New- Inquiry into Private Rented Housing Sector

tbs624

Thanks to those of you who took the time to vote before poll closed yesterday.

As expected, the highest number of votes was for LA regulation to be addressed, including dealing with their ever increasing and random fees

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tbs624

For those who want to follow up with a personal submission as part of the Select Committee Inquiry into the PRS note this info below:

"Submissions of no more than 3,000 words are invited by 11am on 17 January 2013.

Each submission should be labelled with the subject ‘Private Rented Sector’, sent to [EMAIL="clgev@parliament.uk"]clgev@parliament.uk[/EMAIL], attached in Word format (with as little use of colour or logos as possible) and be accompanied by a covering email containing the name and contact details of the individual submitting evidence.

A detailed guide for written submissions ( PDF 431 KB) to Select Committees may be found on the parliamentary website at:; it should be noted that written evidence is often published and made available in a report and on the internet."

Paramount

Interesting response to the poll. Regulation is clearly an issue to many people so hopefully the inquiry will address this in due course.

tbs624

Just noticed the MSE News article , following RICS comments

"Letting agents risk being 'property's Wild West'

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/mortgages/2012/11/letting-agents-crackdown-called-for.

Unfortunately, the MSE link to the Discussion thread isn't working atm