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The Chancellor has used his Budget to confirm a 2p cut in National Insurance, from April 6. This will take it...

New research shows there are 36,210 long-term vacant homes across London - that’s around one in every 100 properties. The borough in...

A letting platform says what it calls “the rental chaos” of the current market has now end in sight. New data from...

Rents continue to soar across the UK according to data released by flatshare website SpareRoom.  It says average UK room rents were...

A lettings agency manager stole nearly £140,000 from her company to help clear her son’s drug debt. Wendy Dare, 57, is now...

Data from fraud prevention database CIFAS a marked increase in both identity fraud and false lettings applications in the UK according...

The average Anti-Money Laundering fine handed to agents has soared by two thirds. An analysis of five industries - Accountancy, Estate/Lettings Agency,...

There’s good news and bad news for letting agents on the anti-money laundering front. The good news is that the overall number...

The number of HMOs in England has fallen as a result of government intervention in the market. In 2018 new regulations were...

A property company and its director will have to shell out £10,000 after a blaze left six tenants homeless in the...

The average cost of renting in England is almost unchanged from five years ago - although that masks significant localised variations.  The...

Two London landlords and their lettings agents will have to pay tens of thousands of pounds after a home they were letting...

Rental demand has dropped significantly across London and other major UK cities as a result of the pandemic. When comparing current levels...

A trade body suggests that the votes of private landlords could decide the results in over 100 constituencies in next week’s...

A collective of activist renter groups has set out a manifesto of what it wants from the winner of next month’s...

If you want to know why inventories are vital for agents and landlords, look no further than the high-profile dispute over...

Two landlords have been ordered to pay more than £30,000 for breaching fire safety and over-occupancy licence conditions at their House...

A flat-share website claims typical rents in some 38 per cent of London are now so high they render the areas...

Edinburgh has been identified as having the UK’s fastest growing rents with the average annual sum rising by 4.63 per cent...

Rents in London rose by 0.1 per cent in the 12 months to June - it’s the first annual rental increase...

A London council has launched its own online letting agency with the aim of creating a buzz in the 'London property...

A landlady has been fined £15,000 for failing to license and manage a house in multiple occupation.    Sharon Jacobs was also ordered...

A landlord guilty of breaching a planning enforcement notice has been ordered to pay £700,000 in fines and costs - the...

The Local Government Association, representing 370 councils across England and Wales, is calling on the public to speak out against rogue...

  A letting agent who scammed dozens of tenants and landlords out of more than £220,000 of rents and deposits has been...

Magistrates have fined the leaseholders and landlords of a 10-flat property in north London £120,000 after finding they had put the...

Six letting agents have all pleaded not guilty to charges of fraud. The Ham & High says they were all employees of...

The Right To Buy policy “has turned into a rich harvest for the greedy elite” according to a trades union. The GMB...

Barnet is the latest council appearing to edge towards increased private rental sector licensing as it enters the final two weeks...

An amnesty on the licensing of houses in multiple occupation is being held in Barnet in north London following the successful...