Search Results for: renters' rights bill
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Regulation & Law
Activists call for tenants to withhold rent if repairs ignored
Acorn says measure would appy to landlords or agents who ignore repairs and maintenance issues and in particular damp and mould.
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Regulation & Law
Landlords who ignore new PRS regulator should ‘return rent’
Comment is made by Richard Blakeway, whose organisation the Housing Ombudsman Service is widely expected to become the main regulator of tenant complaints about landlords.
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Regulation & Law
‘Back landlords, don’t bash them’, says new Kate Barker-led report
The Radix Big Tent Housing Commission urges the Government to stop treating landlords as the part of problem, but instead part of the solution to the UK's housing supply crisis.
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Rental market
Landlords report ‘crisis of confidence’ says insurance giant
Simply Business claims there's a ‘bleak outlook’ for BTL with 75% of landlords ‘deeply concerned’ about the future of the sector.
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Agencies & People
Former Foxtons agent sets up ‘quick-buying’ property agency
Jack Malnick worked for Strike, Foxtons and Sold.co.uk before setting up his own cash-buying agency Sellhousefast this month.
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Rental market
Rightmove blames EPCs and looming CGT changes for landlord exodus
Rightmove says that 18% of homes for sale were former rental properties and blames tax changes with EPC demands for the trend.
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Rental market
‘Million rental homes will be lost’ if Chancellor raises CGT
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been warned she risks more than 900,000 properties being pulled from the rental market if she goes ahead with an increase in Capital Gains Tax.
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Rental market
Labour renting reforms ‘tinkering at the edges’, leading lawyer claims
David Smith of JMW Solicitors says property law in England is a "mess" and the market "dysfunctional".
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Housing Market
Housing market continues to pick up, say upbeat RICS agents
RICS President says estate agent members report a significant uptick in activity including more instructions, demand and sales - but problems remain in rental market.
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Regulation & Law
Rental reforms won’t work unless courts are ‘properly funded’
The Law Society President, Nick Emmerson, is concerned an underfunded justice system will hinder progress made in strengthening renters’ rights.
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