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Landlords in Wales who manage their own properties are being reminded that they must submit their licence application to Rent Smart...

A lettings agency operating in Cardiff has expanded its business and now donates 15 per cent of profits to a local...

A TV news programme has exposed how a sleazy male landlord - who presumably did not instruct a letting agent -...

Liverpool and Nottingham are the UK’s best performing property investment locations, according to mortgage broker Private Finance.  Both cities enjoy average rental...

Rent Smart Wales, the licensing and training regime which is now a year old, has taken an agent and a landlord...

A lettings management agency in Cardiff says it has boosted business by a quarter in the past year, mostly thanks to...

The Welsh Government’s communities and children secretary, Carl Sargeant, is calling on tenants to have their say on proposals to ban...

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

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

A property firm has been fined £32,134 and ordered to pay costs of £260 and a victim surcharge of £170 after...

ARLA Propertymark representatives have met with Home Office officials in Cardiff and Edinburgh ahead of the government’s roll-out of Right To...

Belvoir Cardiff has completed the acquisition of a management portfolio of 130 rental properties. The purchase of all properties managed by Letwise...

Letting agents’ fees levied on tenants - already banned in Scotland and now likely to be banned in England according to...

The controversial Welsh private lettings sector scheme called Rent Smart Wales had around 65 per cent of agents and landlords register...

Rent Smart Wales, a controversial scheme that require letting agents to be trained, comes into effect today after a troubled lead...

The Residential Landlords Association has roasted the enforcement policies and provisions for the controversial Rent Smart Wales initiative which begins in...

It is feared that Cardiff council will later this week severely restrict the number of new shared houses in two popular...

A landlord operating in Wales has been fined almost £3,000 for failing to renew the House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) licences...

Almost all of the UK's major towns and cities saw fewer available buy-to-let properties listed during August when compared with July. Property...

Student accommodation provider Student Cribs has secured £200m in funding from institutions to expand its portfolio - and it’s looking for...

The owner of a series of flats to let in Cardiff has been fined £3,500 and ordered to pay £200 costs...

A new property tech startup is launching this month with the promise that it will “completely transform the way university students...

Tenants spend an average of 18 months in a rented property before moving on, according to new research by insurer Direct...

A buy to let investment search portal has produced an interactive map based on a pull-together of research into the lettings market...

A private landlord aged 72 must pay £4,800 after pleading guilty to 11 offences of breaching the Licensing and Management of...

New licence fees for letting and managing agents have been announced by Rent Smart Wales, the Welsh Government’s registration and licensing scheme which...

Peer-to-peer lender Lendinvest, using data from Zoopla and the Land Registry, says Manchester, Liverpool, Cardiff, Coventry and Oldham produce the highest...

A bid to force letting agents to remove To Let boards from properties in areas of a city with high numbers...

A letting agent is warning of apparently inaccurate information being sent out as part of a new agent and landlord accreditation...

Letting agents in two areas of Cardiff with large proportions of privately rented property will have to apply for consent to...