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Propertymark has come out with a strongly-worded statement accusing politicians in the Scottish Parliament of ignoring the industry’s views on rent...

A prominent figure in the lettings industry is warning that any proposed ban on so-called bidding wars will end up with...

A report from Propertymark has laid out the stark and in some cases unforeseen consequence of the Conservative government’s phased removal...

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

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

Propertymark has emphasised the importance of retaining fixed term tenancies under the Renters Reform Bill. Propertymark chief executive Nathan Emerson met Housing...

Propertymark will appear in front of the House of Lords’ Industry and Regulators Committee tomorrow morning, urging the regulation of lettings...

The letting agents’ trade body Propertymark has made the unexpected move of calling on banks to cut mortgage rates. Rates are typically...

A government minister has pledged to act on the threat to lettings agents posed by banks acting against pooled client accounts. Many...

A leading agency says the squeeze on tenants facing high rent rises is not going to end anytime soon. The comment -...

The Renters (Reform) Bill rewrites many of the rules that the private rented sector has played by for decades. This may...

A respected property lawyer is accusing the government of helping nuisance tenants at the expense of the weak and vulnerable. Ian Narberth,...

An influential housing body has criticised the Green and SNP politicians behind the Scottish Government’s rent cap, which has been renewed...

A team of experts has released a report that responds to government reform plans - and it insists that if Section...

Holiday lets and second homes in one hotspot in the UK have not, after all, impacted on house prices and affordability,...

A tourism chief has likened new anti-holiday let regulations to those of a Stalinist dictatorship. Ashford Price, secretary of the Welsh Association...

The chief executive of industry accreditation service Safeagent has made another plea for unity within the private rental sector. In a response...

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

Buy to let investors many quit the sector if proposals in the Northern Ireland Private Tenancies Bill go-ahead in their existing...

The long-awaited White Paper on rental reform is some time away, with a minister at the centre of its preparation saying he and...

ARLA Propertymark has hit back at a demand from London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan that he be given the powers to...

The lettings sector is giving a sigh of relief at the absence of any change to Capital Gains Tax by HM Treasury. CGT...

A senior buying agent is warning that new regulations over the length of notice given to tenants is having an unexpected...

ARLA and the NRLA have teamed up with charities - some usually critical of letting agents and landlords - to lobby...

Leading housing lawyer David Smith has become the legal counsel for the new National Residential Landlords Association. Smith is a partner at...

Rent controls similar to those demanded by Labour in London and other major cities in the UK do not work, and...

One of the country’s leading lettings experts has outlined why the government is wrong to suggest that Section 8 powers could...

Another law firm has sharply criticised the government’s proposals to abolish Section 21 eviction powers for landlords. Devonshires says the government should...

The private rented sector would shrink by 20 per cent if Section 21 ‘no-fault’ evictions are abolished, according to an economic...

A Labour think tank considered on the right wing of the party says it wants rent controls that make a difference...

There is increasing evidence of the so-called unintended consequences of the tenant fee ban according to a major regional lettings agency. Linley &...

As the row over Labour’s proposal rumbles on the think tank Centre for Policy Studies - which has previously argued that...

A housing minister has pledged that more key reforms for the private rental sector will be revealed soon, despite Brexit political...

A lettings agency boss who says she is actually in favour of the agents’ fees ban nonetheless admits there will be...

Lettings agents for or against the government’s proposals for longer tenancies have only a very short time left to respond to...

The government’s flagship immigration Right To Rent policy is under threat on two fronts. Firstly a cross-party group of MPs has written...

MPs will today undertake the second reading of the Tenant Fees Bill which proposes to ban upfront tenant fees and introduce...

A bid to allow good tenants’ rent records count towards their creditworthiness has taken a step forward thanks to Big Issue...

The industry has reacted angrily to the announcement yesterday that the Tenants’ Fees Bill is now formally starting its progress through...

One of the industry’s leading trade bodies wants the government to halt the Right To Rent programme after evidence shows some...

Housing minister Alok Sharma has been told face to face that he should rethink the government's plans to cap security deposits...

The majority of MPs speaking at a House of Commons debate yesterday acknowledged they are wary of the 'unintended consequences' of...

A leading trade body says a cap on damage deposits paid by tenants - as proposed by the government - could...

A Tory MP has taken to the internet to warn against what he calls the “unintended consequences” of a ban on...

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...

A senior mortgage lender is warning that government reforms of the buy to let sector could have wide-ranging and unintended consequences. Richard...

Ian Wilson, chief executive officer of Martin & Co, has given David Cameron’s government a “two out of 10” score for...

The charity Crisis is warning that an unintended consequence of the controversial Right To Rent legislation which became law this week...

A leading tax expert says there are likely to be unintended consequences of what he calls “half-cocked legislation” bringing in additional...

The chairman of Berkeley Homes is warning that George Osborne’s latest three per cent stamp duty hike for buy to let...