Industry leaders support an initiative to create a stronger property industry that will exclude rogue operators.

The private rental sector organisation says it wants to be the key agent accreditation scheme for lettings and management agents, now branded 'Safeagent'.

NALS has heavily criticised the Shelter/NHF campaign to expose lettings agents who discriminate against housing benefit tenants.

If ever there was a time the property industry needed someone to fight its corner - but are the punches being thrown effectively?

The provision of redress schemes within the industry looks to be in trouble after one of the three government-approved ombudsman services announced today that it would be pulling out of the property…

In November last year The Negotiator revealed that the number of selective licensing schemes in the UK had swollen to 533 with a further 25 in consultation. But now the ‘lottery’ of…

The recently-renamed Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG ) does not expect the letting fees ban to come into force until Spring 2019, it has confirmed. In written evidence made…

Letting agents in London who were hoping Trading Standards would ease off investigating those who don’t display their fees properly as the fees ban looms have been in for a nasty shock.…

The fees display regulations introduced two years ago to force agents to show how much they charge tenants remain largely unenforced, research by the National Approved Letting Scheme (NALS) has revealed. NALS made Freedom of…

National Approved Letting Scheme (NALS) CEO ex Isobel Thomson (pictured) has criticised the government’s proposed ban on tenant lettings fees and called for an impartial report by the Competition and Market Authority…