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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Leasehold houses scandal: thousands are trapped as many struggle to find buyers, says NAEA
NAEA Propertymarket's report into the leasehold scandal published today reveals the shocking impact of the debacle on home owners.
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Government to stop agents billing tenants too much for property damage
The government is to ban landlords and estate agents from being billed excessive amounts for minor damage to their rental properties.
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Watchdog upholds complaint against OTM over ‘early upload’ properties claim
Challenger portal OTM has revealed how many of the properties uploaded to it every month are added 24 hours earlier than other portals.
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Liverpool is second city to transfer Local Land Charges to national online register
Move to make 'local searches' easier and cheaper follows move by Warwick, which was the first, with a further 17 local authorities folllowing suit this year.
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Lenders worried over government plans for compulsory three year tenancies
Landlord mortgage lenders are worried that the government'st planned compulsory three year tenancies would impact tenants unfairly.
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Quadrupling of complaints against rogue estate agents leads to £270k boost for Trading Standards
The government has given the UK's Trading Standards' rogue estate agency team an extra £270k a year in funding, taking its overall budget to half a million.
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NALS says Shelter campaign to expose discriminatory letting agents is ’emotive conjecture’
NALS has heavily criticised the Shelter/NHF campaign to expose lettings agents who discriminate against housing benefit tenants.
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Eight Haart branches found to have ‘issues’ with housing benefit applicants
An undercover sting by researchers from Shelter and the NHF found that 10% of Haart branches it contacted disdriminiated against housing benefit applicants.
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Purplebricks told not to claim it advertises on all the ‘major portals’
Purplebricks has been told not to claim on its website that it advertises its properties on all the 'major' property portals.
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Twitter campaign to end ‘no fault’ evictions and expose bad landlords and agents goes viral
A campiagn launched by lobbying group Generation Rent has gone viral on Twitter as it tries to get Section 21 no fault evictions outlawed.
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