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The government has committed to introduce mandatory five yearly electrical safety checks in the private rented sector. No time date has been...

Close to £2.4m of additional funding designed to clampdown on unscrupulous landlords will be made available for more than 50 councils...

The Welsh government is planning to introduce new incentives and other support to help encourage more landlords with properties in Wales...

The Minister for Family Support, Housing and Child Maintenance, Justin Tomlinson, will address the Residential Landlords Association’s (RLA) Future Renting Wales conference...

Yesterday’s announcement that councils in England are going to be handed an additional £2m in government funding to tackle the small...

New plans to raise standards across the property agent sector have been unveiled by the housing minister Heather Wheeler. A new working...

Trading Standards services in London are warning landlords and letting agents to ensure that they comply with the law and not...

The Welsh Assembly is being urged to reconsider the bill to ban tenants’ fees in Wales due to concerns that that...

Kit Malthouse has been named as the government’s latest housing minister after Dominic Raab, who spent just six months in the...

The government has launched new online information designed to help renters and landlords know their rights. The rental guides, published by the...

New guidance for landlords to further protect tenants from poor living conditions has been published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities...

The tenancy security deposits that tenants leave with landlords or their letting agents should be capped at a maximum of three...

Councils are being urged to do more to crack down on rogue landlords who are leaving thousands of tenants living in...

Theresa May continued to shake-up her ministerial team yesterday by handing jobs to several junior ministers, but he her decision to...

The Welsh minister for housing and regeneration, Rebecca Evans AM, will address the RLA’s Future Renting Wales conference in Cardiff today.  The Future...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has announced that the Welsh cabinet secretary responsible for housing policy, Carl Sargeant, will be the...

New measures to clamp down on unscrupulous landlords who trap and cram vulnerable tenants in unsafe, overcrowded homes in Govanhill, Glasgow,...

With significantly more new homes urgently needed to help plug the housing shortage in this country, the government views the Build...

Most buy-to-let landlords could soon be required to licence their properties in the London borough of Brent if the government agrees...

The fire that engulfed a 24-storey tower block in west London yesterday, tragically killing several people when flames tore through the...

New proposals to ensure all privately rented homes north of the border meet a minimum standard of energy efficiency have been...

Renters are expected to be given a boost with ministers promising new minimum tenancies and vowing to build more homes to...

The government has launched an official consultation process on plans to for new banning orders to clampdown on rogue landlords and...

Don Valley MP Caroline Flint is calling for selective licensing to be extended across the borough, after visiting Newham in London,...

The government’s plan to tighten licensing requirements for landlords of shared accommodation in an effort to clamp down on rogue landlords...

The housing minister’s call this week for significantly more homes “of every single type” to be built, including significantly more homes for...

The head of the UK's largest property franchise group has called on the new Housing Minister, Gavin Barwell, to reverse 'punitive...

Gavin Barwell has been appointed the new Minister for Housing, Planning and London, taking over from Brandon Lewis, who has moved...

Professional investors should be exempt from the recently introduced 3% stamp duty surcharge, according to the Better Renting for Britain campaign. Some of...

Housing Minister Brandon Lewis has written to all local councils in England in order to clarify homelessness guidance following pressure from...

Conservative MPs have defeated a Labour amendment to the government’s housing and planning bill to require landlords to ensure their properties...

The Government is poised to introduce tough new laws for landlords this week – with fines of up to £30,000 for...

Local authorities that charge landlords for licences solely to collect information on the number of landlords in an area have been...

Housing minister Brandon Lewis has announced new measures that will clamp down on “criminal” landlords who “trap and cram vulnerable tenants...

Local councils are being urged to drop landlord licensing schemes following the publication of new laws showing that they are not...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) claims there is a major drafting error in Government regulations affecting the end of private sector...

Housing minister Brandon Lewis has backtracked on suggestions that the government may introduce longer standard tenancy agreements in the private rental...

The Welsh Government has launched the ‘Rent Smart Wales’ brand ahead of introducing licensing of all private landlords in the Autumn....

If the first few hours of the new government’s approach to housing are anything to go by, it could be a...

Mark Francois, the MP for Rayleigh and Wickford has been appointed the new housing minister, replacing Brandon Lewis. The move was part...