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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Big south coast hotspot to launch two licensing schemes
Mandatory HMO licensing covers all Houses in Multiple Occupation that accommodate five people or more over two households or more.
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Lettings firm fined £30,000 for putting tenants lives at risk
Police discovered 17 people staying at the property, some sleeping on mattresses on the floor and two feared being exploited.
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Minister ‘will listen to landlords’ before scrapping Section 21 evictions
Housing minister Rachel Maclean tells the Tory conference the Government is taking landlords' concerns into account.
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Gove seeks to calm landlord nerves ahead of reform bill
Housing secretary says "you can’t have an effective housing market, or provision of the homes we need, without a variety of tenure types".
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FCA moves to make leaseholder block insurance fairer
A review of the multi-occupancy buildings insurance market found that leasehold buildings insurance premiums have risen since the Grenfell tragedy.
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Latest mandatory How to Rent guide published this morning
A new version of the renting checklist is issued by the Government, six months after the last one was printed.
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‘Respected and trusted’ estate agent fined £1,000 for breaching 1979 Act
Des McGranaghan pleaded guilty to two contraventions of the Consumer Protection From Unfair Trading Regulations 2008.
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Lib Dems vote to keep housing target ahead of General Election
The Lib Dem members threw out a proposal by the party's leaders to drop its housing target of 380,000 new homes every year.
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Housing minister defies Government line on HS2 on national TV
Rachel Maclean told Sky News the 'focus was on delivering HS2' when the Government is expected to scrap the line to Manchester.
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Higher EPC properties still attractive to homebuyers despite u-turn
Mortgage Advice Bureau's Ben Thompson says more than half of would-be buyers still want a higher rated EPC property to lower their utility bills.
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