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Propertymark is joining a growing chorus demanding an annual uprate of working age benefits and Local Housing Allowance. LHA rates have been...

Shelter is calling for the construction of 90,000 rental properties each year for a decade - and it claims this would...

Low-income renters will get a boost next spring - but a pressure group wants more government help for this sector. The Chancellor’s...

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

Propertymark is urging the government to use next month’s Autumn Statement to support low-income households in the private rented sector in...

Social housing provider Caridon Property is hosting a series of free seminars to prepare letting agents for the migration of Housing...

New research shows a 41 per cent reduction in the number of London properties available for private rent since the Covid-19...

Propertymark has told a group of MPs that many benefit recipients are excluded from the private rented sector due to the...

Propertymark has told the government it should have three priorities for next month’s Budget. 1. Improving welfare system for vulnerable and low-waged...

London faces a possible homelessness spike this winter due to the cost-of-living crisis and increases in private rents, a group of...

Tenants are demanding better quality HMOs according to new research from specialist buy to let lender Paragon Bank. The bank’s survey of...

A collection of rental experts in a body called The Lettings Industry Council have set out what they want to see...

A senior Welsh politicians has urged anyone who has fallen behind in paying rent because of the pandemic to contact their...

The National Residential Landlords Association says average rent debt owed by tenants as a direct result of the pandemic is still...

A senior Labour politician in the capital claims that there’s been “a stark rise” in people losing their homes since the...

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

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

Not-for-profit accreditation scheme safeagent wants the government to help tenants clear Covid-related arrears through an overhaul of Discretionary Housing Payments. Enhancing these...

Private tenants and landlords across the country face a cliff edge as the end of furlough coincides with cuts to benefit...

A £360 million wall of rental debt built up during the pandemic, combined with cuts to Universal Credit, threatens to leave...

Reluctance to move during the pandemic is thought to be a key reason for a sharp drop in tenancy disputes between...

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 prominent member of the House of Lords and a rental activist are calling for an immediate suspension of all Section...

Police were called to a protect outside a lettings firm in Oxfordshire after a crowd picketed the office over a dispute...

A property investment platform has taken the unusual approach of accusing the government of driving up homelessness through its policy of...

Official figures show that far from seeing a rise during the pandemic, there has been what the government calls “a massive...

Activists from the Acorn renters' campaign group have held a protest outside a branch of Chancellors in Oxford. The group says the...

Rent guarantees and upfront cash payments from local authorities are the most effective means of opening the private rented sector to...

Agents and other industry players have penned an open letter to government demanding a radical overhaul of targets for energy efficiency in the...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it’s disappointed the Budget failed to address the funding of the private rental sector.  “Extending...

An online petition which appears to inaccurately say private tenants can still be evicted “for no reason” has won 30,000 signatures...

A think tank says large scale intervention in the rental market via loans to tenants is the only way of addressing...

ARLA Propertymark has issued a list of 10 demands for Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s long-awaited Budget on March 3, with a financial...

A charity claims that young people under 25 in full-time work across England are unable to afford privately rented accommodation anywhere in the...

Labour housing spokesperson Thangam Debbonaire has released details of a letter seeking further clarity and commitments on the rental sector eviction...

ARLA Propertymark has given a detailed response to a government consultation on how the pandemic has hit the private rental sector. The...

Generation Rent’s campaign for more public funds for private tenants continues unabated with a call on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to increase...

The Generation Rent campaign has renewed its call for public money to be allocated to clear at least some rent arrears...

The Resolution Foundation has added its voice to that of many charities and other think tanks demanding more government support for...

Campaign group Generation Rent says thousands of tenants in areas of the country under Tier 3 Coronavirus restrictions are in danger...

A deposit scheme has launched a new service designed to help tenants and landlords who have experienced issues with rent arrears as...

A local authority is urging letting agents within its boundary to get in touch before serving eviction notices on private tenants. Gedling council...

New research pours cold water on claims by anti-agency campaigners that there will be a glut of evictions when the ban ends...

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

A lettings sector trade body, acting with homelessness charities, is urging the government to do more as young people in rented...

A call has gone out for agents to offer extra support to landlords in the coming months as arrears may well...

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

A lettings sector group says there was never any eviction crisis looming for private tenants, contrary to a slew of recent claims. New independent...

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

The possibility of an extended mortgage holiday being introduced, for landlords as well as home owners, has been sharply criticised by...

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

Labour wants tenants running up arrears during the Coronavirus crisis to have two years to repay them, as part of a...

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

ARLA Propertymark has made a series of demands on the government in the light of the Coronavirus crisis.  In a formal written...

The new National Residential Landlords Association has backed calls from the Labour Mayor of London to ensure the benefits system covers...

The Generation Rent pressure group, fiercely critical of agents and landlords in recent months, wants the government to implement a 12 month...

Good morning and welcome to today’s edition, helping agents find a way through the Coronavirus crisis by sharing information with the...

All court possession orders are being suspended from today as part of the changes to the private rental sector to cope...

One of the lettings sector’s leading trade bodies has called on the government and lenders to agree a package of measures...

The National Landlords’ Association says the new Conservative government must do two things in its early phase in office. The NLA, which...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents and the National Association of Estate Agents have issued their manifesto for next month’s General...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has submitted its response to the government's consultation on scrapping Section 21 evictions, which closes tomorrow...

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

A leading lettings sector trade body says evidence shows the direct payment of benefit to landlords is the biggest possible contribution...

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

Universal Credit is causing tenants to fall behind with their rent according to lettings sector trade body the Residential Landlords Association. It...

Tenants on state benefits could be the 'biggest casualties' of the government's 'ill-thought-out' plans to scrap the Section 21 evictions process,...

Private landlords are being asked to consider letting out their properties through the local council.  Slough council is looking for flats and...

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

Figures given through a Parliamentary answer have revealed just how bad councils in England are at policing and enforcement action against...

The Residential Landlords Association has given its backing to Zoopla’s ban on agents and landlords advertising properties to rent as ‘No...

The government says it wants “an immediate change” in the policy of some letting agents and landlords who advertise ‘No DSS’...

The Residential Landlords Association says the government’s changes to Universal Credit don’t go far enough to prevent rent arrears. The RLA says...

The lettings industry has welcomed news that reforms to Universal Credit will include a new online system for private landlords to...

Urgent action is needed to tackle discrimination against benefit claimants by buy to let mortgage providers according to a leading trade...

Around two thirds of private landlords with tenants receiving Universal Credit have experienced rent arrears according to new research. Based on responses...

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...

MPs today discuss the impact of Universal Credit on the private rented sector, in a debate prompted by the Liberal Democrat’s...

There has been a warm welcome for government changes to Universal Credit by the Residential Landlords Association.  The Department for Work and...

A survey from a specialist rental insurance firm suggests that contrary to popular belief, landlords care more than a little about...

Changes to Universal Credit have made it easier for claimants to rent homes but the government needs to do more to...

A change to the operation of Universal Credit has been welcomed by a trade body which has described it as good...

MPs from the cross-party Parliamentary Group for Ending Homelessness have spoken out on the need to help homeless people into the...

Only two out of every 10 private rental sector landlords say they are willing to let to tenants in receipt of...

Over a third of private landlords with tenants receiving Universal Credit say they are now in rent arrears, up by over...

Younger people will have more difficulty finding rented accommodation in coming months as a substantial proportion of landlords actively cut back...

A letting sector trade body says two thirds of the largest buy to let mortgage lenders do not allow landlords to...

A trade body is warning that the government’s new Universal Credit payments could have a disastrous impact on private lettings with...

Chancellor George Osborne has “effectively declared war on individual landlords” according to the Residential Landlords’ Association - but don’t expect a...

A “lettings agency with a conscience” that wants to put £30,000 into the local community over the next two years has...