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29 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![New Rental Crisis - big rise in countryside lets as rural house prices soar](/upload/images/shutterstock_1438059821.jpg)
England’s county councils want the next government to set out a long-term plan for housing, as a new report claims there’s...
25 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Who cares about Build To Rent? Not MPs by the looks of it….](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/BuildToRent-400x310.png)
A PR exercise has discovered that 89 per cent of UK MPs would not give priority to Build-to-Rent schemes in their...
11 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Council houses will cut rental demand - Rayner sets out agenda](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/HousePriceDrop-400x310.png)
Labour’s new shadow Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Secretary, Angela Rayner, says she will put council Housing at the heart of...
13 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![One city loses 1,500 rental homes to Airbnb - claim](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/shutterstock_2198282283.jpg)
A newspaper is reporting that almost 1,500 homes which could be used for long-term mainstream rentals have been ‘lost’ to short...
20 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![Huge fines for agency and management company over safety failures](/upload/images/Fine(1).jpg)
A management company and a lettings agency involved in running a London HMO have been prosecuted for fire safety failures. Monsoon Properties...
12 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![Labour must fund councils to buy private rental homes - expert’s call](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Property-Value_400x310.png)
A prominent housing journalist says Labour should fund councils to buy homes directly from private landlords to rapidly increase the size...
01 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![Clampdown on agents by council officers with qualifications](/upload/images/Locations/GreaterLondon-400x310.jpg)
The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan wants is introducing a new qualification and training for borough council housing enforcement officers to...
17 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Councils warn that Airbnbs threaten mainstream rental supply](/upload/images/Logos/airbnb-logo400x310.png)
Landlords selling up or converting to short lets have led to a growing housing crisis, according to a trade body of...
14 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![Shift from long term lets to Airbnb ‘contribute to housing emergency’](/img/default/lat.png)
A politician in one of the poorest parts of the UK wants his local authority to declare a ‘housing emergency’. Cornish councillor...
23 June 2021
From: Breaking News
![Letting agent in court over unlicensed rent-to-rent HMO](/img/default/lat.png)
A letting agent has been fined £11,500 for breaking HMO houses and fire safety rules at a property he manages. Agent Benjamin...
04 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Council seeks private rental sector help to ease waiting list problems](/img/default/lat.png)
A local authority has set up what it calls The Private Sector Landlord service to try to harness some private property...
24 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Council writes to landlords urging understanding over arrears](/img/default/lat.png)
A London council has sent an open letting to its buy to let landlords urging them to show understanding to tenants...
26 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Tax credit idea for tenants whose rent is 30% or more of income](/img/default/lat.png)
The Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru is pledging tax credits for private tenants whose rent and utilities bills add up to...
26 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Lifetime Rental Deposits backed by Tories as Labour revamps council housing](/img/default/lat.png)
On the day that Labour launches its proposals to reform the private rental sector, the Tories have announced so-called Lifetime Rental...
21 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Labour's private rental policies too thin on detail, says RICS](/img/default/lat.png)
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has accused Labour of being thin on detail when it comes to the housing policies...
26 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Buy to let con-man must pay back £48,000 rent or go to prison](/img/default/lat.png)
A man who claimed he needed a council house but was actually a landlord has been ordered to pay back more...
07 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![Massive fines and costs for property firm and landlord over HMO breaches](/img/default/lat.png)
A council says it hopes a massive set of fines and costs imposed on one buy to let investor and his...
07 February 2018
From: Breaking News
![Faulty wiring and broken smoke alarms lead to hefty court fine](/img/default/lat.png)
A private landlord has been fined by a London magistrates court for poor and potentially dangerous housing conditions. Monojor Ali was fined...
05 December 2016
From: Breaking News
![LibDems will try to block Right To Buy extension to housing associations](/img/default/lat.png)
The Liberal Democrat party says it will use its members in the House of Lords to try to block the government's...