 2023
From: Breaking News
Propertymark’s chief executive Nathan Emerson has welcomed the dramatic government U-turn on taxes - but most importantly has retained the stamp...
18 October 2022
From: Breaking News
A prominent trade body is warning Tory leadership candidates not to put rental reform on the back burner and add to...
03 August 2022
From: Breaking News
Pressure is growing to amend the 2019 Tenant Fees Act to allow charging additional deposits and insurance to cover pets in private rental...
02 September 2021
From: Breaking News
A Labour Baroness, Alicia Kennedy, has been named as the new director of the fiercely pro-tenant Generation Rent campaign group. The announcement...
25 June 2020
From: Breaking News
A Liberal Democrat MP is seeking to amend the Renters’ Reform Bill to make it illegal for tenants to be offered...
10 March 2020
From: Breaking News
Reports from China suggest that property investors from that country - a staple in the buy to let market in many...
17 December 2019
From: Breaking News
It’s been revealed this morning that there are two legal challenges being mounted against the Right To Rent policy, which obliges...
01 February 2018
From: Breaking News
The Private Members’ Bill that has won government backing - and which would give tenants the right to sue landlords over...
16 January 2018
From: Breaking News
The National Landlords Association (NLA) has launched its Quarter Two Landlords Survey. The research study has been launched hot on the heels...
14 June 2017
From: Breaking News
A senior Labour spokesman has refused to rule out rent controls as a possible manifesto commitment for the June 8 General...
28 April 2017
From: Breaking News
Before new London mayor Sadiq Khan has had his first working day in office, his proposals for a private rental sector...
09 May 2016
From: Breaking News
A Liberal Democrat peer has accused the government of being “a bit rich” in its willingness to jail letting agents or...
25 February 2016
From: Breaking News
Liberal Democrat MPs in the Commons and the Lords have tabled motions aimed at stopping the Right To Rent policy, which...
14 January 2016
From: Breaking News
The managing director of the mortgages division of deVere Group, one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organisations, says George...
03 December 2015
From: Breaking News
It is not often that a national newspaper dedicates an article to praising buy to let - and even rarer for...
30 November 2015
From: Breaking News
Labour MP David Lammy and Kevin Hollinrake, the founder of Hunters - and now a Conservative MP - have clashed online...
03 November 2015
From: Breaking News
This week the Chancellor, George Osborne, delivered the first Conservative Budget for almost 20 years. While Mr Osborne claimed that it marked...