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The latest edition of the English Housing Survey reveals precisely how relatively rarely Section 21 is used. Data from the survey analysed...

Zoopla lettings chiefs have told the government it should tighten up its imminent Renters Rights Bill by demanding all lettings agents...

Agents are being urged to campaign to change Labour’s Renters Rights Bill to stop it damaging the lettings industry. Neil Cobbold, commercial...

David Cox, the former chief executive of ARLA Propertymark and now a senior executive at Rightmove, says it’s unlikely we’ll see...

There’s a call from a prominent international building science service for the new Labour government to review the Energy Performance Certificates. EPCs...

Propertymark has come out in support of the National Trading Standards Estate and Lettings Agency Team’s probe into Rent-to-Rent.    NTSELAT has...

Half of all private renters would not know where to turn to if a letting agent failed to address a problem...

Michael Gove’s Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities hit back overnight at critics of the government’s Renters Reform Bill. The Bill...

The substantial majority of tenants are completely unaware of the Renters Reform Bill, it’s been alleged. A survey of over 2,000 private...

The Renters Reform Bill cannot succeed without proper engagement with letting agents and landlords, Propertymark argues.    According to a Freedom of Information...

Two thirds of private renters have experienced a problem with the quality or condition of their property in the past six...

Qualifications for property managers in the social housing sector should be extended to the private rental sector too. That’s the view of...

Summer looks like it’s going to be a hectic period for lettings agents and the private rental sector according to TV...

A prominent housing market commentator says Labour would introduce a tougher version of the Renters Reform Bill if it forms the...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has given what some commentators have interpreted as a sign that private rental sector licensing from councils...

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

Propertymark has set out its pro-agency position on a range of issues contained in the Renters Reform Bill, currently trundling through...

A webinar is being held tomorrow, aimed to urging agents to get ahead of changes to the industry likely to be...

Changes put forward to the Renters Reform Bill to crack down on rogue landlords, protect vulnerable residents and improve the safety of...

Some 48 per cent of tenants are currently living with one or more housing disrepair issues, it’s being claimed. The problems include...

The Renters Reform Bill will cost letting agents over £275m in the next decade as fewer landlords use their services. That’s the...

I was surprised the other day to read statistics from the English Housing Survey about how many landlords use letting agents. In...

The Centre for Ageing Better claims older tenants will benefit most from some of the provisions in the Renters Reform Bill. As...

The pro-tenant anti-landlord Renters Reform Bill has at last been published by the government which first promised it in 2019. It has...

The government has back-tracked on its decision to publish the long-awaited Renters Reform Bill this week. The Mirror newspaper reports that “procedural issues”...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove says the long-awaited Renters Reform Bill, first promised in 2019, will finally be introduced into Parliament this...

  The Renters’ Reform Bill is finally due to be published and introduced into Parliament next week. Housing Secretary Michael Gove has told Sky...

New analysis of the English Housing Survey by the Building Research Establishment has found that excessively cold homes in England could...

Propertymark has hit out at a proposal from a group of MPs that there should be a single Ombudsman covering the...

The activist group Generation Rent is backing a call by MPs for the government to tighten up proposals to scrap Section...

The Labour Party is to launch a major review of the private rental sector, led by the head of a London...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove is being asked to take urgent action over housing conditions across social and private rental sectors.  Following the...

Three councils will be sharing £1.21m in public cash over the next two years to tackle poor quality properties in the...

Propertymark has given its backing to a clampdown by Housing Secretary Michael Gove on private landlords - although landlords themselves appear...

The large majority of players in the lettings industry wants the rental reform programme outlined by the government, an agent claims. Laura...

Propertymark says letting agents should have clear policies and priorities to help ensure properties are kept to the highest standards possible.  The...

Propertymark backs government plans to introduce a social housing-style Decent Homes Standard in the private sector.   But it says there must be...

The time taken to introduce legislation reforming the private rented sector is triggering an exodus of landlords, a lettings industry chief...

Shadow housing minister Lisa Nandy has unveiled a Charter for Renters which she says will be implemented within 100 days of...

Private renters’ average floor space per person in England has fallen by 16 per cent over the past 20 years while...

A leading lettings agency has warned the government not to forget the importance of small-scale landlords in its plans for the...

Agents are being invited to comment on the government’s Fairer Private Rented Sector White Paper. And unusually the invitation comes not from any...

Agents have only four weeks to respond to a committee of MPs’ ‘call for evidence’ ahead of an investigation into the...

It looks as if the private rental sector will contract as a result of the threat of new regulations contained in...

An interesting survey conducted by the Lincolnshire Live news website suggests a lack of support for some proposals in the government’s...

Zoopla - which in recent years has gone out of its way to win agent support - has come out strongly...

The government has released the full details of what it calls the Fairer Private Rented Sector White Paper. This is to form...

A prominent lettings industry supplier has asked whether the earlier-than-expected arrival of the rental reform white paper was a distraction from...

What looks suspiciously like a government leak to the Daily Mail says the long-awaited Rental Reform White Paper will be unveiled...

A property law expert is aiming to demystify the upcoming rental legislation for agents at a webinar tomorrow. Robert Bolwell, senior partner...

Sean Hooker, head of redress at the Property Redress Scheme, will discuss the latest rental reform proposals and answer letting agents'...

The government is admitting that its rental reform agenda is aimed primarily at the north of England - which just happens...

Inventories are a key tool to ensuring they, and the properties they let, comply with the law. That’s the claim from industry...

Housing is back on the political agenda with a bang. The government’s new Levelling Up White Paper sets out sweeping reforms...

A PropTech supplier claims that increased automation can help letting agents meet the demands of the government’s Levelling Up agenda. Openview –...

The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan wants is introducing a new qualification and training for borough council housing enforcement officers to...

It’s now been made clear that there will be a detailed White Paper in the spring explaining radical changes to the...

ARLA Propertymark has identified a key weakness in the government’s ambitious plans to reform the private rental sector as part of...

The government’s new Levelling Up White Paper, revealed this morning, includes a radical reshaping of the private rental sector. Section 21 eviction...

A radical shake up of the private rental sector is expected to be announced tomorrow by Housing Secretary Michael Gove. The main...

Campaign group Generation Rent says private tenants could miss out on an energy efficiency drive if they are not given the...

A leading PropTech expert says there’s still more that can be done by the rental sector to drive up the quality...

An influential think tank is calling on government to radically reform the private rental sector because a generation of young people...

The findings of the most recent English Housing Survey, an annual report published by the Department for Communities and Local Government,...