Could a weak spring housing market push the government back to Help to Buy?

Tenants are calling on councillors to extend selective landlord licensing schemes ahead of local elections next month. The Renters’ Reform Coalition is campaigning for more support for tenants and reaching out to councillors to support more licensing schemes across the country. The campaigning comes just a month before key elements of the Renters’ Rights Act…

Reform’s only London councillor, Mark Shooter (pictured), is facing calls to resign after being accused by The Londoner magazine of being a “rogue landlord” whose company ran an unlicensed HMO property and demanded tenants to pay rent in cash. The allegations come after Reform politicians heavily criticised Labour ministers Rushanara Ali and Angela Rayner and…

Councils are copying national housing laws directly into property licence rules, exposing landlords to the risk of double prosecutions for the same offence, according to Landlord Licensing & Defence’s Phil Turtle (pictured). He says: “Every day we represent against licences where the local housing authority has regurgitated tens of different pieces of primary legislation as…

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The Government is considering removing insured tenancy deposit schemes as part of a wider review of the tenancy deposit protection system, and is examining how they are protected and returned. If the proposal were adopted, it would leave custodial schemes as the only form of deposit protection, requiring them to be held by independent providers…

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