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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Stamp out stamp duty, say experts
Chancellor Rishi Sunak is under pressure to make big reductions in stamp duty to keep the market moving.
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Letting agency fined £12,000 after falsely claiming safeagent membership
London firm Matthew Estates was found guilty of five offences after Trading Standards officers, working with Safeagent, discovered their membership claims were false.
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Not again! Mayor of London calls for rent controls as he launches re-election bid
Sadiq Khan tell supporters at his Hackney launch yesterday that the “Prime Minister will have to give us the powers we need" to introduce a rent cap in the capital.
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Letting agents urged to ‘pull their fingers out’ and comply with CMP by minister
MPs last night voted through the government's proposal to extend the cut-off period for compliance with CMP rules to April 1st as problems finding pooled accounts continue.
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Campaigners celebrate as regulator savages home builders over leasehold mis-selling
Leasehold Knowledge Partnership says it's years of campaigning on leasehold reform has been 'spectacularly vindicated'.
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As industry awaits reservation agreements, Propertymark launches initiative to ‘prevent fall-throughs’
NAEA's three-document 'sales protocol' toolkit, which some might call 'HIPs lite', is designed to speed up the process by bringing forward the information needed to speed up a sale's progression.
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Trading Standards given new role in regulating ‘Win a House’ property raffles
The National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team is to deal with complaints about this unusual and increasingly popular way of selling a home.
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Industry reaction: ‘Have ministers kicked RoPA into the long grass?’
Matt Prior from the MHCLG was unable to confirm or deny that the RoPA proposals may not be introduced during the current parliament.
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Estate agents will be covered by new homes ombudsman, government confirms
The proposals for a New homes Ombudsman have been published and it will be able to prevent builders carrying on doing business and look into estate agents.
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Property management firm fined £30,000 over fire safety failings
Chilling details of a fire in a Palmers Green apartment block four years ago reveal how its 20 residents narrowly escaped death after a fire broke out in a stairwell.
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