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ARLA Propertymark has hit out at a growing number of local councils introducing licensing schemes, calling it “socially irresponsible” to do...
20 January 2021
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The number of tenants that moved home in London in December was double that of December 2019, according to an agency...
19 January 2021
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Lambeth council is consulting agents, landlords and others on its latest licensing proposals for Houses in Multiple Occupation. The new proposals would...
19 January 2021
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The Guild of Property Professionals has issued tips for agents and other industry professionals having to cope with working from home...
15 January 2021
From: Breaking News

Airbnb has unveiled a set of restrictions which it is operating across the UK - and the rest of western Europe...
22 December 2020
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High end agency Savills says it’s raised over £270m in nine auctions this year, with an average sold price of over...
22 December 2020
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A lettings agency specialising in managing Build To Rent developments says it’s collected 99 per cent of all invoiced rent during...
18 November 2020
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One of the country’s major lettings agency chiefs says there is a “massive” change in tenant priorities underway. Michael Cook, national lettings...
11 November 2020
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An MP claims the proliferation of short lets via Airbnb and similar online platforms is indirectly pricing local people out of...
04 November 2020
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The Welsh Government wants to reform compulsory purchase powers - meaning any landlord with a long-term empty property in the region...
20 October 2020
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A major north of England local authority wants to introduce landlord licensing for HMOs where three or four tenants live, following analysis...
19 October 2020
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A lettings management company has been selected by a Far Eastern developer to manage units on a new 756 home scheme...
15 October 2020
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Asking rents outside London have hit a new high according to Rightmove’s latest market snapshot. The pressure comes from record demand from...
14 October 2020
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One of the country’s first specialist residential property fund managers has named the agency to handle its latest Build To Rent...
25 September 2020
From: Breaking News

New research from Countrywide brand Hamptons International suggest tenants are joining vendors in a trend towards leaving cities and heading for more...
14 September 2020
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A private rental licensing consultancy has spotted that an additional licensing scheme run by a London borough council has now lapsed...
07 September 2020
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A new private rental licensing regime in a London borough is being described as “a major step forward in improving living...
03 September 2020
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A London council is telling its private rental sector residents to use a new tool to check whether they may be...
27 August 2020
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A landlord taken to court by a council has ended up with a bill in excess of £20,000. Dennis Goodwin of Highbury...
21 August 2020
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Now may be the time for buy to let investors to consider incorporation - putting their property portfolios into a limited...
06 August 2020
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31 July 2020
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The BBC has shone a spotlight on lockdown parties being held in contravention of social distancing rules at properties advertised on...
26 June 2020
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A westcountry landlord is only the second in England to have received a banning order preventing him from letting or managing...
18 June 2020
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Research from franchise giant Belvoir is the latest to show what may be rapidly changing aspirations from private tenants. “The results confirm...
17 June 2020
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Agents and landlords of private rented homes are urging the Scottish Government to continue work on improving the energy efficiency of...
11 June 2020
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The so-called King and Queen of Buy To Let, the controversial husband and wife team of Fergus and Judith Wilson, are...
04 June 2020
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A buy to let investor who kept a group of men as slaves – making them work 90-hour weeks in return...
04 June 2020
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The buy-to-let market has grown significantly in recent years as long-term renting becomes more popular and investors continue to see the...
28 May 2020
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An economist who previously suggested tenants should live rent-free for three months during the Coronavirus crisis has revised his thinking -...
07 May 2020
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Franchise giant Winkworth has expanded its presence in Reading with the acquisition of a local independent lettings agency. It’s snapped up AMPM,...
19 March 2020
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A buy to let investor has been found guilty of letting out poor quality living accommodation that was said to pose...
10 March 2020
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An online student publication is urging readers who are tenants to “go lawsuit crazy” when the full provisions of the Homes...
06 March 2020
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The controversial Acorn group of anti-letting agent activists has been accused of intimidation of female staff during a protest outside and...
05 March 2020
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A row is erupting in Swansea over the number of HMOs in the city. Council leaders in the city want to implement...
02 March 2020
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When Wolverhampton estate agency Thomas Harvey opened its doors more than 50 years ago, mortgages weren’t really part of the equation...
28 February 2020
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New regulations mean highest risk rental properties may not have legally binding electrical safety cover for a prolonged period of time. That’s...
26 February 2020
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A newspaper claims that a short lets management firm that handles properties let on Airbnb and similar platforms is scrambling for...
24 February 2020
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A survey by lettings agency Carter Jonas has revealed what the firm calls the top priorities for tenants as the 2020s...
19 February 2020
From: Breaking News

One of Ed Sheeran’s first massive hits was Lego House. And now, not many years later, it’s been revealed that he’s...
12 February 2020
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Airbnb is reported to have banned under-25s in Canada from booking whole properties in their local areas to prevent potentially-violent house...
07 February 2020
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New regulations governing HMOs are coming into effect in a north of England council. Landlords and developers will now need planning permission...
04 February 2020
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A London council tenant who for a period of seven years failed to disclose that he owned three houses, has been...
29 January 2020
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New research claims that one in every 50 homes in the capital is let on a short-term platform like Airbnb or...
24 January 2020
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Officers from a local council simultaneously staged 10 dawn raids on properties owned by unlicensed landlords. All the terraced homes, in Slough,...
24 January 2020
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A council is lobbying the government to ask for landlords using Airbnb and other short let platforms to be charged business...
17 January 2020
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Birmingham’s Labour-led council is to introduce a city-wide Article 4 Direction from June, which means a planning application must be submitted for...
07 January 2020
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A landlord has been banned for two and half years after repeatedly putting tenants’ lives at risk by letting unsafe housing. This...
18 December 2019
From: Breaking News

The National Landlords’ Association says the new Conservative government must do two things in its early phase in office. The NLA, which...
16 December 2019
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A compliance consultant has explained why a local council’s penalty on a rogue landlord - initially £31,499 - was slashed to...
10 December 2019
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The Liberal Democrats is the first of the major parties to release its party manifesto for the December 12 manifesto, and...
21 November 2019
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Just over a fifth of lettings agents questioned in a major industry survey are concerned that may not be complying with...
15 November 2019
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The government has given an extra £3.8m to councils to come up with ways of catching rogue landlords - and in...
05 November 2019
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A trade body says the private rental sector is facing a major crisis - more landlords are selling properties than buying...
25 October 2019
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The government has this week published a learning toolkit for local authorities to help them with enforcement against rogue landlords and...
03 October 2019
From: Breaking News

A senior Labour politician in Sheffield and the campaign group Acorn have both expressed support for a selective licensing scheme to...
25 September 2019
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A leading PropTech chief says there is nothing inherently wrong with private tenants being given the right to buy their property,...
23 September 2019
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A Labour councillor on Islington council - which is controlled by the party and has Jeremy Corbyn as a local member...
17 September 2019
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It’s that time of year again when pencil cases are fully stocked and the smell of dusty books opening fills the...
13 September 2019
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Data published by specialist lender Precise Mortgages suggests that over a fifth of landlords are planning to expand their portfolio with...
11 September 2019
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It can be done - a council has U-turned on plans for a licensing scheme for landlords. The move by Hounslow council...
10 September 2019
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More details have emerged about Labour’s controversial proposal to allow private rental tenants that right to buy their landlord’s property, at...
09 September 2019
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As the row over Labour’s proposal rumbles on the think tank Centre for Policy Studies - which has previously argued that...
05 September 2019
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A council has used a drone with a thermal imaging camera to identify illegal ‘sheds’ where tenants are being rented beds...
03 September 2019
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A joint operation between Avon and Somerset Police and North Somerset council has uncovered a string of issues connected with rental...
02 September 2019
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A London-focused PropTech startup has just won another £7m in funding. Residently manages houses and flats for landlords, letting them directly to...
29 August 2019
From: Breaking News

A husband and wife pair of buy to let investors have been prosecuted after letting out a property that contained serious...
29 August 2019
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A local council says it has now successfully prosecuted a landlord for flouting the law that protects the health and safety...
22 August 2019
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The housing association Cadwyn is calling for private sector landlords with properties in Cardiff to lease their houses to those on...
15 August 2019
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Manchester-based agency Ascend has revealed it’s now taken over the management of a Build To Rent fund’s portfolio of almost 1,000...
08 August 2019
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The Mirror newspaper says eight members of the new Boris Johnson-led Cabinet are buy to let investors - and it accuses...
06 August 2019
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A local authority in Manchester is pioneering a ban to prevent buyers of homes at a new development from selling them to...
05 August 2019
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Another local authority has announced that it wants to introduce another selective licensing scheme and designate its entire patch for HMO...
02 August 2019
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An investment company has revealed that it’s acquired land in the north of England to create a Build To Rent scheme. Godwin...
01 August 2019
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A tenant pretending to be landlord has been ordered to pay more than £21,000 after he carved up five family homes...
31 July 2019
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An outspoken Conservative party figure says government policies such as the scrapping of Section 21 will play into the hands of...
30 July 2019
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While we wouldn’t be so bold as to say the government gets its daily fix of property news from the Today...
18 July 2019
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Throughout April and May, we ran a high-profile campaign across our sites, Landlord Today, Estate Agent Today, Letting Agent Today and...
15 July 2019
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A senior Labour politician has claimed that there is a city in the UK where two out of every 13 residential...
25 June 2019
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A managing agent and several landlords have been fined almost £5,000 after forcing tenants to live in unacceptable conditions in a...
24 June 2019
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Local authority officers have found three tenants living inside a shed in the garden of a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Brent,...
20 June 2019
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Private landlords are being asked to consider letting out their properties through the local council. Slough council is looking for flats and...
13 June 2019
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Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has been put on the spot by the person many consider to be the country’s most...
30 May 2019
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The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) is threatening Oxford Council with a judicial review of its landlord and letting agent accreditation scheme. The...
09 May 2019
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Revenue raised by landlord licensing schemes should be used to enforce rental sector regulation, according to PayProp. It says that the money...
09 May 2019
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A local authority has written to purchasers of former council houses and apartments warning them against illegally letting them out -...
30 April 2019
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A rogue letting agent has been ordered to pay £42,596 in fines and costs of £10,626 after pleading guilty to a...
23 April 2019
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The Association of Residential Lettings Agents says it backs a new Trading Standards-led body which will enforce the Fees Ban starting on...
18 April 2019
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Savills has launched a new residential lettings service in one of the country’s most successful buy to let and investment locations...
11 April 2019
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10 April 2019
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The rapid growth of Airbnb-style short lets could lead to the loss of private rented homes and displacement of long-term residents...
09 April 2019
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Agents and prospective buy to let investors keen to grab a slice of the capital’s growing lettings market now have a...
09 April 2019
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One of the most pro-licensing local authorities in the country has extended its own scheme to include the entire centre of...
05 April 2019
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Fergus Wilson - the controversial buy to let landlord who with his wife once owned 1,000 homes - has named his...
26 March 2019
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A dawn raid on unlicensed HMOs in north London last week were the latest sign of a crackdown on rogue operators...
19 March 2019
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A rogue lettings agent has been fined over £72,000 after being found guilty of 15 separate offences relating to three illegally established houses...
07 March 2019
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The government says it wants “an immediate change” in the policy of some letting agents and landlords who advertise ‘No DSS’...
04 March 2019
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Another London local authority is proposing to insist HMOs require planning permission in future. Currently in Croydon multi-bedroom properties can be converted...
27 February 2019
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Belvoir says a survey of its franchisees shows that Brexit is having what it calls “a significant impact” on the rental...
19 February 2019
From: Breaking News

A buy to let investor who converted three family homes to HMOs without securing planning permission has been jailed for falsifying...
18 February 2019
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been ordered to pay over £5,000 in fines and costs in a licensing dispute with a local council. Almas...
15 February 2019
From: Breaking News

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is demanding 'property MOTs' to help landlords trying to meet new energy efficiency targets. The government’s...
28 January 2019
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A council accused of paying over £500,000 to a landlord it had already ruled as unfit to rent out property is...
22 January 2019
From: Breaking News

There has been a massive surge in the volume of lettings properties under construction for the burgeoning Built To Rent sector. Data...
18 January 2019
From: Breaking News

The man who is arguably Britain’s most controversial landlord - Fergus Wilson - is likely to be issuing up to 90...
15 January 2019
From: Breaking News

A report claims that England has just 825 homes for every 1,000 families as a result of two decades of house...
14 January 2019
From: Breaking News

One of the buy to let sector’s main mortgage lenders, Paragon, has refreshed its range of mortgages with new products which...
10 January 2019
From: Breaking News

Online lettings platform HomeRenter says its property listings are now more detailed and more compelling thanks to a new ‘property creation flow’...
20 December 2018
From: Breaking News

A court has ordered a husband and wife pair of buy to let investors to pay back £322,282 in illegal income. A...
18 December 2018
From: Breaking News

Buy to let investor Changhaiz Ishaq has been ordered to pay a £8,510 fine for defying a prohibition order on his...
18 December 2018
From: Breaking News

New data from online buy to let agency Yieldit claims to give an insight into which property types produce the best...
17 December 2018
From: Breaking News

A London-focussed ‘rental brand’ called Residently has just secured £2.5m in funding. Residently manages houses and flats for landlords, letting them directly...
05 December 2018
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The website TheHouseShop says it aims to recruit some 30 per cent of the country’s letting agents by the end of...
29 November 2018
From: Breaking News

We regularly carry stories about fines for landlords and letting agents who have apparently broken council or national laws - but...
26 November 2018
From: Breaking News

An advertisement on a property management firm’s website suggesting that rental income would be guaranteed to landlords has been banned by...
21 November 2018
From: Breaking News

Luton landlord Mervyn Kupshik has been ordered to pay nearly £30,000 to the Local council - and if he doesn’t do...
19 November 2018
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency in Oxford has diversified into marketing car parking spaces as well as apartments and houses. Scottfraser Summertown has told...
12 November 2018
From: Breaking News

Havering council in London has issued £261,750 in penalty notices to what it calls ‘criminals’ operating in the private rental sector. Between...
26 October 2018
From: Breaking News

Fergus Wilson, frequently labelled Britain’s biggest individual landlord, says he is stopping letting out properties because of a shortage of East...
17 October 2018
From: Breaking News

Two private landlords have been found guilty of managing Houses in Multiple Occupation with dangerous and sub-standard conditions, following a successful...
26 September 2018
From: Breaking News

There’s less than a week to go to the introduction of new rules broadening the range of houses including in mandatory HMO...
25 September 2018
From: Breaking News

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has issued a reminder to the industry of the need to understand and abide by...
19 September 2018
From: Breaking News

It is now just three weeks until licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) is extended. The new rules, which will require...
10 September 2018
From: Breaking News

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has this week launched a new Training Academy which aims to help landlords, agents and property...
04 September 2018
From: Breaking News

There’s more evidence today that the largest buy to let investment yields are coming from the north of England and the...
16 August 2018
From: Breaking News

An online property platform that last year said tenants prefer to deal directly with landlords has returned to the theme with...
14 June 2018
From: Breaking News

What is the biggest challenge in estate agency today? At the risk of sounding flippant, selling houses! It’s a unique industry...
11 June 2018
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The Nationwide has bucked the trend of many industry organisations by insisting that the private rental market is still in good...
04 June 2018
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Many agents are missing out on significant time saving opportunities when it comes to their floor plans say Landmark, parent of...
30 May 2018
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Two rogue letting agents in London have been fined thousands of pounds as part of a council campaign to clean up...
17 May 2018
From: Breaking News

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Ben Robinson, Director of Agency Services at Landmark What is Landmark...
03 May 2018
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A survey has revealed that with over 145 individual laws and more than 400 regulations to follow, it’s dangerous for landlords...
23 April 2018
From: Breaking News

Over half of mortgage brokers say they have been approached by buy to let investors seeking to diversify their portfolios within...
20 April 2018
From: Breaking News

Build To Rent operator and long-term volume landlord organisation Grainger says it is pioneering five-year leases “in a bid to overhaul...
13 April 2018
From: Breaking News

A property management company has been landed with a legal bill of almost £2,000 after admitting that it failed to keep...
23 March 2018
From: Breaking News

Spotahome, a London-based student lettings platform, has acquired another platform aimed at students, Erasmusu, in a bid to expand its international...
13 March 2018
From: Breaking News

Grainger plc, the UK’s largest listed residential landlord, has launched a scheme of 29 two, three and four bedroom houses aimed...
27 February 2018
From: Breaking News

Bristol council is consulting on a licensing scheme which could see buy to let investors paying £1,660 for a five year...
22 February 2018
From: Breaking News

The city council in Nottingham claims it has taken action against no fewer than 561 unauthorised To Let boards under powers...
14 February 2018
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency apparently trying to get around HMO regulations has been prosecuted for licensing and housing offences. Easy Let Agency let...
06 February 2018
From: Breaking News

The chief operating officer of a leading PropTech company says government proposals to increase mandatory licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation...
25 January 2018
From: Breaking News

A survey from a specialist rental insurance firm suggests that contrary to popular belief, landlords care more than a little about...
From: Breaking News

Latest lettings findings from franchise agency Belvoir shows that in the third quarter of this year average rents were just £3 a...
20 December 2017
From: Breaking News

A database of rogue letting agents and landlords and new banning orders, first promised in the Housing and Planning Act announced...
04 December 2017
From: Breaking News

A senior housing official at Bristol city council says the increasing popularity of Airbnb has had the effect of taking “hundreds”...
30 November 2017
From: Breaking News

Tenants are expecting to find and move in to new rental accommodation in ever-shorter periods of time. Data from property website TheHouseShop.com...
24 November 2017
From: Breaking News

It is 50 years since the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 became law and now a firm speciaising in enfranchisement extension wants the government...
27 October 2017
From: Breaking News

The typical rent of a prime Home Counties property rose by 1.2 per cent in the third quarter of this year,...
25 October 2017
From: Breaking News

A lettings insurance specialist company is warning that students moving into private rental accommodation may pose a greater-than-average risk of fire. Total...
09 October 2017
From: Breaking News

Greenwich is the latest council to make it compulsory for planning consent to be given before converting homes into Houses in...
05 October 2017
From: Breaking News

A property company and a landlord have been fined over £200,000 after being accused of putting tenants’ lives in danger by...
03 October 2017
From: Breaking News

A buy to let investor reported to be receiving rental income of £150,000 a year must pay over £340,000 after illegally...
02 October 2017
From: Breaking News

Greenwich is licensing all Houses in Multiple Occupation from October 1 - just the latest London council to tighten its private...
21 September 2017
From: Breaking News

A league table drawn up by a rental sector insurance specialist claims private rental accommodation in university locations can produce yields...
16 August 2017
From: Breaking News

The agent behind London’s newest letting opportunity says it’s the most luxurious property in the capital’s most presigious neighbourhood - and...
11 August 2017
From: Breaking News

Q: What does it say on your business card? Tim Wright, Product Director, KeyAGENT Q: What does KeyAGENT do? We’re a team of multi-award...
28 July 2017
From: 60 Second Interview

The substantial majority of landlords could soon be required to licence their properties in one London borough if the government agrees...
28 June 2017
From: Breaking News

The controversial Right To Rent, which obliges letting agents and landlords to check the right of prospective tenants to live in...
23 June 2017
From: Breaking News

Letting and estate agencies in Brighton and Hove have agreed to voluntary restrictions on the erection of To Let and For...
21 June 2017
From: Breaking News

The National Landlords Association (NLA) has agreed a partnership with property marketplace TheHouseShop. The website is now one of the NLA's recognised...
16 June 2017
From: Breaking News

A growing agency has appointed a new lettings team and is aiming to compete with its successful residential sales division. Heywoods, the...
12 June 2017
From: Breaking News

Property marketplace TheHouseShop.com has announced a partnership with home services marketplace Plentific. Users of TheHouseShop will now be able to use Plentific’s...
07 June 2017
From: Breaking News

A management firm and corporate landlord have been hit with a £250,000 fine after a “potentially lethal” flat blaze in London -...
30 May 2017
From: Breaking News

A private landlord in Saffron Walden has been fined for letting what the local council describes as “poor and potentially dangerous...
11 May 2017
From: Breaking News

A survey conducted for a property sales platform shows a very substantial majority of the public against any agents' fees being...
05 May 2017
From: Breaking News

A Liberal Democrat spokesman has used a lettings sector trade body website to outline his party’s support for a range of...
05 May 2017
From: Breaking News

Airbnb, until now regarded as a platform used mainly by holidaymakers, is now preparing a tool that will identify apartments and...
04 May 2017
From: Breaking News

A well known specialist mortgage lender for the buy to let sector, Paragon, has refreshed its offering in the light of...
04 May 2017
From: Breaking News

The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks is advising letting agents and landlords to be wary of any tenant seeking to ‘game’...
03 May 2017
From: Breaking News

A landlord who exposed tenants to “miserable” living conditions because of fire safety hazards has been prosecuted by a local authority. The...
02 May 2017
From: Breaking News

The Scottish Government has opened formal consultation on its attempts to introduce minimum standards of energy efficiency for the private rented...
13 April 2017
From: Breaking News

A body representing 370 councils in England and Wales wants the government to close a legal loophole which allows the conversion...
12 April 2017
From: Breaking News

Data from the first three months of this year suggests that investors are increasingly purchasing smaller, cheaper properties. Specialist lender Mortgages for...
12 April 2017
From: Breaking News

Just over a quarter of all tenants across private and public housing would not say if they had caused significant damage...
11 April 2017
From: Breaking News

New legislation coming into force today gives local authorities in England tough new powers to crack down on rogue agents and...
06 April 2017
From: Breaking News

It seems prop-tech is exploding at a scary rate, and the latest brands are all trying to grab our attention by...
17 March 2017
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An advice website claims that more than half of the privately rented properties in the selective licensing area imposed by a...
03 March 2017
From: Breaking News

Organisers of the Future:PropTech2017 conference on May 4 have revealed new sponsors involved with the event - including Angels Media, publisher...
24 February 2017
From: Breaking News

Tenant demand for private rented accommodation is continuing to rise according to a market report from specialist lender Paragon Mortgages. While a...
22 February 2017
From: Breaking News

Sigma Capital, one of the earliest investors in the UK Build To Rent sector, is creating a new brand called Simple...
07 February 2017
From: Breaking News

A landlord and letting agency have been fined more than £26,000 after being found guilty of housing offences at two properties...
30 January 2017
From: Breaking News

Paragon Bank, one of the country’s leading specialist buy to let mortgages houses, almost halved its lending to landlords in the...
30 January 2017
From: Breaking News

A new task group is being set up to explore how a council can tackle what it calls “problems with private...
26 January 2017
From: Breaking News

A property investment financing specialist says an increasing number of buy to let investors are converting properties into Houses in Multiple...
17 January 2017
From: Breaking News

The couple believed to be the owners of Britain’s largest buy to let portfolio have defended sending letting agents an 11-point...
09 January 2017
From: Breaking News

No fewer than 14 ‘pop up brothels’ have been discovered in one seaside town in six months, with all of them...
06 January 2017
From: Breaking News

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is warning the government that some of its proposed changes to regulations governing HMOs may...
19 December 2016
From: Breaking News

The local council in Nottingham wants to introduce a city-wide licensing scheme of all landlords across its estimated 43,000 private rental...
05 December 2016
From: Breaking News

A letting agent whose office closure prompted a police investigation has issued a statement saying she has had a stroke. The agency, Drake...
05 December 2016
From: Breaking News

Unsafe gas appliances have been found in 21 per cent of privately-rented flats and houses according to Gas Safe Register. Investigation data...
17 November 2016
From: Breaking News

A plentiful supply of freehold properties in our cities may become a thing of the past as urban areas become increasingly...
04 November 2016
From: Breaking News

It is feared that Cardiff council will later this week severely restrict the number of new shared houses in two popular...
20 October 2016
From: Breaking News

Canterbury is the latest council to consider setting up its own letting agency. The authority hopes to tempt private landlords with promises...
06 October 2016
From: Breaking News

This week those working in the Private Rented Sector are being reminded of the importance of fire doors in rental properties. Fire...
27 September 2016
From: Breaking News

The owner of a series of flats to let in Cardiff has been fined £3,500 and ordered to pay £200 costs...
06 September 2016
From: Breaking News

London agency Benham & Reeves Residential Lettings says student rents have risen by 55.5 per cent over the past 20 years,...
25 August 2016
From: Breaking News

Belvoir says the majority of franchise owners in its 170-strong network are reporting a shortage of family housing as one opf...
12 August 2016
From: Breaking News

Two more student houses in Brighton have been ordered to close by a government planning inspector. There have now been four such...
27 July 2016
From: Breaking News

An east London council is changing its planning rules, bringing in Article 4 consent before homes in key areas are converted...
26 July 2016
From: Breaking News

A consumer group dedicated to reducing tax says recent fiscal changes introduced by the government will end up hurting private rental...
25 July 2016
From: Breaking News

A new scheme governing the letting out of residential property above retail premises is to be launched in September in the London borough of...
14 July 2016
From: Breaking News

Burnley Council has brought a series of prosecutions against people responsible for unlicensed rented houses in the borough. The council has introduced...
04 July 2016
From: Breaking News

What does it say on your business card? Just ‘Director’ – I’m involved in every area of the business at the moment. What...
01 July 2016
From: 60 Second Interview

A legal tribunal has ruled that a landlord must refund his tenants rent totalling £2,934 because he housed them in unlicensed...
28 June 2016
From: Breaking News

A letting agent and his landlord client have been fined thousands of pounds for a number of offences relating to what...
23 June 2016
From: Breaking News

Speculation is mounting that other European cities including London could follow the example of Berlin in effectively banning short-lets through online...
10 June 2016
From: Breaking News

Landlords are increasingly favouring Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) and more 'complex property types' due to the often higher yields available. Mortgages...
02 June 2016
From: Breaking News

Landlords predict that one-bedroom flats will be the property type to increase most in value over the next year. Meanwhile, two-bedroom flats...
24 May 2016
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Q: What does it say on your business card? Director of Business Development Q: Who are PayProp? PayProp is an automated payment and reconciliation...
12 May 2016
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Developers of major London developments, including Battersea Power Station, may be considering 'downsizing' apartments that can't sell to make them more suitable...
09 May 2016
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A letting agent and four landlords face bills totalling more than £20,000 after being prosecuted by Islington Council for operating unlicensed...
06 May 2016
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A trio of criminals have been jailed for 18 years after using the cover of a lettings agency to allow them...
13 April 2016
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A private landlord aged 72 must pay £4,800 after pleading guilty to 11 offences of breaching the Licensing and Management of...
08 April 2016
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Data from the Halifax suggested that the average price of a flat has increased by £86,474 (£1,029 per month) since property prices...
30 March 2016
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Lettings companies and an organised group of criminals described as a “gang of chancers” have been hit with fines and costs...
25 March 2016
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A council has asked agents in its area to tell landlords of additional planning powers taken by the authority which may...
09 March 2016
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A London lettings has tweeted that it does not share the view of one of its own branch managers who said...
07 March 2016
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A new online offering wants to allow people to let out what it calls ‘dead space’ - in other words, the...
25 February 2016
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A property company managing an HMO in prime central London has been £47,900. The fine is in relation to 24 charges under...
18 February 2016
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Ealing Council in London is undergoing a formal consultation about a proposal that all houses in multiple occupation within its boundaries...
15 January 2016
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The government should rein in its plans to transform the way Houses in Multiple Occupation are licensed. That is the view of...
22 December 2015
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18 December 2015
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The rural agency team at Bidwells says it is concerned the Conservative government may - by accident or design - be...
15 December 2015
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A former president of the Association of Taxation Technicians has made a strong defence of buy to let investors who, she...
09 December 2015
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A landlord has been fined £6,160 by St Helens magistrates after he admitted failing to tidy up two properties he owned. The...
08 December 2015
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An energy supply company that specialises in the lettings market has announced deals with three major businesses that allows it to...
01 December 2015
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A landlord who did not remedy a string of safety concerns about a property he was letting has been ordered to...
30 November 2015
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There’s been a call to ban letting boards from streets near a university campus. Councillors in York say the boards which go...
20 November 2015
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One council’s attempt to crack down on rogue landlords has been branded a "complete failure" because half of its HMOs are...
18 November 2015
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One of Britain’s largest local authorities has beefed up its powers so it can issue fines of up to £5,000 on...
12 November 2015
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The specialist eviction company Landlord Action says it is in full support of the government’s latest proposal to crack down on...
11 November 2015
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A landlord man has been fined more than £20,000 after admitting renting out substandard houses to 30 people without obtaining a...
06 November 2015
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Two rogue landlords who collected rent from more than 30 tenants in five sub-standard houses all on the same street have...
05 November 2015
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Elgin Management letting agency in Liverpool is warning tenants following an incident when a bogus letting agent entered the home of...
22 October 2015
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As the Conservative Party conference continues, a leading Tory has warned that "there is much further to go" on removing buy...
05 October 2015
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Rents are rising faster for three bedroom homes than for any other property type. They show a rise of 4.6 per cent...
25 September 2015
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The shortage of rental accommodation in some university towns is so great that up to 22 people are competing for every...
21 September 2015
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The private rented sector is becoming an increasingly diverse place. Its growth into the UK's second largest form of housing has...
15 September 2015
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The broker Independent Mortgage Solutions - which until now has found loans for clients interested in residential sales, self-build and buy...
08 September 2015
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Barnet is the latest council appearing to edge towards increased private rental sector licensing as it enters the final two weeks...
03 September 2015
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Newham Council has reported that in the two and a half years since its licensing scheme came into force it has...
24 August 2015
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There has been a huge increase in the number of investors acquiring Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) in the North West...
24 August 2015
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A landlord has been handed a total fine of £75,215 for a number of offences, including failing to licence four houses...
21 August 2015
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Agents and landlords who fail to identify and evict tenants who are illegal immigrants face up to five years in jail...
03 August 2015
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Almost 3,000 investors have crowdfunded more than £6m worth of buy-to-let property on one platform alone since its launch early this...
28 July 2015
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The publication Environmental Health News has secured the release of files showing the details of hundreds of convicted private landlords in...
24 July 2015
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Hundreds of To Let boards have been taken down in a suburb of south Liverpool as a result of a voluntary...
23 July 2015
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A council in an area with one of the country’s largest private lettings sectors says it has launched investigations into more...
23 July 2015
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HMRC has revealed the scope of its proposed changes to the wear and tear allowance, as announced in George Osborne’s Budget...
21 July 2015
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Harrow council is consulting agents, landlords and residents on a proposal to renew its licensing regime applying to selected Houses in...
17 July 2015
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A Build To Let scheme led by developer Dandara and property investment operator LaSalle is to be the first of its...
14 July 2015
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Campaigning charity Shelter appears for the first time to have acnowledged that rent caps may backfire and end up harming tenants...
07 July 2015
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A letting agency has been handed fines totalling £7,000 and costs of £1,140 after a council took it to court over...
30 June 2015
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What do we actually do as estate agents to serve our wonderful public? Some might think we go out, value houses, advise...
26 June 2015
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An amnesty on the licensing of houses in multiple occupation is being held in Barnet in north London following the successful...
17 June 2015
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Whether you are single or a family, looking to invest in rental property or want to lay down roots of your...
15 June 2015
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Forget those ideas that even posh students live in digs or shared houses - prime central London agency Napier Watt has...
11 June 2015
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It seems like every day there’s a new article about On The Market. Usually it consists something Zoopla have said, followed...
02 June 2015
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Tomorrow’s Queen’s Speech outlining legislation for the next 12 months will include a pledge to roll out across England and Wales...
26 May 2015
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There has been much debate in recent years about Britain’s desperate need for more housing stock. Demand has been outstripping supply...
15 May 2015
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The Conservatives’ election victory came as a surprise, so much so that television pundits spent all night after the vote rubbishing...
15 May 2015
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A landlord in Coventry has been handed a £3,350 fine after a house in multiple occupation under his ownership was found...
12 May 2015
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Savills says the Build To Rent sector is set to enjoy a surge of new investment as a result of the...
11 May 2015
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The Mirror newspaper has taken the extraordinary step of naming the landlords - some of them letting agencies or private individuals...
01 May 2015
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Edinburgh is set to become the first local authority in Scotland to move into the private landlord business, building up to...