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Landlords’ champion Paul Shamplina says more landlords should use lettings agents, who he describes as their “allies” in the battle to...
10 April 2024
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One of the highest profile groups in the private rental sector supplier space - Hamilton Fraser - is restructuring. In future the...
13 February 2024
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An event which claims to change the fortunes of letting agents has been recognised by the Professional Speakers Academy. Agent Rainmaker Live...
19 January 2024
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Paul Shamplina, the chief commercial officer at Landlord Action and arguably the biggest name in the lettings sector today, is to...
31 March 2023
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High profile lettings industry figures Paul Shamplina and Sally Lawson are amongst the keynote speakers at a new event for agents...
15 August 2022
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The UK Association of Letting Agents is introducing four new products to its agent members. Several of the products are from the...
20 July 2022
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Two of the most respected figures in the lettings sector are calling on agents, landlords and tenants to consider the future...
31 May 2022
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The Property Investor Show is back for its 20th year with 100 property sector experts and exhibitors in London this week. The...
28 March 2022
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ITV’s Tonight current affairs programme will this evening look at evictions in the private rental sector. The episode - Losing Your Home:...
17 March 2022
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Rightmove is launching a new insurance product for letting agents called Agent Revenue Protection. It is designed to pay out up to...
31 January 2022
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A leading expert on the private rental sector predicts it will take three years for the government to scrap Section 21 evictions...
30 December 2021
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The next episode of the Channel 5 show Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords this evening features an agent offering a supposed guaranteed...
03 November 2021
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Justice Secretary Dominic Raab says it will take a year for court backlogs to be reduced substantially and even longer to...
15 October 2021
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Letting agents using rent protection and legal expenses insurance via Goodlord will have their rent protected until vacant possession, with no cap...
13 October 2021
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A London lettings agency is exposed on TV this evening over what turns out to be a sham guaranteed rent scheme. Landlords...
15 July 2021
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A leading figure in the lettings sector says the government’s new Housing Possession Mediation Scheme can help agencies and landlords recover...
28 April 2021
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One of the industry’s leading experts wants letting agents to engage with tenants and landlords over Covid-related arrears, agree to mediation,...
13 April 2021
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Paul Shamplina, the man behind Landlord Action and a Channel 5 show on handling rental crises, is warning that county courts...
31 March 2021
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There’s an hour-long webinar this morning, aimed at giving property professionals the latest information on arrears, possession cases and evictions. It’s at...
23 February 2021
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There’s been a further tweak to the eviction controls introduced in England for the duration of the lockdown, lasting until December...
17 November 2020
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One of the highest profile figures in the rental sector says rogue letting agents should be named and shamed as a...
05 October 2020
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One of the leading figures in the lettings industry has described the government’s eviction ban U-turn as “devastating.” Paul Shamplina, founder of...
24 August 2020
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Agents and landlords are urged to lobby MPs to highlight the threat of the current eviction ban and to urge no...
30 June 2020
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Labour’s proposal to extend the current ban on private rental sector evictions could end up with some landlords in financial ruin. Landlord...
12 May 2020
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PropTech firm Goodlord is hosting two webinars - the first of which is today - looking at issues surrounding rent defaulting...
23 April 2020
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Paul Shamplina, the founder of Landlord Action and star of a Channel 5 programme on evictions, says he fully backs the...
30 March 2020
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What appears to be the first court adjournment of an eviction case caused by the Coronavirus outbreak has happened - raising...
23 March 2020
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High profile eviction company Landlord Action says as many as 50 per cent of Section 21 cases it handles involve tenants...
23 September 2019
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Eviction expert Paul Shamplina has urged letting agents and referencing companies to invest in technology to improve fraud detection. The call comes...
08 July 2019
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More nightmare tenants have been the subject of investigation in a Channel 5 TV programme to be shown this evening. In the...
17 June 2019
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Two landlords will this evening be seen securing the £16,000 they are owed by a rogue lettings agent - and TV...
10 June 2019
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The Association of Residential Letting Agents is one of many industry groups in a new coalition calling for S21 repossessions to be...
04 June 2019
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There’s been another call on the government to rethink its plans to change the Section 21 eviction process. The founder of Landlord...
21 May 2019
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Hamilton Fraser’s Academy programme has announced its next workshop, on May 14, to target how lettings agents can future-proof their business...
25 March 2019
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There has been a furious response from landlords and tenants to a police letter which says a local force is not...
25 September 2018
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A TV show on Channel 5 this evening may well serve as a warning to letting agents about the dangers of...
19 April 2018
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A rogue lettings agency which is no longer trading is to be featured in a TV documentary this evening on Channel...
05 April 2018
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Tonight's edition of BBC Panorama will investigate the Section 21 evictions process, also known as 'no-fault evictions'. The show - 'Evicted for...
21 February 2018
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A change to the operation of Universal Credit has been welcomed by a trade body which has described it as good...
24 November 2017
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One of the leading eviction specialists is calling for unregulated companies offering similar services to sign up to redress schemes in...
26 July 2017
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HF Resolution Ltd, a subsidiary of Hamilton Fraser, has acquired one of the industry’s leading tenant eviction solicitor firms, Landlord Action. Landlord...
23 June 2017
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The founder of eviction specialist Landlord Action is advising landlords to use accredited letting agents and not try to take the...
16 March 2017
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Hamilton Fraser - parent firm to mydeposits, Total Landlord Insurance, Property Redress Scheme and Client Money Protect - has brought its...
02 March 2017
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Channel 5 has commissioned a third series of Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords with eviction specialist Landlord Action at the heart of...
28 September 2016
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Specialist eviction service Landlord Action has outlined the quickest way to evict tenants under new regulations introduced by the Ministry of...
30 June 2016
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The Property Redress Scheme (PRS) has announced the details of a workshop for Welsh letting agents, taking place in July. The event...
27 May 2016
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Specialist eviction firm Landlord Action claims that in the past 12 months the number of incidents where tenants have sub-let properties...
20 April 2016
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This evening at 9pm sees the start of a second season of Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords on Channel 5. The 10-part series...
09 March 2016
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A survey claims that 17 per cent of private rental sector tenants in the UK admit to having rented out part...
23 February 2016
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The total number of evictions last year reached a record high of 42,728 according to data from the Ministry of Justice. Whilst...
16 February 2016
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Eviction specialist company Landlord Action wants the government to complement its action against rogue letting agents and tenants with a ‘rogue...
05 January 2016
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A blog post by eviction specialists Landlord Action has exposed bad tenants who can clearly afford to pay the rent but...
14 December 2015
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Eviction specialists at Landlord Action say county courts are still overwhelmed by the number of possession claims being put forward, a...
30 November 2015
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The specialist eviction company Landlord Action says it is in full support of the government’s latest proposal to crack down on...
11 November 2015
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Eviction specialists at Landlord Action are raising concerns as to whether there are sufficient resources, especially at local council level, to...
02 October 2015
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A campaign has started to enable more eviction cases to be transferred from county court to High Court in a bid...
19 August 2015
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The Channel Five series Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords - which ends its first series this evening at 9pm - has been...
29 July 2015
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The latest episode of Channel 5’s Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords programme will tonight show how a rogue letting agent in a...
08 July 2015
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The second episode of Channel 5’s Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords, due to air tomorrow evening at 9pm, will feature three separate...
30 June 2015
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Channel 5 tomorrow airs the first episode of Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords, a six-part series which starts with the story of...