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Propertymark has responded to the formal consultation schemes being imposed by a string of local councils - but says such measures...

Agents, landlords and others’ views are being sought in a consultation on proposals to introduce a borough-wide additional licensing scheme for...

Two massive new rental licensing schemes are set to be approved in Brighton - and part of the reason is “uninterested...

A former lettings agent who now helps tenants take legal action against landlords says 25 per cent of the complaints he...

A council claims that a pilot licensing scheme has discovered a very high proportion of rental homes requiring improvement. Plans to extend...

A collection of rental experts in a body called The Lettings Industry Council have set out what they want to see...

Private rental property conditions and the enforcement of regulations by councils and government have all been in the firing line from...

Another council is to conduct a consultation process to expand selective and additional licensing schemes for the next five years. Under existing...

A report by the National Audit Office claims that the way private renting is regulated makes the sector unfair to renters. It...

Agents need to be diligent regarding the the growth of cannabis in rental properties and the devastating lengths tenants will go to...

A lettings agent has taken the unorthodox approach of advising tenants to take their landlords to court in a bid to...

Bury council in Greater Manchester has adopted new measures to fine agents or landlords up to £30,000 if their properties fail...

Another report by the campaigning charity Shelter is critical of the quality of Britain’s private rental sector - and indeed the...

Propertymark is making it clear that rent controls are not the way to operate an efficient lettings market. In a formal response...

An organisation that wants rent controls, the scrapping of Section 21 and what it calls “indefinite tenancies” claims to have 4,000...

Another council is consulting on introducing a selective licensing scheme - and again it claims it will “create better housing for...

Luton council has opened Lets Squared, a High Street lettings and estate agency using public funds - even though the town...

A landlord has been fined almost £2,500 for breaching an improvement notice issued by Cambridge City Council. Noelle Salameh was fined after...

The most controversial local council rental licensing scheme in the country has been deemed a success - at least by the...

Enfield wants to be the latest London council to introduce large-scale additional and selective licensing schemes which would affect most private rented...

Another local authority has announced that it wants to introduce another selective licensing scheme and designate its entire patch for HMO...

One of the most pro-licensing local authorities in the country has extended its own scheme to include the entire centre of...

A government minister says the phrase ”rogue landlord” is too “cuddly” and he wants buy to let investors who broke the...

MPs in the House of Commons will today debate the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Bill, promoted by a Labour backbencher...

A date has been set for the next stage of the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Bill, which is being promoted...

Well over twice as many Scottish tenants have seen their rents rise at the start of the year compared to those...

Lettings agency Haart says the government should go much further than the legislation it is supporting giving tenants the right to...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has thrown its weight behind a Private Members Bill which wants tenants to have the...

The Private Members’ Bill that has won government backing - and which would give tenants the right to sue landlords over...

In an unusual move the government has today, Sunday, announced that it wants tenants to have the right to take legal...

The Chartered Institute of Housing wants the government to introduce a raft of new measures including significantly greater regulation of letting...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is warning the government that some of its proposed changes to regulations governing HMOs may...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has responded to the latest government recommendations for tighter controls on the private rental sector...

Labour MP Karen Buck want private tenants to be able to sue their landlords if they rent in what are considered...

After celebrating its year anniversary this week, Boris Johnson’s London Rental Standard has been criticised for signing up only 12% of...