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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London estate agency hit with massive property licensing fine
Green House Estate Agents in North London have been prosecuted and whacked with a massive fine and for falling foul of property licensing rules.
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Estate agency sector backs HMO council tax reform
Propertymark is backing calls for council tax reform that will ensure Houses in Multiple Occupation only pay the hated levy per property not per room as can be the case now.
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£10k fight to stop rent cap and eviction moratorium in Scotland
Landlords and agents are urged to back a crowdfunding effort to fund a judicial review against the country's damaging rental sector policies.
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Pensioner admits firearm charge after estate agent videographer threatened
Michael Edwards shot his airgun at an estate agency drone filming near his house before confronting the cameraman.
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Fines for letting agents and rogue landlords increase by £500,000
Fines for agents and rogue landlords have increased by half a million pounds in the last three months, with the total now surpassing £8.6 million in London alone.
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Business rates for agents ‘still not right’, says trade body
Propertymark welcomes changes to business rates, but urges the Government to go further and introduce yearly valuations.
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‘Landlords will still leave PRS even if EPC deadline changes’
An extension to 2028 of the deadline for landlords to achieve a C rating for rented properties, will make little difference, say agents.
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New money laundering plan to crack down on illicit finance
The government launches three-year plan setting out what agents and other businesses should do to crack down on dodgy money, kleptocrats, sanctions evasion and fraud.
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Criminal gang fined £434,000 after duping letting agents
Eight named men and firms have been fined £434,000 collectively for offences after they duped letting agents out of homes that they then turned into illegal HMOs.
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Rogue Landlord fined £115,000 for squalid illegal conversion
Shashibhushan Vyas was fined over £115,500 at Isleworth Crown Court for illegally converting a side extension into a separate unit at his property.
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