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New electrical safety regs won’t beat slum landlords
New electrical safety regulations are unlikely to affect the Government’s ‘slum’ landlord target, says Scott Battram, residential property specialist at Hunters Law.
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Property industry calls on Chancellor to release 500,000 home owners trapped by cladding scandal
Consumer, property management, campaigning and freeholder groups all urge Rishi Sunak to release funds to help home owners trapped in unviable ACM-cladded buildings.
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Three Berkshire estate agencies fined a total of £600,000 over illegal price fixing cartel
Estate agencies Michael Hardy, Prospect and Richard Worth will jointly pay the fine but a fourth guilty company, Romans, escapes a fine after reporting the carterl to the CMA.
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Guest blog: Why getting rid of ground rents could be a disaster for managing agents
Government plans to eliminate ground rent will put property managers out of business, leave residents vulnerable and frighten off investment.
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Ultimate Estate Agents’ Guide: Housing ministers
The Negotiator runs a critical eye over the ever revolving door of politicians who have taken on the housing brief, most of whom have not lasted long.
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86 private apartment towers with potentially dangerous cladding have ‘unclear’ upgrade plans
Read how there are 86 private residential apartment blocks within the UK that have yet to launch plans to upgrade their exterior cladding.
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London borough requests new powers to rent out billionaires’ ‘ghost homes’
The London Borough of Kensington & Chelsea has requested extra powers to enable it to rent out the 600+ ghost homes within its borders.
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Dominic Raab quits as housing minister after seven months in role to become Brexit secretary
Brexiteer and ex-solicitor Dominic Raab has quit his housing secretary role to become Brexit minister following departure of David Davis.
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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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Dominic Raab is the new Housing Minister
The cabinet shuffle continues at No 10 Downing Street, so we now know the identity of our new Housing Minister: Dominic Raab MP for Esher and Walton, in Surrey. He will work in the newly-named Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, which is headed by Sajid Javid. How their respective roles will converge is not yet clear. Aged 43, ‘Dom’ (to his friends) was an international lawyer at Linklaters before joining the Diplomatic Service. He was elected to Parliament in 2009, as a Conservative MP with 59% of the vote. In June 2017, he was re-elected and appointed Minister of State for Justice. Away from the House, he may be found wearing a black belt or training at his local boxing club, so we’d best keep friendly with our new Minister – the 16th in 20 years. Raab’s appointment will make him the 16th holder of the title of Housing Minister in just over 20 years, taking over from Alok Sharma, whose tenure of the title has been just six months. The average term of each housing minister has been approximately 16 months. Alok Sharma, has now been appointed Employment Minister, in recognition of ‘the difficult work he undertook in…
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