The government has failed the private rental sector says the Residential Landlords Association. In a statement released even before the resignation of...
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14 February 2020
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An MP says he will raise with local police chiefs a series of claims from landlords and tenants concerning a lettings...
16 May 2019
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The Home Secretary has been asked by a leading lettings sector trade organisation to ensure hard copy documents are given to...
09 October 2018
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The government’s flagship immigration Right To Rent policy is under threat on two fronts. Firstly a cross-party group of MPs has written...
07 June 2018
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The new Home Secretary Sajid Javid is being urged to look again at the Right To Rent policy and produce “a...
02 May 2018
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One of the client money protection schemes operating in the lettings sector says he believes agents and property managers could be...
19 March 2018
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The lettings sector is at the forefront of government proposals for a new redress system for customers of agents and others. In...
19 February 2018
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The Private Members’ Bill that has won government backing - and which would give tenants the right to sue landlords over...
16 January 2018
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The government has taken the unusual step of working with a Labour MP to ensure her Private Members Bill can become...
15 January 2018
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In an unusual move the government has today, Sunday, announced that it wants tenants to have the right to take legal...
14 January 2018
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At least one trade body has expressed an apparent scepticism about whether the rebranding of the Department of Communities and Local...
09 January 2018
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The Communities and Local Government committee of MPs will on Monday hear their first oral evidence of the year for the...
05 January 2018
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After the series of anti-buy to let measures contained in recent Budgets, it is perhaps unsurprising that a survey of landlords...
21 November 2017
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One of the government’s three approved official redress providers says companies operating in the Rent-to-Rent sector should be obliged to join...
16 November 2017
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The will exists in the private rental sector to provide the longer term tenancies advocated by the government, says a trade...
10 November 2017
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The draft Bill to ban letting agents’ fees levied on tenants has been published - it’s to be called the Tenants’...
01 November 2017
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PropTech company PayProp says the government’s outline proposal for greater regulation of the private rental sector should be treated as good...
23 October 2017
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Plans for new measures regarding leasehold tenancies to help create “a fairer property management system that works for everyone” have been...
18 October 2017
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The Association of Residential Letting Agents has welcomed the government commitment to introduce regulation for agencies - but it is warning...
03 October 2017
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Housing minister Alok Sharma has once again confirmed that the ban on lettings’ agents fees levied on tenants in England will...
15 September 2017
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Twenty agency groups have backed a call by the Association of Residential Letting Agents urging the government to extend or scrap its...
26 April 2017
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The Association of Residential Letting Agents is calling on the government to either extend the consultation period for the proposed ban...
25 April 2017
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Agents and many industry bodies have expressed their disappointment and anger at many provisions of the Housing White Paper produced by...
08 February 2017
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The government has set out 29 key points in its Housing White Paper. Introducing in the Commons this afternoon, Communities Secretery Sajid...