Tag: Housing Legislation
![Angela Rayner slams Section 21 evictions as cause of homelessness](https://www.property118.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Angela-homesless-section-21-article-250x250.jpeg)
Angela Rayner slams Section 21 evictions as cause of home...
Angela Rayner claims the Labour government want to work with landlords, but blames Section 21 evictions for having a significant impact...
![Shelter Scotland slams council for stripping homeless households of ‘human rights’](https://www.property118.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Shelter-scotland-article-250x250.jpeg)
Shelter Scotland slams council for stripping homeless hou...
In an unprecedented move, Shelter Scotland has urged Scottish Ministers and the Scottish Housing Regulator to intervene and remove...
![NRLA warns landlord database will fail tenants](https://www.property118.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/NRLA-data-article-250x250.jpeg)
NRLA warns landlord database will fail tenants
The NRLA has criticised the government’s plan for a landlord database as “bureaucratic”.
Under the Renters’ Rights Bill, a...
![Lawyer criticises Renters’ Rights Bill impact assessment for underestimating costs](https://www.property118.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Impact-assessment-article2-250x250.jpeg)
Lawyer criticises Renters’ Rights Bill impact assessment ...
A lawyer has slammed the Renters’ Rights Bill impact assessment, calling it “unreliable.”
David Smith, head of dispute resolution...
![Professional body pushes for licensing schemes to be doubled to improve housing conditions](https://www.property118.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/10-licensing-article-250x250.jpeg)
Professional body pushes for licensing schemes to be doub...
Selective licensing schemes should DOUBLE from five to ten years, says professional body.
The Chartered Institute of Environmental...
![Lomond: Renters’ Rights Bill not driving mass landlord exodus](https://www.property118.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Not-mass-exodus-article-250x250.jpeg)
Lomond: Renters’ Rights Bill not driving mass landlord ex...
The Renters’ Rights Bill IS NOT causing a mass landlord exodus, claims network of lettings and sales agents.
According to Lomond,
![Labour’s tax hike rumours driving landlords to sell](https://www.property118.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Coughlin-THumbnail-250x250.jpeg)
Labour’s tax hike rumours driving landlords to sell
Rumours of a capital gains tax hike, the proposed Renters’ Rights Bill and the abolition of Section 21 are sending landlords into...