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A legal advice service for landlords and their agents says it’s identified several areas with particularly lengthy delays in finding court...

A survey of local authorities in some of the poorest areas of the country - bodies which enforce many private rental...

HM Courts and Tribunals Service has halted the work of bailiffs on safety grounds.  An incident is under investigation, and it’s believed...

Foxtons has worked with house builders the Berkley Group to connect Asia Pacific buyers and landlords with UK property. The initiative, held...

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The largest operator in London for the niche co-living sector has doubled the size of its portfolio in the east of...

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

A leading lettings sector commentator believes today’s local elections may not directly change the private rental sector but could have a...

Rental portal Rentd says the pandemic-long decline in the London rental market is now “reversing at speed”. Rental values are climbing annually...

Rents in much of London have not only bounced back from the pandemic but now exceed the levels reached in 2020. Research...

Rental demand has started to return to the majority of major UK cities during the second quarter of this year, with...

London lettings and estate agency Benham and Reeves has calculated a league table of the most popular postcodes in the capital...

I was asked recently, how can an agent generate more landlord leads? Well that got me thinking, firstly, we have to...

Rents are higher for Londoners living near busy high streets - for the moment at least.  Research by rental platform Spotahome has...

A judge has ordered two landlords to pay a total of £14,858 for illegally renting out an unlicensed house without working...

A rental management platform has compiled a league table of where tenant demand is strongest for homes to let - and...

A league table has been drawn up revealing the UK’s possession order hotspots - just as the government seems keen to...

A think tank is blaming high rents for apparently stopping Millennials moving to better paying parts of the country. A report from...

A council claims that its decision to set up its own lettings agency has prevented homelessness for almost 50 families and...

A buy to let investor has been landed with a fine and costs of over £20,000 because he failed to apply...

Another London local authority is proposing to insist HMOs require planning permission in future.  Currently in Croydon multi-bedroom properties can be converted...

Croydon council is reported to have become the first local authority to back the scrapping of Section 21 of the 1988...

Legal & General, one of the biggest players in Britain’s burgeoning Build To Rent market, has exchanged contracts on its largest...

A local authority has started a one-year trial of a ‘social lettings agency’ which aims to match those at risk of...

A warning has come from a campaigning letting agent that London’s landlords agents could be costing themselves tenants by requiring them...

London Bishops have written to housing minister Alok Sharma calling on him to do more to protect vulnerable private tenants. The Bishops...

Graduates sharing in London spend upwards of 45 per cent of their monthly take home pay on accommodation according to a...

A prominent campaigner over the misappropriation of rental deposits has welcomed the news that government proposals to ban letting agent fees...

A letting agent has been jailed for keeping more than £15,000 in client deposits. Thirugnanaselvam Damayantharan ran See Own Properties in Purley and...

The Residential Landlords Association has listed key MPs in marginal constituencies who should be lobbied ahead of the March 8 Budget...

The Residential Landlords’ Association says Gavin Barwell, the new housing minister appointed by Theresa May this week, is a known critic...

Campaign group Generation Rent is running a research project into letting agent fees via a comparison website named Letting Fees UK. The...

Countrywide has revealed that it has acquired 30 lettings businesses in the past year alone, expanding the firm’s rental sector headcount...

A businessman has been jailed for two years for failing to declare and pay tax on income he received from his...

Beatrice Carter Property in Bury St Edmunds has picked up the Best Letting Agent for Landlords gong in the latest ESTAS...

Landlords may be mistakenly claiming back VAT they are not entitled to because of an error by a local council.  The Croydon...

A group of agents, landlords and other property professionals has applied to appeal the decision to block an attempt to overturn...

A group of landlords in Oldham have said they are going to present the council with a petition against the town's...

Three agents have been announced as winners of The ESTAS Agent of the Month competition for July.   Bristol Property Centre won...

A group of letting agents, landlords and investors has failed in its bid to force a high profile council to reconsider...

The Property Redress Scheme has expelled a letting agency following non-compliance with a redress decision. The complaint regarded a holding deposit. The...

A final decision on the legal challenge to a flagship council landlord licensing scheme has been set for next Thursday.  The Croydon...

The hearing that will determine whether there will be a judicial review of another council’s landlord licensing scheme will take place...

Landlords have launched a legal challenge to plans by a local authority to charge for licences to manage properties. The Croydon Guardian...

The journalism website HoldTheFrontPage says a landlord who tried to sue a weekly newspaper for defamation over its coverage of a...