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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Complaints about tweets used to sell house via spot-the-ball competition upheld by watchdog
Read how a couple who tried to sell their £3.5 million riverside home via a spot-the-ball competition have fallen foul of ASA advertising rules.
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Turn whistleblower and we’ll reward you, competition watchdog tells estate agents
Read how the Competition and Markets Authority is targeting estate agent cartels with a new campaign offering whistle blowers rewards.
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Is this the beginning of a leasehold mis-selling scandal?
A Manchester and Birmingham law firm FS Legal has launched a class action leasehold mis-selling actions against dozens of conveyancing firms.
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Government moves to ban leasehold houses and cap ground rents at £10
The Government is to consult on measures to ban houses being sold via leasehold agreements and to cap ground rents at £10.
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Industry reaction: new working group on ‘professionalisation’ of estate agents
The Government has convened a group of experts to advise in eight months on the 'professionalisation' of estate agents.
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Landlord and managing agent fined £22,000 for unlicensed HMO
A landlord and his managing agent in Tufnell Park, North London have been fined a total of £22,000 over an unlicensed HMO.
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60% of tenants welcome three-year tenancies, poll suggests
A poll of 1000 tenants by rent recognition platform CreditLadder has found that nearly two thirds of them would support three-year-tenancies.
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Tenant Fees Bill: Lords hail OpenRent as future of industry
Two peers in the Lords yesterday recommended online-only letting agency OpenRent as the future of the industry during Tenant Fees Bill debate.
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Tenant Fees Bill is too loosely framed, claims Citizens Advice
Citizens Advice is urging peers to support a tightening of the 'default fees' clause within the Tenant Fees Bill going through the Lords today.
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CBRE told ads for off-plan property investment units with ‘estimated ROI’ must be proven
The advertising watchdog has upheld a complaint against property consultancy CBRE over an ad for one of its property investements.
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