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The government’s new Levelling Up White Paper, revealed this morning, includes a radical reshaping of the private rental sector. ...
A leading lettings agent has warned tenants against using social media to find rental properties.  ...
ARLA Propertymark has launched a radical programme of reform for the private rental sector - getting in before the government’s own Renters’ Reform White Paper expected in the New Year.  ...
A report by the National Audit Office claims that the way private renting is regulated makes the sector unfair to renters. ...
‘Generation rent’ was a term first coined in 2011 by the Halifax in a survey on the future of homeownership. It has come to define a cohort of tenants – mostly millennials and Generation Z – who, through circumstance or ...
A new government survey of private renters is checking whether they received the correct documentation from their agent when they begin a tenancy. ...
The Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities says the long-awaited Rental Reform White Paper will now not be published until next year. ...
Online lettings agency LettingaProperty.com says it’s using social media platform TikTok to build its brand and drum up business, and claims it’s being successful.  ...
ARLA Propertymark is calling on the government to properly fund local authorities so they can combat rogue operators in the private rental sector. ...
The long-awaited White Paper on rental reform is some time away, with a minister at the centre of its preparation saying he and colleagues “are still in meetings and consultations”. ...
Tenants are paying almost £70bn of rent to landlords a year, research claims. ...
An industry poll has revealed that tech is now so important in our lives that a fifth of UK tenants say they would be willing to fork out up to 10% more in rent each month for smart features in ...
An estate and lettings agent has analysed how the level of rental arrears has grown between each wave of the pandemic. ...
Research by a lettings sector trade body has revealed precisely how outdated some regulations are.  ...
The government has pledged a White Paper to be issued in the autumn, dedicated to reform of the private rental sector. ...
It appears Knight Frank was involved at one stage...
The mansion tax will take effect from April 2028....
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