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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Green Party leader calls for mayors to be given rent control powers
Zack Polanski says the UK must learn lessons from where rent controls have and haven’t worked.
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Rogue landlord’s £35,000 bill for illegal eviction
A family returned from holiday to find the locks had been changed on their Harrow rental home.
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Foreign owners ‘hiding’ £190bn of UK property, claims tax think tank
Investigation reveals widespread hidden ownership is exposing estate agents to significant anti-money-laundering penalties.
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Senior Reform councillor has his unlicensed HMOs shut down
A second Reform councillor, Chair of Warwickshire County Council, Edward Harris has been caught running unlicensed HMOs in just a few months.
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Rightmove expands agent qualification as reform looms
The Level 3 Certificate for Estate and Letting Agents (CELA) from Rightmove will include a new module on Renters’ Rights from April.
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£19.9bn bill looms for EPC C for PRS despite deadline extension
Octane Capital's CEO says over half of England’s private rented homes rate below EPC C, leaving landlords facing huge upgrade costs ahead of the 2030 deadline.
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Estate agents fined over £800k for AML breaches
HMRC has issued 170 penalties to estate agents who have breached money laundering regulations, totalling £835,842.
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Decent Homes Standard delay sparks furious backlash
MPs and rent campaigners unite in condemnation of “disgraceful” lack of urgency in implementing decent home standard.
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BLOG: ‘Making Tax Digital’ cliff-edge is looming
From 6th April 2026, MTD becomes an operational reality that will decide which agencies thrive, and which quietly fall behind, says LettsPay’s, Commercial Director Matthew Gibbard.
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Conveyancers raise serious concerns over “untested commonholds”
Industry body warns commonhold changes could increase disputes, create deadlock, undermine lender confidence and introduce complex new legal structures.
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