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Campaigning charity Shelter is demanding an overhaul of the Renters Reform Bill, which will shortly begin its passage through the House...

A new communications log feature has been introduced by a PropTech supplier which allegedly makes it easier to gather evidence for...

There’s a huge number of amendments to the Renters Reform Bill, which has its Third Reading in the House of Commons...

A major agency has told the government to get on with ensuring the Renters Reform Bill is passed into law as...

Tenant groups and charities reacted angrily over the Easter weekend to the proposed changes to the Renters Reform Bill being advocated...

The substantial majority of tenants are completely unaware of the Renters Reform Bill, it’s been alleged. A survey of over 2,000 private...

A national newspaper says the Renters Reform Bill is “on the brink of collapse” as Tory MPs are divided on their...

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

A pressure group unhappy about lack of progress on the Renters Reform Bill wants MPs to be bombarded with complaint emails.  Over...

Shelter is warning that the government’s failure to abolish Section 21 evictions will backfire and that “renters will remember who stood...

Prime London rental values fell closer to their longer-term average in January, as supply continued to increase - but worries about...

The Renters Reform Bill cannot succeed without proper engagement with letting agents and landlords, Propertymark argues.    According to a Freedom of Information...

Propertymark's latest research report suggests some letting agents want radical changes to the Renters Reform Bill now going through Parliament.  The aim...

A prominent housing market commentator says Labour would introduce a tougher version of the Renters Reform Bill if it forms the...

The Liberal Democrats have called on the government to bring in an emergency ban on no fault evictions and banks repossessing people’s homes...

Measures contained in the Renters Reform Bill will fail without sufficient resources to ensure they can be enforced. The warning comes from...

The Renters Reform Coalition - a collection of some 20 activist groups and charities demanding changes to the private rental sector...

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

A new manifesto calling for rent controls and a raft of other measures is accusing the current rent rises of being...

A prominent industry supplier is urging agents and landlords to lobby MPs to suggest improvements to the Renters Reform Bill.  PayProp UK...

Section 21 evictions are set to soar even higher, a property association leader forecasts - because of the threat to abolish...

Housing legal aid is increasingly out of reach for tenants who need help, the Law Society of England and Wales claims.  Quarterly...

Campaigning charity Shelter has renewed its calls for the abolition of S21 eviction powers. It says new Ministry of Justice data shows...

The Co-Op Bank is joining forces with campaigning charity Shelter to argue against Section 21 evictions, and together they have organised...

The Renters (Reform) Bill rewrites many of the rules that the private rented sector has played by for decades. This may...

Lettings chain Fine & Country says rents are likely to steadily rise through the summer. Nicky Stevenson, managing director of Fine &...

A webinar says the Renters Reform Bill is the biggest challenge facing lettings agents - and it’s prompted calls to a...

The Centre for Ageing Better claims older tenants will benefit most from some of the provisions in the Renters Reform Bill. As...

The pro-tenant anti-landlord Renters Reform Bill has at last been published by the government which first promised it in 2019. It has...

The Local Government Association, which comprises 331 of the 333 councils in England and all 22 Welsh unitary councils, is calling on...

The activist group Generation Rent is backing a call by MPs for the government to tighten up proposals to scrap Section...

The Labour Party is to launch a major review of the private rental sector, led by the head of a London...

Demographic data from the latest Census suggests that the Private Rental Sector now provides homes for 20.3 per cent of the...

Shelter claims government figures show 5,940 households were “threatened with homelessness” in England as a result of Section 21 evictions between April...

Shadow housing minister Lisa Nandy has unveiled a Charter for Renters which she says will be implemented within 100 days of...

It looks as if the private rental sector will contract as a result of the threat of new regulations contained in...

An interesting survey conducted by the Lincolnshire Live news website suggests a lack of support for some proposals in the government’s...

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

The government has released the full details of what it calls the Fairer Private Rented Sector White Paper. This is to form...

Campaigning charity Shelter wants the government to fast-track its pledge to scrap Section 21 eviction powers. The government pledged a White Paper...

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

Agents have voiced their reservations over aspects of the widespread rental sector reform announced by the government in the Queen’s Speech. Yesterday...

The Queen’s Speech has confirmed that a radical re-shaping of the rental sector in England is being pushed ahead by the...

Just over 7,000 households in London have been threatened with homelessness in the past three years alone after being issued with...

An activist group claims that homeless cases arising from Section 21 evictions are now at their highest level since records began...

Airbnb, so often criticised for operating in the largely-unregulated short lets market, has called on the UK government to scrap Section...

Lettings accreditation and training service Safeagent is calling on the government to make more public cash available for councils to exercise...

ARLA Propertymark has hit back in this week’s debate on the quality of private rental property, following sharp criticism in a...

Thousands of tenants have no choice but to accept “appalling conditions” according to the chief executive of campaigning charity Shelter. Polly Neate...

Private rental property conditions and the enforcement of regulations by councils and government have all been in the firing line from...

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

A prominent lettings agency chief says a consultation looking at changes to private renting proposed by the Scottish Government is merely...

The Liberal Democrats have proposed sharp restrictions on holiday rentals at the heart of the party’s plans to solve the housing...

A leading expert on the private rental sector predicts it will take three years for the government to scrap Section 21 evictions...

‘Generation rent’ was a term first coined in 2011 by the Halifax in a survey on the future of homeownership. It...

The Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities says the long-awaited Rental Reform White Paper will now not be published until...

Campaign group Generation Rent, led by former Labour Baroness Alicia Kennedy, has renewed its call for the scrapping of Section 21...

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

Some lettings industry figures are beginning to express doubt as to whether the government’s broad commitment to reform the private rental...

The most vocal campaign group for tenants, Generation Rent, has warned government that renters have already been waiting two years for...

Today’s Queen’s Speech, setting out the government’s legislative programme for the next year, is expected to include rental reform. It’s thought one...

The State Opening of Parliament will take place on Tuesday May 11, with many expecting this to be when the government confirms...

Acorn, a prominent campaign group targeting letting agency offices for protests, says the latest eviction ban extension doesn't go far enough. While...

A new law in Wales making it mandatory for a tenant to get six months notice for Section 21 evictions has...

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

Two Labour MPs have made extensive claims about the number of evictions from the private rental sector likely to happen if...

Labour claims over 350 households in London alone were issued with a Section 21 notice during the first lockdown in spring...

A new report from the Nationwide and campaigning charity Shelter puts letting agents in the dock over the standards in the...

The announcement of the Renters’ Reform Bill in the Queen’s speech last December caused a collective groan across the country from...

Landlords operating in England are increasingly seeking evictions advice from their Scottish counterparts, according to property management firm Apropos. The platform says...

Agents and landlords must now give tenants six months’ notice before they can evict, except in the most serious of cases,...

Labour’s housing spokeswoman says “after the incompetent handling of the exams fiasco, the government must act now to avoid more chaos...

A service called Landlord Advice UK is offering free no-obligation consultations with landlords dealing with evictions over the coming months. Under the...

A debt charity is urging the Housing Secretary to pledge that no one who has lost income because of Coronavirus will...

Pro-tenant campaign group Generation Rent says judges should have more power to protect tenants from eviction while the Coronavirus outbreak continues. The...

Labour has thrown its weight behind campaigning pressure groups in a general call to avoid what the party’s housing spokeswoman calls...

The Chartered Institute of Housing has published proposals aimed at avoiding a spike in private rental sector evictions when the current...

Citizens Advice claims that in the two months since the lockdown began it has helped over 10,000 people with issues related...

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

The new National Residential Landlords Association has backed calls from the Labour Mayor of London to ensure the benefits system covers...

The Generation Rent pressure group, fiercely critical of agents and landlords in recent months, wants the government to implement a 12 month...

No date has been set by government for the second reading of the Renters' Reform Bill 2019-20. The Bill was announced in...

An inventories supplier is advising that the growing number of sub-letting scams can be reduced by regular property visits by agents...

Another think tank has come up with proposals to scrap Section 21 eviction powers and cap rents - and it also...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents and the National Association of Estate Agents have issued their manifesto for next month’s General...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has submitted its response to the government's consultation on scrapping Section 21 evictions, which closes tomorrow...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has accused courts across the country of failing to follow their own rules when it comes...

If the government follows through with its plan to scrap Section 21 there could be more work for agents as a...

The chairman of Hunters estate agency, who is also a Conservative MP, has hit out at the government over its handling...

Tenants on state benefits could be the 'biggest casualties' of the government's 'ill-thought-out' plans to scrap the Section 21 evictions process,...

A survey of landlords has found that 39% would like to see a fast track housing tribunal introduced if and when...

An estate agency that describes itself as a ‘social enterprise’ says it will spend its profits on the homeless and related...

Housing minister Heather Wheeler has pledged that the government will make changes to the court repossession process alongside its plans to...

A senior lettings agent has raised the spectre of rental properties in future being German-style ‘empty shells’ - without even white...

The government says it wants to ban outright Section 21 'no fault' eviction powers in England and Wales. Instead landlords seeking to evict...

The government’s plan to scrap Section 21 is personally backed by the Prime Minister and will begin formal consultations today. If the...

The party conferences of the two main political parties threw up some interesting developments with regards to housing and the rental...

The pressure group Generation Rent has joined forces with other critics of the private rental sector to demand an end to...

A head of a major agency says it is misleading to suggest that tenants are evicted ‘for no reason’. Mark Pilling, the...

Tonight's edition of BBC Panorama will investigate the Section 21 evictions process, also known as 'no-fault evictions'. The show - 'Evicted for...