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There’s been a rise of over 400 per cent in the monetary total of fines issued for Right To Rent offences...

There’s growing anger over restrictions on private homeowners using their properties via Airbnb and other short let platforms. Earlier this week Housing...

PropTech firm Kamma - which specialises in information about landlord licensing - has inked another partnership. This latest link is with Goodlord.  Kamma’s...

Buy to let investors who want to convert family homes into HMOs in Hounslow for three to six tenants will now...

A new action plan to tackle issues around HMOs is being drawn up by a Midlands council next week. West Northamptonshire council’s...

Airbnb claims there has been a 75 per cent drop in party reports made to Airbnb in the UK since its...

The Guild of Property Professionals says PropTech may be the answer to the ongoing problem with client accounts. Since 2019 many banks...

A crackdown on Airbnbs and other short lets in the Scottish capital, Edinburgh, has infuriated landlord’s’ representatives. In line with the rest...

Fourteen Trading Standards authorities across a swathe of England are embarking on an enforcement project to check lettings agency compliance.  The Central England...

Shocking figures have emerged regarding the long-running problems caused by banks demanding that agencies have a designated client account for each...

A PropTech supplier says it’s created a solution to letting agents and landlords who must remain compliant and who want to...

A council says it’s considering introducing criminal record checks on individuals who apply to run HMOs as part of a wide-ranging...

The government’s new Levelling Up White Paper, revealed this morning, includes a radical reshaping of the private rental sector. Section 21 eviction...

Agents are being warned about a crackdown on compliance issues surrounding rental property management. No Letting Go, the country’s largest provider of...

A huge trading standards operation clamping down on lettings agents who fail to abide by Client Money Protection rules has been...

A clampdown on letting agents who fail to safeguard landlords’ and tenants’ money is now underway.  A statement from the National Trading Standards...

A new assessment of legislation and council rules surrounding the private rental sector suggests a severe crackdown may be coming in...

Generation Rent - an outspoken organisation sharply critical of lettings agents and many aspects of the private rental sector - is...

Officers from a local council simultaneously staged 10 dawn raids on properties owned by unlicensed landlords. All the terraced homes, in Slough,...

The government has announced an additional £4m in funding for local councils to combat rogue agents and landlords - but it’s...

A leading trade body says the government’s latest injection of funds to help local councils root out rogue operators in the...

A statement from Hackney council in north east London says those who break its licensing provisions for the private rental sector...

A crackdown on letting agency websites by a Trading Standards team has found the significant majority of them to be breaking...

A landlord has been ordered to pay £14,500 after he was found to be illegally letting his property out to 11...

The number of landlords admitting to not paying tax has soared in the past year, according to new data. During 2018/2019, 16,110...

The government has beefed up its support for councils identifying and prosecuting rogue landlords. Yesterday the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local...

A dawn raid on unlicensed HMOs in north London last week were the latest sign of a crackdown on rogue operators...

Local authorities across the UK are to get another £2m to crack down on rogue operators in the buy to let...

Tenants, landlords and buy to let investors are the targets for new online rental guides introduced by the Ministry of Housing,...

The Property Ombudsman is the latest property industry player to throw its support behind the introduction of mandatory qualifications and a...

The government has this morning - Easter Sunday - announced a crackdown on rogue letting agents in the shape of a...

This is a rare story: a council has dropped a plan for a lettings licensing scheme as a result of 900...

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

The government has released more details on long-discussed proposals to tighten up licensing in the private rental sector. It wants landlords in...

More landlords are quitting conventional letting and resorting to holiday lets or, increasingly, Airbnb-style short lets.    The move is particularly acute in...

More than 100 criminal prosecutions have been secured against landlords since the start of an enforcement crackdown by Brent council in...

Lettings agents have been issued fines totalling £14,100 by a local authority for failing to comply with consumer rights laws.   Officers from...

Bexley council in south east London says it is going to announce what it describes as a “crackdown” on HMOs next...

Two letting agencies in the London borough of Camden have lost their appeal against fines for failing to join a redress...

A landlord has a bill of more than £85,000 for unlawfully letting a basement flat. As part of a council planning enforcement...

A letting agency has announced its support for new rules which will allow landlords to evict illegal immigrants without a court...

A survey of 500 landlords suggest that 10 per cent of them have had difficulties in securing a mortgage over the...