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Embattled London Labour mayor Sadiq Khan says he wants rent controls to be introduced in the capital’s private rental sector, but...

Labour claims it was the driving force behind the government’s decision to cap tenants’ security deposits from six weeks to five...

Some 79 per cent of landlords are only servicing the interest on their mortgages, not paying down their loans, according to...

The charity Shelter, which regularly campaigns against lettings agencies and landlords, is bracing itself for a strike next week - and...

An angry lettings agent has emailed Cabinet minister James Brokenshire to show his disgust at the government’s U-turn over deposit caps. In...

A lettings agency says proposals for landlords to pay more council tax on homes they leave empty could indirectly help the...

The government has this afternoon confirmed that the amount tenants have to pay up front to secure a home will be...

There has been widespread Industry anger at news of a possible U-turn by the government over the proposed cap on security...

The private rental sector in Wales could be offered incentives and other support to house those most in need, the Welsh...

Letting Agent Today can reveal that the agency at the centre of the scandal over alleged charges for viewings has been...

New figures show why the rental market is seeing such strong demand. The data shows that some 28 per cent of Britons...

Two thirds of local authorities in England and Wales brought no prosecutions against private landlords in 2017/18 according to research by the...

The private rental sector can help reduce smoking according to a report from Action on Smoking and Health, a pressure group. The...

A pressure group that in the past has protested outside letting agency branches has staged more direct action - this time against...

A government minister says the phrase ”rogue landlord” is too “cuddly” and he wants buy to let investors who broke the...

Today sees the Second Reading in the House of the Lords for the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Bill, promoted by...

A substantial study by university academics suggests that changes to the benefit system lie behind the long-term rise in homelessness from...

A London property firm must repay no less than £60,000 in rent after a council obtained a Rent Repayment Order against...

The head of a buy to let specialist mortgage broker insists the sector remains a solid investment despite the slew of...

A call has been made for the government to review the section 8 possession process as part of its call for...

The private rental sector is not fit for purpose when it comes to housing vulnerable tenants, claims debt charity StepChange which...

The government is consulting on the proposal for a specialist Housing Court which, if it goes ahead, would be a “single...

A lettings trade body has welcomed extra government funding for English councils to clamp down on criminal landlords. But the Residential Landlords...

An online toolkit for tenants on how to best navigate the rental system has been launched by Shelter Scotland with funding...

Local authorities across the UK are to get another £2m to crack down on rogue operators in the buy to let...

One of the country’s leading buy to let experts has given her reasoning behind the surge in the number of people...

A council in the north of England has issued its first-ever Civil Penalty Notice on a landlord - and it involved...

The countryside lettings sector will be badly hit by new energy efficiency rules being introduced by the government next year. That’s the...

Figures drawn up for the London region of the GMB union claim that across the capital’s 33 boroughs private rents have...

The party conferences of the two main political parties threw up some interesting developments with regards to housing and the rental...

Buy to let investors in England and Wales who own particularly cold homes are being targeted by new regulations. Since April this...

The Labour MP who chairs the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee in the House of Commons is pressing the government...

The industry’s first property management franchise scheme, SDL Property Partners, has been given a presentation on how members could be key...

Two lettings agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme for failing to pay awards. One is OJ Residentials Limited trading...

A council says it has been preparing prosecution and penalty notices “for hundreds of private landlords that have failed to apply...

The Republic of Ireland has adopted new policies requiring owners in 'high housing demand areas' to secure planning consent if they...

The heavy-handed administration of selective licensing schemes is driving out buy to let investors. That’s the claim from David Kirwan of Kirwans...

The agency industry has reacted in a broadly downbeat way at the relatively few housing-related proposals that were announced in yesterday’s...

Two property companies which failed to follow a local council’s lettings sector licensing scheme have been fined a combined £32,000. Owners of...

Industry bodies have given their support to a wide ranging review of safety regulations governing the private rental sector. The government announced...

Rightmove is reporting that average asking rents outside London have topped £800 per month for the first time, fuelled by a...

A landlord had been ordered to give back almost £4,000 that was paid to him while operating without a licence. The case...

The government is to undertake a wide-ranging review of health and safety regulations for the private rental sector. In an announcement this afternoon...

Havering council in London has issued £261,750 in penalty notices to what it calls ‘criminals’ operating in the private rental sector.  Between...

A council-run lettings agency looks likely to be scrapped after it apparently lost some £53,000 - even though it manages only...

Urgent action is needed to tackle discrimination against benefit claimants by buy to let mortgage providers according to a leading trade...

A landlord has been hit with more than £5,500 of fines and costs after he allowed a family with three young...

A managing agent who used ‘ghost tenants’ as a front so that she could cram 16 people into one overcrowded house...

Trade bodies have welcomed a government initiative to get more homeless people, as well as those at risk of becoming homeless,...

New research may explain why the government and Labour appear to be competing with each other to attack landlords and letting...

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

The Home Secretary has been asked by a leading lettings sector trade organisation to ensure hard copy documents are given to...

The Tenant Fees Bill is back in Parliament this week when it goes for its Second Reading in the House of...

A PropTech entrepreneur says all agents would benefit from the introduction of more automation, but that those with student tenants may...

A London local authority which is part way through its five year additional HMO licensing scheme wants lettings agents to give their...

The head of a lettings agency has refused to sign a pledge document put to him by a protest group - and...

The first of the industry trade bodies to issue a series of demands for this month’s Budget is the National Landlords Association...

A row appears to be brewing over the decision of a Labour MP to attend next week’s Conservative conference to discuss...

Labour has outlined its proposals for the private rental sector if it gains power at the next General Election - and...

More than 77,000 UK landlords will be shelling out a combined £95 million this month, as new occupancy laws come into...

An overcrowded property let by an unlicensed company with inadequate fire precautions and unheated rooms has led to a £46,620 fine...

A lettings agent described as ‘rogue’ by a London council, along with two lettings companies, have been heavily fined for operating...

Rent-to-rent operator Residently says area with high volumes of tech company employees are leading the lettings market’s growth in London. The firm...

An investment trust has been launched and looks likely to be competing for individual investors who may see it as an...

A landmark report on private renting provides the opportunity to stop blaming letting agents and landlords for the sector’s problems, a...

Some industry observers say letting agents and Build To Rent are daggers drawn, but one agency in the Midlands is having...

It’s been announced that the next stage of the Tenants’ Fees Bill through Parliament will be its Second Reading in the...

Shadow housing minister John Healey has given his backing to a Labour MP’s attempt to introduce a mandatory national register for...

The National Landlords Association is the latest trade body to back what is being described as a landmark review of the...

It is now just three weeks until licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) is extended. The new rules, which will require...

The policy director of the Residential Landlords Association (RLA) is calling on local councils to use the 'extensive powers' they have...

MPs have proposed a series of amendments to the Tenant Fees Bill as part of its Report Stage and Third Reading...

Reports have emerged this week that the government is planning a U-turn on its proposals to introduce mandatory three-year minimum tenancies...

A London council has fined a letting agency over £10,000 for failing to install smoke alarms in a rental property. Waltham Forest...

A leading letting agent argues that the UK housing market is not prepared to deal with a growing number of lifetime...

The government's director of rented housing is set to address the industry at an upcoming event open to letting agents and...

A top London letting agent working for Knight Frank has commented on the 'irony' that the government's series of tax changes...

An Essex council claims it is one of the first to be granted a rent repayment order - part of legislation...

The popular belief that equity release damages the housing market is being challenged by claims from ER company Retirement Advantage. It claims...

Generation Rent, the controversial pressure group campaigning alongside Shelter and others for the scrapping of landlords’ rights to evict under Section...

OneSavings Bank, the parent organisation of specialist buy to let lender Kent Reliance, has given a warning on the possible impact...

Last week Shelter and the National Housing Federation took a swipe at lettings agents, and now Citizens Advice has joined the...

A trade body says it has been assured by the government that there will be no premature announcement introducing longer tenancies...

Belvoir says more landlords are selling up and fewer newcomers are investing in the private rental sector because of increased legislation...

The ongoing debate over some letting agents and landlords allegedly refusing to accept tenants in receipt of housing benefit has now...

Lettings agents for or against the government’s proposals for longer tenancies have only a very short time left to respond to...

The National Approved Lettings Scheme has issued a sharp rebuke to Shelter and the National Housing Federation following their controversial ‘End...

Lettings agents’ representatives have hit back at an accusation of discrimination made against the industry. A report by Shelter and the National...

The campaign group Generation Rent is back on the warpath in opposition of Section 21, which it describes as “the leading...

The council behind a controversial private rental sector licensing scheme is trying to justify its introduction on health and safety grounds. On...

One of the lettings industry’s senior figures has welcomed the introduction of mandatory five yearly inspections of electrical installations in private...

The government has outlined increases in powers it wants to give social housing tenants - but no details of increases in social housing building. The...

Agents and landlords are being advised to check the status of their HMO licenses in the London Borough of Harrow following...

A leading trade body says EU citizens living in the UK run the risk of losing their rental homes without swift...

The Residential Landlords Association has told another council that its plans to introduce selective licensing in areas of its town are...

There are now only eight weeks left for agents to apply to join a new statutory register which comes into effect...

Negative media portrayals of the buy to let sector could help to tip Britain into a housing crisis, claims an online...

A buy to let investor has been fined £1,750 because of his alleged “aggressive practices”.  Shafaqat Ali Sadiq, of Derby, has been...

A newspaper in warning that the beleaguered buy to let sector may be under attack yet again with the government considering...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur says lettings agents should be more vocal in providing the government with feedback on council rental licensing...

The government’s announcement that it will bring in mandatory electrical checks in the private rented sector has been welcomed - perhaps...

The government has produced new guidelines on setting up client money protection schemes for the private rented sector. They are evidently aimed...

It’s been a difficult summer for Airbnb and other short-let platforms operating in the UK. Recently the European Commission gave Airbnb until the...

The Residential Landlords’ Association says proposals from Great Yarmouth council to introduce selective licensing in one part of the town contains...

Britain’s most controversial buy to let investor, Fergus Wilson, has hit back and given his side of events on a series...

Buy to let is still an attractive investment compared to other asset classes but to make the best of the opportunity...

A tenant who was ripping off other tenants in an overcrowded bungalow "death trap" has been fined tens of thousands of...

Campaigning group Generation Rent has secured over 20,000 signatures for a petition it says will “end unfair evictions”. The petition, on the...

All privately-let homes must have electrical installations checked every five years under new rules announced by the Ministry of Housing, Communities...

Councillors in Stockton-on-Tees are under pressure to rethink plans to introduce Selective Licensing of private rented housing in two areas of...

A trade body is backing a call by a parliamentary committee for the government to fund certain fire safety improvements in...

The latest LendInvest buy to let report, which ranks 105 postcode areas around England and Wales based on a combination of...

There are now well over 125 pieces of legislation and regulations - most introduced in modern times - governing the private...

A large majority of private sector tenants, 84 per cent, are satisfied with their housing according to the English Housing Survey...

A gas safety engineer has pleaded guilty with a landlord of falsifying gas safety certificates for a string of private rental...

The government has suggested that it is at least considering changing the terms of its Rent A Room system which could...

Yet another leading lettings agent has hit out at the government over its proposals for three year tenancies being the norm...

Two senior London politicians are backing a campaign to scrap the powers of agents and landlords to evict tenants under Section...

Three agencies have been heavily fined after a property in London was being used for multiple occupation with 11 people living...

Rural landlords say the government’s idea of making three year tenancies the norm across the private rental sector would damage the...

The government should scrap the tax on new homes which is punishing those in need of a home to rent, the...

We’re all for an optimistic interpretation of events but a new tool from comparison website GoCompare lists the UK’s top buy...

Tenants, landlords and buy to let investors are the targets for new online rental guides introduced by the Ministry of Housing,...

Buy to let landlords are on the way out and Build To Rent will dominate the sector in the foreseeable future.  That’s...

A head tenant who changed the locks on a property that was illegally sublet to no fewer than 35 men has...

Letting agents and others in the private rental sector have responded to the latest government intervention - a review into how...

The government has announced a review to assess how selective licensing is used and find out how well it is working...

A city council is to investigate the impact of Airbnb and other short let online platforms on the local housing market...

The Independent online newspaper says Conservative MP Gary Streeter will tomorrow meet with Prime Minister Theresa May and urge her to...

The government has written to two senior MPs in a bid to clarify two detailed provisions in the Tenants Fees Bill,...

A buy to let investor has ended up with a bill for thousands of pounds after being found guilty of breaching...

The lettings industry has hit out at the Welsh Government’s proposals to ban agents’ fees levied on tenants. A Bill was put...

Letting agents and landlords could be missing out on £61m of rent every month because families in temporary and emergency accommodation...

A Bill which is likely to end up banning letting agents’ fees levied on tenants in Wales has been introduced into...

What is the biggest challenge in estate agency today? At the risk of sounding flippant, selling houses! It’s a unique industry...

A council leader in London, so outraged after a bust of a rogue lettings property, has asked: “What kind of monster...

A prominent PropTech startup is questioning whether long-term tenants need to go through the traditional referencing process when moving between rental...

A rent guarantor service based in London and previously aiming itself at the UK market is expanding into the Republic of...

The Nationwide has bucked the trend of many industry organisations by insisting that the private rental market is still in good...

A trade body is claiming that armed service personnel who let out their homes whilst stationed away are being hit by...

Over 70% of Conservative councillors and housing leads have indicated that £2 billion pledged for affordable housing is not enough to...

John Lewis has announced details of a partnership with rental app Canopy to provide employees with the opportunity to have their rent payments...

This week marks a major milestone in Mayor of London Sadiq Khan's efforts to crack down on the capital's rogue letting...

London landlords and letting agents could be missing out on up to £111 million of short-term rental revenue each year, according...

How can you use data to benefit and better your business? It’s something you’ll no doubt have asked yourself down the...

The government has announced that it is to formally consult on proposals for longer tenancies in the private rental sector. Although there...

A trade body has stepped up its calls on government to help the lettings industry do more for older renters. Responding to...

We’re delighted to announce that Elaine Kellington from Kelso in the Scottish Borders is winner of the Landlord Of The Year...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Ben Robinson, Director of Agency Services at Landmark What is Landmark...

A buy to let investor faces a fine of £7,000 plus costs and a victim surcharge for failing to upgrade his...

The new Home Secretary Sajid Javid is being urged to look again at the Right To Rent policy and produce “a...

Up to 500,000 so-called Baby Boomers have been hit by allegedly unaffordable rents and a lack of appropriate housing for older...

Private rental sector tenants have spent the year so far working only to pay for their accommodation, the BBC claims.  The broadcaster...

A leading property disputes solicitor has joined a growing chorus of criticism of how Right To Rent will cope with issues...

A rental market survey conducted for The Deposit Protection Service claims the average rent has fallen in the UK for the...

The government has been told is should simply adopt some Labour rental policies or risk losing the next General Election -...

Labour insists that if it forms the next government it will introduce ‘living rents’ in a new range of affordable homes...

MPs want a review of laws surrounding private rental standards, including councils having the right to confiscate buy to let properties...

Trade bodies have been responding to today’s report of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee deliberations on the private...

An influential think tank is calling on government to radically reform the private rental sector because a generation of young people...

A leading lettings sector trade body has repeated its call on government to offer a range of incentives to landlords and...

Council officers staged a dawn raid to uncover an unlicensed HMO in north London. The team discovered 10 men and women sleeping...

Build To Rent operator and long-term volume landlord organisation Grainger says it is pioneering five-year leases “in a bid to overhaul...

A new analysis by campaigning housing organisation Shelter claims the changes within the private rental sector could indirectly lose the next...

A statement from the government has repeated its determination to clean up the private rental sector through a series of measures,...

The government’s review into building and fire safety regulations is missing the opportunity to assess fire safety regulations on a wider...

A survey suggests that the advent of deposit-free renting in parts of the private rental sector may tempt tenants away from...

ARLA has branded the government’s long-awaited database of rogue landlords as “pointless” because it will not be made public. The Ministry of...

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

A consumer group says that the Tenants Fees Bill - which will eventually ban letting agents’ fees levied on renters -...

A council says it is adopting a new approach to proactively tackling poor housing conditions in privately rented homes in one...

A property management company which ignored a series of housing safety regulations and flouted laws designed to protect tenants’ rights has...

The government has this morning - Easter Sunday - announced a crackdown on rogue letting agents in the shape of a...

A Select Committee of MPs investigating the proposed ban on agents’ fees levied on tenants says the measure could save renters...

Rightmove has revealed that the 10 year average growth in asking rents across London has been 25 per cent, and over...

Policy makers concerned with the private rental sector ignore the needs of older tenants who are regarded as “invisible”. That’s the claim...

Proposals to cap security deposits for private rented housing to six weeks rent risk creating a charter for rent cheats warns...

A property management company has been landed with a legal bill of almost £2,000 after admitting that it failed to keep...

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

As students begin their search for housing for the next academic year, a university has relaunched a dedicated lettings agency service The...

One of the client money protection schemes operating in the lettings sector says he believes agents and property managers could be...

A lettings trade body says a major house builder has blamed, in part, recent tax increases on private landlords as a...

The government has set out new measures to mitigate against overcrowded and dangerous living conditions of private tenants in shared homes. From...

The National Landlords Association has revealed a seven-point plan which would allow the Welsh Government greater powers over the private rental...

Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, will is to reveal his vision for the private rental sector to a Residential...

A trade body says new figures released by the independent Office for Budget Responsibility show that the government’s recent tax increases...

The new leader of the Labour party in Scotland says his party will introduce “stringent” rent controls if it gains power...

A quest has started to find the UK’s best landlord who goes the extra mile to ensure tenants receive the ultimate...

Local media in Bristol say politicians in the city are considering supporting a controversial website that allows tenants to rate and...

A survey by consumer group Which?, working with landlords’ associations, reveals that 70 local authorities now have selective or additional licensing...

Oxford’s Labour council has given its support to a lettings review website because it claims it will help drive up the...

The British Property Federation is calling upon more councils to support Build To Rent following the government’s recognition of the sector in...

Reaction to the government’s call for developers and planning authorities to be more flexible in their approach to increasing the housing...

Three one-day courses are being held this year - the first next week - aimed at updating letting agents on changes...

Tax increases on the rental sector are leaving young people unable to access the homes they need, an industry body claims. The...

Experts suggest that Build To Rent is likely to be heavily promoted when the government announces its latest revamp to the...

The government has pledged to begin a review of the selective licensing across the private rental sector once MPs return from...

The Welsh Government’s housing minister has tweeted that the results of a formal consultation process on a ban on agents’ fees...

Some letting agencies and selected landlords are being asked to take part in a new survey investigating views and experiences in...

Letting agents who act on landlords’ instructions to refuse tenants claiming benefits may be breaking the law. A legal case recently found...

The Court of Appeal has ruled that councils cannot use selective licensing conditions to impose new standards on private rented homes. In...

A housing charity has called for the government to build more affordable social homes for rent to help families 'trapped' in...

The lettings sector is at the forefront of government proposals for a new redress system for customers of agents and others.  In...

The sittings of the select committee looking into government proposals to ban letting agents’ fees levied on tenants resume this week...

A rogue landlord has been fined twice in the space of two months for failing to provide a suitable standard of...

Two buy to let investors have been fined a total of more than £27,000 under enforcement powers introduced in Burnley to...

The government has given the go ahead to what will be one of the UK’s largest selective licensing scheme outside of...

It is being reported that the Labour mayor of Newham council - that’s the authority which has introduced stricter controls on...

This is a rare story: a council has dropped a plan for a lettings licensing scheme as a result of 900...

Trade bodies including ARLA, RICS, NALS and landlord organisations have met with the government to send a clear message - think...

A range of factors - including fierce competition under the supplied housing market, rising property prices and political uncertainty – have...

A council says it hopes a massive set of fines and costs imposed on one buy to let investor and his...

A lettings agency apparently trying to get around HMO regulations has been prosecuted for licensing and housing offences.  Easy Let Agency let...

Landlords in Wales who manage their own properties are being reminded that they must submit their licence application to Rent Smart...

Analysis of government figures by the Nationwide suggest that the buy to let sector is still growing despite tax changes and...

High London rents - with the average now running at £1,280 - are driving tenants into sharing according to an online...

A lettings agency operating in Cardiff has expanded its business and now donates 15 per cent of profits to a local...

The trend towards reducing or eliminating deposits at the same time as edging towards a ban on letting agents’ fees on...

Politicians in London and Scotland are looking at new controls which could be imposed on home owners letting out their properties...

Two landlords and two tenants were fined a total of over £11,000 after losing their appeal against housing convictions concerning property...

The select committee monitoring the Department of Housing, Communities and Local Government will continue its deliberations today on the government’s ban...

Analysis of the latest English Housing Survey data reveals that the private rental sector provides homes to a fifth of the population,...

The chief operating officer of a leading PropTech company says government proposals to increase mandatory licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation...

The chairman of the Residential Landlords Association has written in the Labour-supporting New Statesman magazine about the need for the lettings...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is the latest industry body to throw its weight behind the Private Members’ Bill that...

The agency Leaders has been marking the 10th anniversary of the death of its founder Neville Lee, who was a key...

Lettings agency Haart says the government should go much further than the legislation it is supporting giving tenants the right to...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has thrown its weight behind a Private Members Bill which wants tenants to have the...

The Private Members’ Bill that has won government backing - and which would give tenants the right to sue landlords over...

Letting Agent Today understands that Foxtons has been asked to appear at a hearing staged by a London council to prove...

The government has taken the unusual step of working with a Labour MP to ensure her Private Members Bill can become...

In an unusual move the government has today, Sunday, announced that it wants tenants to have the right to take legal...

An Essex lettings agent has explained why he has set up an online petition calling for a reversal of the government’s...

This week’s news that the government will not be implementing the ban on letting agents’ fees on tenants in England until...

The government has explained why the ban on letting agents’ fees on tenants will not be implemented until spring 2019 -...

Legal & General - one of the country’s largest players in the burgeoning Build To Rent sector - has made a...

The government has told NALS that implementation of the ban on letting agents’ fees levied on tenants will not take place...

At least one trade body has expressed an apparent scepticism about whether the rebranding of the Department of Communities and Local...

There has been a warm welcome for government changes to Universal Credit by the Residential Landlords Association.  The Department for Work and...

The Communities and Local Government committee of MPs will on Monday hear their first oral evidence of the year for the...

The government has started tweeting that it is to ban letting agents’ fees in England - but still isn’t revealing when...

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has used a holiday season interview to repeat his pledge to swing powers back towards private tenants...

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

Figures released by the government show huge support for the extension of the offences under which agents and landlords may in...

The government has released more details on long-discussed proposals to tighten up licensing in the private rental sector. It wants landlords in...

Government proposals to ban letting agent fees levied on tenants next year are unlikely to make renting cheaper as new research...

The new online database identifying rogue letting agents and landlords will save lives according to the London Fire Brigade. We wrote about...

The first London boroughs are now rolling out the Greater London Authority’s ‘Rogue Landlord and Agent Checker’ - allowing tenants to...

There has been another prosecution under the controversial Rent Smart Wales regulations - although this time the landlord in question was...

HM Revenue & Customs has launched a consultation on adding tax checks to private rental sector licensing schemes - in other...

Prime minister Theresa May has repeated that the current government will not introduce rent controls in the private sector. The issue of...

A new team of investigative council officers are hitting the streets of the capital to tackle unlawful nightly letting using websites like...

Some 70 per cent of letting agents expect taxes on the rental sector to rise further next year according to research...

A buy to let investor who a judge said “cut corners” and exposed his tenants to “significant risk” has been ordered...

The Tenancy Deposit Service has created the new post of chief operating officer, with the first postholder charged with “leading our...

The Welsh Government has confirmed that the country will ban letting agents’ fees levied on tenants - the same ban still...

Knight Frank says average rents are to rise by 14 per cent between the start of next year and the end...

A database of rogue letting agents and landlords and new banning orders, first promised in the Housing and Planning Act announced...

A senior housing official at Bristol city council says the increasing popularity of Airbnb has had the effect of taking “hundreds”...

A buy to let investor who failed to purchase a £542 licence for his HMO has been ordered to pay almost...

The House of Lords has given the Creditworthiness Assessment Bill its second reading and a step forward to ensuring that tenants’...

A change to the operation of Universal Credit has been welcomed by a trade body which has described it as good...

The industry is awaiting details of the latest government consultation concerning the private rental sector which will consider longer tenancies. The consultation...

Stamp duty reform for first time buyers has taken pride of place in the Budget speech of Chancellor Phillip Hammond.   From today,...

Research by The Guardian newspaper reveals that massive numbers of local authority councillors are also buy to let investors - and...

After the series of anti-buy to let measures contained in recent Budgets, it is perhaps unsurprising that a survey of landlords...

Rent Smart Wales, the licensing and training regime which is now a year old, has taken an agent and a landlord...

Mandatory Client Money Protection for lettings agents - currently the subject of a formal government consultation - will contribute towards making...

A trade body says there are 15 formal government consultations going on within the private rental sector - and now it’s...

A report on progress into the Suzy Lamplugh Trust’s new code - introduced precisely a year ago - suggests more still...

A Welsh local authority is offering a cash payment of up to £1,200 to landlords who join a quasi-letting agency run...

The pressure group Generation Rent - often identified with highlighting issues concerning young tenants - is now warning of a massive...

The average UK rent increased just £11.55 or 1.51 per cent over the last year according to The Deposit Protection Service. The new DPS...

A record 65 per cent of landlord purchases over the last 12 months were made by cash buyers according to Countrywide. In the...

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

The Nationwide has set out a comprehensive study of how migrstion impacts on housing demand in the UK, especially in the...

A leading legal expert specialising in the private rental market says the sector should set up basic procedures to protect against...

A family-run lettings agency says its viability is seriously threatened by the likely fees ban to be introduced in 2018 -...

In the past 20 years the UK private rental sector has exploded! The sector has grown from under 10% of housing...

The Law Society Gazette has given more details of a Parliamentary Bill in preparation to give more powers to tenants to...

What is believed to be the first-ever study of Airbnb’s effects on house prices - not just rents - suggests the...

A leading legal firm is staging a free and interactive seminar on sub-letting, aimed at letting agents. The event takes place on...

Kitemark-style scheme SAFEagent is calling on the government to ensure plans to make Client Money Protection schemes mandatory are not ignored...

A leading accountancy and business advice consultancy says residential landlords who want to downsize their portfolios because of recent tax changes...

PropTech company PayProp says the government’s outline proposal for greater regulation of the private rental sector should be treated as good...

Only two out of every 10 private rental sector landlords say they are willing to let to tenants in receipt of...

Industry figures have broadly welcomed the latest consultations and proposed additional regulation for the lettings sector, announced by the government yesterday.   The...

The government has published long-awaited guidelines for the implementation of Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards in the private rental sector.   The hefty 95-page...

A London letting agency with connections to Westminster council is now being investigated by the same council’s trading standards department. CityWest Homes...

PropTech firm PayProp has welcomed the latest measures to clamp down on rogue elements within the lettings industry - but warns...

The National Landlords’ Association says the extra £2 billion in funding made available by the government for additional affordable housing may...