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![Shelter lobbies politicians with ‘rental plan to end homelessness’](/upload/images/shutterstock_270470528.jpg)
Shelter is calling for the construction of 90,000 rental properties each year for a decade - and it claims this would...
27 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Local Housing Allowance - call for even more help for low-income renters](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/2_MortgageCalculated.png)
Low-income renters will get a boost next spring - but a pressure group wants more government help for this sector. The Chancellor’s...
12 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Universal Credit and private renting - agents win case for forum](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/2_MortgageCalculated.png)
The Department for Work and Pensions will recommence the Private Rented Sector Universal Credit Engagement Group next month, following a concerted...
23 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agents demand payment changes in upcoming Autumn Statement](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/2_MortgageCalculated.png)
Propertymark is urging the government to use next month’s Autumn Statement to support low-income households in the private rented sector in...
26 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Seminar for Letting Agents ahead of major benefits shake-up](/upload/images/shutterstock_1361250578.jpg)
Social housing provider Caridon Property is hosting a series of free seminars to prepare letting agents for the migration of Housing...
09 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![‘Bad to disastrous’ - sharp fall in private rental listings](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/DemandDown-400x310.jpg)
New research shows a 41 per cent reduction in the number of London properties available for private rent since the Covid-19...
06 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Politicians told to do more to help tenants on benefits](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/LandlordNews-400x310.png)
Propertymark has told a group of MPs that many benefit recipients are excluded from the private rented sector due to the...
15 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Reinstate Mortgage Interest Tax Relief - agents’ plea to government](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/FinanceCalculator-400x310.png)
Propertymark has told the government it should have three priorities for next month’s Budget. 1. Improving welfare system for vulnerable and low-waged...
02 February 2023
From: Breaking News
![Homelessness spike threat as private rents soar even higher - claim](/upload/images/library/Homeless-1-400x310.jpg)
London faces a possible homelessness spike this winter due to the cost-of-living crisis and increases in private rents, a group of...
05 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Tenants demand better quality and bigger HMOs, survey shows](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/BuildingPapersPlans-400x310.jpg)
Tenants are demanding better quality HMOs according to new research from specialist buy to let lender Paragon Bank. The bank’s survey of...
18 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![Far reaching reforms demanded by lettings industry chiefs](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/Bridging%20image2%20695x400.jpg)
A collection of rental experts in a body called The Lettings Industry Council have set out what they want to see...
25 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Plea for tenants in arrears to contact their local council](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/PayingBills-400x310.jpg)
A senior Welsh politicians has urged anyone who has fallen behind in paying rent because of the pandemic to contact their...
14 January 2022
From: Breaking News
![Covid-created arrears still rising, warns trade body](/upload/images/Coronavirus/Coronavirus6-400x310-min.jpeg)
The National Residential Landlords Association says average rent debt owed by tenants as a direct result of the pandemic is still...
09 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![Evictions: Labour claims “stark rise” in homeless since ban lifted](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/Labour-logo400x310.png)
A senior Labour politician in the capital claims that there’s been “a stark rise” in people losing their homes since the...
06 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![Industry anger as Budget ignores private rental sector](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/rental-sector26615.png)
All sides of the industry have expressed anger and frustration that yesterday’s Budget effectively ignored the private rental sector. ARLA Propertymark’s policy...
28 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![Benefits of scrapping S21 outweigh problems, insists Shelter](/upload/images/Logos/shelter-logo400x310.png)
The chief executive of Shelter says the experience of Scotland shows that the scrapping of S21 eviction powers produces benefits that...
01 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![Safeagent at odds with lettings groups over Covid arrears solution](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/PayingBills-400x310.jpg)
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...
30 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Potential ‘cliff edge’ for renters and landlords as furlough winds up](/upload/images/Logos/NRLA-Logo-2020-400x310.jpg)
Private tenants and landlords across the country face a cliff edge as the end of furlough coincides with cuts to benefit...
21 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Charity: Covid debt crisis will escalate unless Universal Credit cut is reversed](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/LandlordStressed-400x310.png)
A £360 million wall of rental debt built up during the pandemic, combined with cuts to Universal Credit, threatens to leave...
17 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Tenancy disputes tumble thanks to Covid caution by tenants](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/TenantsLandlordTalking-400x310.png)
Reluctance to move during the pandemic is thought to be a key reason for a sharp drop in tenancy disputes between...
03 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Propertymark steps up attack on government benefit cuts](/upload/images/Logos/NAEA-ARLA-Propertymark-400x310.jpg)
Earlier this week Propertymark revealed it had co-signed an open letter criticising proposed government cuts to benefits. That open letter was co-signed...
19 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agents back charity groups over poverty threat from benefit cuts](/upload/images/Logos/NAEA-ARLA-Propertymark-400x310.jpg)
Propertymark has joined a series of charities and a landlord body to warn about the poverty risk of expected changes to...
17 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![End all S24 evictions now, demand Baroness and Lord](/img/default/lat.png)
A prominent member of the House of Lords and a rental activist are calling for an immediate suspension of all Section...
19 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Police called to protest outside lettings company office](/img/default/lat.png)
Police were called to a protect outside a lettings firm in Oxfordshire after a crowd picketed the office over a dispute...
16 June 2021
From: Breaking News
![Private sector could benefit from letting to social tenants - claim](/img/default/lat.png)
A property investment platform has taken the unusual approach of accusing the government of driving up homelessness through its policy of...
15 June 2021
From: Breaking News
![Possession cases FALLEN during pandemic, not risen - government](/img/default/lat.png)
Official figures show that far from seeing a rise during the pandemic, there has been what the government calls “a massive...
25 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Activists stage DSS protest outside agency office](/img/default/lat.png)
Activists from the Acorn renters' campaign group have held a protest outside a branch of Chancellors in Oxford. The group says the...
04 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Rent guarantees could mean more DSS tenants in private sector](/img/default/lat.png)
Rent guarantees and upfront cash payments from local authorities are the most effective means of opening the private rented sector to...
09 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agents demand radical overhaul of eco-targets for rental sector](/img/default/lat.png)
Agents and other industry players have penned an open letter to government demanding a radical overhaul of targets for energy efficiency in the...
07 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agents’ anger that Budget didn’t offer cash help for rental sector](/img/default/lat.png)
The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it’s disappointed the Budget failed to address the funding of the private rental sector. “Extending...
04 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![‘Inaccurate’ anti-eviction petition gains 30,000 signatures](/img/default/lat.png)
An online petition which appears to inaccurately say private tenants can still be evicted “for no reason” has won 30,000 signatures...
23 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Tenant loans the only answer to growing arrears, says think tank](/img/default/lat.png)
A think tank says large scale intervention in the rental market via loans to tenants is the only way of addressing...
16 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agents tell government - Use Budget to help private rental sector](/img/default/lat.png)
ARLA Propertymark has issued a list of 10 demands for Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s long-awaited Budget on March 3, with a financial...
04 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Charity claims under-25s ‘cannot afford private rent anywhere in England’](/img/default/lat.png)
A charity claims that young people under 25 in full-time work across England are unable to afford privately rented accommodation anywhere in the...
21 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Section 21 Abolition - Labour offers to work with Tories](/img/default/lat.png)
Labour housing spokesperson Thangam Debbonaire has released details of a letter seeking further clarity and commitments on the rental sector eviction...
06 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Government must act on eviction backlog and landlord hardship - ARLA](/img/default/lat.png)
ARLA Propertymark has given a detailed response to a government consultation on how the pandemic has hit the private rental sector. The...
04 December 2020
From: Breaking News
![Private tenants should get bigger benefits says Generation Rent](/img/default/lat.png)
Generation Rent’s campaign for more public funds for private tenants continues unabated with a call on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to increase...
25 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![‘We want public funds to pay rent arrears’ - campaigners renew call](/img/default/lat.png)
The Generation Rent campaign has renewed its call for public money to be allocated to clear at least some rent arrears...
23 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![Think tank wants government help for households hit by pandemic](/img/default/lat.png)
The Resolution Foundation has added its voice to that of many charities and other think tanks demanding more government support for...
17 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![“Thousands” of Tier 3 private tenants face eviction, claim activists](/img/default/lat.png)
Campaign group Generation Rent says thousands of tenants in areas of the country under Tier 3 Coronavirus restrictions are in danger...
23 October 2020
From: Breaking News
![Deposit scheme wants new role negotiating rent repayment deals](/img/default/lat.png)
A deposit scheme has launched a new service designed to help tenants and landlords who have experienced issues with rent arrears as...
28 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Agents urged to call council before serving eviction notices](/img/default/lat.png)
A local authority is urging letting agents within its boundary to get in touch before serving eviction notices on private tenants. Gedling council...
17 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Widespread evictions when ban ends? Don’t you believe it…](/img/default/lat.png)
New research pours cold water on claims by anti-agency campaigners that there will be a glut of evictions when the ban ends...
10 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Shelter “doubling up” its checks on letting agents for compliance](/img/default/lat.png)
Campaigning charity Shelter says it is “doubling up” its efforts to make sure letting agents comply with anti-discrimination legislation when it...
15 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Government must help young renters hit by furlough end - lettings group](/img/default/lat.png)
A lettings sector trade body, acting with homelessness charities, is urging the government to do more as young people in rented...
07 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Agents must help landlords as Corona-fuelled arrears grow - call](/img/default/lat.png)
A call has gone out for agents to offer extra support to landlords in the coming months as arrears may well...
19 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Labour silent on whether pre-Covid evictions should go ahead](/img/default/lat.png)
Labour has thrown its weight behind campaigning pressure groups in a general call to avoid what the party’s housing spokeswoman calls...
17 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![There never was eviction crisis looming, insists lettings group](/img/default/lat.png)
A lettings sector group says there was never any eviction crisis looming for private tenants, contrary to a slew of recent claims. New independent...
08 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Call for loans-for-landlords as part of anti-eviction plan](/img/default/lat.png)
The Chartered Institute of Housing has published proposals aimed at avoiding a spike in private rental sector evictions when the current...
02 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Extra buy to let mortgage holiday opposed by activists group](/img/default/lat.png)
The possibility of an extended mortgage holiday being introduced, for landlords as well as home owners, has been sharply criticised by...
22 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Guide for letting agents produced by … Shelter](/img/default/lat.png)
Campaigning charity Shelter, which has been outspoken in its criticism of many letting agents in recent years, has now produced a...
15 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Labour wants tenants to have two years to pay back virus arrears](/img/default/lat.png)
Labour wants tenants running up arrears during the Coronavirus crisis to have two years to repay them, as part of a...
11 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Shelter claims thousands of renters face eviction as lockdown ends](/img/default/lat.png)
Shelter has delivered a 14,000-signature petition claiming that thousands of private renters who have lost their jobs could be facing eviction...
11 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Suspend electricity checks, postpone licensing, aid renters - ARLA demands](/img/default/lat.png)
ARLA Propertymark has made a series of demands on the government in the light of the Coronavirus crisis. In a formal written...
07 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Lettings body backs Labour call for private rents to have ‘benefit cover’](/img/default/lat.png)
The new National Residential Landlords Association has backed calls from the Labour Mayor of London to ensure the benefits system covers...
23 April 2020
From: Breaking News
![No rent rises for a year! Anti-agent group demands a ban on increases](/img/default/lat.png)
The Generation Rent pressure group, fiercely critical of agents and landlords in recent months, wants the government to implement a 12 month...
14 April 2020
From: Breaking News
![Conquering Corona - self-employment webinar, more PropTech offers](/img/default/lat.png)
Good morning and welcome to today’s edition, helping agents find a way through the Coronavirus crisis by sharing information with the...
07 April 2020
From: Breaking News
![All court possession orders suspended immediately](/img/default/lat.png)
All court possession orders are being suspended from today as part of the changes to the private rental sector to cope...
27 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![Pressure building to help private tenants hit by Coronavirus](/img/default/lat.png)
One of the lettings sector’s leading trade bodies has called on the government and lenders to agree a package of measures...
17 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![Section 8 reform and new Housing Court 'should be early Johnson priorities'](/img/default/lat.png)
The National Landlords’ Association says the new Conservative government must do two things in its early phase in office. The NLA, which...
16 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Industry wants short-let controls, review of landlord tax and stamp duty eased](/img/default/lat.png)
The Association of Residential Letting Agents and the National Association of Estate Agents have issued their manifesto for next month’s General...
05 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![RLA claims scrapping Section 21 'dead on arrival' as consultation closes tomorrow](/img/default/lat.png)
The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has submitted its response to the government's consultation on scrapping Section 21 evictions, which closes tomorrow...
11 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![A fifth of rental homes would go if Section 21 is scrapped - claim](/img/default/lat.png)
The private rented sector would shrink by 20 per cent if Section 21 ‘no-fault’ evictions are abolished, according to an economic...
30 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Direct payment to landlords helps curb Universal Credit arrears - claim](/img/default/lat.png)
A leading lettings sector trade body says evidence shows the direct payment of benefit to landlords is the biggest possible contribution...
19 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Food banks HQ links with lettings group to combat Universal Credit arrears](/img/default/lat.png)
The Trussell Trust, which coordinates the vast majority of the food banks around the UK, is working with the National Landlords...
29 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![Tenants’ arrears up because of Universal Credit - claim](/img/default/lat.png)
Universal Credit is causing tenants to fall behind with their rent according to lettings sector trade body the Residential Landlords Association. It...
27 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![Benefits tenants could be biggest losers if Section 21 is scrapped](/img/default/lat.png)
Tenants on state benefits could be the 'biggest casualties' of the government's 'ill-thought-out' plans to scrap the Section 21 evictions process,...
05 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Let your property through us and pay no fees, says council](/img/default/lat.png)
Private landlords are being asked to consider letting out their properties through the local council. Slough council is looking for flats and...
13 June 2019
From: Breaking News
![Agency investigating 19 ‘No DSS’ properties out of 1,900 units to let](/img/default/lat.png)
The chief executive of Hunters has told MPs there are 19 properties on its books which specify ‘No DSS’ - but...
25 April 2019
From: Breaking News
![Revealed: councils’ feeble enforcement against rogue operators](/img/default/lat.png)
Figures given through a Parliamentary answer have revealed just how bad councils in England are at policing and enforcement action against...
29 March 2019
From: Breaking News
![Thumbs up for Zoopla's 'No DSS' listings ban](/img/default/lat.png)
The Residential Landlords Association has given its backing to Zoopla’s ban on agents and landlords advertising properties to rent as ‘No...
18 March 2019
From: Breaking News
![New clampdown on 'No DSS' ads by letting agents and landlords](/img/default/lat.png)
The government says it wants “an immediate change” in the policy of some letting agents and landlords who advertise ‘No DSS’...
04 March 2019
From: Breaking News
!['Change it now!' - Lettings group demands more Universal Credit reform](/img/default/lat.png)
The Residential Landlords Association says the government’s changes to Universal Credit don’t go far enough to prevent rent arrears. The RLA says...
07 February 2019
From: Breaking News
![Industry welcomes Universal Credit change to pay landlords directly](/img/default/lat.png)
The lettings industry has welcomed news that reforms to Universal Credit will include a new online system for private landlords to...
14 January 2019
From: Breaking News
![Don't discriminate against benefit claimants buy to let lenders told](/img/default/lat.png)
Urgent action is needed to tackle discrimination against benefit claimants by buy to let mortgage providers according to a leading trade...
22 October 2018
From: Breaking News
![Arrears rocket for tenants on Universal Credit](/img/default/lat.png)
Around two thirds of private landlords with tenants receiving Universal Credit have experienced rent arrears according to new research. Based on responses...
15 October 2018
From: Breaking News
![Housing Benefit Row: 'the system is at fault, not the rental sector'](/img/default/lat.png)
The ongoing debate over some letting agents and landlords allegedly refusing to accept tenants in receipt of housing benefit has now...
24 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![Shelter told ‘vilifying letting agents won't solve the housing crisis’](/img/default/lat.png)
The National Approved Lettings Scheme has issued a sharp rebuke to Shelter and the National Housing Federation following their controversial ‘End...
23 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![MPs to debate impact of Universal Credit on private rental sector](/img/default/lat.png)
MPs today discuss the impact of Universal Credit on the private rented sector, in a debate prompted by the Liberal Democrat’s...
09 January 2018
From: Breaking News
![Trade body welcomes U-turn on Universal Credit 'direct payments'](/img/default/lat.png)
There has been a warm welcome for government changes to Universal Credit by the Residential Landlords Association. The Department for Work and...
08 January 2018
From: Breaking News
![Survey throws kinder light on how landlords regard their tenants](/img/default/lat.png)
A survey from a specialist rental insurance firm suggests that contrary to popular belief, landlords care more than a little about...
From: Breaking News
![Trade body welcomes Universal Credit changes but warns 'more needed'](/img/default/lat.png)
Changes to Universal Credit have made it easier for claimants to rent homes but the government needs to do more to...
06 December 2017
From: Breaking News
![Universal Credit change welcomed by lettings sector groups](/img/default/lat.png)
A change to the operation of Universal Credit has been welcomed by a trade body which has described it as good...
24 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![MPs take up call to bring the homeless into private renting](/img/default/lat.png)
MPs from the cross-party Parliamentary Group for Ending Homelessness have spoken out on the need to help homeless people into the...
26 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![Just 20% of private rental units accept Universal Credit tenants](/img/default/lat.png)
Only two out of every 10 private rental sector landlords say they are willing to let to tenants in receipt of...
20 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![Universal Credit leading more tenants into arrears, warns trade body](/img/default/lat.png)
Over a third of private landlords with tenants receiving Universal Credit say they are now in rent arrears, up by over...
13 September 2017
From: Breaking News
![Young renters likely to have tough task finding places to live](/img/default/lat.png)
Younger people will have more difficulty finding rented accommodation in coming months as a substantial proportion of landlords actively cut back...
02 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Tenants on benefits 'discriminated by mortgage lenders' - claim](/img/default/lat.png)
A letting sector trade body says two thirds of the largest buy to let mortgage lenders do not allow landlords to...
03 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Industry body warns of Universal Credit 'disaster' for private rental sector](/img/default/lat.png)
A trade body is warning that the government’s new Universal Credit payments could have a disastrous impact on private lettings with...
20 April 2016
From: Breaking News
![No government U-turn likely on buy to let onslaught, says landlords' chief](/img/default/lat.png)
Chancellor George Osborne has “effectively declared war on individual landlords” according to the Residential Landlords’ Association - but don’t expect a...