Tag: regulation

Regulation puts self-managing landlords under pressure

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

28th September 2026, 2 weeks ago | 4

Compliance and legislation are the biggest sources of stress for self-managing landlords, as many weigh up whether managing their own...

Committee calls for raising standards and stronger enforcement across PRS

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

3rd July 2026, 3 months ago | 7

A government committee has urged the government to introduce incentives for landlords to raise standards in the private rented sector...

Landlord group challenges simplistic view of rent pricing

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

7th August 2025, 1 year ago | 5

A landlord group says a new report on the PRS shows “a 2D version of rent pricing” rather than the...

IMLA warns that more PRS regulation will bring rent hikes

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

29th November 2024, 2 years ago | 0

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has issued a stark warning that increased government regulation on the private rented sector...

Landlords fear tax hikes and Section 21 reforms

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

30th October 2024, 2 years ago | 0

UK landlords are growing increasingly anxious about potential tax hikes and regulatory changes, particularly the looming threat of Section 21...

SRA to investigate landlord and tenant solicitors amid surge in complaints

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

5th August 2024, 2 years ago | 2

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is launching an investigation into landlord and tenant law solicitors following a sharp rise in...

Letting agents urged to lobby new MPs after the election

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

3rd July 2024, 2 years ago | 2

Letting agents are being urged to lobby new MPs to help shape future housing policy – irrespective of which party...

Propertymark calls for better landlord support in Wales

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

20th March 2024, 3 years ago | 1

Propertymark is urging the Welsh Government to learn from Scotland’s experience with legislative changes in the private rented sector (PRS)...

Lending giant urges support for landlords in the Budget

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

5th March 2024, 3 years ago | 8

One of the UK’s largest buy to let lenders, The Mortgage Works (TMW), has called on the government to use...

New standards for social housing landlords unveiled

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

1st March 2024, 3 years ago | 2

Social housing landlords will have to follow new standards from April, the Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) has announced. The...

BTL landlords are facing a shocking 80% rise in borrowing costs

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th December 2023, 3 years ago | 7

Buy to let landlords with mortgages will struggle to break even in the next two years with their borrowing costs...

Why the Renters’ Reform Bill won’t deliver the positive change tenants need

Author: Richard Reed

19th October 2022, 4 years ago | 8

Richard Dawson, rental sector expert at RentGuarantor, says the Renters’ Reform Bill is flawed and explains why he feels greater...

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New call for government to regulate letting agents

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

27th March 2012, 15 years ago | 0

The government needs to take action to protect consumers by regulating unscrupulous letting and estate agents, urges the Royal Institution...