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![Court Reform needed alongside end of Section 21, insists NRLA](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/LegalAdvice-400x310.png)
The National Residential Landlords Association says ending Section 21 eviction powers in isolation, as some have suggested the new government should...
18 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Landlords “must use agents to handle Labour’s reforms” - claim](/upload/images/3%20shutterstock_1750387934.jpg)
A prominent property group says landlords can only cope with the upcoming rental reform programme under Labour if they work with...
09 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![NRLA Tells Labour - “we’ll work with you on Rental Reform”](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
The National Residential Landlords Association has congratulated Labour on its landslide election win and has extended the hand of cooperation for...
08 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Starmer names minister to steer through Rental Reform Legislation](/upload/images/1%20shutterstock_1197102829.jpg)
Labour MP Matthew Pennycook has been named as the principal housing minister in the new government. He was shadow housing minister when...
06 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Labour’s Rental Reform Agenda - getting it right](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Estate-Agent-400x310.png)
As the new Labour Government settles into power, rental reform will be one of the items at the top of the...
06 July 2024
From: Rental Reform
![Rental Reform a priority for Labour “because it’s cheap”](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/House_pound-400x310.png)
Labour is likely to make rental sector reform and regulation a priority - at least partly because it will be low-cost...
05 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Political dithering allows tenants to stay a year rent-free](/upload/images/shutterstock_2251240795.jpg)
A prominent industry figure has criticised politicians for leaving all sides of the private lettings sector with uncertainty - and allowing...
04 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Renters Reform Bill must be passed ASAP insists landlord group](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
The National Residential Landlords Association is demanding that the new government elected tomorrow brings back the Renters Reform Bill “as a...
03 July 2024
From: Breaking News
![Buy To Let - only a third of landlords feel positive about it](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Buy-to-let-2-400x310.png)
Fewer landlords feel negative about their buy to let business according to the latest Landbay landlord survey. The specialist lender’s surveys typically...
26 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![HMO landlords heavily reliant on property for sole income](/upload/images/shutterstock_2442882233.jpg)
Half of HMO landlords say their property or portfolio is their sole source of income. Just under 30% of landlords who took...
25 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Landlords' trade body sets out three key election ‘asks’](/upload/images/Election%20housing%20.jpg)
The National Residential Landlords Association has set out what it calls “three key asks” of the new government to protect and...
25 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![NRLA says Rental Reform sabotaged by lack of tenant choice](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/LandlordNews-400x310.png)
A lack of choice for private renters about where they can live will undermine plans set out by political parties to...
20 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Labour Victory - Most landlords unfazed at prospect of Starmer win](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/LandlordNews-400x310.png)
A survey of over 1,000 landlords finds they appear largely reconciled to the election of a Labour government after 14 years...
18 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Pro-tenant activists slam Labour’s rental reform plans](/upload/images/shutterstock_1227135172(1).jpg)
Labour’s manifesto commitment to empower renters to challenge unreasonable rent increases has been slammed because it “would leave millions trapped in...
17 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![NRLA ‘ready to work with Labour’ on new Rental Reform Bill](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews1-400x310.png)
The National Residential Landlords Association says it’s ready and willing to work with a future Labour government on private rental sector...
14 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Labour pledges “immediate” scrapping of Section 21](/upload/images/shutterstock_2189665543(1).jpg)
Labour’s manifesto, just released, makes a pledge to enact the “immediate” abolition of Section 21 eviction powers, along with other private...
13 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Tory Rental Reform and Housing Policies in Full](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Estate-Agent-400x310.png)
The Conservatives have set out a 78-page manifesto, of which just over two pages are given to housing and related issues. Here...
12 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![New Rental Reform Bill needed to protect tenants, claims Zoopla](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/BuildToRent-400x310.png)
In an unusual intervention for a lettings industry supplier, Zoopla has made an impassioned plea for a new Renters Reform Bill. The...
10 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Rental Manifesto Wishlist - one letting agent chief's demands](/upload/images/shutterstock_1620606382.jpg)
Fiscal reform for the private rented sector We’ve already seen some landlords leaving the private rented sector because of substantially increased taxes....
08 June 2024
From: Agent Advice
![Labour upsets Generation Rent by prioritising first time buyers](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
The Generation Rent activist group has issued a statement appearing sharply critical of Labour’s first new policy on housing in the General...
07 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Agency appears not to know Renters Reform Bill is dead](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
A lettings agency has issued a statement seeking to woo landlords and says the “forthcoming legislative changes such as the Rental...
06 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Tomorrow’s Stamp Duty Change “a missed opportunity to reform renting”](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/StampDuty1_400x310.png)
A controversial stamp duty change - announced months ago but coming into effect tomorrow - has been described as a missed...
31 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Corbynite Rental Reform MP stopped from standing in election](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
A Labour MP who served in Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow administration and has spent much of his Parliamentary career criticising the private...
30 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Generation Rent says current eviction rules work “at a landlord’s whim”](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Eviction-400x310.png)
The chief executive of the Generation Rent group has made another attack on landlords who ask tenants to vacate properties. He says...
29 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Pets and Rental Reform - A Growing Worry for Landlords](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Pets/DogsandCats-400x310.png)
As landlords across England brace themselves for the implementation of the Renters Reform Bill, a lettings agency chain - Leaders Romans...
11 May 2024
From: Agent Advice
![Pressure on Labour to introduce beefed-up rental reform](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/BuildToRent-400x310.png)
An activist group says any future Labour government should introduce a beefed-up version of the Renters Reform Bill - whether or...
16 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Tenants want Rental Reform... but can't name the Housing Minister](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/BusinessChain-400x310.png)
According to a poll of 1,476 renters by SpareRoom the ongoing housing crisis (85%) tops the list of key priorities to...
06 April 2024
From: Rental Reform
![It’s Over - Rental growth “passed its peak” says top agency](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/1-HousePriceRising.png)
Average rents on newly let properties across Britain rose 8.3 per cent year-on-year in January, the slowest pace for 13 months...
20 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Sadiq Khan challenged by new candidate seeking rental reform](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Buy-to-let-3-400x310.png)
A newly-nominated candidate in this spring’s London Mayoral election has vowed to lower private rents if he wins. Serge Crowbolder, currently a...
06 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Vast majority of landlords ‘not optimistic’ about 2024](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
The substantial majority of landlords lack any optimism about their sector as they enter 2024. That’s the result of a new sentiment...
29 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Rental activists claim public support for radical five point 2024 wish list](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
The controversial Renters Reform Coalition - a band of campaigners including the Acorn and Generation Rent ginger groups - claims public...
27 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Court Reform first, then scrap Section 21 - landlord leader tells MPs](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
Court Reform first, then scrap Section 21 - landlord leader tells MPs Rental reforms will not work unless the government reforms the...
15 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Shamplina praises MP for raising need for possession court overhaul](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/CourtCase-400x310.png)
The leader of Landlord Action has commended the efforts of MP Theresa Villiers for raising issues surrounding court delays which must...
13 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Landlords left in limbo by government confusion on rental reform](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/EvictionNotice-400x310.png)
Uncertainty over government plans for the Private Rented Sector - including the controversial Renters Reform Bill - has left the industry...
28 October 2023
From: Rental Reform
![Labour accuses Tories of ‘foot dragging’ over rental reform](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews1-400x310.png)
Shadow housing secretary and Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner has accused the government of “foot dragging” over the slow progress of...
24 October 2023
From: Breaking News
Next month Ben Beadle, chief executive of the National Residential Landlords Association, will be one of the experts at an Agent...
21 October 2023
From: Rental Reform
![Renters Reform Bill may not get Second Reading before King’s Speech](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
Housing Secretary Michael Gove says he “cannot guarantee” that the Rental Reform Bill will get its Second Reading immediately after Parliament...
05 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Gove reveals the fate of Renters Reform Bill](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews2-400x310.png)
Housing Secretary Michael Gove has given Conservative conference delegates an update on the Renters Reform Bill. Contrary to speculation, mostly from anti-landlord...
02 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Sunak told: Stop scapegoating landlords and show some respect](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/UnhappyTenants-400x310.png)
The top table of the National Residential Landlords Association has met with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s team at Downing Street. In addition...
11 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Tax (not rental reform) is real reason why landlords quit - claim](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Tax-Image-400x310.png)
Whoever forms the next government must put the private rental sector at the heart of its housing policy. That’s the view of...
06 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Landlords! Let Michael Gove know what you think of his policies](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/LandlordNews-400x310.png)
Landlords will be able to let Housing Secretary Michael Gove know exactly what they think of his policies in October. Gove will...
25 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![Labour activists' call to buy 500,000 private rental properties](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews2-400x310.png)
A pressure group within the Labour Party wants a future government to provide £15 billion over 10 years to allow half...
17 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![The NRLA Demands Change in the Private Rental Sector](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/_RentalHousingUK-400x310.png)
Across the country landlords and renters are struggling as mortgage costs soar, tax hikes bite and uncertainty remains about the impact...
08 July 2023
From: Tax & Finance
![Rental Reform - Labour says Tories are divided and Bill is at risk](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews1-400x310.png)
A newspaper which often carries leaks of new Labour policies has produced an interesting theory on the fate of the Renters...
30 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![Landlords guide to making the right decisions in 2023](/upload/images/adv-2021/sponsored-content/Open%20Property%20Group/making%20decisions.png)
This year is set to bring sweeping rental reforms that will change the face of lettings forever. Landlords should be following...
02 June 2023
From: Sponsored Content
![Activists reveal new anti-landlord campaign theme](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/BusinessChain-400x310.png)
Activists who until last week were focussing their campaigning on demanding the publication of the Renters Reform Bill have now announced...
23 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Labour local politicians back Michael Gove’s Rental Reform Bill](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Happy(F)Landlord-400x310.png)
The body representing local councils is backing the government’s Renters Reform Bill - even though Labour dominates most local authorities. Councillor Darren...
18 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Rental Reform - Phil Spencer demands radical simplification of regulations](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Compliance-1-400x310.png)
TV property expert Phil Spencer has called for a radical simplification of the rules surrounding landlord licensing, fees and other regulations. In...
15 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Renters Reform Bill - just a delay or a major rethink?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Estate-Agent-400x310.png)
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...
10 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Activists want more anti-landlord measures even before Bill is published](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/HappyLandlord-400x310.png)
Activists are demanding that the government stop landlords circumnavigating an imminent eviction ban by hiking rents so tenants leave anyway. The London...
10 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![MPs make millions as private landlords - claim](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Happy(F)Landlord-400x310.png)
A campaign group claims that current MPs in the House of Commons make as much as £2m a year. 38 Degrees, which...
10 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Tory MPs unhappy at anti-landlord tone of Rental Reform Bill](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
A newspaper report claims that some Conservative MPs are unhappy at the anti-landlord tone of the Renters Reform Bill which is...
09 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![EPC Reform - an energy assessor writes…](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/EPCx400x310.png)
All landlords need to have an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC), with few exemptions. As a property writer, landlord and Domestic Energy...
06 May 2023
From: Legislation & Compliance
![Renters Reform Bill - 12 major policies it's likely to contain](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Buy-to-let-3-400x310.png)
Housing Secretary Michael Gove says the long-awaited Renters Reform Bill, first promised in 2019, will finally be introduced into Parliament next...
05 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Tenancy law reform will give renters more rights - claim](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/ToLetBoard-400x310.png)
Plans to change private rental sector tenancy law have gone out to consultation on Jersey. The minister for Housing and Communities, David...
19 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![Top Tories and Shelter release blueprint for rental reform](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/LearningAgents2-400x310.png)
A Conservative-leaning think tank and campaigning charity Shelter have released a book of essays on renting and housing. A statement from Bright...
04 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![Surprise - Landlords get more powers to evict anti social tenants](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Eviction-400x310%20(1).png)
Landlords are to be given more powers to evict unruly tenants who ruin neighbours’ lives through persistent noise or by being...
27 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Rental Reform laws to be launched in two months time](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/NewHomeowners1-400x310.png)
Housing Secretary Michael Gove has pledged that the long awaited Rental Reform Bill will be introduced into the Commons in two...
27 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Mandatory Ombudsman for Landlords - government takes first step](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
The government has taken the first step to introducing a mandatory ombudsman scheme which private landlord must join. It’s published what is...
24 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![S21 abolition is less damaging than landlords fear - claim](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/ToLetBoard-400x310.png)
A third of landlords say that the scrapping of Section 21 is of major concern to them according to a Mortgages...
20 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Scrap Open-Ended Tenancies - landlords lobby government](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/shutterstock_1680829252.jpg)
Proposed government reforms of the private rented sector threaten to make it harder for students to enter higher education, according to...
13 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![Activists to lobby MPs on rental reform in ‘day of action’](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/shutterstock_1524802199%20protest(1).jpg)
A coalition of tenant activists has called a Day of Action to protest at delays in the government’s rental reform agenda. The...
28 February 2023
From: Breaking News
![Tories call for more pro-tenant rental reforms](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Happy(F)Landlord-400x310.png)
A Tory council in Middle England has backed a committee of MPs calling for rental reform measures to be tightened up. The...
17 February 2023
From: Breaking News
![Rental Reform threatens access to higher education - claim](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/RentalMarketUK-400x310.png)
Government plans to reform the private rented sector risk making it more difficult for students to enter higher education. That’s the warning...
26 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Section 21 and EPC changes not as bad as some suggest, claims agency](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/Low_EPC-400x310.png)
Improving yields throughout 2023 may stop more landlords quitting - and, in addition, rental reforms are unlikely to be as bad as...
12 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Will the Rental Market ever Cool Off?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/RightToRent-400x310.png)
At LRG we are currently seeing rental properties go within days, and sometimes hours of being placed on the market. Rent is...
07 January 2023
From: Agent Advice
![Predictions for 2023 - What’s Coming Up](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Seasonal%20Photos/2023HappyNY-400x310.png)
Renters’ Reform Bill The Renters’ Reform Bill will dominate the PRS policy agenda in 2023. Signs are encouraging that DLUHC is considering...
07 January 2023
From: Legislation & Compliance
![Rental Reform is NOT one of Sunak’s five key priorities](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Buy-to-let-400x310.png)
The long-awaited Renters Reform Bill did not even warrant a mention in a key speech yesterday by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak...
05 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Tory council urges Gove to implement Rental Reform legislation](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/LearningAgents-400x310.png)
A Conservative controlled council in the Cotswolds has written to Housing Secretary Michael Gove, urging him to implement rental reform legislation. The...
05 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Chaos! Open-ended tenancies to create havoc in 2023 - claim](/upload/images/Logos/NRLA-Logo-2020-400x310.jpg)
Students face chaos as government plans to reform the rental market threaten to cause widespread uncertainty as to whether housing will...
29 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Big majority of tenants satisfied, but want more energy efficiency](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/_EcoHome-400x310.png)
Over two thirds of tenants are satisfied with their private rented accommodation, a new survey shows. The finding comes in the results...
22 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![The PRS in 2022: a Sector in Deep Freeze](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Seasonal%20Photos/2023_Loading-400x310.png)
An arctic wind has blown throughout the UK in December. Yet it feels that the private rented sector (PRS) has been...
17 December 2022
From: Rental Reform
![Shamplina Speaks - rental sector facing biggest challenges in 30 years](/upload/images/Site%20logos/PaulShamplinaLandlordTodayLogo-400x310.jpg)
I think 2022 can be summarised as ‘unsettling’ to say the least. With three prime ministers in less than six months,...
03 December 2022
From: Rental Reform
![Politician hails “transformation” of private rental sector](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Estate_Agent1-400x310.png)
What has been billed as the bigger change ever to housing law in Wales comes into force today and is described...
01 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rent Reform Activists turn on each other in factional feud](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Stressed(F)Tenant-400x310.png)
Two groups of activists who campaign for rent controls and reform of the private lettings sector have turned on each other. Acorn...
29 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Generation Rent slams latest delay in Rental Reform laws](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews1-400x310.png)
Despite a string of pledges on rental sector reform delivered in recent days by government ministers, including Housing Secretary Michael Gove,...
29 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Most landlords want hard-core rental reform - agent’s amazing claim](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Recruitment-400x310.png)
The large majority of players in the lettings industry wants the rental reform programme outlined by the government, an agent claims. Laura...
25 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Barking Mad? Rental properties have dog-walking area and water bowls](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Pets/ManWithDog-400x310.png)
A new 100-unit Build To Rent scheme in Manchester called The Quarters is being marketed as “pet friendly”. The company behind it,...
17 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Calm down about rental reform and use inventories, says company boss](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/DamagedProperty-400x310.png)
Landlord and letting agent fears over the impact of rental reform could be eased if only the industry used rigorous and...
16 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Landlords to hear plans for local implementation of rental reforms](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Buy-to-let-2-400x310.png)
Eden council in Cumbria is hosting an event for landlords and managing agents to consider energy efficiency regulations, grants available in...
15 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rental Reform Now! Charity wants help for tenants](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/StressedTenant-2-400x310.png)
Crisis, the homelessness charity, is demanding financial and legislative help for tenants. Matt Downie, Crisis chief executive, says: “This is a time of...
14 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rental Reform - Time Is Of The Essence](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/LegalAdvice-400x310.png)
The future of the private rented sector in England has been back under the Westminster spotlight in the last two weeks...
12 November 2022
From: Rental Reform
![Mystery over when rental reforms will become law](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews3-400x310.png)
The government has once again declined to give any meaningful timetable for the introduction of the Renters Reform Bill. At the end...
04 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Commons Rental Debate Today - Tory and Labour MPs to lead off](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/LearningAgents-400x310.png)
The MPs Natalie Elphicke and Lloyd Russell-Moyle are to lead a debate today in the House of Commons on the private rental...
03 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Activists want Sunak pledge that Section 21 will be scrapped](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/Rishi%20Sunak%2003_400x310.png)
Activists got reassurance from Boris Johnson and Liz Truss in the past, and have a supportive politician in the form of...
28 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rebooting rental reform must be number one priority says NRLA](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/LandlordNews-400x310.png)
Ben Beadle, chief executive of the National Residential Landlords Association, says rebooting rental reform must be the number one priority for...
27 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rental Sector takes centre stage in revamped redress service](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews2-400x310.png)
A landlord representative is to be a member of a new advisory panel which has been set up by the Property...
27 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Housing Minister to tell landlords about rental reform - maybe...](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/UKPolitics-400x310.png)
The National Residential Landlords Association says housing minister Andrew Stephenson will give a key-note address at its annual conference. The only problem...
24 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Labour MP promotes Generation Rent campaign, demands reform timeline](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/Labour-logo400x310.png)
A Labour MP has written to the Housing Secretary demanding a timetable for the implementation of rental reform. Catherine West, MP for...
19 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Chancellor Hunt is buy to let landlord - but backs rental reform](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Buy-to-let-400x310.png)
The new Chancellor in the beleaguered Liz Truss government is former health and foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt - a buy to...
17 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Landlords under assault from government: This will end badly](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/EvictionNotice-400x310.png)
It is a fundamental principle of a functioning democracy that parties, when in power, should pay at least lip service to...
15 October 2022
From: Rental Reform
![Shelter wants Truss and Starmer to take rental reform seriously](/upload/images/Logos/shelter-logo400x310.png)
Private renting voters could be critical in deciding the outcome of the next General Election, according to Shelter. The campaigning charity -...
10 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Rental Reform Delay allows proposals to be rewritten says industry chief](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Figures/PayProp_NeilCobbold-400x310.png)
One of the highest profile figures in the lettings industry says the apparent inaction by government over rental reform gives an...
04 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Shelter to hear from MP demanding register of Airbnb hosts](/upload/images/library/shelter-logo400x310.png)
The charity Shelter is organising a fringe meeting at next week’s Conservative party conference, with a prominent campaigner for a mandatory...
30 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Lettings think-tank slams government over rental reform proposals](/upload/images/library/House-Tax-400x310.jpg)
A team of experts has released a report that responds to government reform plans - and it insists that if Section...
29 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![More enforcement needed if rental reform ever actually happens - claim](/upload/images/library/New%20Rental%20Index-400x310.png)
More enforcement is required if the government is to introduce the scale of reforms it has called for in its recent...
28 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![War! Landlords accuse Labour of creating charter for rent dodgers](/upload/images/library/NRLA-Logo-2020-400x310.jpg)
Labour’s radical proposals for the private rental sector - including reducing landlords’ powers to demand arrears - have produced a dramatic...
27 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Flaws and Uncertainties of the Rental Reform White Paper](/upload/images/library/New%20Rental%20Index-400x310.png)
For the last decade, successive Governments have promised a review of the rules around renting in the UK – in part...