Right to Rent
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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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Features
Legal analysis – is the eviction ban’s remit too wide to be workable?
UK COVID-19: Residential possession proceedings during lockdown: is the new practice direction too wide to work? Tim Reid, Senior Associate, Hogan Lovells, comments.
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Labour launches radical housing policy push including rent controls and ‘locals first’ new homes
Corbyn has launched an assault on the property market including banning Right to Rent checks, greater tenant rights and a huge council building programme.
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Industry warns hard line on EU immigration will cause ‘distress’ for renters, landlords and agents
ARLA says a planned transition following Brexit was the agreed path with government, not Priti Patel's proposed sudden hard border on 31st October.
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Political change: catalyst for buy to let revision?
After the Conservative Leader election, Andrew Turner, Chief Executive at Commercial Trust, wonders if there is a future for Buy to Let ?
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Right to rent legislation “is a farce” argue landlords
One of the Government’s flagship immigration policies has been branded a "farce" after a court ruling.
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Home Office given leave to appeal against High Court’s Right to Rent judgement
Just a week after the system was dammed by a High Court judge because it had lead to discrimination, the government is to attempt to overturn the judgement.
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High Court rules Right to Rent checks have breached human rights legislation
Following three months of deliberations Mr Justice Martin Spencer has ruled that the policy has led to discrimination.
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Would you rent to someone on housing benefit? A third of letting agents say ‘no’
Government's latest survey of agents and landlords discovers shocking figures on who they will and will not rent properties to.
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Judicial Review of government’s Right to Rent policy begins
Lobbying group the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants wins its day in court after being given green light by High Court in June.
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