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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New rules for ‘material information’ on property portals revealed
National Trading Standard's industry team reveals first phase of required info including tenure type, price/rent and council tax rate, which plans to back it up with legislation.
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Estate agents slam London mayor over claims rent controls will help tenants
Over the weekend Propertymark has made the unusual move to warn Sadiq Khan that rent controls will lead to fewer properties and lower standards within the PRS.
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Bristol to lead nationwide effort to bring in rent controls for PRS
Local housing chief is to lobby Ministers to be given rent control powers, and wants to connect up liked-minded cities across the UK.
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Accidental landlords ‘will not have to pay cladding remediation costs’
Housing secretary decides to include landlords with one or two properties within the £4bn fund scheme, but not those with larger portfolios.
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Romans amends lettings contracts following TPO adjudication and award to landlord
Estate agency chain alters its paperwork after landlord wins compensation over 'misleading' wording called out by TPO and Trading Standards.
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LATEST: Home Office issues discrimination rules on how to do Right to Rent checks
Agents and landlords are issued lengthy consultation document on how not to discriminate against tenants during checks.
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Lettings leader urges industry to get stuck into leasehold consultation
TLIC co-founder Theresa Wallace wants agents and landlords to give their opinions on the government's proposals to reform leasehold.
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Leasehold reforms will be good and bad news for the industry
Auctions chief says leasehold reform will free up the housing market but many vendors may wait until they go live to sell their homes.
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Hunters wins key ‘prohibited payments’ judgement over contested referencing deposit
Judge says agent involved correctly declined to return the deposit after the tenant refused to approve an Open Banking probe of his account for additional referencing checks.
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COMMENT: Levelling Up – the industry reacts to White Paper
Property industry leaders including, agents, insurers, property managers, lenders and trade bodies react to Michael Gove's proposals.
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