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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Letting agents operating in Wales get more time to prepare for new law
Renting Homes Act will require agents to retool their systems and processes as sweeping changes to PRS are introduced now on December 1st.
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Knight Frank firm ordered to pay dismissed property manager £24,000
Residential block manager wins cash after taking agency to Tribunal and winning case against agency's Promise subsidiary.
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Axing Section 21 will have unplanned consequences, warn industry duo
Paul Shamplina and Neil Cobbold united to explain why they believe getting rid of Section 21 evictions may impact industry harder than many think.
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Lettings agency slammed as landlord foots £18k rent repayment order
Churchill Estates has been criticised by a Tribunal judge after it asked four tenants to pay for the HMO licensing of their own home.
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RoPA still THREE years away, predicts leading lettings expert
But Sally Lawson, founder of Agent Rainmaker, says the industry is already making huge steps toward achieving RoPA's recommendations.
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Minister signals end to threat of referral fees crackdown for industry
After years of threats to ban them outright, Eddie Hughes now says legislation on referral fees is off the cards for the time being.
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‘Technology, not just more regulation, is answer to winning AML war’ – claim
Comments are made by AML firm Thirdfort, which says plans to burden agents with more regulations miss the opportunity to allow tech to help.
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Minister: ‘We’re still considering RoPA’… three years after it was published
Propertymark hopes that Eddie Hughes' relatively non-committal comments in parliament are a sign RoPA is still on the political agenda.
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Not on your nelly, Rishi! Report reveals agent hostility to helping HMRC tax landlords
Government reveals it has been toying with proposals to ask agents to submit landlord rental income to HMRC, but consultation reveals widespread rejection of the idea.
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Fraudulent tenancy applications on the rise, says UK’s largest referencing group
Latest figures from Barbon, the UK’s biggest tenant referencing company which includes HomeLet, Let Alliance and Rent4sure, reveal the extent to which tenancy application fraud is on the rise.
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