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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...

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

The Competition and Markets Authority’s in depth investigation into the controversial deposit alternative concept has been welcomed by one of the...

The Competitioin and Markets Authority is to probe five activities involving letting agents and landlords and their responsibilities to private tenants. Sarah...

Propertymark has set out the case for an increase in benefits for private tenants. Timothy Douglas, Propertymark's Head of Policy and Campaigns...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is today charing a crisis meeting of mortgage lenders, as calls mount for him to take action to...

A not-for-profit company that matches rental properties with vulnerable tenants in need of accommodation has partnered with a maintenance firm to...

The agents’ trade body Propertymark says the government must “get realistic” over the difficulties involved in reaching Net Zero targets when...

A team of experts has released a report that responds to government reform plans - and it insists that if Section...

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

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

Private rental property conditions and the enforcement of regulations by councils and government have all been in the firing line from...

Propertymark says arrears in the private rental sector are rising once again as the Omicron variant continues to push across the...

ARLA Propertymark has launched a radical programme of reform for the private rental sector - getting in before the government’s own...

A major Select Committee of MPs has launched an enquiry into so-called exempt rental sector accommodation - a niche sector that...

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

A lettings trade body says the sector - and local councils - should do more to cater for the older and...

An online petition is voicing opposition to government calls for ever-improving EPCs in the private rental sector.  Nottingham landlord Tricia Urquhart has started the...

A senior buying agent is warning that new regulations over the length of notice given to tenants is having an unexpected...

A Labour MP and a newspaper have joined forces to campaign against so-called ‘exempted rental accommodation’. One of Birmingham’s MPs - Jack...

A council says it’s let 21 properties thanks to a rent guarantee system launched to woo private landlords to supply homes...

The legal industry says the end of the eviction ban must be the moment to ensure the widest number of tenants...

A senior Conservative peer and consumer campaigner has written an article strongly defending the private rental sector, agents and landlords. Baroness Altmann...

The government says it’s currently working to ensure the eviction process returns smoothly when the ban expires in late August. In the...

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

The Law Society for England and Wales says legal aid should be made available for tenants who face eviction once the...

ARLA Propertymark has put out a call for agents to provide support to vulnerable tenants who may be self-isolating during the...

A prominent figure in the lettings industry has warned that any extension to the current evictions ban would risk hurting the...

A council wants buy to let landlords with one-bed flats or rooms in shared homes to help it find homes for...

A buy to let investor has been hit with a bill of almost £9,500 after being accused of allowing a tenant...

Liverpool’s Labour mayor says he is confident that the city will, after all, be able to renew its city-wide licensing scheme. Housing...

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has backed a five year extension for a massive London council landlord licensing...

The fallout continues over the government’s shock refusal to allow Liverpool council to continue its huge landlord licensing scheme. Yesterday we reported that...

A dawn raid by enforcement officers from a London council has discovered 17 men sleeping on mattresses in a three bedroom...

A landlord has been hit with court fines for a fourth time for failing to properly manage his rental properties.  Landlord Jack...

One of the leading lettings sector trade bodies has unveiled what it describes as “a positive vision for the private rented...

Vulnerable tenants suffering a higher risk of rent arrears will be hit hardest by plans to change the way landlords can...

The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Housing and Care for Older People has sharply criticised the PRS as being ill-equipped to cater...

A managing agent has been convicted by a local council for failing to properly license his property. Leon Hill, of Leighton Buzzard,...

Local authority officers have found three tenants living inside a shed in the garden of a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Brent,...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is one of many industry groups in a new coalition calling for S21 repossessions to be...

Housing charity Shelter has announced the launch of a £600,000 fund it is hosting, with the aim of improving the private...

The government says it wants to ban outright Section 21 'no fault' eviction powers in England and Wales. Instead landlords seeking to evict...

Agents have under three weeks left to respond to the government’s proposals to introduce a Housing Court to settle disputes in...

The private rental sector can help reduce smoking according to a report from Action on Smoking and Health, a pressure group. The...

The private rental sector is not fit for purpose when it comes to housing vulnerable tenants, claims debt charity StepChange which...

The government is consulting on the proposal for a specialist Housing Court which, if it goes ahead, would be a “single...

The Labour MP who chairs the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee in the House of Commons is pressing the government...

Croydon council is reported to have become the first local authority to back the scrapping of Section 21 of the 1988...

A landlord has been hit with a total fine of almost £40,000 for breaching House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) management regulations. David...

The National Approved Lettings Scheme has issued a sharp rebuke to Shelter and the National Housing Federation following their controversial ‘End...

The new Home Secretary Sajid Javid is being urged to look again at the Right To Rent policy and produce “a...

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

A landlord who was found guilty of illegally converting a hotel into 26 flats has been given three months to pay...

A council claims that up to 13,000 private landlords are “of interest” to HM Revenue and Customs, where there are alleged...

The Fair Fees Forum, originally established before the proposal to ban letting agents’ fees imposed on tenants in England, now says...

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

Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says she has been “horrified” to read allegations of some property owners offering rent-free accommodation in...

A body representing 370 councils in England and Wales wants the government to close a legal loophole which allows the conversion...

There is to be a new high-level and independent review of the private rental sector in England.   The Nationwide Foundation is funding...

A trade body claims that vulnerable tenants are finding it harder to access rented housing because of tax changes being introduced...

The BBC is claiming that vulnerable families are being exploited by rogue landlords in Glasgow - including in the constituency for...

MPs and members of the House of Lords want private sector tenants to be given clearer up-front information on the cost...

Vulnerable tenants will find it harder to access housing following the passing of the Welsh government’s Renting Homes Bill, according to...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) is calling for more effective action to find the minority of landlords who are criminals. The Association...