Propertymark is pressing Housing Secretary Michael Gove to adopt a housing court system to solve the problem of abandoned tenancies. The agents...
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We’re only in February and it’s already clear that this year will set the future direction of the private rented sector...
15 February 2023
From: Features
A controversial database which will allow widespread access to the identities of rogue letting agents and landlords has been backed by...
23 September 2022
From: Breaking News
Some 39 agents and landlords have had banning orders over the past three years according to a report in The Guardian. Under the...
06 April 2021
From: Breaking News
A landlord in one of the most scenic parts of Devon had been served with a £18,000 civil penalty because he...
23 January 2020
From: Breaking News
Councils that have been awarded additional cash injections by government could use their windfalls to enhance their enforcement of the private...
20 January 2020
From: Breaking News
A new piece of legislation has been invoked to ban a landlord from any involvement in the private rental sector for...
30 October 2019
From: Breaking News
There’s been a sceptical response to news leaked from government over the weekend suggesting that a database of rogue landlords would...
22 July 2019
From: Breaking News
A managing agent who used ‘ghost tenants’ as a front so that she could cram 16 people into one overcrowded house...
16 October 2018
From: Breaking News
A London council has fined a letting agency over £10,000 for failing to install smoke alarms in a rental property. Waltham Forest...
05 September 2018
From: Breaking News
An Essex council claims it is one of the first to be granted a rent repayment order - part of legislation...
31 August 2018
From: Breaking News
Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, will is to reveal his vision for the private rental sector to a Residential...
16 March 2018
From: Breaking News
A database of rogue letting agents and landlords and new banning orders, first promised in the Housing and Planning Act announced...
04 December 2017
From: Breaking News
Mandatory Client Money Protection for lettings agents - currently the subject of a formal government consultation - will contribute towards making...
21 November 2017
From: Breaking News
The London council of Newham is thought to be the first local authority in the UK to use new powers to...
24 May 2017
From: Breaking News
A leading letting agent campaigning against rental sector deposits is warning that the industry might be hit with “astronominal” insurance premiums...
10 April 2017
From: Breaking News
At the end of an already-challenging week for the industry, a landlord group has distanced itself from comments made in its...
25 November 2016
From: Breaking News
Some industry organisations have spotted that under new legislation now in effect, tenants’ associations are being given the right to gain...
26 August 2016
From: Breaking News
The Association of Residential Letting Agents and the National Association of Estate Agents have asked new housing minister Gavin Barwell to...