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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Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s stamp duty cut could just push up house prices, warns IFS
Institute for Fiscal Studies warns the blanket increase in threshold to £500,000 could mean first-time buyers lose out.
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Landlords with student property portfolios set for fall as universities go online
‘Armchair’ landlords with student property portfolios face double whammy as universities go online and tenancy law changes.
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Chancellor confirms immediate stamp duty holiday – raising threshold to £500,000
Budget announcement means 79% of those living in the capital will avoid paying any tax on moving home.
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Landlords hit back at claims they are queuing up to evict tenants
Property owners dispute claims by Shelter that up to 150,000 tenants face eviction when the ban ends on 23rd August.
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Sunak’s rumoured Stamp Duty giveaway welcomed by industry
Industry reaction to leaks from government that the Chancellor is set to announce a £1.3bn giveaway to boost the property market.
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Conveyancer struck off after helping criminal gangs launder drug cash
Ross Ian Mackay has accepted his role in a prolific scam that saw some 80 properties bought via mortgage fraud from the early noughties onwards.
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Looming industry Code of Practice to tackle ‘dual fees’ problems
Long-standing industry sticking point is one of several issues discussed by TPO-organised industry gathering last week about the code of practice, held on Zoom.
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Belvoir advises franchisees RoPA is ‘enormous opportunity’ to lessen competition
Passages within its website about the looming industry regulation were picked up on Twitter yesterday and criticised by a business ethics campaigner.
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Property industry Code of Practice is just six months away, agents are told
A RICS and TPO backed Steering Committee has started work on a single code for the whole industry that, when introduced, will change estate agency forever.
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Bojo’s huge changes to planning laws to free up house builders
Swathes of planning 'red tape' are to be swept aside to help builders construct on brownfield sites more easily as Bojo declares war on 'newt counting'.
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