Regulation & Law
News articles looking at national legislation and local regulation and the application of law to the residential property industry.
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Activists call for tenants to withhold rent if repairs ignored
Acorn says measure would appy to landlords or agents who ignore repairs and maintenance issues and in particular damp and mould.
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Property manager facing £15,000 RRO says licensing compliance a ‘struggle’
Amar Hothi has told a court that working out which of his firm's 750 properties need a licence and training staff was 'difficult'.
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Small estate agencies ‘to be hit hardest’ by workers’ rights shake-up
A government impact assessment says small firms will be most affected by Labour's new Employment Rights Bill.
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Landlords who ignore new PRS regulator should ‘return rent’
Comment is made by Richard Blakeway, whose organisation the Housing Ombudsman Service is widely expected to become the main regulator of tenant complaints about landlords.
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Tougher regulation of conveyancers to begin in New Year
An updated code will help to regulate conveyancers a year after the Council for Licensed Conveyancers warned the system was close to breaking.
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Letting agent and his landlord fined £3,000 over missing licence
Tunde Coker, who it is claimed operates a lettings agency in South London called Alpha Properties Services, pleaded guilty during a court hearing.
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Property firm faces £300k legal bill over defamation case
The family behind ABC Estates is to pay the estimated £300,000 legal costs bill of Nick Hargrave, a former leaseholder of a block the agency managed.
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‘Back landlords, don’t bash them’, says new Kate Barker-led report
The Radix Big Tent Housing Commission urges the Government to stop treating landlords as the part of problem, but instead part of the solution to the UK's housing supply crisis.
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Another big council widens HMO licensing scheme
With the backing of ‘locals’ Barking and Dagenham is to extend its licensing scheme to include smaller HMOs plus a re-run of its existing selective scheme.
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Welsh Minister celebrates second-homes crackdown but agents ‘not happy’
As owners sell up and property prices fall there has been a big rise in the number of locals taking up the Government’s assisted buying scheme.
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