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Propertymark says it will continue lobbying government for the implementation of the Regulation of Property Agents - even though the government...

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

A government-supporting newspaper says the Renters Reform Bill will be back in the House of Commons next week. Observers have been expecting...

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

The government has written to Conservative MPs promising changes to the Renters Reform Bill to ease concerns over its anti-landlord bias. Jacob...

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

The Department for Work and Pensions will recommence the Private Rented Sector Universal Credit Engagement Group next month, following a concerted...

Propertymark has welcomed the pledge by Housing Secretary Michael Gove not to introduce rent controls in England. The trade body says such...

Rent controls as currently in force in Scotland and under consideration in Wales will not be put into effect in England,...

MPs have given the Renters Reform Bill its Second Reading - a procedure which means it now continues into the Committee...

More details have emerged of what appears to be a sort of stay of execution for Section 21 eviction powers. The abolition...

The government has pledged that section 21 repossessions will not be scrapped until improvements have been made to the way courts...

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

The Select Committee that shadows the work of Michael Gove’s Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities is complaining that its...

A lettings trade body is urging the government to make clear how it will help courts tackle a growing backlog of...

It appears almost certain that the Second Reading of the Renters Reform Bill - expected some weeks ago - will not...

It appears that a “wider range of behaviours” are likely to be taken into account in future when tenants are considered...

The Renters Reform Bill is being discussed by MPs this afternoon - although not as part of its long-running passage through...

Propertymark has hit out at a proposal from a group of MPs that there should be a single Ombudsman covering the...

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

Mortgage experts appearing before a committee of MPs have given an especially gloomy forecast for the buy to let sector in...

Agents have only until Friday to respond to the committee of MPs currently calling for evidence concerning the reform of the...

MPs on a key Select Committee have been criticised by the letting agents’ trade body for failing to probe how Local...

Agents have only four weeks to respond to a committee of MPs’ ‘call for evidence’ ahead of an investigation into the...

The criticism by landlords aimed at Housing Secretary Michael Gove for some of his comments regarding the cladding issue, has now...

A major Select Committee of MPs has launched an enquiry into so-called exempt rental sector accommodation - a niche sector that...

A leading trade body is backing calls by MPs for additional financial support to tenants during the Coronavirus crisis. The National Residential...

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick says the government is “thinking carefully” about what more it can do for private tenants, especially after...

Agents and other property professionals have a week to submit their views to an enquiry into the impact of Coronavirus on...

It looks likely that the Conservative party is set to formally oppose rent controls when it publishes its manifesto, probably in...

The chief executive of Hunters has told MPs there are 19 properties on its books which specify ‘No DSS’ - but...

Senior lettings agency figures are amongst those who will this morning give evidence to a committee of MPs investigating so-called ‘DSS...

A Freedom of Information request by The Guardian newspaper has produced the startling admission from government that not even one landlord...

The Nationwide is the latest lender to say it will not insist its buy to let borrowers enforce a No DSS...

There has been widespread Industry anger at news of a possible U-turn by the government over the proposed cap on security...

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

The House of Commons has published a briefing paper on tenancy deposit schemes ahead of the Report Stage of the Tenant...

A trade body is backing a call by a parliamentary committee for the government to fund certain fire safety improvements in...

A prominent campaigner for alternatives to traditional rental sector deposits is welcoming the government’s commitment to consider the issue in the...

MPs want a review of laws surrounding private rental standards, including councils having the right to confiscate buy to let properties...

Trade bodies have been responding to today’s report of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee deliberations on the private...

A consumer group says that the Tenants Fees Bill - which will eventually ban letting agents’ fees levied on renters -...

A Select Committee of MPs investigating the proposed ban on agents’ fees levied on tenants says the measure could save renters...

The government has pledged to begin a review of the selective licensing across the private rental sector once MPs return from...

The sittings of the select committee looking into government proposals to ban letting agents’ fees levied on tenants resume this week...

An online petition urging MPs to make it compulsory for privately let properties to be subject to independent inventory reporting is...

The Residential Landlords’ Association has released details of the evidence it put to the Communities and Local Government Select Committee which...

The select committee monitoring the Department of Housing, Communities and Local Government will continue its deliberations today on the government’s ban...

The government has explained why the ban on letting agents’ fees on tenants will not be implemented until spring 2019 -...

A lettings agency has written to MPs setting out an eloquent case for a cap on agents’ fees levied on tenants...

The Communities and Local Government Select Committee says it is to begin “pre-legislative scrutiny” of proposals to ban tenant fees imposed...

Letting agents and landlords are being urged by a trade body to sign a petition calling on the government to make...

Agents have until November 24 - two days after the next Budget - to submit evidence to the latest probe into...

The powerful and all-party Communities & Local Government Select Committee of MPs has launched a new enquiry into improving the quality...

The Residential Landlords’ Association has written to an immigration minister to express its concern over possible ‘further sanctions’ for landlords who...

An MP has written to the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, raising concerns over the effect short-term lets regulations are having...

Tenants who are advised by local councils and advice agencies to ignore eviction notices could cost the average landlord almost £7,000. The...

An industry body has backed a Conservative MP's anti-homelessness Bill, which has been published by the Communities and Local Government Select Committee.   The...

The Residential Landlords Association is asking the Welsh Assembly to scrap the three per cent stamp duty surcharge imposed on buy...

There has been another high-level prediction that mortgage lending for buy to let investors is likely to be restricted further in the...

A group of MPs is raising concerns about a claim that 40 per cent of homes sold through the Right To...

Bank of England governor Mark Carney has again spoken out about possible “threats” to the economy posed by the increase in...

The Residential Landlords Association says it has “deep concerns” over the Panorama programme broadcast early this week claiming that landlords were...