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An activist group says any future Labour government should introduce a beefed-up version of the Renters Reform Bill - whether or...

According to a poll of 1,476 renters by SpareRoom the ongoing housing crisis (85%) tops the list of key priorities to...

Average rents on newly let properties across Britain rose 8.3 per cent year-on-year in January, the slowest pace for 13 months...

A newly-nominated candidate in this spring’s London Mayoral election has vowed to lower private rents if he wins. Serge Crowbolder, currently a...

The substantial majority of landlords lack any optimism about their sector as they enter 2024. That’s the result of a new sentiment...

The controversial Renters Reform Coalition - a band of campaigners including the Acorn and Generation Rent ginger groups - claims public...

Court Reform first, then scrap Section 21 - landlord leader tells MPs Rental reforms will not work unless the government reforms the...

The leader of Landlord Action has commended the efforts of MP Theresa Villiers for raising issues surrounding court delays which must...

Uncertainty over government plans for the Private Rented Sector - including the controversial Renters Reform Bill - has left the industry...

Shadow housing secretary and Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner has accused the government of “foot dragging” over the slow progress of...

Next month Ben Beadle, chief executive of the National Residential Landlords Association, will be one of the experts at an Agent...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove says he “cannot guarantee” that the Rental Reform Bill will get its Second Reading immediately after Parliament...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has given Conservative conference delegates an update on the Renters Reform Bill. Contrary to speculation, mostly from anti-landlord...

The top table of the National Residential Landlords Association has met with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s team at Downing Street. In addition...

Whoever forms the next government must put the private rental sector at the heart of its housing policy. That’s the view of...

Landlords will be able to let Housing Secretary Michael Gove know exactly what they think of his policies in October. Gove will...

A pressure group within the Labour Party wants a future government to provide £15 billion over 10 years to allow half...

Across the country landlords and renters are struggling as mortgage costs soar, tax hikes bite and uncertainty remains about the impact...

A newspaper which often carries leaks of new Labour policies has produced an interesting theory on the fate of the Renters...

This year is set to bring sweeping rental reforms that will change the face of lettings forever. Landlords should be following...

Activists who until last week were focussing their campaigning on demanding the publication of the Renters Reform Bill have now announced...

The body representing local councils is backing the government’s Renters Reform Bill - even though Labour dominates most local authorities. Councillor Darren...

TV property expert Phil Spencer has called for a radical simplification of the rules surrounding landlord licensing, fees and other regulations. In...

The government has back-tracked on its decision to publish the long-awaited Renters Reform Bill this week. The Mirror newspaper reports this morning that...

Activists are demanding that the government stop landlords circumnavigating an imminent eviction ban by hiking rents so tenants leave anyway. The London...

A campaign group claims that current MPs in the House of Commons make as much as £2m a year. 38 Degrees, which...

A newspaper report claims that some Conservative MPs are unhappy at the anti-landlord tone of the Renters Reform Bill which is...

All landlords need to have an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC), with few exemptions. As a property writer, landlord and Domestic Energy...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove says the long-awaited Renters Reform Bill, first promised in 2019, will finally be introduced into Parliament next...

Plans to change private rental sector tenancy law have gone out to consultation on Jersey. The minister for Housing and Communities, David...

A Conservative-leaning think tank and campaigning charity Shelter have released a book of essays on renting and housing. A statement from Bright...

Landlords are to be given more powers to evict unruly tenants who ruin neighbours’ lives through persistent noise or by being...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has pledged that the long awaited Rental Reform Bill will be introduced into the Commons in two...

The government has taken the first step to introducing a mandatory ombudsman scheme which private landlord must join. It’s published what is...

A third of landlords say that the scrapping of Section 21 is of major concern to them according to a Mortgages...

Proposed government reforms of the private rented sector threaten to make it harder for students to enter higher education, according to...

A coalition of tenant activists has called a Day of Action to protest at delays in the government’s rental reform agenda. The...

A Tory council in Middle England has backed a committee of MPs calling for rental reform measures to be tightened up. The...

Government plans to reform the private rented sector risk making it more difficult for students to enter higher education. That’s the warning...

Improving yields throughout 2023 may stop more landlords quitting - and, in addition, rental reforms are unlikely to be as bad as...

At LRG we are currently seeing rental properties go within days, and sometimes hours of being placed on the market.  Rent is...

Renters’ Reform Bill The Renters’ Reform Bill will dominate the PRS policy agenda in 2023. Signs are encouraging that DLUHC is considering...

The long-awaited Renters Reform Bill did not even warrant a mention in a key speech yesterday by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak...

A Conservative controlled council in the Cotswolds has written to Housing Secretary Michael Gove, urging him to implement rental reform legislation. The...

Students face chaos as government plans to reform the rental market threaten to cause widespread uncertainty as to whether housing will...

Over two thirds of tenants are satisfied with their private rented accommodation, a new survey shows. The finding comes in the results...

An arctic wind has blown throughout the UK in December. Yet it feels that the private rented sector (PRS) has been...

I think 2022 can be summarised as ‘unsettling’ to say the least. With three prime ministers in less than six months,...

What has been billed as the bigger change ever to housing law in Wales comes into force today and is described...

Two groups of activists who campaign for rent controls and reform of the private lettings sector have turned on each other. Acorn...

Despite a string of pledges on rental sector reform delivered in recent days by government ministers, including Housing Secretary Michael Gove,...

The large majority of players in the lettings industry wants the rental reform programme outlined by the government, an agent claims. Laura...

A new 100-unit Build To Rent scheme in Manchester called The Quarters is being marketed as “pet friendly”. The company behind it,...

Landlord and letting agent fears over the impact of rental reform could be eased if only the industry used rigorous and...

Eden council in Cumbria is hosting an event for landlords and managing agents to consider energy efficiency regulations, grants available in...

Crisis, the homelessness charity, is demanding financial and legislative help for tenants. Matt Downie, Crisis chief executive, says: “This is a time of...

The future of the private rented sector in England has been back under the Westminster spotlight in the last two weeks...

The government has once again declined to give any meaningful timetable for the introduction of the Renters Reform Bill. At the end...

The MPs Natalie Elphicke and Lloyd Russell-Moyle are to lead a debate today in the House of Commons on the private rental...

Activists got reassurance from Boris Johnson and Liz Truss in the past, and have a supportive politician in the form of...

Ben Beadle, chief executive of the National Residential Landlords Association, says rebooting rental reform must be the number one priority for...

A landlord representative is to be a member of a new advisory panel which has been set up by the Property...

The National Residential Landlords Association says housing minister Andrew Stephenson will give a key-note address at its annual conference. The only problem...

A Labour MP has written to the Housing Secretary demanding a timetable for the implementation of rental reform. Catherine West, MP for...

The new Chancellor in the beleaguered Liz Truss government is former health and foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt - a buy to...

It is a fundamental principle of a functioning democracy that parties, when in power, should pay at least lip service to...

Private renting voters could be critical in deciding the outcome of the next General Election, according to Shelter. The campaigning charity -...

One of the highest profile figures in the lettings industry says the apparent inaction by government over rental reform gives an...

The charity Shelter is organising a fringe meeting at next week’s Conservative party conference, with a prominent campaigner for a mandatory...

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

More enforcement is required if the government is to introduce the scale of reforms it has called for in its recent...

Labour’s radical proposals for the private rental sector - including reducing landlords’ powers to demand arrears - have produced a dramatic...

For the last decade, successive Governments have promised a review of the rules around renting in the UK – in part...

The buy-to-let market is going through a rough patch. With legislative change on the horizon, coupled with bleak ROI forecasts, many...

The new Chancellor is about to unveil his strategy for growth - but for now at least the government appears hugely...

Shelter claims that almost 1.1m private renters in England – one in seven – had their rent increased in the last...

As inflation passes the 10% mark, it’s no surprise that many landlords are hurriedly reviewing the health of their buy to...

Landlords across the country will be aware of the government’s shiny new proposed policy package for the Private Rental Sector, released...

Two new ministers have been appointed to the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. But at this stage it’s uncertain whether...

PropTech firms Goodlord and Voich have released the findings of their annual State of the Lettings Industry survey. Some 2,600 agents, landlords...

* Angels Media and Landlord Today are deeply saddened by the passing of HM Queen Elizabeth II * - Agents are warning that...

The minister who was behind the controversial Renters Reform Bill and the accompanying White Paper has this morning resigned from the...

The National Residential Landlords Association has issued its formal congratulations to Simon Clarke, the new Housing Secretary. But Ben Beadle, NRLA chief...

The government - at least until it changes under the new Prime Minister to be announced today - is moving forward...

The National Residential Landlords Association has made a blistering attack on a “big bureaucratic and unaccountable beast” at the heart of...

There’s only today and tomorrow left for landlords to respond to the committee of MPs currently calling for evidence concerning the...

In June, the government finally released its long-awaited White Paper ‘A Fairer Private Rented Sector’. You will almost certainly have seen...

Renters are being placed at unnecessary risk due to a delay in reforms that would allegedly give them greater protection, it’s...

The National Residential Landlords Association is asking all landlords - not just its members - to contribute to a consultation on...

It’s just possible that the new Prime Minister - whether Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss - might just redress the imbalance...

A group of health and safety experts has created a guide to help landlords understand major rental reform being introduced in...

On 16 June 2022, the Government introduced a White Paper called “A Fairer Rented Private Sector”. It proposes the biggest changes...

Eddie Hughes MP - the sole surviving Boris Johnson appointee in the housing ministry and the man behind the Renters Reform...

With speculation about what happens next in Westminster at fever pitch, now isn’t the time to make predictions as to how...

With the (eventual) departure of Boris Johnson, the next question for landlords and indeed much of the property industry is: What’s going...

Greg Clark is the new Housing Secretary, with responsibilities including steering the Renters' Reform Bill through parliament. He is part of a...

Landlords typically spend hundreds of pounds repairing properties damaged by pets, but unable to recoup their costs.  That’s the claim from industry...

Now is the time to lobby the Government on the detail of the Renters Reform Bill. That’s the message from the expert...

An organisation that helps promote the Build To Rent sector says BTR should take credit for many of the changes proposed...

The public at large are not falling behind the government’s proposals for private rental sector reforms, it seems. A survey conducted by...