Rental market
News covering the Private Rented Sector with relevance to letting agents and landlords and the wider residential property industry.
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Landlord wins £900 compensation from agent in rent guarantee dispute
Essex-based agent Anistenhomes is ordered to pay a landlord over failings in its service under a rent guarantee deal.
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Housing market ‘downbeat’ at moment but set to pick up, says RICS
Surveying trade body says its poll of agents shows enquiries, sales and prices are all down, but there is some optimism for later this year.
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Holiday lets to need planning approval under government clampdown
Housing secretary says he wants to stop short-term lets pricing local people out of the housing market in tourist hotspots.
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Landlords ‘face huge bill’ to meet EPC target claim agency
Research by Knight Frank estimates it will cost landlords in England nearly £18 billion to ensure their properties reach a C rating.
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‘Landlords will still leave PRS even if EPC deadline changes’
An extension to 2028 of the deadline for landlords to achieve a C rating for rented properties, will make little difference, say agents.
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Landlords ‘given longer’ to meet deadline for EPC changes
A new target date of 2028 for landlords to achieve an EPC C rating has been set by the Government, according to the Daily Telegraph.
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Estate agency leaders say new eviction powers for landlords will ‘overwhelm courts’
Propertymark welcomes the Government's plan to deal with problem tenants, but warns that existing courts will not cope with caseload.
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Agent and landlord given fines over £22,000 after council action
Phil Davies Estate Agents and landlord Wilson Kehinde Gbadegesin face enforcement action over flat with bed bugs infestation and serious damp issues.
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Estate agent to pay £25,000 after HMO safety offence conviction
Council inspectors found an electric meter had been tampered with and fire safety issues at a property in Northampton.
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Tribunal rules in first case since landmark rent repayment decision
Landlord Sabour Mansour tried unsuccessfully to use the Rakusen vs Jepsen ruling to avoid rent repayment orders.
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