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Two landlords have been fined after a four-month-old baby and both his parents were taken to hospital with carbon monoxide poisoning.
Mehboob and Suraiya Bobat were prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after an investigation found four gas appliances at a property in Bolton were unsafe, and that they had failed to arrange an annual gas safety check as the law...
A cross party group of MPs and peers is today calling for a full scale review of all regulations affecting the private rented sector.
In particular, it wants letting agents to be subject to the same regulation as estate agents, so that they can be banned from the industry.
The All Party Parliamentary Group for the Private Rented Sector says it is an “anomaly” that...
The lettings industry has poured scorn and fury on Labour’s proposed reforms for the private rented sector, amid fears that landlords will desert the industry in droves.
Labour – keen to capture votes from Generation Rent – plans to introduce three-year tenancies as the norm, impose rent controls, and ban agents from charging fees to tenants.
It would also...
Labour is today announcing what may be amongst the most far-reaching reforms of the lettings sector ever seen - if the party wins the general election in 2015.
Ed Miliband is making the announcement at the launch of his party's European election campaign. He will promise to introduce a ceiling on rent increases and will ban letting agents from demanding fees from tenants...
Rents in the private sector are increasing by less than inflation, and have gone up by just 1% in the last year across England.
The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show that even in London, rents rose by an average of only 1.4% in the 12 months to March 2014.
This compares to a consumer prices index rate of 1.7% and a retail prices index rate of 2.5% over the same...