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It’s been an unexpected year for the property market, shaped by the effects of the pandemic. We didn’t quite anticipate the...

A lettings agency has written to MPs setting out an eloquent case for a cap on agents’ fees levied on tenants...

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

Today sees the return of MPs to Parliament following the Christmas break, and one early task is to hear oral evidence...

The Communities and Local Government committee of MPs will on Monday hear their first oral evidence of the year for the...

The government has announced new minimum space requirements for private lettings in a bid to reduce problems of overcrowding. In addition to...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents and other trade bodies have not yet responded to the government’s announcement over the holiday...

The government has released more details on long-discussed proposals to tighten up licensing in the private rental sector. It wants landlords in...

The selective licensing scheme operated by Newham council in London is reported to have won government backing to be extended until...

A database of rogue letting agents and landlords and new banning orders, first promised in the Housing and Planning Act announced...

You have only until 11.45pm tonight to have your say on government proposals to clamp down on letting and managing agents...

The Communities and Local Government Select Committee says it is to begin “pre-legislative scrutiny” of proposals to ban tenant fees imposed...

A trade body says there are 15 formal government consultations going on within the private rental sector - and now it’s...

One of the government’s three approved official redress providers says companies operating in the Rent-to-Rent sector should be obliged to join...

The will exists in the private rental sector to provide the longer term tenancies advocated by the government, says a trade...

Yet another formal government consultation is under way, this time into smoke and carbon monoxide alarms in the private rental sector...

A campaigning letting agent says that at the start of this financial year the total cash value of deposits held in...

Kitemark-style scheme SAFEagent is calling on the government to ensure plans to make Client Money Protection schemes mandatory are not ignored...

Industry figures have broadly welcomed the latest consultations and proposed additional regulation for the lettings sector, announced by the government yesterday.   The...

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

Plans for new measures regarding leasehold tenancies to help create “a fairer property management system that works for everyone” have been...

Agents have until November 24 - two days after the next Budget - to submit evidence to the latest probe into...

The powerful and all-party Communities & Local Government Select Committee of MPs has launched a new enquiry into improving the quality...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has welcomed the government commitment to introduce regulation for agencies - but it is warning...

A trade body is seeking volunteers to meet with government officials to discuss future initiatives for the private rental sector.    The volunteers...

A council claims that up to 13,000 private landlords are “of interest” to HM Revenue and Customs, where there are alleged...

The Welsh Government is now kicking off a similar consultation process to that conducted by the Department for Communities and Local...

A minister at the Departrment of Communities and Local Government has set out the government’s position in terms of the fire-related...

At the latest meeting of the Fair Fees Forum, members described the current approach towards landlord licensing as a 'post code...

A group of letting agencies in Yorkshire have proposed to the government a radical alternative to the proposed fees ban -...

The anti-letting agency fee pressure group Generation Rent is urging its supporters to participate in the government formal consultation over agents’...

Twenty agency groups have backed a call by the Association of Residential Letting Agents urging the government to extend or scrap its...

A prominent campaigning letting and sales agent predicts that the Conservatives are likely to put their proposed ban on letting agency...

The Department of Communities and Local Government is scrapping a series of workshops for letting agents to discuss the proposed ban...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has told its agent members that they should urgently lobby their Members of Parliament to...

The government has issued a new statement saying unequivocally that letting agents’ fees on tenants will be banned in England -...

The working group set up by the Department of Communities and Local Government to consider Client Money Protection says the scheme...

It seems prop-tech is exploding at a scary rate, and the latest brands are all trying to grab our attention by...

The government’s Housing White Paper may have made many broad pledges aimed at the private rental sector, but it still remains...

The Fair Fees Forum, a platform for letting agencies and trade bodies set up by the National Approved Lettings Scheme, has...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is warning the government that some of its proposed changes to regulations governing HMOs may...

The number of tenancy deposit disputes reached a record high in 2015-16, but still represents only a fraction of all deposits. Figures...

An industry body has backed a Conservative MP's anti-homelessness Bill, which has been published by the Communities and Local Government Select Committee.   The...

The new housing minister, Gavin Barwell, says he is behind the concept of longer tenancies for renters in the private sector.   In...

The Council of Mortgage Lenders has ticked off the government for not updating its Private Landlords’ Survey for some six years...

A failed bid by a council to introduce a blanket landlord licensing scheme was both unnecessary and unjustified according to the...

The Secretary of State for Department of Communities and Local Government, Greg Clark, has rejected a council’s call for a blanket...

Councils that charge landlords for licences solely to collect information on the number of landlords in an area have been accused...

The Department of Communities and Local Government has published a summary of the 600 responses it has received to its recent...

The government is proposing a national minimum bedroom size and a re-defining of what constitutes a House in Multiple Occupation in...

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

The National Landlords’ Association has met with the Home Office and the Department of Communities and Local Government - and has...

Letting agents and other industry professionals are being consulted ver changes to the sector’s regulation - including possible blacklisting of rogue...

Three multi-million pound deals will provide over 1,000 new homes specifically for private rent in London, under the government’s Build To...

The government’s apparent opposition to council-wide landlord licensing schemes will be put to the test in the coming weeks following a...

The Conservatives’ election victory came as a surprise, so much so that television pundits spent all night after the vote rubbishing...