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A tourism chief has likened new anti-holiday let regulations to those of a Stalinist dictatorship. Ashford Price, secretary of the Welsh Association...

The famous seaside town of Whitby in Yorkshire has voted in a referendum considering a ban on new build properties being...

Activists are calling on the government to impose swingeing taxes on some lettings properties “to bring them back into the residential...

Local and central government is losing out on millions of pounds of council tax income this year because of the business...

An agency in an Airbnb hotspot is offering incentives to landlords who switch from short lets to long-term mainstream letting. Dan Roskilly,...

A Labour MP says a surge in the number of stag and hen parties in her constituency - undertaken by people...

A holiday lettings company says it’s the first in the industry to introduce a voluntary cap on the number of bookings...

A new investment league table has been drawn up to show best aggregate rent and capital appreciation income for those in...

Tax experts say that an attempt to levy higher purchase tax on holiday lets and second homes in one part of...

New research from holiday lettings agency Classic Cottages shows that 2021 was a record year in one of the country’s staycation...

The activist group Acorn is lobbying a local council to deny people the right to buy a second home or let...

Lettings agency Galbraith reports that landlords are now returning to the residential lets sector from holiday lets after several years without...

ARLA Propertymark has slammed politicians who appear to have ignored a public consultation and gone ahead with draconian changes affecting second...

Cornwall has been in the spotlight as an area with an acute shortage of long-term rental properties because landlords have switched...

Figures obtained by ITV News suggest that one of the country's most popular tourist locations has as many Airbnbs listed as...

Bookings for staycations continue to surpass pre-pandemic levels, according to holiday home rental agency Sykes Holiday Cottages.  The company has revealed that...

A major holiday let company in one of the country’s prime tourist destinations says more affordable homes should be built to...

One of the country’s best-read and respected regional newspapers has accused Airbnb of a ‘racket’ by advertising homes on its short-let...

Politicians who express concern over the number of holiday lets and Airbnbs in tourist areas miss one major point - if...

Owners of second homes who abuse a tax loophole by claiming their often-empty properties are holiday lets will be forced to...

The Liberal Democrats have proposed sharp restrictions on holiday rentals at the heart of the party’s plans to solve the housing...

The trade body representing Airbnb and other short let providers and sector suppliers says the short let industry is best placed...

A community interest company is setting up a rival platform to Airbnb, with the aim of using the commission to benefit...

A petition calling on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to increase tax on holiday lettings has still not hit its 45,000-signature target. Former long...

The government says it’s finalising plans for a new tax regime to apply to additional homes, and in particular those used...

Travel Chapter, which owns the high profile Holidaylettings brand, is to float on the London Stock Exchange's junior AIM market. Devon-based Travel...

The short lets sector - already receiving political and community criticism for eroding the wider private rental sector - needs better...

Rental stock has dropped as landlords seek to profit from the staycation boom, Rightmove claims. Data from the portal suggests seaside towns...

Baroness Alicia Kennedy, director of the Generation Rent campaign, says rents in Wales, Scotland and South West England have soared thanks...

Airbnb has issued a lengthy statement in response to a recent raft of criticisms about the effects of soaring numbers of...

A tenant who says his former rental property has been turned into an Airbnb has set up a petition demanding Chancellor...

A Conservative MP says he is to declare a “state of housing emergency” in his constituency because of the loss of...

The rate at which holiday let businesses is being set up has more than doubled during the pandemic according to the...

Wales’ Labour-led administration is to announce a three-pronged approach to affordability issues - and it looks likely to involve a clampdown...

A lettings management platform is hitting out at the government over the uncertainty surrounding travel restrictions, because of its impact on...

The government’s much-vaunted ‘tax day’ produced few challenges to the status quo - but holiday lets are under scrutiny. Currently the holiday let...

A lettings agency in the growing Lomond Group has purchased a rental portfolio on the south coast.  Brand Vaughan has bought the lettings...

A call has gone out for the longer-term buy to let rental sector to have a similar tax regime as the largely-unregulated...

Councillors from a town council in Wales are to be given an audience with the country’s First Minister to discuss the...

A council with a large number of short let properties within its boundaries is urging owners to convert them to traditional...

Some buy to let mortgages are now more expensive than before for borrowers, despite the recent fall in the Bank of...

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

[Letting Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise to...

Labour is backing new guidelines which ban adverts which can be interpreted as encouraging landlords and home owners to flout restrictions...

A holiday lets and short-term lettings market boom can be put down to a combination of four reasons, according to specialist...

A holiday lettings company says it’s seen a 23 per cent increase in its portfolio over the past year as owners...

A local authority has written to purchasers of former council houses and apartments warning them against illegally letting them out -...

The UK’s holiday lets sector could be a beneficiary of the current Brexit uncertainty and people not vacationing abroad because they...

There is a warning that the HMRC’s Let Property campaign, which received huge publicity and attention for some years, has so...

If you’re a landlord who owns a buy to let property or perhaps a portfolio and need to raise money against...

A lender has launched a new product which is thought to be the first mortgage explicitly aimed at borrowers who propose...

The holiday lets market is just starting to pick up and new research shows that 80 per cent of those who...

A leading Conservative peer says the government should cut taxes for buy to let investors and regard them as part of...

The government has been accused by a lettings sector trade body of skewing the market to encourage more short-lets.  The claim comes...

The specialist property investment lender Together is diversifying its product range to cater for investors who want to let out their...

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

Labour MP Karen Buck has introduced a 10-minute Rule Bill in the House of Commons to highlight the dangers of Airbnb-style...

No fewer than 14 ‘pop up brothels’ have been discovered in one seaside town in six months, with all of them...

Local authorities appear to be at the forefront of identifying abuses of the Airbnb short-let platform and have called executives from...

A landlords’ group says the widespread letting of homes in London on Airbnb and similar platforms is worsening the shortage of...

Speculation is mounting that other European cities including London could follow the example of Berlin in effectively banning short-lets through online...