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30 December 2019
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Number 10 briefings to the national media suggest that the scrapping of Section 21 - long talked about by the previous...
17 December 2019
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The Association of Residential Lettings Agents is urging member agents and the industry to ensure it is up to date with...
12 September 2019
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The Association of Residential Letting Agents wants agents and tenants to have access to the government’s high profile but so far...
09 September 2019
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The Association of Residential Letting Agents made a short sharp attack on the government last night, over freedom of movement and...
20 August 2019
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A Labour council which has become famous for its critical approach to the private rental sector has now been given almost £200,000...
14 August 2019
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Campaigning charity Shelter has made a remarkable attack on a lettings agency, accusing it of “an abuse of power” over its...
05 August 2019
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New guidance from the government on its controversial Right To Rent scheme would see agents and landlords breaking the law if...
05 August 2019
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Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt have been given a message from a consortium of groups this morning - Scrap Right To...
24 June 2019
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The government’s plan to scrap Section 21 is personally backed by the Prime Minister and will begin formal consultations today. If the...
15 April 2019
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A leading legal firm is warning that Right To Rent could become even more complicated for letting agents and landlords after...
12 April 2019
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With the government already on the ropes over Brexit, there’s a call today for one of its flagship immigration policies to...
22 March 2019
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The High Court has ruled that the government’s Right to Rent scheme breaches human rights law. Under the Right to Rent landlords are...
01 March 2019
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There has been a massive surge in the volume of lettings properties under construction for the burgeoning Built To Rent sector. Data...
18 January 2019
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Today’s vote in the House of Commons on Theresa May’s Brexit withdrawal deal may be dominating the headlines but it’s the...
15 January 2019
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The High Court today begins a Judicial Review of the government’s controversial Right to Rent scheme. The scheme began operating nationwide in...
18 December 2018
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The party conferences of the two main political parties threw up some interesting developments with regards to housing and the rental...
06 November 2018
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The Guardian says the government is committed to making a datebase of rogue letting agents and landlords available to tenants. The newspaper quotes...
26 October 2018
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The government’s controversial Right To Rent policy is to be challenged in the High Court just before Christmas. It was announced in...
09 August 2018
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The Independent online newspaper says Conservative MP Gary Streeter will tomorrow meet with Prime Minister Theresa May and urge her to...
19 June 2018
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The High Court has this afternoon agreed to allow a judicial review of the government’s Right to Rent policy. Right to Rent...
06 June 2018
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The Residential Landlords Association has reiterated its support for a legal challenge to Right To Rent which is to be made...
06 June 2018
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A leading Conservative peer says the government should cut taxes for buy to let investors and regard them as part of...
05 April 2018
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The government has started tweeting that it is to ban letting agents’ fees in England - but still isn’t revealing when...
04 January 2018
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Prime minister Theresa May has repeated that the current government will not introduce rent controls in the private sector. The issue of...
14 December 2017
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It’s been reported that Theresa May and her husband Philip jointly own a London apartment which is now let out and...
30 October 2017
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The National Landlords’ Association says the extra £2 billion in funding made available by the government for additional affordable housing may...
05 October 2017
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The Welsh Government is now kicking off a similar consultation process to that conducted by the Department for Communities and Local...
21 July 2017
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The government has revealed that it has received over 4,700 responses to its official consultation over the proposed ban on letting...
12 July 2017
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The Prime Minister has confirmed that her minority Conservative government will press ahead with the ban on letting agents’ fees levied...
06 July 2017
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The Queen’s Speech, outlining the government’s proposals for the next two years, has confirmed a pledge to introduce a ban on...
21 June 2017
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The boss of 300 branch agency Belvoir has called on the government to appoint a cross-party housing tsar to work with...
19 June 2017
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In a blog which appears - perhaps surprisingly - to be supportive of Theresa May’s General Election manifesto, campaigning charity Shelter...
26 May 2017
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A local authority consultation exercise on a licensing system for local landlords has been postponed until June 12, four days after...
02 May 2017
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The anti-letting agency fee pressure group Generation Rent is urging its supporters to participate in the government formal consultation over agents’...
27 April 2017
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The Residential Landlords Association has listed key MPs in marginal constituencies who should be lobbied ahead of the March 8 Budget...
24 February 2017
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Specialist student rental company Studenttenant.com has expressed concern at Prime Minister Theresa May’s announcement this week that Britain would not seek...
19 January 2017
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The number of buy to let transactions across England and Wales has fallen 8.2 per cent in one month and is down an...
09 December 2016
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A letting agency says the scale of confusion over letting agents’ fees is such that some tenants actually believe the deposit...
29 November 2016
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The government will today announce that it is banning letting agents’ fees levied on tenants - meaning the fees will instead...
23 November 2016
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A leading mortgage industry spokesman says he hopes Theresa May's "more balanced approach" to housing policy will trigger government support for...
09 November 2016
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Grainger, the UK’s largest residential property owner and manager listed on the London Stock Exchange, has set out an argument to...
05 October 2016
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The Residential Landlords’ Association says Gavin Barwell, the new housing minister appointed by Theresa May this week, is a known critic...
22 July 2016
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The Residential Landlords Association has welcomed a report by the House of Lords that institutional investors behind the Build To Rent...
19 July 2016
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The new Chancellor appointed by Prime Minister Theresa May has been ‘outed’ as a former buy to let landlord - raising...
18 July 2016
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The Immigration Bill containing controversial Right To Rent measures has been given a second reading by the House of Commons despite...
14 October 2015
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Labour will today ask Home Secretary Theresa May to publish the result of the Right To Rent pilot project amidst claims...