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The government’s renewed pledge to end Section 21 eviction powers for agents and landlords is fine, a leading industry figure has...

An executive with four decades of experience in the insurance sector has joined the board of accreditation service safeagent as a...

The Property Energy Professionals Association - a trade group representing accreditation schemes for energy assessors - is complaining that it’s not...

Energy Performance Certificates can be riddled with inaccuracies and give unhelpful advice to property owners. That’s the view of consumer service Which? Which?...

safeagent, the UK’s largest not-for-profit accreditation scheme for lettings and management agents, has appointed John Midgley as chair of its board...

Not for profit accreditation service safeagent has seen two of its lettings qualifications officially recognised by exam watchdog Ofqual.  Safeagent as an...

Energy Performance Certificates must change to properly support reaching net zero, tackling fuel poverty and improving buildings, according to an energy...

Property accreditation service safeagent has written to all of its agents in England urging them to check legal requirements when setting...

A Labour MP has written to letting agents in her constituency demanding they explain high rents and their student allocation policies. Mary...

An accreditation scheme says the government database of rogue letting agents should be expanded.  The government is committed to creating a new Property...

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...

Lettings agency Carter Jonas predicts the housing market - for both owner-occupiers and landlords - will become increasingly eco-focussed in 2021. It says...

A collective of government appointed accreditation schemes has called on the government to do more to improve energy efficiency in the...

A London council has launched a strategy it claims will protect private tenants and ensure they live in good quality and...

The safeagent accreditation scheme says the next government should not scrap landlord licensing as some trade groups have requested, but should...

Three criminals have been sentenced after pleading guilty to money laundering involving an online lettings agency. The sentences follow an investigation spearheaded...

Not-for-profit accreditation scheme safeagent has partnered with Landlord Accreditation Scotland to provide specialist training for agents north of the border.  LAS is...

A local authority is being warned that its landlord licensing and accreditation scheme is potentially unlawful. The Residential Landlords Association, which represents...

Junior housing minister Heather Wheeler MP has written to Hull City Council to express her concerns about the authority's controversial accreditation...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) is threatening Oxford Council with a judicial review of its landlord and letting agent accreditation scheme. The...

Hull council has won a legal case in the High Court against a local trade body, the Humber Landlords Association. The claim...

An accreditation scheme has been launched for the fast-growing sector of short lets and home sharing.  The UK Short Term Accommodation Association,...

We are used to stories of councils condemning letting agents and landlords - but now a London council is praising the...

A survey of 1,000 tenants and landlords has provided evidence of what many agents already know - that the growing complexity...

A group of landlords and buy to let investors that has already successfully persuaded a council to scrap plans for a...

We often report local authorities criticising the standards of letting agents and landlords - now here's a quite different story. Letting agents...

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has criticised Boris Johnson's handling of the London Rental Standard, an accreditation scheme for landlords...

A local council has announced its support for a new scheme which is aiming to improve quality of housing as well...

After celebrating its year anniversary this week, Boris Johnson’s London Rental Standard has been criticised for signing up only 12% of...

Private landlords are being encouraged to sign up to a new local authority accreditation scheme which offers them advice and support...