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The government’s review into building and fire safety regulations is ‘missing the opportunity’ to assess fire safety regulations across all types...

Councils cannot use selective licensing conditions to impose new standards on private rented homes, the Court of Appeal ruled yesterday. The case...

Hundreds of thousands of buy-to-let landlords will be required to pay a ‘green tax’ of up to £2,500 per property upfront...

People living in high rise tower blocks across the UK are being let down by a system in which it is...

The government’s policy to improve the energy efficiency of the UK’s housing stock will almost certainly place upward pressure on rents...

Up to 330,000 buy-to-let landlords will be required to pay a “green tax” of up to £5,000 to make their properties...

Rents in the private rented sector will increase as a result of the planned introduction of energy efficiency targets, a leading...

The RLA has submitted an official response to a Government consultation into future flood prevention. Swathes of the UK were left devastated...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has appointed leading housing lawyer David Smith as its new policy director.  Smith succeeds long-standing RLA board...