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Councils that have been awarded additional cash injections by government could use their windfalls to enhance their enforcement of the private...

[Letting Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise to...

Rent controls similar to those demanded by Labour in London and other major cities in the UK do not work, and...

One of the country’s leading lettings experts has outlined why the government is wrong to suggest that Section 8 powers could...

Another law firm has sharply criticised the government’s proposals to abolish Section 21 eviction powers for landlords. Devonshires says the government should...

The private rented sector would shrink by 20 per cent if Section 21 ‘no-fault’ evictions are abolished, according to an economic...

As expected, the Liberal Democrats’ conference in Bournemouth has backed a motion calling for the scrapping of Section 21 - effectively...

A Labour think tank considered on the right wing of the party says it wants rent controls that make a difference...

A Labour councillor on Islington council - which is controlled by the party and has Jeremy Corbyn as a local member...

Rents have reached an all time high across the UK according to HomeLet. Its latest index says the average rent in the...

The Liberal Democrat conference, which begins on Saturday, is to debate a resolution calling for the scrapping of Section 21 -...

There is increasing evidence of the so-called unintended consequences of the tenant fee ban according to a major regional lettings agency. Linley &...

A respected transfer agent who has been selling lettings businesses for 25 years has issued a warning that tenant-find let-only portfolios...

As the row over Labour’s proposal rumbles on the think tank Centre for Policy Studies - which has previously argued that...

The Trussell Trust, which coordinates the vast majority of the food banks around the UK, is working with the National Landlords...

Rents in London are rocketing but a leading market commentator says this is no reason to give in to a “Marxist dystopia”...

A man who claimed he needed a council house but was actually a landlord has been ordered to pay back more...

There’s been a sceptical response to news leaked from government over the weekend suggesting that a database of rogue landlords would...

A leading housing market analyst says the sales market is increasingly determined by the acts of buy to let and other...

Some observers think it may be unwise for agencies to reveal too many details of perks for staff but Connells has...

The head of an automated payment system for the rental sector says lettings agents can help offset losses caused by the...

The Tenant Fees Act comes into effect in England tomorrow - but a senior lettings expert is questioning whether it will...

A building expert is warning buy to let investors that they won’t enjoy unfettered rights to extend their properties upwards when...

Connells Group has acquired the lettings business portfolio of an independent agency in a move it describes as “part of its...

A housing minister has pledged that more key reforms for the private rental sector will be revealed soon, despite Brexit political...

A regional fire service says a tragic anniversary is a good opportunity for agents and landlords to remember their legal obligations...

The tenants’ fees ban coming into effect from June 1 could help traditional lettings agents keep their place on High Streets,...

A lettings agency boss who says she is actually in favour of the agents’ fees ban nonetheless admits there will be...

Luton landlord Mervyn Kupshik has been ordered to pay nearly £30,000 to the Local council - and if he doesn’t do...

Figures drawn up for the London region of the GMB union claim that across the capital’s 33 boroughs private rents have...

The lettings director at Urban, the online agency recently snapped up by Emoov, says the rental market is faced with significant...

Lettings agents for or against the government’s proposals for longer tenancies have only a very short time left to respond to...

A letting agent responsible for a property in Huddersfield which caught fire and killed two young boys has been jailed for...

The lettings industry has hit out at the Welsh Government’s proposals to ban agents’ fees levied on tenants. A Bill was put...

The government’s flagship immigration Right To Rent policy is under threat on two fronts. Firstly a cross-party group of MPs has written...

MPs will today undertake the second reading of the Tenant Fees Bill which proposes to ban upfront tenant fees and introduce...

A bid to allow good tenants’ rent records count towards their creditworthiness has taken a step forward thanks to Big Issue...

The industry has reacted angrily to the announcement yesterday that the Tenants’ Fees Bill is now formally starting its progress through...

The Citizens Advice consumer charity claims that 28 per cent of private tenants who have experienced problems while renting have not...

A new analysis by campaigning housing organisation Shelter claims the changes within the private rental sector could indirectly lose the next...

A statement from the government has repeated its determination to clean up the private rental sector through a series of measures,...

The head of franchise giant Belvoir says government interference in the rental sector is likely to result in a rise in...

One of the industry’s leading trade bodies wants the government to halt the Right To Rent programme after evidence shows some...

There has been a record number of new student accommodation bed spaces delivered in 2017, with possible consequences for future buy...

Kitemark-style scheme SAFEagent is calling on the government to ensure plans to make Client Money Protection schemes mandatory are not ignored...

A leading accounting and advisory service says key tax changes that could damage the buy to let sector are still not...

Housing minister Alok Sharma has been told face to face that he should rethink the government's plans to cap security deposits...

A series of free legal events for letting agents and landlords is to launch this month with an advisory session on...

Letting agents across the UK must prepare now for a ban on fees charged to tenants says a PropTech company -...

The majority of MPs speaking at a House of Commons debate yesterday acknowledged they are wary of the 'unintended consequences' of...

A leading trade body says a cap on damage deposits paid by tenants - as proposed by the government - could...

Skipton is the latest lender to confirm that it will continue lending to so-called portfolio landlords after new Bank of England...

William H Brown, part of Sequence UK, has revealed it has snapped up another small independent - just days after its...

The Welsh Government is now kicking off a similar consultation process to that conducted by the Department for Communities and Local...

Only just over a week remains before the end of the formal consultation on the government’s proposal to ban letting fees...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it has so far received over 700 detailed responses to its consultation on the...

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

A leading letting agent campaigning against rental sector deposits is warning that the industry might be hit with “astronominal” insurance premiums...

As the industry awaits the delivery of today's Spring Budget, the National Approved Letting Scheme (NALS) has called on the government...

A Tory MP has taken to the internet to warn against what he calls the “unintended consequences” of a ban on...

A leading personal finance journalist - and a former editor of Landlord Today - has used the columns of right wing...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is warning the government that some of its proposed changes to regulations governing HMOs may...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has responded to the latest government recommendations for tighter controls on the private rental sector...

The financial downturn was “probably the best thing that could have happened” to this country’s private rental sector according to lettings...

The attempt to seek a Judicial Review of legislation reducing the mortgage interest tax relief for landlords has failed. The case was...

A senior mortgage lender is warning that government reforms of the buy to let sector could have wide-ranging and unintended consequences. Richard...

Campaign group Generation Rent is running a research project into letting agent fees via a comparison website named Letting Fees UK. The...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is urging landlords and agents acting on their behalf to bring themselves up to date...

A warning is being issued that the types of mortgages still being extended to buy to let investors risks them becoming...

Connells Residential Lettings has announced three new lettings area managers to grow its central division offering, covering Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Wiltshire, Berkshire...

Ian Wilson, chief executive officer of Martin & Co, has given David Cameron’s government a “two out of 10” score for...

More criticism of Chancellor George Osborne’s raft of buy to let reforms has appeared in the mainstream media, with much emphasis...

The charity Crisis is warning that an unintended consequence of the controversial Right To Rent legislation which became law this week...

Connells Group has acquired two further lettings agencies - Pullin Rose at Frome in Somerset and Sky Lettings in Southampton. The acquisitions...

A leading tax expert says there are likely to be unintended consequences of what he calls “half-cocked legislation” bringing in additional...

Connells Group says it wants an additional six lettings offices to add to its Barnard Marcus brand in London this year.  It...

A former president of the Association of Taxation Technicians has made a strong defence of buy to let investors who, she...

The chairman of Berkeley Homes is warning that George Osborne’s latest three per cent stamp duty hike for buy to let...

Tenants should not be coerced into paying higher rents to redecorate their landlords’ property according to the Association of Independent Inventory...

Stephen Moss, CEO of based Pring.co.uk the UK’s leading property investment search engine, takes a look at the impact of ‘Corbynmania’...

The Council for Mortgage Lenders is warning the government not to interfere with the Buy To Let sector in such a...

A London letting agency is playing down the impact of Chancellor George Osborne’s proposed changes to buy to let tax breaks,...

In case we didn’t learn the lesson last time around, we appear to be on the brink of a refresher course...

Two interesting developments in the past week have shown how established parts of the agency industry - on either side of...

The UK Association of Letting Agents has teamed up with around 30 other European professional property bodies to consider how to...

Yesterday we heard about the letter from the CMA warning agents about anti-competitive behaviour. Today, in a scoop for Estate Agent...

Sales and lettings agency Jones & Chapman - part of the Sequence network - has snapped up the Liverpool arm of...

The pressure group Generation Rent - which has been sharply critical of letting agents, landlords and the private rental sector in...