Right to Rent
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Latest property news
Home Office reveals huge increase in fines for Right to Rent non-compliance
Agents and landlords from January 2024 will see fines raised in some cases from £80 per tenant to £5,000 if they were not checked properly.
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Housing Market
Letting agency boost as Government issues Right to Rent warning
Landlords who don’t use a letting agent are the least likely to fully understand their legal responsibilities when onboarding new tenants via the Right to Rent scheme, research from the Home Office has revealed.
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Products & Services
First digital ID for Right to Rent checks launched
First certified digital ID provider Yoti has integrated with lettings software supplier Propoly to make onboarding tenants quick, easy and compliant.
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Government approves first digital Right to Rent identity providers
The Post Office and Yoti have been given the green light to certify digital identities for Right to Rent and Right to Work schemes.
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WARNING: New Right to Rent regulations and procedures go live
New list of approved documents, procedures and ways of checking a person's identity digitally all start right now.
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Latest property news
LATEST: Home Office issues discrimination rules on how to do Right to Rent checks
Agents and landlords are issued lengthy consultation document on how not to discriminate against tenants during checks.
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Get ready for Right to Rent changes or risk a fine, agents are warned
Propertymark says letting agents must 'get ahead of the game' as significant changes to Right to Rent checks are now only a few months away.
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COVID-19
Are you compliant with Propertymark’s new Covid guidance?
Trade body has significantly refreshed its guidance on operating an estate agency during Covid following the arrival of Omicron.
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Tenants will not have to be re-checked by agents for Right to Rent says Home Office
Face-to-face Right to Rent checks are due to restart soon but tenants will NOT have be re-checked for agents to be compliant, says Home Office.
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Ministers warned of impending Right to Rent ‘disaster’ when Covid ends
ARLA Propertymark has written to the Home Office to highlight how Right to Rent checks could fall apart once Covid ends.
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