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Letting industry doyen Valerie Bannister has celebrated 40 years in the industry with a party thrown by her employer, Your Move.  Valerie...

The Leaders Romans Group lettings agency chain is demanding that the new government elected tomorrow brings back the Renters Reform Bill...

There’s been at most a one per cent reduction in landlords in the buy to let sector, a think tank claims...

The government has written to Conservative MPs promising changes to the Renters Reform Bill to ease concerns over its anti-landlord bias. Jacob...

Labour has waded into the increasingly-fractious debate over the Renters Reform Bill. Activists in groups such as the Renters Reform Coalition and...

Propertymark wants the Bank of England to cut interest rates following data showing soaring mortgage arrears and repossessions. Lenders trade body UK...

UK Finance has published its housing and mortgage market forecasts for 2024 and 2025 together with projections for 2023 full year numbers. Key figures for 2023 In...

It looks as if the rental market is set to stay strong for some years to come. That’s because lending for house...

The government has pledged that section 21 repossessions will not be scrapped until improvements have been made to the way courts...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Ross Nichols, and it says i’m Co-Founder at Just Move...

Housing legal aid is increasingly out of reach for tenants who need help, the Law Society of England and Wales claims.  Quarterly...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove is being lobbied to take urgent action over the growing problem of abandoned tenancies. Propertymark chief executive Nathan...

An estimated 700,000 households across the UK missed rent or mortgage payments in April, according to the consumer body Which? It has...

A trade body says inventories are set to play an increasingly important role in the private rental sector as fire regulations...

Landlords and agents acting on their behalf are to be given more powers to evict unruly tenants who ruin neighbours’ lives...

Numbers of possessions have soared in Scotland since the introduction of a rent cap and eviction ban according to DJ Alexander,...

New figures from the Ministry of Justice show that between October and December last year, across England and Wales, there were...

The Bank of England has increased base rate to 4.0 per cent - its 10th rate rise in a row. Nathan Emerson,...

Today we are publishing a letter sent to us regarding the death of a relative who was living in rental accommodation.  We...

Data from the mortgage lenders’ trade body UK Finance shows the wisdom of agents having a lettings division. The body says: “We...

Agents are calling for a pilot project to measure the impact of the government abolishing Section 21 eviction powers. In its response...

An analysis of lettings data across England and Wales shows that  there have been 3,737 rental property repossession orders granted in...

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee has announced that base rate is rising from 1.25 to 1.75 per cent. The rate is now...

Propertymark is questioning whether the Scottish Government is adequately funding the First-tier Tribunal to cope with any extra demand placed on...

Research from price comparison service Comparethemarket suggests that 48 per cent of renters do not have contents insurance. Of those, more than...

One of the country’s most outspoken advocates of rent controls has been told why agents and landlords oppose them. Propertymark has hosted...

ITV’s Tonight current affairs programme will this evening look at evictions in the private rental sector.  The episode - Losing Your Home:...

A radical overhaul of the private rental sector is underway in Scotland and agents’ body Propertymark says it wants all sides...

New research from insurance provider Paymentshield has found that over one in five UK tenants have experienced a negative property event...

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...

A senior Labour politician in the capital claims that there’s been “a stark rise” in people losing their homes since the...

New figures from the Ministry of Justice show a dramatic long-term decline in the number of possessions in the private rental...

There may be a breakthrough in clearing the huge backlog of possession cases as the government is allocating an extra £324m...

The House of Commons Library, an independent body not controlled by government, has published a detailed history of the many measures...

More than a third of renters haven’t taken out contents insurance for their possessions. Analysis by insurance provider Trōv has found that...

A buying agency says it’s seen what it calls “a huge uptake in furnished lettings requests” following recent floods in London,...

Californian PropTech firm Trov, specialising in digital insurance for tenants, has announced a deal with major UK rental companies.  The deal is...

A prominent member of the House of Lords and a rental activist are calling for an immediate suspension of all Section...

Tomorrow sees the start of a three-day debate over the extension of the eviction ban in Scotland - and Propertymark appears...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents’ wing of Propertymark is demanding to see the results of a mediation project initiated by...

The government has revised its guidelines for its new mediation scheme, which it says will avoid some possessions now that the...

Official figures show that far from seeing a rise during the pandemic, there has been what the government calls “a massive...

A lettings agency director has been issued with a Criminal Behaviour Order for unlawfully evicting a tenant back in 2019. CFDP Ltd, trading as...

A major trade body has called for a tapering down of notice periods for Section 8 and Section 21. The government has...

A House of Lords committee is urging the government to find alternatives to court possession cases in a bid to deal...

An estimated 840,000 private tenants have arrears over the past year since the first eviction ban was announced, according to a...

The government has announced a further extension to the current ban on bailiff-enforced evictions in England until May 31. At that point...

A think tank says large scale intervention in the rental market via loans to tenants is the only way of addressing...

Government data suggests that scare stories talking of a glut of evictions if the current ban is lifted are simply unfounded. Data...

A council is offering a free event for agents and landlords to get the latest updates on national and local private...

Labour has written to Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick demanding the return of the eviction ban - even though, to all intents...

The announcement of the Renters’ Reform Bill in the Queen’s speech last December caused a collective groan across the country from...

Much has been made of the backlog of court cases - including landlords’ possession attempts - and now the Ministry of Justice...

A prominent PropTech figure says agents have a key role in reducing evictions in the short term - and he suggests...

The lettings industry is today preparing for the current ban on repossessions to be lifted on Sunday with courts to hear...

Pressure is building on the UK government to ensure England follows the example of both Scotland and Wales and creates a...

Agents and landlords must now give tenants six months’ notice before they can evict, except in the most serious of cases,...

Reduce buy to let regulation or face a worsening housing crisis - that’s the message from a leading property lawyer.  Mary Rouse,...

In the latest twist in the long-running saga of the eviction ban, the government has revealed changes to notice periods. The changes...

A leading trade body has told Prime Minister Boris Johnson that some landlords face receiving no rent for two years.  In a...

The Citizens Advice charity is calling for tenants with arrears directly created by the Coronavirus to be offered government grants to...

A leading lettings sector trade body has set out reasons why the eviction ban should be lifted - which may help...

New research pours cold water on claims by anti-agency campaigners that there will be a glut of evictions when the ban ends...

An insurance firm claims many tenants “make the mistake of thinking the items in their home aren’t worth” and so do...

The National Residential Landlords Association has dismissed the latest claims by campaigning charity Shelter that landlords have not done enough to...

The government appears to have confirmed that the evictions ban will end in late August and courts will resume hearing possession...

In another sign of concern at the speed and volume of eviction cases once the ban is lifted at the end...

Figures unearthed by the Daily Telegraph show the scale of the arrears and eviction court case backlog likely to face the...

Landlords or their agents wanting to obtain possession of their property should act sooner rather than later despite the current ban. That’s...

A legal expert says the Court of Appeal ruling on S21 possession orders last week has resolved one of the most...

Successes for the private rental sector may seem few and far between these days but the Court of Appeal has now...

A leading trade body is backing calls by MPs for additional financial support to tenants during the Coronavirus crisis. The National Residential...

Part of the controversial Spicerhaart empire want the government to guarantee that some landlords receive 80 per cent of their usual...

All court possession orders are being suspended from today as part of the changes to the private rental sector to cope...

London courts are failing to cope with the volume of landlord repossession cases according to a trade body. New figures show the...

The Conservatives’ new concept of a so-called Lifetime Deposit has been welcomed by the Residential Landlords Association.  Yesterday, Letting Agent Today revealed...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has accused courts across the country of failing to follow their own rules when it comes...

A new property court similar to the Scottish system should be established in England and Wales to deal with the proposed...

The Ministry of Justice says it takes private landlords an average of 22.5 weeks from making a repossession claim to the...

The vast majority of letting agents and private landlords with experience of using the courts to repossess properties say the system...

Vulnerable tenants suffering a higher risk of rent arrears will be hit hardest by plans to change the way landlords can...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is one of many industry groups in a new coalition calling for S21 repossessions to be...

Controversial London lettings agency Flintons has again been named by a BBC TV programme for allegedly unreasonable behaviour in relation to...

There’s been another major industry survey revealing that a high number of lettings agents and landlords may quit the private rental...

Over 6,000 people have responded to the Residential Landlord Association’s survey asking what a post-Section 21 private rented sector should look...

Housing minister Heather Wheeler has pledged that the government will make changes to the court repossession process alongside its plans to...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has urged the government to 'fix' the court system before it goes ahead with its plan...

One of the most vocal critics of lettings agents in recent years appears to be moving away from the property industry. Campbell...

The government says it wants to ban outright Section 21 'no fault' eviction powers in England and Wales. Instead landlords seeking to evict...

A landlord who failed to comply with orders to improve the standard of a property has had to pay over £7,500...

A leading PropTech exponent is supporting the government’s Housing Court initiative, suggesting it could make redress for agents, landlords and tenants...

Increased use of PropTech by letting agents can cut rent arrears, minimise voids and reduce the financial and legal fall out...

A call has been made for the government to review the section 8 possession process as part of its call for...

The landlord of an HMO who subjected his tenants to insanitary and unsafe living conditions has been told he will no...

The campaign group Generation Rent is back on the warpath in opposition of Section 21, which it describes as “the leading...

The Residential Landlords’ Association has written an angry letter of protest to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation following the publication of what...

Data from the Ministry of Justice suggest that incidents of landlord possessions have fallen at all stages, for the eighth quarter...

  Renters are spending half their wages keeping a roof over their head, are twice as likely as homeowners to have no...

Data from the Ministry of Justice suggests the number of claims made by private sector landlords to repossess a property has...