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For-profit RPs to face TSA accounts control
The TSA is to assert control over private developers' accounting rules for the first time read more
Treasury management offers associations substantial potential efficiency savings
TSA should stress that switching to floating rates of interest on more private borrowings could deliver considerable cost reductions read more
Shapps and Treasury must remember that toothless regulator worse than abolition
Any new regulatory regime must be robust and effective in order to protect investment read more
Muddled role of regulator highlighted in debate over status of HCA grant and equity
If regulation is confused with equity then the regulator is compromised by its stake in the organisations it regulates read more
TSA consults on changes in consumer regulation and value for money assessment
The recent consultation launched by the TSA sets out a vision for social housing regulation that will see significant continuity, but also change read more
Housing (Scotland) Bill delivers sweeping set of changes for affordable landlords
Legislation scraps Right To Buy, creates new regulator and landlords' registry, sets Charter standards and requires performance reporting read more
HCA set to win regulatory role in TSA abolition
Housing minister Grant Shapps has signalled his intention to close the Tenant Services Authority read more
TSA under fire over fall-off in RJs' publication
The Tenant Services Authority has been criticised by leading social housing lenders for publishing too few regulatory judgements read more
Future shape of regulation under question due to sector's changing financial model
Beware too great a change: the savings that regulation delivers in terms of lower interest rates are thought to outweigh the costs of regulation itself read more
Economic regulation 'will not change'
The regulatory approach to social landlords' finances will not change as a result of the abolition of the TSA, its chair has said read more
DCLG must balance desire to cut quangos with understanding of regulator's value
Reducing the resources or powers of the regulator could well be a false economy read more
Scotland to set up independent regulator
The Housing (Scotland) Bill will also abolish the Right to Buy for new social tenants, and create a tenants' charter read more
