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Mandatory smoke, heat and carbon monoxide alarms will be introduced to private rented sector properties in Northern Ireland.    Under the Smoke, Heat...

Propertymark wants Northern Ireland’s Department for Communities to regulate property agents via professional bodies such as itself. The Department for Communities is...

Propertymark has welcomed proposed reforms to evict tenants who show persistent anti-social behaviour.   In 2018, a Northern Ireland Department of Justice consultation...

Propertymark has responded to two consultations on the proposals to introduce electrical safety standards and smoke and carbon monoxide alarms in...

Propertymark is urging agents to give it their views on two consultations on health and safety issues coming out of Northern...

The details of the Northern Ireland Private Tenancies Bill will be the main focus of the Propertymark annual conference in Belfast...

Northern Ireland’s Department for Communities is extending the regulations for the period of notice a landlord must give a tenant before...

The lettings market in Northern Ireland is resuming on Monday after its lockdown because of the Coronavirus crisis. Arlene Foster, first minister of...

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...

The draft Bill to ban letting agents’ fees levied on tenants has been published - it’s to be called the Tenants’...

PropTech firm PayProp has welcomed the latest measures to clamp down on rogue elements within the lettings industry - but warns...

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

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

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

Now Northern Ireland appears to be in the frame for substantial changes to the private rental sector according to the Association...

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 government has launched an official consultation process on a package of measures to crack down on what it calls ‘rogue...

The NALS ‘Fair Fees Forum’ - set up before last week’s announcement on the banning of letting agency fees levied on tenants...

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

Letting agents and landlords operating in Northern Ireland are now being invited to go through an accredited training programme being operated...

Seventy nine per cent of tenants are happy with their circumstances according to a survey conducted by the National Landlords’ Association...

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

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

Generation Rent - the campaign group that needs £60,000 to continue operating beyond the end of August - has renewed its...

It is now a statutory duty for letting agents to fully publicise the fees they charge to landlords and tenants.  Under the...