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Propertymark is urging the UK government to implement reforms that will make it more cost effective and simpler for people to...

Regulation of lettings and estate agencies must be a priority for the government elected tomorrow, a PropTech entrepreneur demands. Sián Hemming-Metcalfe of...

New rules on renewing leases may take years to come into effect, a leading property lawyer warns. The Leasehold Reform Act became...

Leasehold reform still has a long way to run, according to the Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners (ALEP). The major party manifestos...

Agents, and others in the lettings industry, have given a sceptical response to the Conservative manifesto and its varied pledges about...

A prominent solicitors’ firm says the failure of the Renters Reform Bill to become law may have attracted headlines but the...

The agents’ trade body says many in the industry will be pleased that the Renters Reform Bill has bitten the dust...

The corporate freeholder which has been obliged to fix serious building safety issues at a tower block has issued a statement...

The government has won a landmark legal challenge against a freeholder forcing it to fix serious building safety issues in a...

The ongoing debate over ground rents within Government is rapidly becoming a Parliamentary farce that could soon lead to an economic...

Two agencies are merging their lettings operations and launching a Joint Venture company to enable continued growth in their respective areas...

Law firm Bishop & Sewell is hosting a webinar to give leaseholders information and advice about the Right to Manage, a...

What appears to be another government housing policy U-turn - this time on ground rents - is being hailed as “a...

The all-party House of Lords Industry and Regulators Committee has urged the government to get on with establishing a regulator of...

A prominent rental activist is tomorrow going to tell a House of Lords committee about the need to regulate letting agents. Conor...

Labour is using a Bill currently going through Parliament as a backdoor method to introduce the regulation of lettings, estate and...

Agents’ trade body Propertymark says the current debate on the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill is another example of how agent...

Plans for leasehold reform face a major early stumbling block as analysis shows plans to retrospectively introduce a cap on ground...

Former housing minister Rachel Maclean - the victim of a shock sacking by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak last month - has...

Michael Gove’s Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill, currently going through Parliament, has won praise from the industry body The Property Institute. There...

Propertymark wants Housing Secretary Michael Gove to continue with ground rent reforms for leaseholders following the launch of a consultation into this...

An industry supplier owned by the Leaders Romans Group says the government’s pledge to reform - not replace - leasehold should...

Labour deputy leader and shadow housing secretary Angela Rayner has given her party’s conference an outline of future policy plans. She says:...

Propertymark has issued another plea to the government to be fair to the private rental sector - this time regarding a...

The new Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service kicks in today - it offers early legal advice, free of charge, to anyone...

New research from lettings agency Hamptons shows that since 2018, average service charges for flats across England and Wales have increased...

Introduce yourself A: My name is Sean Hooker. I have worked for the HFIS group for sixteen years, originally helping set...

Propertymark says current government policy over leaseholder protections is too weak. The letting agents’ trade body has thrown its weight behind a...

The Competition and Markets Authority is launching a three month probe into how letting agents operate within the private rental sector. It says...

Agents, leaseholders and freeholders can gain an insight into one of the most contentious areas of leasehold with a free webinar...

The former president of ARLA Propertymark has made an outspoken attack on the government for failing to regulate the agency industry. Maxine...

Electric Vehicle charging points in rental properties are going to be expensive and should be planned and saved for now, according...

Greater regulation of lettings agents, and all other property professionals, is required to ‘finish the job’ of reforming the industry which...

Propertymark says one lasting legacy of the Grenfell Tower tragedy is that agents letting properties in high rise blocks must engage...

Propertymark has said that the government’s ban on ground rent on new leasehold properties should go further. The government revealed over the...

The criticism by landlords aimed at Housing Secretary Michael Gove for some of his comments regarding the cladding issue, has now...

Propertymark has entered the debate about whether buy to let landlords should be amongst those receiving help from the government in...

A property consultancy says it’s identified the next ‘landmine’ in the building safety saga facing agents and landlords around the country. Mary-Anne...

New rules out for consultation concerning block management aim to improve professionalism across the sector, root out rogue agents, and increase...

The Property Ombudsman and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors are seeking views of agents, landlords and tenants on a new...

The Dogs Trust campaign ‘lets with pets’ states: “Landlords and letting agencies who exclude pet owners from their properties are missing out...

Ringley Group has secured the UK’s largest apartment complex to be managed by leaseholders as a franchisee client.  The Century Wharf Estate...

A block management company owned by the Leaders Romans Group has been awarded over £6.5m in government building safety funds to...

Two long-established lettings and sales agencies on the south coast have merged in a bid to “enhance customer experience.” Smart Property and...

Most landlords are wary of the potential damage, smells and noise complaints that can come with accommodating a tenant with pets....

A new ethical letting agency has launched in partnership with a housing association and is promoting its low fee structure. Home Makers,...

While we wouldn’t be so bold as to say the government gets its daily fix of property news from the Today...

Throughout April and May, we ran a high-profile campaign across our sites, Landlord Today, Estate Agent Today, Letting Agent Today and...

An agency has been expelled from The Property Ombudsman after receiving over 100 separate complaints, and failing to pay over £419,000...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur says he welcomes reforms currently moving through Parliament to professionalise the lettings sector - but he wants...

The government has this morning - Easter Sunday - announced a crackdown on rogue letting agents in the shape of a...

A leasehold campaigner has called on the Queen to end her support for what he calls the UK's “feudal leasehold system” by changing the...

The Conveyancing Association has made a wide-ranging response to the government’s call for evidence on the regulation of letting and managing...

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

It is 50 years since the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 became law and now a firm speciaising in enfranchisement extension wants the government...

Leasehold enfranchisement specialist operator Leasehold Solutions is the latest to welcome the government’s suggestion of a regulatory watchdog to oversee leasehold...

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

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

Southwark council in south London is sending leaflets to all its leaseholders to warn them that letting out homes on any...

Respected legal firm Mishcon de Reya is the latest voice warning of problems which can be caused when apartment owners let...

Some industry organisations have spotted that under new legislation now in effect, tenants’ associations are being given the right to gain...

Magistrates have fined the leaseholders and landlords of a 10-flat property in north London £120,000 after finding they had put the...

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Nearly 40 per cent of all homes sold under Right To Buy in England have gone on to become buy to...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned a radio advertisement for Direct Line Landlord Insurance because it has been judged to be...