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The government has failed the private rental sector says the Residential Landlords Association. In a statement released even before the resignation of...

An MP says he will raise with local police chiefs a series of claims from landlords and tenants concerning a lettings...

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

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 new Home Secretary Sajid Javid is being urged to look again at the Right To Rent policy and produce “a...

One of the client money protection schemes operating in the lettings sector says he believes agents and property managers could be...

The lettings sector is at the forefront of government proposals for a new redress system for customers of agents and others.  In...

The Private Members’ Bill that has won government backing - and which would give tenants the right to sue landlords over...

The government has taken the unusual step of working with a Labour MP to ensure her Private Members Bill can become...

In an unusual move the government has today, Sunday, announced that it wants tenants to have the right to take legal...

At least one trade body has expressed an apparent scepticism about whether the rebranding of the Department of Communities and Local...

The Communities and Local Government committee of MPs will on Monday hear their first oral evidence of the year for the...

After the series of anti-buy to let measures contained in recent Budgets, it is perhaps unsurprising that a survey of landlords...

One of the government’s three approved official redress providers says companies operating in the Rent-to-Rent sector should be obliged to join...

The will exists in the private rental sector to provide the longer term tenancies advocated by the government, says a trade...

The draft Bill to ban letting agents’ fees levied on tenants has been published - it’s to be called the Tenants’...

PropTech company PayProp says the government’s outline proposal for greater regulation of the private rental sector should be treated as good...

Plans for new measures regarding leasehold tenancies to help create “a fairer property management system that works for everyone” have been...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has welcomed the government commitment to introduce regulation for agencies - but it is warning...

Housing minister Alok Sharma has once again confirmed that the ban on lettings’ agents fees levied on tenants in England will...

Twenty agency groups have backed a call by the Association of Residential Letting Agents urging the government to extend or scrap its...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is calling on the government to either extend the consultation period for the proposed ban...

Agents and many industry bodies have expressed their disappointment and anger at many provisions of the Housing White Paper produced by...

The government has set out 29 key points in its Housing White Paper.   Introducing in the Commons this afternoon, Communities Secretery Sajid...

It’s been a long time coming but the government’s White Paper on Housing - tipped to contain major reforms affecting the...