Lettings
Rents edge downwards for first time in eight months
Landlords, keen to avoid empty properties in winter, trim rents
Lettings
Compliance
Agents warned over water charges
Landlords obliged to join scheme that goes live in new year
Lettings
More properties coming on rental market, says ARLA
Supply and demand beginning to balance out, claim
Law
Landmark case as agent is held to account over tenants’ behaviour
Letting agent loses case over noise caused by tenants on stag and hen weekends
Lettings
Mandatory national register of landlords needed, says Shelter
And another lobbying group, Generation Rent, calls for rent controls
Lettings
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Lettings
Portal’s tracker shows rents lagging inflation in Scotland
Citylets aims to dispel ‘myth’ that Scottish private rented sector is out of control
Lettings
Major discrepancy revealed by housing minister in tenancy disputes
Seven in ten disputes at MyDeposits go in favour of tenant
Lettings
New ‘lite’ version of Fixflo launched to small landlords
Pared-down release will be free to smallest landlords and their tenants
Lettings
Tenants on average earnings struggle as rents take up to 54% of gross pay
Towns and cities outside London more unaffordable than capital
Lettings
Government to try again on revenge evictions despite defeat of Bill
Dismay expressed by landlords at another attempt to introduce law
Lettings
Teather’s ‘revenge evictions’ Bill fails after filibustering
Two Tory MPs talk out Bill 'which would have let savvy tenants play the system'
Lettings
MP blasts immigration checks and claims they will hike agents’ fees
Politician condemns government decision to go ahead with tenant checks starting Monday
Law
Letting agent loses appeal after being stripped of ‘fit and proper’ status
Agent also banned from managing any house with multiple occupiers
Lettings
Housing association launches new private rented sector brand
Social landlord already has 800 PRS homes – and does not charge fees to tenants
Lettings
Letting agents will have to display whether they have CMP
Surprise government amendment to Bill due for scrutiny in Lords today – as Labour tries once more for fees ban
Lettings
Newly agreed rents slipping across much of country
Monthly falls recorded in seven out of 12 UK regions, says HomeLet
Lettings
Rents across England and Wales hit new high
LSL says rents are up by £12 a month – and Hometrack says house prices up by 9.2% on last year
Compliance
New tenancy referencing service launches as immigration checks loom for agents
Let Alliance's Right to Rent product guarantees agents against Home Office fines