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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New Housing & Communities Secretary: James Brokenshire
Sajid Javid moves on to the Home Office, James Brokenshire picks up the brief of Housing and Communities Secretary.
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Agents “struggling” as business rates increases bear down on high street
Read how the recent business rates increases brought in by the government are affecting agents estate agents, newsagents and women's clothes shops the worst.
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Rogue Manchester landlords to have properties bought off them
Greater Manchester's Labour mayor Andy Burnham says landlords who can't achieve minimum standards of service and accommodation will be offered way out, but not at market value.
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Letting agents must ‘stop encouraging longer tenancies’
Read how a leading MP and Select Committee chair has called for lettings agents to stop encouraging longer tenancies within the PRS.
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Conveyancers advise agents about most recent scams facing industry
Conveyancing Association says fraud is a significant threat to the industry and has issued revised guidance on how to tackle it including using 'selfies' to validate documents.
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‘Rogue landlords should have their properties confiscated’
A shock report into the private rented sector or PRS has recommended rogue landlords should have their properties confiscated,
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‘Tech makes it easier for rogue tenants to fake referencing documents’
Tech makes it easier for rogue tenants to fake referencing documents, a leading eviction specialist has claimed.
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London council investigates own sales and lettings agency AGAIN!
CityWest Residential has now been probed by City of Westminster's own trading standards officers over fees paid when it helps buy back former Right to Buy properties.
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Stalking Awareness Week launched by Suzy Lamplugh Trust
Charity set up in name of disappeared estate agent to spend this week highlighting the increasing number of stalking cases being investigated by police.
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Fee-fixing estate agency directors disqualified for three years each
CMA reveals it has made two directors of Abbott & Frost in Burnham-on-Sea sign disqualification undertakings and is considering whether to add more agents in the town to the list.
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