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A council says it’s secured the first banning order in its area, securing a stop on a rogue letting agent renting...

A lettings agency which has given broad support to the Renters Reform Bill now says it’s concerned that shadow housing Secretary...

The husband-and-wife directors of a Cornish lettings and estate agency have been disqualified from being company directors for a combined 12...

A council has placed a Banning Order on a lettings agency operating unlicensed Houses in Multiple Occupation. Trophy Homes Ltd was hit...

Propertymark is highlighting new advice for agents and landlords given by Lets With Pets, the website of The Dogs Trust charity. The...

Controversial website content by the high profile website GetAgent must never appear again, according to the ad industry watchdog. The Advertising Standards...

Local media on the south coast are reporting that a lettings agent crashed his Bentley into two parked cars and then...

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has thrown his weight behind Housing Secretary Michael Gove’s proposals to delay deadlines for EPC improvements in...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has this morning said his government should ‘relax the pace’ of EPC reforms expected from private landlords. In...

Propertymark has given details of how it believes the Scottish Government rent control system has backfired and works against the interests...

The Renters (Reform) Bill rewrites many of the rules that the private rented sector has played by for decades. This may...

Trading Standards has stopped a lettings agency owner from being a company director after he defrauded customers by over £80,000. Francis Smart,...

A campaign group of activists says there have been only “few reports of dodgy behaviour” by agents and landlords in the...

Propertymark says it’s spotted what may be the first sign of a U-turn on one aspect of the controversial Renters Reform...

Landlords and agents acting on their behalf are to be given more powers to evict unruly tenants who ruin neighbours’ lives...

A council is set to renew its war on To Let boards. In summer 2018, Leciester council brought into effect a new...

A new block of apartments on the banks of a photogenic canal has been given the planning green light - but...

Ruling politicians in Scotland have agreed that from April private rents can rise by 3.0 per cent in a 12 month period...

The average rent on a newly let home in Britain is £1,216 pcm in December, 7.7 per cent up on a...

A landlord has pleaded guilty to four offences which involved the creation of fake letting agencies in order to help him...

A campaign group has protested outside letting agencies in Bristol, protesting against what they describe as “bidding wars” between rival tenants. The...

A lettings agent has been banned from holding office in a company for 11 years for abusing Covid loans - but...

A crackdown on Airbnbs and other short lets in the Scottish capital, Edinburgh, has infuriated landlord’s’ representatives. In line with the rest...

Agents have only until the end of tomorrow, December 2, to feed into Propertymark’s response to a new consultation on the...

A property management chief has been disqualified as a director for 12 years after using his firms to take out £135,000...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned advertorial material issued by the government department responsible for rental reform and housing. Two Labour MPs...

A webinar explaining how agents can navigate through tough new Facebook advertising rules is being held next month. The ValPal Network’s head...

London-focussed lettings agency Benham and Reeves says renters who secured bargain properties during the pandemic now face huge rent rises when...

The sole director of a lettings agency, who was recently made the subject of an anti-social behaviour injunction and banning order,...

A company providing virtual tours insists the technology delivers “undeniable results” but is still not used universally by agents. Virtual tours became...

A lettings agency is in hot water with advertising regulators for using the phrase “What the flock are you looking at?”...

Self-managing landlords who think they don’t have the same compliance obligations as agents could face serious repercussions, Trading Standards chiefs have...

Three lettings agency bosses have been banned from being directors of companies for a total of over 13 years after being...

A report by the National Audit Office claims that the way private renting is regulated makes the sector unfair to renters. It...

There’s been an increase in demand for rental properties with electric charging points for cars, according to ARLA Propertymark. The news has...

The Welsh Government has revealed that it hasn’t had time to evaluate its tenant fee ban due to the pandemic. Tenant fees...

An agency says its bizarre list of items left behind by departing tenants shows how many renters actually appear to keep pets. A...

A local Trading Standards team is clamping down on rogue letting agents. Devon, Plymouth, Somerset and Torbay Trading Standards Service has launched...

There have been just 17 First Tier Tribunal cases involving allegations of fees charged to tenants in contravention of the Tenants...

The director of a company targeting ‘flipping’ property investors has been disqualified from holding directorships for no less than 14 years.  Mitchell...

A London council has secured banning orders against rogue property agents who were previously fined over £70,000 for letting an unlicensed...

A lettings agency director has been disqualified for seven years after he emptied its bank account following its liquidation. Ghanshyam Sarup Batra, from...

Some 39 agents and landlords have had banning orders over the past three years according to a report in The Guardian. Under the...

A landlord who persistently broke residential lettings rules has been banned from operating in a landmark legal ruling. Julie Stoddern, of Camborne,...

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

The Tenant Fees Act 2019’s 12-month transition period came to an end on 31 May, prohibiting various payments and charges that...

Propertymark is staging a webinar later this month on the topical subject of referral fees. Last month the National Trading Standards for...

In a dramatic return to the agency world, the former chief executive of the Association of Residential Letting Agents is joining...

The Welsh government has given details of the rentals and sales house moving process during the 16 day lockdown beginning 6pm on Friday...

An agent has been banned from being a company director after tax offences involving hundreds of thousands of pounds, or possibly...

A new proposal from the government says agents and portals will be banned from advertising rental properties with non-compliant Energy Performance...

Landlords operating in England are increasingly seeking evictions advice from their Scottish counterparts, according to property management firm Apropos. The platform says...

There’s a huge backlog of work required to be done across the private rental sector to meet the latest Minimum Energy...

A survey by The Tenancy Deposit Service suggests that half of landlords have experienced damage to their rental properties by pets.  And...

Activists who praised the government for its eviction ban in recent months have now turned on it in a last-ditch attempt...

A call has gone out for agents to offer extra support to landlords in the coming months as arrears may well...

A westcountry landlord is only the second in England to have received a banning order preventing him from letting or managing...

The boss of a company that manages thousands of properties across the UK claims some tenants should be able to ask...

The number of mortgage lenders still offering products to landlords is 42 - only seven fewer than at the peak of...

Airbnb is reported to have banned under-25s in Canada from booking whole properties in their local areas to prevent potentially-violent house...

A London company that has previously had an ad banned by the Advertising Standards Authority has announced a change of name. The...

A lettings management boss has been disqualified for six years after failing to safeguard over £68,000 worth of tenants’ deposits. Kelly Louise Forrester...

The Times claims there have been well over 200 complaints lodged with redress schemes, alleging that lettings agents tried to charge...

A landlord has been banned for two and half years after repeatedly putting tenants’ lives at risk by letting unsafe housing. This...

A new piece of legislation has been invoked to ban a landlord from any involvement in the private rental sector for...

A Shropshire man has become the first in England to be banned from being a landlord.  In a case brought by Telford...

The Renting Homes (Fees etc.) (Wales) Act - which bans fees levied by agents and landlords on tenants - comes into...

The number of tenants experiencing rent rises increased to the highest figure on record in July according to data just produced...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents and the National Landlords Association have spoken out about the complexity of the fees ban...

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents says there has been a record number of rent increases reported by its members. In a...

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents says it fears the government needs to do more to prevent the possibility of banned...

There’s been a sceptical response to news leaked from government over the weekend suggesting that a database of rogue landlords would...

A BBC investigation of 52 lettings agents has found that two thirds were levying charges on tenants, but it is uncertain...

The Mayor of London is under pressure to pull advertisements calling on landlords to stop providing homes for Londoners and move...

A rental market expert is urging landlords to be cautious when considering to use short-term lets websites such as Airbnb to...

A Freedom of Information request by The Guardian newspaper has produced the startling admission from government that not even one landlord...

Rightmove has fallen in line with Zoopla and is banning the term ‘No DSS’ from its lettings agents’ listings from the...

The Renting Homes (Fees etc) (Wales) Bill passed its final hurdle in the Welsh Assembly yesterday evening. This has similar policies to...

A legal firm has renewed its criticism of local authority licensing schemes, accusing them of “persecuting” landlords. David Kirwan, managing partner at...

A senior Labour politician claims that “unscrupulous” letting agents are hammering tenants with higher-than-usual charges between now and June 1 when...

A warning has been issued to lettings agents to review tenancy agreements to see if they are fit for purpose when...

A council accused of paying over £500,000 to a landlord it had already ruled as unfit to rent out property is...

English letting agencies could lose over £60,000 each in the next two years alone as a result of the Tenant Fees...

Councils have been accused of routinely pursuing the most serious enforcement option open to them if they find a local licensing...

A lettings agency has been banned from running an Airbnb let in a residential block. It relates to a block in Glasgow...

A lettings company’s management director has been disqualified for failing to protect thousands of pounds of tenants’ deposits. Kari Jade Ridout from...

An advertisement on a property management firm’s website suggesting that rental income would be guaranteed to landlords has been banned by...

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

Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has made a clear pledge to tighten regulations surrounding the private rental sector. In an interview with The...

The heavy-handed administration of selective licensing schemes is driving out buy to let investors. That’s the claim from David Kirwan of Kirwans...

The Labour-led local authority in Hackney has issued a statement pledging fines or even bans if landlords fail to get appropriate...

The landlord of an HMO who subjected his tenants to insanitary and unsafe living conditions has been told he will no...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an advertisement for a company that helps Airbnb hosts prepare and manage their properties for...

The proportion of visitors to Edinburgh using Airbnb surged 70 per cent in 2017 compared to the previous year. Commercial agency Colliers,...

Newspapers in Kent are reporting that controversial buy to let multi-millionaire Fergus Wilson has evicted four single mothers from his properties...

A trade body is backing a call by a parliamentary committee for the government to fund certain fire safety improvements in...

A council leader in London, so outraged after a bust of a rogue lettings property, has asked: “What kind of monster...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur says he welcomes reforms currently moving through Parliament to professionalise the lettings sector - but he wants...

An agent has been banned from letting properties under ‘fit and proper person’ legislation in Scotland, following an incident in which...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an advertisement by the short let management service Airsorted because the firm was unable to...