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Airbnb short-lets rules must be set locally not nationally, say agents
The trade body is pressing the Government to allow local authorities to decide if they need a short-term lets licensing scheme in their area.
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Help to Buy ‘must be extended beyond new builds’, says estate agency chief
The trade body's CEO Nathan Emerson welcomes news that Help to Buy may make a comeback, but says it needs to include older properties.
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Exemptions to EPC rules ‘certain’, warns leading property figure
Former ARLA Propertymark president, Maxine Fothergill, says the Government will have to allow exceptions to the minimum C rating.
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Propertymark renews industry call for battle against rent cap
Trade body's policy chief wants letting agents and landlords to join the fight against a rent cap and eviction ban north of the border.
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Business rates for agents ‘still not right’, says trade body
Propertymark welcomes changes to business rates, but urges the Government to go further and introduce yearly valuations.
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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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Landlords ‘getting around’ rent cap, Propertymark reports
Timothy Douglas, Propertymark's policy head, told the Scottish Parliament that many landlords were raising rents between tenancies.
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Propertymark hits back at claim it let agents down over EPC rules
The trade body says it has done everything it can to persuade the Government that new regulations must be realistic and workable.
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Estate agents ‘let down’ by trade bodies over EPC changes
Jeremy Clarke, a Belvoir agent in Dorset, has attacked the representative bodies saying they have done little to help agents and landlords.
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