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Birmingham’s Labour council is considering closing its social housing waiting list to new applicants - and this is likely to trigger...

Measures contained in the Renters Reform Bill will fail without sufficient resources to ensure they can be enforced. The warning comes from...

Scores of councils that enforce licensing regimes on the private rental sector claim they are on the verge of bankruptcy. Almost one...

A survey of local authorities in some of the poorest areas of the country - bodies which enforce many private rental...

A chief executive who pledged to beef up her agency’s lettings division - but failed to do so - is leaving...

The chief executive of Purplebricks, who eight weeks ago claimed to have “a plan to grow our lettings business”, is now...

The financial fall out from Purplebricks’ disastrous lettings compliance crisis is likely to be revealed next week. The troubled agency says it...

Proceedings against a bankrupt letting agent have been delayed 10 weeks to allow mental health reports to be prepared.  Madelaina Eftekhari is...

A London lettings agency - that has now entered bankruptcy - has been cleared of any involvement in a rental scandal...

Tenant referencing. It’s a necessary evil.  Although most tenants are responsible and pay their rent on time, broke swindlers with dubious...

A crooked lettings agent stole almost £30,000 from dozens of clients to prevent his business from going bankrupt. Tim Catherall, of Nottinghamshire,...

A pro-tenant campaign group has this morning kicked off its campaign to have the eviction ban - already extended until late...

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

The Chartered Institute of Housing has published proposals aimed at avoiding a spike in private rental sector evictions when the current...

A group of private rental activists says Labour proposals to give tenants two years to repay arrears accrued during the virus...

Labour wants tenants running up arrears during the Coronavirus crisis to have two years to repay them, as part of a...

A PropTech product is claiming a breakthrough for letting agents who can now access same-day referencing on prospective tenants. LetAlliance claims that...

A lettings agent who stole over £350,000 is reported to have been told to pay back…£1. Local media in the south of...

Another online lettings agency launches in March with a claim that it “will streamline and automate the majority of admin tasks...

The government has this morning - Easter Sunday - announced a crackdown on rogue letting agents in the shape of a...

The director of a lettings agency who who stole hundreds of thousands of pounds to spend on holidays and other luxuries...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has given its support for what appears to be a government U-turn on Client Money...

The Insolvency Service, which probes all compulsory liquidations and individual bankruptcies, has wound up two letting agencies.  Morgan Fox (Lettings) Limited, formerly...