Tenants are continuing to vote with their feet in the most expensive parts of London, by moving out to cheaper areas. Agents are reporting the ongoing exodus, amid an over-supply of properties, with landlords having to freeze or cut rents...

A letting agency has launched a new project to help student tenants who are considering renting property. The project, Next Steps, consists of free seminars and has the backing of the local college...

A former police officer is one of five people who have been convicted of a £20m buy-to-let mortgage fraud. The scam involved 189 mortgage applications, including some for non-existent properties, between May 2003 and June 2008...

One in five private tenants has reported electrical faults in their properties that are either ignored or not put right immediately. New research from the Electrical Safety Council estimates that 1...

Members of the London Assembly have called for a package of tough reforms in the capital’s private rental market, including rent controls. Although the report, from the London Assembly’s Housing and Regeneration Committee, does not use the expression – favouring instead the phrase “rent stabilisation” – the meaning is very clear...

A new research report on the regulation of letting agents has been published, and placed in the House of Commons library. The report, by Wendy Wilson and Catherine Fairbairn, points out that there is no statutory regulator of private letting or managing agents in England, and no requirement for them to belong to a trade association...

A mechanism to recover rent arrears is to be incorporated into the new Universal Credit system, by docking the benefit. Landlords who are owed rent by tenants receiving benefit will be able to request direct payment once a certain level of rent arrears – as yet undecided – is reached...

The National Landlords Association is making some of its key membership benefits freely available online to every single landlord in the UK. The documents include tenancy agreements, referencing letters and various Section notices...