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The Private Members’ Bill put forward by Labour MP Karen Buck, which could give tenants the right to sue landlords if...

The Welsh Government is now kicking off a similar consultation process to that conducted by the Department for Communities and Local...

The BBC’s reality programme The Week The Landlords Moved In should act as an eye-opener for the lettings industry when it...

The impact of recent changes to the way buy to let properties are taxed could create the next pension crisis, a...

A property campaigner says the failure of the police to investigate a lettings agent who was eventually convicted of fraud after...

Beleagured housing minister Alok Sharma has been told by a London council that his decision over an application for a borough-wide...

There’s been a cooling in the lettings market in the early part of summer - a time when the sector is...

The findings of the most recent English Housing Survey, an annual report published by the Department for Communities and Local Government,...

Labour MP Karen Buck is to reintroduce her Private Members Bill into Parliament today - and if it is passed, she...

Ian Duncan Smith is the latest Conservative to criticise his own government’s fiscal policies regarding buy to let.   Writing on the Conservative...

The typical rent paid by tenants across Britain rose by an average of 1.8 per cent in the 12 months to...

The flat fees for buy to let mortgages are now lower than they have been at any point in the past...

Another new cloud software platform - HeyLandlord - has been launched to make it easier for agents and landlords to communicate...

Countrywide says that the average price of a new let in Britain rose by 1.1 per cent year-on-year in June 2017...

One of Countrywide’s high-end brands, Hamptons International, is launching its first app to give landlords and tenants “a single integrated point...

The independent production company making the life-swap series The Week The Landlord Moved In series, now showing on BBC1, is having...

Activity in the super prime London market, where tenants are prepared to pay £5,000 or more per week for a home,...

A specialist student lettings agency says the drop in the number of applicants for UK higher education courses this year threatens...

Countrywide says the rapid growth in the size of the private rental sector in recent years is not down to a...

A trade body has welcomed a government U-turn on implementing the ‘Making Tax Digital’ initiative - but it says the decision...

A buy to let investor who ignored the controversial Rent Smart Wales scheme faces a bill of more than £3,500 for...

The myth has been broken - tenants in the private rental sector are more satisfied with their accommodation than those in...

Private renters aren’t pressing agents and landlords to carry out repairs to their home over fears they’ll be evicted, claims Citizens...

Draker, which describes itself as the largest lettings-only agency in Kensington and Chelsea, has now expanded by opening a new office...

Leaders has snapped up the 500-plus property portfolio of Derby-based lettings firm MBM Management Limited.   The company was established in 1996 and...

A south London property firm has been prosecuted by a local authority over its HMO management and may now have to...

Letting agents need to modernise and digitise to prepare for a surge in the size of the private rental sector according...

Belvoir, which has over 300 high street offices, has acquired Brook Financial Services Ltd, which trades as Mortgage Advice Bureau, in...

Landlords continue to look for cheaper, higher-performing properties according to the results of an index produced by Mortgages for Business. An analysis...

The Property Franchise Group has revealed that is has made one of its largest ever single office acquisitions. Martin & Co Plymouth...

Paragon is the latest lender to announce it’s falling in line with Bank of England Prudential Regulation Authority requirements for more...

A new charter has been launched to promote the rights of tenants in a London borough where, for the first time...

Yet another local authority is considering introducing selective licensing of private rental property. Luton council has issued a statement saying that within...

The government has revealed that it has received over 4,700 responses to its official consultation over the proposed ban on letting...

The number of mortgage products has more than doubled over the past two years, according to new data released by sourcing...

A new app called UrbanCo is launched today in London as part of a buying agent-style service aimed at busy would-be renters.    A...

The current ‘busy season’ for lettings turnovers at the end of student terms would be made significantly easier if agents and...

Purpose-built and professionally-managed Build To Rent - until now seen as a primarily London phenomenon - appears on the march in Scotland...

A survey of letting and estate agencies suggest around half broadly back the changes to the private rental sector outlined in...

The Tenancy Deposit Scheme has commissioned buy to let expert Kate Faulkner to assess issues in the private rental sector -...

Bristol council is resuscitating a so-called ‘rental standard’ which it expects local letting agents to meet. Back in January 2016 Letting Agent...

The UK-wide property management firm and private rental sector specialist has rebranded its lettings agency service as Touchstone Agent Solutions.   The firm...

Specialist buy to let mortgage lender LandBay has teamed up with financial services giant Legal & General to provide a new...

A prominent lettings industry campaigner says the head of a tenancy deposit scheme has “serious questions to answer” after his comments...

The Residential Landlords’ Association has been told in no uncertain terms by the government that changes to Energy Performance Certificate scheduled...

The government’s proposal to limit tenancy deposits to one month of rent and reservation fees to one week of rent will...

The average rent of a new letting in the UK grew by 0.24 per cent in the first six months of...

Asking rents outside London continue to hold up despite the market having more available properties, according to Rightmove.   Prices rose 2.8 per...

The latest investigation into the ability of the private rental sector to meet the needs of the population is calling for...

A lettings firm and a property management company that converted a family home into micro flats have been found guilty of...