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![Tory ex-housing ministers at war over Rishi Sunak’s premiership](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
Two former housing ministers are at war with each other after an attack on Rishi Sunak’s premiership in today’s Daily Telegraph. Sir...
24 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Knight Frank warns that Rwanda controversy could force early election](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
Knight Frank has taken the unusual step of warning that Tory splits over Rwanda and immigration could force an early election...
08 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Truss confirms Corporation Tax U-turn](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/LizzTrussPM-400x310.png)
As expected there has been another substantial U-turn by Prime Minister Liz Truss. A few minutes after sacking her former Chancellor Kwasi...
14 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Shelter boss and lettings agency critic honoured in New Year’s list](/img/default/lat.png)
The chief executive of Shelter - the campaigning charity which has been sharply critical of letting agents in the past -...
30 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Section 21 WILL be scrapped - it’s in Thursday’s Queen’s Speech](/img/default/lat.png)
Number 10 briefings to the national media suggest that the scrapping of Section 21 - long talked about by the previous...
17 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Right To Rent: messy post-Brexit rules unveiled by ARLA](/img/default/lat.png)
The Association of Residential Lettings Agents is urging member agents and the industry to ensure it is up to date with...
12 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![ARLA wants agents and tenants to access rogue landlord database](/img/default/lat.png)
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
From: Breaking News
![ARLA blasts government threat to end freedom of movement on October 31](/img/default/lat.png)
The Association of Residential Letting Agents made a short sharp attack on the government last night, over freedom of movement and...
20 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![Government gives Labour council £200k for new rental clampdown](/img/default/lat.png)
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
From: Breaking News
![Shelter complains to Boris Johnson about a lettings agency](/img/default/lat.png)
Campaigning charity Shelter has made a remarkable attack on a lettings agency, accusing it of “an abuse of power” over its...
05 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![New Right To Rent rules mean agents and landlords ‘break law’](/img/default/lat.png)
New guidance from the government on its controversial Right To Rent scheme would see agents and landlords breaking the law if...
05 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![Note to Tory leadership candidates - Scrap Right To Rent!](/img/default/lat.png)
Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt have been given a message from a consortium of groups this morning - Scrap Right To...
24 June 2019
From: Breaking News
![PM and Housing Secretary back scrapping of Section 21 evictions](/img/default/lat.png)
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
From: Breaking News
![Right To Rent may be MORE complex after Brexit - warning](/img/default/lat.png)
A leading legal firm is warning that Right To Rent could become even more complicated for letting agents and landlords after...
12 April 2019
From: Breaking News
![‘Scrap Right To Rent’ call after latest controversial court ruling](/img/default/lat.png)
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
From: Breaking News
![Right To Rent breaches human rights, High Court rules](/img/default/lat.png)
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
From: Breaking News
![Huge surge in Build To Rent: problem or opportunity for letting agents?](/img/default/lat.png)
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
From: Breaking News
![Today's big vote - no, not Brexit, but the Tenant Fees Bill](/img/default/lat.png)
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
From: Breaking News
![See you in court! Right To Rent judicial review to be heard today](/img/default/lat.png)
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
From: Breaking News
![Party conference season – what was said about the rental market?](/img/default/lat.png)
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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![Tenants to be given access to database of rogue agents and landlords](/img/default/lat.png)
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
From: Breaking News
![Right To Rent: date set for full High Court challenge](/img/default/lat.png)
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
From: Breaking News
![Rent To Buy - might this be the next big idea from the government?](/img/default/lat.png)
The Independent online newspaper says Conservative MP Gary Streeter will tomorrow meet with Prime Minister Theresa May and urge her to...
19 June 2018
From: Breaking News
![High Court go ahead for Judicial Review of Right To Rent](/img/default/lat.png)
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
From: Breaking News
![Trade body backs legal challenge to Theresa May's Right To Rent](/img/default/lat.png)
The Residential Landlords Association has reiterated its support for a legal challenge to Right To Rent which is to be made...
06 June 2018
From: Breaking News
![Leading Conservative says government should cut tax for rental sector](/img/default/lat.png)
A leading Conservative peer says the government should cut taxes for buy to let investors and regard them as part of...
05 April 2018
From: Breaking News
![Government begins tweeting that it's banning letting agents' fees](/img/default/lat.png)
The government has started tweeting that it is to ban letting agents’ fees in England - but still isn’t revealing when...
04 January 2018
From: Breaking News
![PM restates government opposition to rent controls](/img/default/lat.png)
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
From: Breaking News
![Theresa May is a buy to let landlord earning £10,000 a year](/img/default/lat.png)
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
From: Breaking News
![Extra affordable housing cash may help clean up private rental sector - claim](/img/default/lat.png)
The National Landlords’ Association says the extra £2 billion in funding made available by the government for additional affordable housing may...
05 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![Lettings Fees Ban - now Welsh Government jumps on the bandwagon](/img/default/lat.png)
The Welsh Government is now kicking off a similar consultation process to that conducted by the Department for Communities and Local...
21 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![Letting fees ban: over 4,700 official consultation responses](/img/default/lat.png)
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
From: Breaking News
![Theresa May confirms fees ban - but remains vague on timescale](/img/default/lat.png)
The Prime Minister has confirmed that her minority Conservative government will press ahead with the ban on letting agents’ fees levied...
06 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![Letting fees ban confirmed by Queen's Speech](/img/default/lat.png)
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
From: Breaking News
![High profile agent calls for 'cross-party housing tsar'](/img/default/lat.png)
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
From: Breaking News
![Has Theresa May become an ally of 'hard-pressed renters'? asks Shelter](/img/default/lat.png)
In a blog which appears - perhaps surprisingly - to be supportive of Theresa May’s General Election manifesto, campaigning charity Shelter...
26 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Consultation delayed until after election - but only for one council](/img/default/lat.png)
A local authority consultation exercise on a licensing system for local landlords has been postponed until June 12, four days after...
02 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Anti-fees pressure group says ban must be implemented after June 8](/img/default/lat.png)
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
From: Breaking News
![Trade group names MPs to target over buy to let tax changes](/img/default/lat.png)
The Residential Landlords Association has listed key MPs in marginal constituencies who should be lobbied ahead of the March 8 Budget...
24 February 2017
From: Breaking News
![Student rental specialists express concern over EU Single Market](/img/default/lat.png)
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
From: Breaking News
![Buy to let sales collapse 64 per cent in 12 months, claims agency](/img/default/lat.png)
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
From: Breaking News
![Agency claims some tenants think deposit and rent are ''agent fees'](/img/default/lat.png)
A letting agency says the scale of confusion over letting agents’ fees is such that some tenants actually believe the deposit...
29 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Confirmed - government WILL ban letting agents' fees on tenants](/img/default/lat.png)
The government will today announce that it is banning letting agents’ fees levied on tenants - meaning the fees will instead...
23 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Mortgage chief demands government support for rental sector](/img/default/lat.png)
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
From: Breaking News
![Build To Rent provider's five-point strategy for government backing](/img/default/lat.png)
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
From: Breaking News
![New housing minister has gone on record opposing rental licensing](/img/default/lat.png)
The Residential Landlords’ Association says Gavin Barwell, the new housing minister appointed by Theresa May this week, is a known critic...
22 July 2016
From: Breaking News
![Industry group welcomes House of Lords' swipe at Build To Rent](/img/default/lat.png)
The Residential Landlords Association has welcomed a report by the House of Lords that institutional investors behind the Build To Rent...
19 July 2016
From: Breaking News
![New Chancellor has been buy to let investor - so will policies change?](/img/default/lat.png)
The new Chancellor appointed by Prime Minister Theresa May has been ‘outed’ as a former buy to let landlord - raising...
18 July 2016
From: Breaking News
![MPs vote for Right To Rent despite no results from pilot project](/img/default/lat.png)
The Immigration Bill containing controversial Right To Rent measures has been given a second reading by the House of Commons despite...
14 October 2015
From: Breaking News
![Right To Rent: government to be asked today to reveal pilot project results](/img/default/lat.png)
Labour will today ask Home Secretary Theresa May to publish the result of the Right To Rent pilot project amidst claims...