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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...

The veteran founder of Hunters, Kevin Hollinrake, is reported to be in the race to be Conservative Party leader.  He is MP...

The resignation of Labour’s First Minister of Wales has raised alarm with Propertymark. Vaughan Gething quit yesterday after the Welsh Housing Secretary...

The Housing Secretary in the Welsh Government, Julie James, was one of several ministers to quit in yesterday's dramatic day of...

An agency with a spectacular history has expanded its operations after acquiring the lettings portfolio of a rival. Andy Campbell, who owns...

Just after welcoming the appointment of the new Labour government housing minister, Propertymark has gone on to call for a cross-party...

Details have emerged of the first major events of the new government, whatever the result of the General Election on Thursday. Probably...

A council claims it’s reached an important stage in the process of deciding whether to implement the Article 4 Direction power...

A government-supporting newspaper says the Renters Reform Bill will be back in the House of Commons next week. Observers have been expecting...

A new borough-wide landlord licensing scheme is set to launch in the London borough of Brent on April 1, the council...

Owners of vacant properties are being offered an improved incentive to bring their house back into use. Plymouth council is re-launching its...

A prominent rental activist is tomorrow going to tell a House of Lords committee about the need to regulate letting agents. Conor...

The number of private tenants in properties that are hard to heat has fallen, a council claims. As agents will know private...

Scottish councils must engage with letting agents and landlords if radical rental reforms have any chance of working. Propertymark argues that the...

The Liberal Democrats have called on the government to bring in an emergency ban on no fault evictions and banks repossessing people’s homes...

A new action plan to tackle issues around HMOs is being drawn up by a Midlands council next week. West Northamptonshire council’s...

Belvoir’s very first franchisee, Andy Campbell, has been awarded the prestigious Belvoir Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of 27 highly successful...

Propertymark is querying why there’s no help for the private rental sector to meet energy efficiency targets expressed in a new...

It’s been announced that a deadline for existing hosts on AirBnb and other short let platforms to register with the Scottish...

Over the next three months Redbridge council in London is consulting on proposals to renew selective licensing in the borough. It says...

The new Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, has been welcomed by the agency establishment - even though some may be wondering how long...

There appears to be no space for discussion on the government’s private rental sector reform policies at the Tory Party conference...

A dramatic day, which saw a Cabinet reshuffle seemingly come out of the blue, ended with Michael Gove as the new...

New guidance has been issued to agents as the government confirms that most remaining Coronavirus restrictions are to be lifted from...

Tomorrow sees the start of a three-day debate over the extension of the eviction ban in Scotland - and Propertymark appears...

Greater Manchester’s Labour Mayor, Andy Burnham, says he wants to clamp down on the private rental sector. In his manifesto for next month’s...

The government has told estate agents to ensure at least one Union Jack is present in properties during both physical and...

A rent guarantor service has taken a swipe at new housing minister Chris Pincher and his recent predecessors who have not...

A London Labour council wants to introduce rent controls to its borough. The South London Press reports that Lambeth councillors have voted through...

Politicians from several parties say they want their local council in Bristol to have the powers to regulate the number and...

On the day that Labour launches its proposals to reform the private rental sector, the Tories have announced so-called Lifetime Rental...

A collective of activist renter groups has set out a manifesto of what it wants from the winner of next month’s...

It can be done - a council has U-turned on plans for a licensing scheme for landlords. The move by Hounslow council...

A lettings agent in London has been fined for the third time in as many years – this time for failing...

The government has blocked a council rolling out selective licensing across no fewer than 3,000 homes in its patch.  Under Stoke on...

The Mirror newspaper says eight members of the new Boris Johnson-led Cabinet are buy to let investors - and it accuses...

Private landlords are being asked to consider letting out their properties through the local council.  Slough council is looking for flats and...

One of the most pro-licensing local authorities in the country has extended its own scheme to include the entire centre of...

Council enforcement officers have raided a house in Wembley, north London, and found 19 tenants paying a landlord £1,000 a week. Brent council’s...

An angry lettings agent has emailed Cabinet minister James Brokenshire to show his disgust at the government’s U-turn over deposit caps. In...

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

Opposition is growing fast to the threat of another stamp duty attack on the buy to let sector, rumoured to be...

A head tenant who changed the locks on a property that was illegally sublet to no fewer than 35 men has...

Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, will is to reveal his vision for the private rental sector to a Residential...

Local media in Bristol say politicians in the city are considering supporting a controversial website that allows tenants to rate and...

Landlords in Wales who manage their own properties are being reminded that they must submit their licence application to Rent Smart...

At least one trade body has expressed an apparent scepticism about whether the rebranding of the Department of Communities and Local...

It’s been reported that Theresa May and her husband Philip jointly own a London apartment which is now let out and...

The Secretary of State for Wales has called on the Welsh Government to take measures against what he calls “unjust fees...

The substantial majority of landlords could soon be required to licence their properties in one London borough if the government agrees...

A senior Labour politician in a London borough has branded so-called ‘rip off landlords’ as “the scourge of London.”   Councillor Laila Butt,...

A new task group is being set up to explore how a council can tackle what it calls “problems with private...

The chief executive of an agency in Stoke is offering £500 for information leading to the conviction of individuals who ransacked...

Belvoir has been celebrating its very first franchise owner, 20 years ago this month - and the business, in Moray, is...

The Residential Landlords’ Association says Gavin Barwell, the new housing minister appointed by Theresa May this week, is a known critic...

Haringey Council in North London is the latest local authority to launch its own letting agency for private tenants. Move 51⁰ North...

Former Conservative cabinet minister Michael Portillo and the woman behind one of the world’s most successful fragrance brands, Jo Malone, are...

About 80 per cent of tenants think that their landlords should pay for damage they have caused when their tenancy ends. That...

There has been a sharp and rapid rebuttal of comments made by new shadow chancellor John McDonnell suggesting that private sector...

The council which became a standard bearer for so-called ‘landlord licensing’ - Enfield in north London - appears to have abandoned...

Britain’s tenants would overwhelmingly support the appointment of a government minister solely responsible for tenancy issues, according to agents Your Move...

This week RICS reported a further drop in the number of people putting their homes up for sale; new instructions fell...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is the latest industry voice to say that Brandon Lewis, the newly-reappointed housing minister, should...

Generation Rent, the pressure group advocating extensive restrictions on letting agents and private landlords, is now offering an alternative Queen’s Speech...

An analysis by The Guardian newspaper shows that 153 MPs from the last Parliament declared an income from renting out at...