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The Generation Rent campaign group and Labour are again uniting to argue in favour of rent controls in London. Just last week...

A Labour council in London is taking the unusual measure of threatening landlords with community protection notices - associated with anti-social...

Fresh data from Knight Frank shows how uncertainty continues to dog the lettings market in some parts of central London. There appears...

A London council describes two new licensing schemes as ‘making renting fairer’ - even though they are launched during the pandemic. Islington’s Labour...

Three lettings agents who kept tenants’ rent instead of passing it to the landlords have been ordered to pay almost £100,000...

A rental demand league table produced by a lettings management platform shows the winners and losers across the UK - and...

A private rental licensing consultancy has spotted that an additional licensing scheme run by a London borough council has now lapsed...

High-end London agency chain Chestertons has snapped up an independent lettings agency in the east of the capital. Morgan Randall operated across Canary...

Government advice to local authorities to sit tight with new licensing proposals during the Coronavirus pandemic appears to have been ignored...

Winkworth says its London offices are reporting significant numbers of landlords who used to advertise on Airbnb and similar short-let platforms...

A Labour councillor on Islington council - which is controlled by the party and has Jeremy Corbyn as a local member...

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

A London council has successfully prosecuted a so-called “dodgy operator” landlord for failing to comply with fire safety regulations and carry...

A rental campaigner claims the amount of money stolen this year by crooked lettings agents and landlords has topped the £1.3m...

Three letting agents who failed to return tenants’ deposits or pass on rent payments to landlords have been convicted of fraud...

A rental management firm has launched a new home-sharing platform which it says is aimed at everyone wanting a place to...

Two private landlords have been found guilty of managing Houses in Multiple Occupation with dangerous and sub-standard conditions, following a successful...

Trading Standards departments in London are asking renters to name and shame letting agents who are not complying with the law...

The local authority in Islington, north London, is attempting to close what it calls a loophole concerning private rental property and...

This month’s prosecution of a letting agency for issuing ‘sham licences’ that suggested occupiers had no right to challenge eviction and...

It hasn’t been a happy Christmas for one London landlord, who has been told to repay £40,000 in rent received in...

A landlord’s company has been left with a bill of over £14,000 for letting unlicensed flats in north London.   Appearing at Highbury...

A BBC investigation claims that people living in the private rental sector spend more than a third of their disposable income...

Hamptons International and Day Morris have been appointed as joint lettings agents for London’s first bespoke Build To Rent scheme.   Vantage Point...

A London council has prosecuted a letting agency that was ’ghost listing’ on Zoopla flats that were not in fact available...

A letting agent and four landlords face bills totalling more than £20,000 after being prosecuted by Islington Council for operating unlicensed...

Two buy to let investors who breached planning regulations by converting a house into seven studio flats have been ordered to...

A typical tenant in a two-bed property in England will have paid over £40,000 in rent in the past five years...

A landlord has a bill of more than £85,000 for unlawfully letting a basement flat. As part of a council planning enforcement...

A landlord has been ordered to pay more than £7,000 after failing to licence a house in multiple occupation in the...

A letting agency has won a management deal for new-build homes which a landlord can buy with a choice of size,...