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The failure of Labour and Conservatives to agree that the Renters Reform Bill should become law by July 4 has been...

Labour has waded into the increasingly-fractious debate over the Renters Reform Bill. Activists in groups such as the Renters Reform Coalition and...

A prominent housing expert has told MPs that letting agents could be used to police the standards off homes made available...

In a surprise move, Housing Secretary Michael Gove has given the stand-in leader of activist group Generation Rent a prime role...

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

ARLA Propertymark has launched a radical programme of reform for the private rental sector - getting in before the government’s own...

Campaign group Generation Rent has set out a 10-point plan for reform of the private rental sector in favour of tenants. Its...

The most vocal campaign group for tenants, Generation Rent, has warned government that renters have already been waiting two years for...

Councils are failing to protect tenants in three out of four cases where they discover rental homes are unsafe, according to...

A new report demands that online rental platforms and portals allowing direct advertising by clients do more to deter fake landlords...

The government has rejected a council’s bid to extend its licensing scheme for privately rented housing. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local...

A trade body has come out against a council’s HMO licensing scheme, claiming that its consultation period was too short -...

The government has announced an additional £4m in funding for local councils to combat rogue agents and landlords - but it’s...

A controversial private rental licensing regime that has already made the headlines for the wrong reasons has now been branded a...

A leading trade body says the government’s latest injection of funds to help local councils root out rogue operators in the...

The government has given an extra £3.8m to councils to come up with ways of catching rogue landlords - and in...

One of the industry’s leading trade bodies has revealed that the number of laws creating an obligation on landlords in the...

One of the leading lettings sector trade bodies has unveiled what it describes as “a positive vision for the private rented...

Last week’s revelation that approaching 50 per cent of letting agents surveyed in London were in breach of the law is...

Some of the private rental sector’s most experienced and respected experts believe it’s almost inevitable that a housing market crash is...

A trade body has accused the government of going back on its promise not to introduce a national register of landlords. The...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is one of many industry groups in a new coalition calling for S21 repossessions to be...

The government has beefed up its support for councils identifying and prosecuting rogue landlords. Yesterday the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local...

New figures from a leading trade body suggest that councils across England have cut by a quarter the amount they are...

Just when you thought there could not be any more rival licensing or accreditation systems in the private rental sector, a...

Two thirds of local authorities in England and Wales brought no prosecutions against private landlords in 2017/18 according to research by the...

A lettings trade body has welcomed extra government funding for English councils to clamp down on criminal landlords. But the Residential Landlords...

The National Landlords Association is the latest trade body to back what is being described as a landmark review of the...

The Residential Landlords Association has told another council that its plans to introduce selective licensing in areas of its town are...

Letting agents and others in the private rental sector have responded to the latest government intervention - a review into how...

Trade bodies have been responding to today’s report of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee deliberations on the private...

The head of a major PropTech company serving the lettings sector says he want to see the introduction of a database...

Brent Council has confirmed that the government has approved its request to extend the local selective licensing scheme. The local authority, which...

The chief operating officer of a leading PropTech company says government proposals to increase mandatory licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation...

The chairman of the Residential Landlords Association has written in the Labour-supporting New Statesman magazine about the need for the lettings...

Two landlords have been fined almost £14,000 for breaching a multitude of property management regulations. Abdul Qadir, 56, and Dr Mohammed Anwar,...

The National Approved Lettings Scheme has called for the London Mayor’s new rogue agents’ database to be extended to include those...

Letting agents who have broken the law are set to be ‘named and shamed’ by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan,...

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

Councils have been told to up their game to protect tenants from a minority of landlords providing sub-standard accommodation.   The call, being...

London mayor says the private rental sector will play an increasing part in solving the capital’s housing shortage - but insists...

Two landlord associations have criticised local councils for a lack of enforcement and failing to prosecute criminal landlords.  The Residential Landlords Association...

A landlord has been fined almost £25,000 for a series of failings relating to a House in Multiple Occupation (HMO). Birmingham-based Salih...

Some 36% of UK landlords have had a property abandoned by tenants, according to research. Abandonment - which occurs when a tenant...

The Residential Landlords’ Association has revealed what it calls “worryingly low levels of enforcement of rented housing regulations” by local authorities. Using...

Action is needed to tackle the scandal of ‘buy to leave’ investors who are denying Londoners the homes they need, according...

A proposal to make it easier for some local councils to introduce licensing schemes governing the private rental sector will do...

Police in Scotland are clamping down on what they call “gangster landlords” who are using the lettings sector for money laundering.  A...

An organisation representing councils wants a government database covering all housing-related convictions to deter rogue landlords switching from one area to...

Local councils are being urged to drop landlord licensing schemes following the publication of new laws showing that they are not...

A landlord has been handed fines totalling £3,250 and costs of £1,426 for running an unlicensed and unsafe House in Multiple...

A landlord has received a six month suspended jail sentence, has been ordered to carry out 200 hours of community service...

London Mayor and Tory leadership wannabee Boris Johnson wants rogue operators in the private rental sectors to be banned with repeat...

A Tory MP is today introducing a Bill that will make it much easier for authorities to identify criminal landlords. The measure...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) is calling for more effective action to find the minority of landlords who are criminals. The Association...