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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Estate agents face mandatory referral fee transparency rules following shock report
Trading Standards has concluded its investigation into referral fees and recommended agents are forced to comply or face expulsion.
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Easier EPCs? Housing minister launches new ‘environmental MOT’ style service
Christopher Pincher says service will enable property professionals to check if a property has a valid EPC much more easily, and also order a new one if it does not.
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Key property industry groups sign up to ‘service pledge’ as RoPA nears
Organised by the Home Buying and Selling Group, the pledge is designed to introduce much more transparency into the way estate agents and other players operate.
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Letting agent expelled from redress scheme following phishing attempt
Matthew & Evans Rentals in Rotherham, which has disappeared from the internet and several portals, tried to use an advert to solicit personal details from tenant applicants.
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Chancellor: Here’s how I will support business as Covid drags on
Estate agencies and other industry businesses will have longer to repay CBILS loans and more financial help to retain staff.
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Housing minister reveals dates for Christmas bailiff evictions truce
Minister Chris Pincher reveals dates in response to a written evictions question from Liberal Democrat Richmond MP Sarah Olney.
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Agents must soon wear masks in their branches or break law
Ministers confirm retail rules announced by Boris Johnson today will apply to estate agency offices too, once the legislation is passed.
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AML expert slams banks for betraying agents who ‘follow money laundering rules’
John Dobson says he is appalled that banks such as HSBC and Barclays have been accused of 'turning a blind eye' to dirty money.
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Evictions firm to offer landlords and agents £100 mediation service to avoid court
Landlord Action and the Property Redress Scheme have joined forces to stop disputes over unpaid rent ending up in court, where they could wait 18 months to be resolved it is claimed.
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Landlords welcome ‘balanced’ re-start of evictions as tenants talk of betrayal
The NRLA says both sides need more financial help, but Generation Rent claims 55,000 face losing their homes as possession hearings restart, albeit in a limited way.
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