The Government has revealed much more detail about its long-awaited and somewhat feared Renters Rights Bill that had its initial reading in parliament earlier this month.
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Kemi Badenoch, who is the odds-on favourite to become the Conservative party leader, warns the Renters' Rights Bill will cause chaos in the PRS.
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New funding for EPC improvements has been announced by the government in England, but many landlords may still be left out in the cold, the National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) warns.
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Landlord Action’s Paul Shamplina has predicted a rise in landlords using rent guarantee insurance as well as tougher referencing to protect themselves against the fall-out of eviction reforms.
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An agent claims he and his peers in other agencies face massive corruption and forgery struggles with forged IDs, digitally-altered supporting documents and undeclared financial issues.
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A new briefing paper from the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) has poured cold water on calls for rent controls in Britain, finding overwhelming evidence that rent controls do far more damage than benefit tenants.
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The National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) has questioned reports suggesting the Labour government is set to introduce French-style hardship tests for landlord possession proceedings.
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An appeal judge has backed a tenant’s argument that serving prescribed information before the deposit is paid isn’t valid, meaning their eviction cannot go ahead.
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One of the rental sector’s best-known legal figures, Tessa Shepperson, is compiling a definitive list on her blog of all the PRS laws that affect letting agents and landlords.
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The National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) has thrown its weight behind the government's new landlord database plan, insisting it could be a tool to weed out criminal landlords.
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Labour is looking to prevent landlords from evicting tenants who have nowhere else to live, the Telegraph reports.
It says government ministers will propose imitating a French scheme which has ‘hardship tests’ that must be followed before evicting
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Kate Davies, executive director of the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA), says introducing rent controls are not the magic answer to problems in the lettings sector.
In a statement to the mortgage industry media she says the new Labour
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Landlords who use OpenRent to find tenants will no longer have access to Rightmove when advertising their properties, it has been announced.
Rightmove has released a statement this morning confirmingthat negotiations between the two companies over how
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Propertymark says stricter rules for EPC ratings in the private rental sector must be backed up with incentives and financial support.
The trade body is responding to widespread speculation that the government is going to legislate for private rental
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The Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 is a cornerstone of English property law, providing essential guidelines for the maintenance and repair obligations of landlords.
One of the most critical sections ofthis Act is Section 11, which outlines the specific
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Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Secretary Angela Rayner has launched a comprehensive review of the National Planning Policy Framework.
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The next Government should create a separate Ministry of Housing and encourage MPs of all parties to work together to solve the country’s property crisis.
That’s the verdict of one property industrycommentator who says the next Prime Minister needs
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The number of households removed from their privately rented properties by bailiffs in England via a Section 21 ‘no fault’ eviction increased by 19% during the first three months of the year to 2,682 households, official data shows.
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