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Shelter - so often critical of the private rental sector - has instead turned its fire on the government over what...

Labour has joined with campaign groups Generation Rent and Shelter in calling for the speediest possible ending of Section 21 eviction...

The Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities says the long-awaited Rental Reform White Paper will now not be published until...

Campaigning charity Shelter says new official figures show evictions since the lifting of the ban have created a surge in homelessness. Shelter...

All sides of the industry have expressed anger and frustration that yesterday’s Budget effectively ignored the private rental sector. ARLA Propertymark’s policy...

Shelter claims the health of one in five renters in England is harmed by poor housing, and says grants covering Covid-related...

The long-awaited White Paper on rental reform is some time away, with a minister at the centre of its preparation saying he and...

The chief executive of Shelter says the experience of Scotland shows that the scrapping of S21 eviction powers produces benefits that...

Councils across Scotland have been given £10m to provide grants to tenants who have Covid-related arrears and risk eviction. The grants will...

Almost half of renters in England have been victims of illegal behaviour from landlords or lettings agents, Shelter claims. The stark allegations...

Earlier this week Propertymark revealed it had co-signed an open letter criticising proposed government cuts to benefits.  That open letter was co-signed...

Propertymark has joined a series of charities and a landlord body to warn about the poverty risk of expected changes to...

A housing market analyst is warning of "one heck of a dark cloud on the horizon for the lettings market” as...

A new report calls for large scale reform of the private rental sector, including a national landlord register and changes to...

A new service has been launched to charge prospective tenants £30 - potentially even more - just to view a property...

The government has launched an online checker in a bid to avoid disputes between landlords and tenants over the entitlement for...

Propertymark has joined forces with the likes of Generation Rent and Shelter to step up the campaign for the provision of...

A lettings agency which markets private rental properties and units operated by a housing association has apologised for its ‘No DSS’...

Another report by the campaigning charity Shelter is critical of the quality of Britain’s private rental sector - and indeed the...

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...

A prominent London Conservative MP has made a scathing attack on the current rental sector’s structure, saying it is skewed in...

Another lettings agency has been found to have unlawfully discriminated against a tenant receiving benefits. Worthing County Court declared that Michael Jones & Company unlawfully...

Some 39 agents and landlords have had banning orders over the past three years according to a report in The Guardian. Under the...

Labour’s shadow housing secretary claims that private renters have been “barely considered” during the past year of the pandemic. Thangam Debbonaire made...

Shelter has launched a fund-raising campaign because of what it calls a huge rise in demand for its emergency services, and in anticipation of what...

The campaigning charity Shelter claims 14 per cent of adults in England - that’s six million people - are more worried...

Campaigning charity Shelter has criticised Chancellor Rishi Sunak for allegedly leaving “far more people on the brink of homelessness than homeownership.”  Chief...

Letting agents and landlords in a major city have been requested to see if there is a ‘spare’ four bedroom property that...

Letting agents have joined forces with other players in the rental industry to demand the government finally get a grip on...

The Prime Minister has told MPs that the eviction ban effectively in place now but scheduled to expire on January 11...

The debate over rental properties listed on portals with ‘No DSS’ statements has reignited over the weekend. This follows a BBC investigation...

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...

A Green Party councillor has been refunded fees he and his partner were charged by a letting agency five years ago,...

Opposition Labour councillors on a local authority says HMOs should only be let if each bedroom has an en suite bathroom.  The...

Shelter has returned to the attack on the private rental sector. In a new report it claims a third of tenants in England...

Government intervention, which in recent years has seen scores of legal and regulatory changes to the private rental sector, may be...

A new whitepaper argues that landlords and tenants aren't getting what they want from the rental market. It says landlords need...

Campaigners against evictions during the Coronavirus crisis have launched a last-ditch call for the government to grant another extension to the current...

A lettings agency that told a prospective tenant it had a policy of not offering tenancies to housing benefit recipients has...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is urging its members to write to their MPs over the provision of cash help...

ARLA and the NRLA have teamed up with charities - some usually critical of letting agents and landlords - to lobby...

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

The campaigning pressure group Generation Rent has returned to the battle to win an extension to the current evictions ban in...

The ban on evictions in the private rented sector looks almost certain to be extended until March next year in Scotland...

The lettings agency Portico is partnering with Goodlord to offer a new insurance policy to its landlords. Portico landlords can now benefit...

The chief executive of campaigning charity Shelter claims some lettings agencies are ignoring the recent ruling that private landlords cannot discriminate against...

The Local Government Association, which represents almost all councils in England, is calling on the government to scrap section 21. The call comes...

The chief executive of campaigning charity Shelter says she is expecting a “deluge” of cases when the eviction ban ends, but...

Campaigning charity Shelter says it is “doubling up” its efforts to make sure letting agents comply with anti-discrimination legislation when it...

Shelter has launched an email campaign to the Housing Secretary, Robert Jenrick, urging him to act to avoid “unfair evictions that...

Activists who praised the government for its eviction ban in recent months have now turned on it in a last-ditch attempt...

The National Residential Landlords Association has dismissed the latest claims by campaigning charity Shelter that landlords have not done enough to...

Shelter is calling for stricter enforcement against letting agents in Northern Ireland which it claims are illegally charging tenants fees for...

A new Labour group - Labour Tenants United - has issued a four-prong attack on the current private rental sector including...

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

Campaigning organisations that demanded an extension to the evictions ban imposed because of the Coronavirus crisis have been quick to return...

The campaigning charity Shelter says young adults are more in danger of homelessness than any other age group - and puts...

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

Campaigning charity Shelter, which has been outspoken in its criticism of many letting agents in recent years, has now produced a...

Shelter has delivered a 14,000-signature petition claiming that thousands of private renters who have lost their jobs could be facing eviction...

Shelter, which routinely criticises lettings agents and landlords, has been slammed for the huge amount of public funding it receives -...

Agents have come out fighting against a proposal being considered in one part of the UK to triple the time to...

There’s been an angry response by the rental sector following the latest attack by campaigning charity Shelter. The organisation claims that private...

The chief executive of Shelter - the campaigning charity which has been sharply critical of letting agents in the past -...

The Times claims there have been well over 200 complaints lodged with redress schemes, alleging that lettings agents tried to charge...

The government’s Queen’s Speech has confirmed what the industry has effectively been expecting for some months. There will be a new lifetime...

Campaigning charity Shelter claims 135,000 children in Britain are homeless and living in temporary accommodation this Christmas - the highest number...

Number 10 briefings to the national media suggest that the scrapping of Section 21 - long talked about by the previous...

A roundtable discussion of rental industry leaders has produced a recommendation for the mandatory regulation of lettings agents. The objective, they say,...

Controversial housing charity Shelter claims that private renters are collectively paying out £11 billion more a year – around £425 a...

Some 45 per cent of those who don’t yet own a home think they never will, according to a new report.  While...

A collective of activist renter groups has set out a manifesto of what it wants from the winner of next month’s...

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

Campaigning charity Shelter has made a remarkable attack on a lettings agency, accusing it of “an abuse of power” over its...

A BBC investigation of 52 lettings agents has found that two thirds were levying charges on tenants, but it is uncertain...

A call by Shelter for England to adopt Scotland’s model of indefinite tenancies in the private rented sector has been attacked...

Housing charity Shelter has announced the launch of a £600,000 fund it is hosting, with the aim of improving the private...

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

One of the most vocal critics of lettings agents in recent years appears to be moving away from the property industry. Campbell...

The government consultation process which fuelled its decision to axe Section 21 eviction powers and move towards longer tenancies received only...

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

Momentum is building in the campaign to end ‘No DSS’ discrimination against private rental sector tenants in receipt of housing benefit. Late...

A leading landlord has hit out at a lettings agency’s portrayal of buy to let tax changes.  Rosalind Beck, a campaigning landlord...

Five homeless people will have a roof over their heads this Christmas thanks to a kind-hearted PropTech chief. Mike Georgeson, founder of...

The charity Shelter, which regularly campaigns against lettings agencies and landlords, is bracing itself for a strike next week - and...

Shelter is campaigning for the outlawing if default fees levied on tenants by agents in Wales. While the campaigning group welcomes the Renting...

An online toolkit for tenants on how to best navigate the rental system has been launched by Shelter Scotland with funding...

The agency industry has reacted in a broadly downbeat way at the relatively few housing-related proposals that were announced in yesterday’s...

The Guardian says the government is committed to making a datebase of rogue letting agents and landlords available to tenants. The newspaper quotes...

November 5 is the next key date for the passage of the Tenants’ Fees Bill, the measure which is likely to...

Croydon council is reported to have become the first local authority to back the scrapping of Section 21 of the 1988...

Generation Rent, the controversial pressure group campaigning alongside Shelter and others for the scrapping of landlords’ rights to evict under Section...

Last week Shelter and the National Housing Federation took a swipe at lettings agents, and now Citizens Advice has joined the...

The ongoing debate over some letting agents and landlords allegedly refusing to accept tenants in receipt of housing benefit has now...

The National Approved Lettings Scheme has issued a sharp rebuke to Shelter and the National Housing Federation following their controversial ‘End...

Lettings agents’ representatives have hit back at an accusation of discrimination made against the industry. A report by Shelter and the National...

Campaigning group Generation Rent has secured over 20,000 signatures for a petition it says will “end unfair evictions”. The petition, on the...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has heaped praise on a local authority which has fined 27 lettings and managing agents...

A Tory activist has made an outspoken attack on the government’s policies towards the private rental sector on the pages of...

A collection of rental sector protest organisations is getting together to campaign against S21 powers under which landlords or agents on...

Over 70% of Conservative councillors and housing leads have indicated that £2 billion pledged for affordable housing is not enough to...

John Lewis has announced details of a partnership with rental app Canopy to provide employees with the opportunity to have their rent payments...

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

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

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

Letting agents who act on landlords’ instructions to refuse tenants claiming benefits may be breaking the law. A legal case recently found...

Today sees the return of MPs to Parliament following the Christmas break, and one early task is to hear oral evidence...

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

Prime minister Theresa May has repeated that the current government will not introduce rent controls in the private sector. The issue of...

London’s Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has repeated his criticism of the government’s decision to cap security deposits at the level of...

The housing charity Shelter - which in recent years has been aggressively critical of letting agencies and landlords in the private...

Letting Agent Today understands that senior industry figures are working on the framework of a new attempt at regulation, including measures...

The Nationwide Building Society says it is assembling what it calls ‘an industry alliance’ to support the increasingly-beleaguered private rental sector.   The...

According to recent government figures, the average letting agent’s fee is £223 and 4.3 million householders pay this amount or thereabouts...

Campaigning charity Shelter - which last week suggested landlords were more likely to quit buy to let because they grew old...

The reasons behind ‘landlord churn’ - when buy to let investors sell up - are more connected with personal circumstances than...

Campaigning charity Shelter claims around one in 10 landlords quit the lettings sector each year.   Using new research by YouGov it says...

The Residential Landlords’ Association has written an angry letter of protest to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation following the publication of what...

Two board members of Shelter who have links with the Grenfell Towers fire tragedy have resigned, according to a report in...

In a blog which appears - perhaps surprisingly - to be supportive of Theresa May’s General Election manifesto, campaigning charity Shelter...

The Residential Landlords Association has broken ranks with the Association of Residential Letting Agents by opposing an ARLA-backed public database of...

The Liberal Democrats appear to be taking what they see as the credit for the government’s commitment to ban letting agents’...

Opponents of the proposed change to mortgage interest tax relief for landlords have promised what they call a “shock and awe”...

Shelter - the campaigning charity many feel has had influence on government policies for the lettings sector - has now turned around and...

The Fair Fees Forum, a platform for letting agencies and trade bodies set up by the National Approved Lettings Scheme, has...

The NALS ‘Fair Fees Forum’ - set up before last week’s announcement on the banning of letting agency fees levied on tenants...

Two charities that have been at the forefront of campaigns to have a ban on letting agents’ fees on tenants have...

The outgoing chief executive of campaigning charity Shelter has used the pages of a left-of-centre website to claim that “an estimated...

An industry group says the seemingly non-stop attack on the private rental sector by campaigning charity Shelter is “plain wrong.”   After a...

Two landlord associations have criticised local councils for a lack of enforcement and failing to prosecute criminal landlords.  The Residential Landlords Association...

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

The National Approved Letting Scheme says the most recent call to ban letting agent fees - in a demand made by...

Research undertaken by one of Britain’s leading rental sector experts and the Tenancy Deposit Scheme Charitable Foundation gives perhaps the most...

Campaigning charity Shelter claims that in some areas of the country no fewer than one-in-23 private rental sector tenants are apparently...

A letting agency in London has announced that it has dropped all fees it charges to tenants.  STANLEY Chelsea, a one branch...

The charity Shelter has renewed its campaign to expose letting agencies which allegedly do not reveal their fees in line with...

Councils and other bodies advising tenants to ignore valid Section 21 notices and waiting to be evicted by bailiffs are costing...

Around three quarters of young Britons believe they are unlikely to ever own their own property and will instead rent for...

A typical tenant in a two-bed property in England will have paid over £40,000 in rent in the past five years...

The National Landlords’ Association says an alarming number of private tenants are being told by their local authorities to ignore eviction...

Campaigning charity Shelter has returned to the warpath against letting agents’ fees. This time the focus is on Wales, where the charity...

Campaigning charity Shelter says it is setting a lettings sector ‘test’ for candidates vying to become the next Mayor of London. “Early...

It’s been a bad weekend for the image of the private rental sector with a series of reports and press stories...

A letting agent's life is a varied one, with the profession requiring agents to undertake a wide range of activities in...

Over half the private rental sector tenants on housing benefit have experienced delays over its payment from their local council. Research by...

As if to prove the lettings industry’s concern over a lack of publicity for upcoming health and safety regulation changes, a...

The Residential Landlords’ Association has taken Shelter to task for what it describes as “emotionally charged” media statements about alleged harassment...

Campaigning charity Shelter has renewed its attack on the private rental sector, claiming that 125,000 tenants have suffered abusive behaviour from...

Watch the latest weekly video round-up of news from Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today, featuring stories on Shelter's latest...

Earlier this week the housing charity Shelter confounded many in the private rented sector by concluding on its website that tough rent...

Campaigning charity Shelter appears for the first time to have acnowledged that rent caps may backfire and end up harming tenants...

The immigration charity the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants says it is working with a range of other bodies...

This month has marked a real change in the way the private lettings sector is perceived - and it’s a perception...

Tenant evictions have reached a record high 11,307 in the first quarter of the year according to government figures. However, the majority...

Ian Wilson, the head of Martin & Co, recently threw his hat into the ring regarding Labour’s stated intention to cap...

Shelter, the housing charity that has been fiercely critical of much of the private rental sector in recent months, is funding a...