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The National Union of Students is urging the government not to give in to what it calls “exploitative” private rental sector...

The Renters Reform Bill will cost letting agents over £275m in the next decade as fewer landlords use their services. That’s the...

Details have emerged of a flagship agent training event to be held later this year. Agent Rainmaker Live is to be a...

A newspaper is reporting that almost 1,500 homes which could be used for long-term mainstream rentals have been ‘lost’ to short...

Consumer champion Martin Lewis - the man behind the Money Saving Expert website and TV shows - has backed the Renters...

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”...

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

A prominent agent and former RICS residential chairman has made an impassioned plea to the government to help the private rental...

A combination of regular inspections and pro-active installation of ventilation can help to reduce the risk of dangerous damp and mould...

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

If housing really is seen by Prime Minister Boris Johnson as one of his key policy goals, there must be uncertainty...

The sweeping reforms for the private rental sector announced by the government at the end of last week do not go...

A new survey is a warning the government that it must stop forcing landlords out of the private rental sector by...

Greater regulation of lettings agents, and all other property professionals, is required to ‘finish the job’ of reforming the industry which...

The government is admitting that its rental reform agenda is aimed primarily at the north of England - which just happens...