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There’s growing optimism that tomorrow’s Bank of England monetary policy committee meeting will see base rate held for another month -...

A new manifesto calling for rent controls and a raft of other measures is accusing the current rent rises of being...

A new lettings regime that is described as the biggest change in many decades comes into effect tomorrow in Wales, with...

A warrant backed without bail has been issued for the arrest of a lettings agent who failed to appear in court. Gareth Wills...

The former director of a lettings agency has received a suspended jail sentence for making threats of violence against ex-colleagues in...

A jury has ruled that a lettings agency has been guilty of illegally evicting tenants in Margate - with locks changed,...

Propertymark has set up a working group of experts, agents, landlords and stakeholders in response to radical reforms to the private...

A newspaper probe has discovered that sow-called exempt accommodation - often for the most vulnerable tenants - has received a Hugh...

Airbnb says that its so-called ‘party ban’ - introduced in 2020 at the height of the pandemic - is being made...

Comprehensive rental reform requires the buy in and understanding of letting agents and landlords from the outset - and not as...

A lettings agency is alleged to have used violence and vandalism over a prolonged period against the tenants of at least...

Agents have reacted with amazement to the latest delay that the Labour-run Welsh Government has announced for its much-hyped rental reform. The...

The government’s new Levelling Up White Paper, revealed this morning, includes a radical reshaping of the private rental sector. Section 21 eviction...

Northern Ireland’s Department for Communities is extending the regulations for the period of notice a landlord must give a tenant before...

Propertymark is reminding all agents and suppliers, including sole traders, that they must register with the Information Commissioner’s Office if they...

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

A leading market commentator and PropTech chief says the extension of the bailiff-enforced eviction ban was predictable, but presents agents with...

While the Westminster government has extended its version of the eviction ban in England until February 21, a longer ban -...

The ban on bailiff-enforced evictions for private renters has been extended in England and Wales. This will be until February 21 “at...

The This Is Money website is carrying a story of a London rental property where the front door was left open...

The lettings industry is today preparing for the current ban on repossessions to be lifted on Sunday with courts to hear...

A Tory member has used the Conservative Home website to tell his party that it should introduce interest-free loans to help tenants...

Reduce buy to let regulation or face a worsening housing crisis - that’s the message from a leading property lawyer.  Mary Rouse,...

In the latest twist in the long-running saga of the eviction ban, the government has revealed changes to notice periods. The changes...

A leading trade body has told Prime Minister Boris Johnson that some landlords face receiving no rent for two years.  In a...

A leading lettings sector trade body has set out reasons why the eviction ban should be lifted - which may help...

The government appears to have confirmed that the evictions ban will end in late August and courts will resume hearing possession...

The extension to the evictions ban will compound the suffering of victims of domestic violence and anti-social behaviour. That’s the view of...

The industry’s major landlord trade body is urging its members to write to MPs to explains what it calls “the devastating...

A buy to let investor who kept a group of men as slaves – making them work 90-hour weeks in return...

A database of rogue letting agents and landlords and new banning orders, first promised in the Housing and Planning Act announced...

A landlord who admitted threatening violence against a tenant who left the property he was renting has been given a substantial...

The government has launched an official consultation process on a package of measures to crack down on what it calls ‘rogue...

The charity Crisis is warning that an unintended consequence of the controversial Right To Rent legislation which became law this week...

A man has been jailed for 10 years for deliberately running over a tenant during a heated row over a rent...