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 agent apologises after mistakenly trying to charge tenant illegal fees
Cautionary tale shows how careful agents must now be when issuing documents to ensure old charges aren't included in tenancy agreements.
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Two tenants successfully refuse to pay contract renewal fee to letting agent
CJ Hole agrees to let them renew their contract without paying a £90 renewal fee even though the company still has the legal right to do so.
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Property manager fined £37,000 over dangerous and unregistered HMOs
Omar Patel is a serial rogue letting agent whose letting agency has just two stars on Trustpilot.
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Beware: Section 21 is ‘biggest change to private rental market’ in a generation
Leading evictions specialist Paul Shamplina says removal of Section 21 from the Housing Act 1988 is biggest threat to landlords and letting agent 'in years'.
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Council flat Airbnb host fined £100,000
Westminster Council in London evicts the council tenant who had over 300 Airbnb reviews over several years of illegal subletting.
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Guest blog: ‘You might not like it, but RoPA is good for us all’
Regulation is a force for good if it’s done well and will change public and media perceptions of agents, says Glynis Frew, CEO, Hunters
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Boris: day two of the new job and estate agency leaders are on his case
A shake up of Stamp Duty is overdue, says the property industry – and it could re-energise the property market.
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Rogue landlords and agents database scope to be widened
Consultation is launched on widening prospective tenants' and letting agents' access the Rogue Landlord Database.
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Redress scheme issues £3000 fine and a warning for estate and letting agents
Tribunal penalises letting agency for having inadequate cover for the full extent of its operation.
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Money laundering: SmartSearch says estate agency is its fastest growing client sector
Under the threat of huge fines from HMRC, agents are using all means to comply with stringent anti-money laundering regulations.
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