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A wealthy landlord who set up a fake lettings agency in Hull has been jailed for 11 years for allowing ‘ghost tenants’ to...

Newspaper report claims some 710 properties have been put into the private rental market by the government - and they are...

A thieving lettings agent stole over £128,000 which should have gone to landlord clients - and with it she funded an...

Speculation in national newspapers suggests that the government is considering giving local mayors some powers over parts of the private rented...

What looks suspiciously like a government leak to the Daily Mail says the long-awaited Rental Reform White Paper will be unveiled...

The House of Lords will today discuss the apparently-growing Sex for Rent scandal. Campaigners say a search on websites such as Craigslist...

It’s been reported that the Lloyds Banking Group is set to buy its first property as it seeks to become a...

The Daily Mail says it has informed Trading Standards of a lettings agent which is claims is “illegally working” despite not...

A fake lettings agent has been caught trying to cheat prospective tenants out of £1,500 which she claimed was a deposit...

The director of renters’ campaign group Generation Rent says the long-running scandal of a planning decision made by the Housing Secretary...

The government’s hugely-publicised database for rogue letting agents and landlords has been running for almost two years and has…wait for it…just...

As the row over Labour’s proposal rumbles on the think tank Centre for Policy Studies - which has previously argued that...

With the country in febrile election mode, it’s perhaps unsurprising that the Association of Residential Letting Agents has got in on...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? That depends on which business card. One says ‘Properganda PR,...

A dispute concerning a ‘no deposit option’ put forward by a letting agency has reached the Daily Mail. The newspaper’s online service...

The Daily Mail has reported on a massive buy to let fiddle which involved a £10.8m property empire, rents totalling £500,000...

The Daily Mail has unveiled an extensive network of homes advertised on Airbnb but actually being sub-let by tenants who are...

A landlord has set up a company to handle the ownership and management of buy to let properties - and the...

David Miles, a former Bank of England economist, has described the government’s mortgage interest tax relief reform as “terrible” - but...

Deutsche Bank has issued a dire warning about the buy to let market in the UK, along with a broadside warning...

More criticism of Chancellor George Osborne’s raft of buy to let reforms has appeared in the mainstream media, with much emphasis...

A columnist on FT Adviser - an online service for financial advisers and clients - says buy to let investors have...

It’s been revealed that Airbnb - the online informal lettings service which can be used to by-pass letting agents - passes details...

It appears that the former presenters of BBC consumer programme Watchdog are amongst those participating in a class action against Foxtons...

Foxtons could be facing a hefty legal bill after charging a landlord over £600 to change a light fitting. In 2013 London...

The chief executive of the Scottish Association of Landlords - which represents letting agents as well as landlords north of the...