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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...