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Greater London rents have risen an average of four per cent in the past year - but some boroughs performing above-average...

Haringey council is the latest local authority in the capital to create a borough-wide additional licensing scheme for HMOs. It claims the...

A flat-share website claims typical rents in some 38 per cent of London are now so high they render the areas...

Canterbury is the latest council to consider setting up its own letting agency. The authority hopes to tempt private landlords with promises...

A gunman who described himself as a would-be tenant has been jailed after two “terrifying” robberies on letting agencies.  The Enfield Independent...

It’s several weeks on from our story about a local authority setting up its own private letting agency and having only...

An investigation by the BBC has exposed that a London council's new private lettings agency - scheduled to cost well over...

Haringey Council in North London is the latest local authority to launch its own letting agency for private tenants. Move 51⁰ North...

A rogue landlord who illegally converted one house into a nine flats has been handed a maximum £20,000 fine after being...

The publication Environmental Health News has secured the release of files showing the details of hundreds of convicted private landlords in...

A property consultancy specialising in licensing regimes for privately-let properties says there have been 580 housing prosecutions in London under the...