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![Half of Agents say they Don’t Know who they’ll vote for](/upload/images/shutterstock_1332472799.jpg)
Around half of letting agents and landlords say they are unsure about how they will vote in the General Election. A joint...
23 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Agency calls for Landlords Reform Bill to redress rental balance](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HousePrices_balancing-400x310.png)
Leaders Romans Group is calling for a Landlords Reform Bill to balance the challenges and apparent disincentives now deterring landlords from...
30 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agents urged to find buyers for landlords who want to sell up](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HouseForSale_400x310.png)
A lettings industry mentor has issued a plea to agents to do more to protect their landlords’ livelihoods. Sally Lawson, founder of...
16 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Section 24: Agents call for mortgage tax relief to be reinstated](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Taxes-400x310.png)
A new survey of lettings agents and landlords has put the reinstatement of Section 24 mortgage tax relief at the top...
21 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![Delay EPC change to help rental sector - top agency’s Budget hope](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/AgencyBoards-Lettings-400x310.png)
A prominent lettings agency has called for a delay to the government’s EPC upgrade timetable to be announced in this afternoon’s...
15 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Sign up to scrap tax changes hurting landlords - agents told](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Tax-Image-400x310.png)
A letting agents’ trade body is urging the industry to sign a parliamentary petition calling for the Section 24 changes for...
21 February 2023
From: Breaking News
![Lettings in the spotlight as current and future regulations hit the headlines](/upload/images/adv-2021/sponsored-content/PayProp/shutterstock_1145842904.jpg)
We’re only in February and it’s already clear that this year will set the future direction of the private rented sector...
15 February 2023
From: Features
![Reinstate Mortgage Interest Tax Relief - agents’ plea to government](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/FinanceCalculator-400x310.png)
Propertymark has told the government it should have three priorities for next month’s Budget. 1. Improving welfare system for vulnerable and low-waged...
02 February 2023
From: Breaking News
![Reverse The Tax Threat - major agency backs petition](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/TaxRefund-400x310.png)
A high profile lettings agency has backed a petition demanding the reinstatement of tax relief for landlords. Benham and Reeves says it...
11 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Sign Up to stop the Tax Grab - Agents urged to back petition](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/TaxMan-400x310.png)
Agents are being urged to sign a petition launched by a landlord facing higher tax burdens which may force him to...
03 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Help London’s rental sector - agent’s plea to government](/upload/images/Locations/LondonMap400x310-min.png)
A leading agent and member of the Propertymark board says London’s letting agencies and private rental sector need government help -...
12 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![End all S24 evictions now, demand Baroness and Lord](/img/default/lat.png)
A prominent member of the House of Lords and a rental activist are calling for an immediate suspension of all Section...
19 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Today’s The Day: multiple tax changes will hit the rental sector](/img/default/lat.png)
It’s not just navigating a path through the Coronavirus crisis that is proving the value of letting agents - it’s their...
06 April 2020
From: Breaking News
![Huge £18,000 penalty for landlord who failed to improve property](/img/default/lat.png)
A landlord in one of the most scenic parts of Devon had been served with a £18,000 civil penalty because he...
23 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Government slated by Tory MP and agency chief over Sections 21 and 24](/img/default/lat.png)
The chairman of Hunters estate agency, who is also a Conservative MP, has hit out at the government over its handling...
12 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Treasury does not understand basics of taxation, says damning report](/img/default/lat.png)
A damning report on taxation in the private rental sector (PRS) has accused the treasury of appearing not to understand 'the...
10 May 2019
From: Breaking News
![ARLA restates opposition to MIR changes as tax deadline looms](/img/default/lat.png)
The Association of Residential Letting Agents is reminding members of tax changes ahead - a timely intervention with the deadline for...
07 January 2019
From: Breaking News
![Far more than Three Billboards - £10,000 wanted for anti-S24 campaign](/img/default/lat.png)
A campaign opposing the government’s recent tax changes which have penalised buy to let investors has taken a leaf out of...
07 June 2018
From: Breaking News
![Look who's set up a buy to let company ... it's Tony Blair](/img/default/lat.png)
A landlord has set up a company to handle the ownership and management of buy to let properties - and the...
02 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![1.4m landlords 'unaware of mortgage interest tax relief change'](/img/default/lat.png)
The campaign against the imminent changes to mortgage interest tax relief for the buy to let sector estimates that 1.4m landlords...
14 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Buy To Let tax changes - opponents launch new website](/img/default/lat.png)
The campaign against the phased reduction in landlords' mortgage interest tax relief is continuing with the opening of a new website,...
09 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Buy To Let tax opponents pledge shock and awe on Shelter](/img/default/lat.png)
Opponents of the proposed change to mortgage interest tax relief for landlords have promised what they call a “shock and awe”...
16 February 2017
From: Breaking News
![Economists asked to assess impact of buy to let tax changes](/img/default/lat.png)
A trade group has commissioned a firm of economists to look at how the government’s mortgage interest tax relief change -...
14 February 2017
From: Breaking News
![Group calls for capital gains and energy efficiency reforms](/img/default/lat.png)
The National Landlords Association is making only three demands on the government for its next Budget, because it recognises further reforms...
27 January 2017
From: Breaking News
![Industry body launches e-postcard campaign over buy to let taxes](/img/default/lat.png)
The National Landlords Association has launched an e-postcard campaign for letting agent and landlord members to lobby the government over the...
10 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Want to know about buy to let tax change problems? It's all here...](/img/default/lat.png)
Some of the property professionals behind the campaign against the changes to buy to let landlords’ taxation have compiled a comprehensive...
27 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![Bid to stop buy to let tax grab moves to political arena after court failure](/img/default/lat.png)
The landlords behind the failed attempt to seek a Judicial Review of legislation reducing the mortgage interest tax relief for landlords...
07 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![Failure for landlords trying to overturn buy to let mortgage interest change](/img/default/lat.png)
The attempt to seek a Judicial Review of legislation reducing the mortgage interest tax relief for landlords has failed. The case was...
06 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![Key day as landlords seek judicial review of buy to let tax change](/img/default/lat.png)
Legal represenatives for two landlords will today make the case for a judicial review of Section 24 of the Finance (No.2)...
06 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![Key legal verdict on buy to let tax change to be delivered this week](/img/default/lat.png)
The case made by two landlords to have a judicial review of section 24 of the 2015 Finance Act - triggering...
03 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![New court date for possible judicial review of buy to let tax changes](/img/default/lat.png)
The date for the court hearing to decide whether there should be a judicial review of the buy to let tax...
26 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![Housing minister to meet campaigners against buy to let tax changes](/img/default/lat.png)
Housing minister Gavin Barwell has agreed to meet campaigners opposed to the clampdown on landlords’ mortgage interest tax relief. The measure -...
12 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![September date for buy to let Clause 24 judicial review decision](/img/default/lat.png)
The people behind the bid for a judicial review into Clause 24 of the Finance Act 2015 - limiting mortgage interest tax...
05 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![Campaign against buy to let 'tax grab' extends fund-raising deadline](/img/default/lat.png)
The landlords campaigning for a judicial review of the legislation curtailing mortgage interest tax relief for buy to let landlords have...
21 June 2016
From: Breaking News
![No change in government policy in sight despite successful protest rally](/img/default/lat.png)
There appears no change in government policy on changing buy to let tax breaks - at least not yet - despite...
10 June 2016
From: Breaking News
![Judicial review of BTL tax change: fund-raising deadline extended](/img/default/lat.png)
The two landlords campaigning to win a judicial review of George Osborne’s restrictions on buy to let mortgage tax relief have...
04 May 2016
From: Breaking News
![Unveiled - the legal team to challenge Osborne's buy to let tax changes](/img/default/lat.png)
The two landlords hoping to secure a judicial review of the legislation restricting mortgage interest tax relief on buy to let...
20 April 2016
From: Breaking News
![Decision on judicial review of buy to let tax changes expected to be known soon](/img/default/lat.png)
The people behind the campaign to seek a judicial review of the buy to let tax changes proposed by Chancellor George...
06 April 2016
From: Breaking News
![Buy to let tax change opponents plan major London event this summer](/img/default/lat.png)
The two landlords behind the bid to seek a judicial review of George Osborne’s buy to let mortgage interest relief tax...
31 March 2016
From: Breaking News
![HMRC and Treasury respond to legal challenge to buy to let tax changes](/img/default/lat.png)
HM Revenue & Customs and the Treasury have at last responded to the legal team representing two landlords challenging beleaguered Chancellor...
24 March 2016
From: Breaking News
![Legal challenge to buy to let tax change: HMRC to respond by March 16](/img/default/lat.png)
The attempt to see judicial review of George Osborne’s buy to let tax change continues apace, with the government now having...
29 February 2016
From: Breaking News
![Legal challenge to Osborne buy to let tax change to be filed by tomorrow](/img/default/lat.png)
The latest step in the legal challenge to Chancellor George Osborne’s proposal to limit landlords’ mortgage interest tax relief comes in...
16 February 2016
From: Breaking News
![Here's the letter outlining legal challenge to Osborne's buy to let tax change](/img/default/lat.png)
The two landlords mounting a legal challenge to the mortgage interest tax changes proposed by Chancellor George Osborne have released a...