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NatWest Group has announced a new package of what it calls ”targeted lending and support” to help local councils provide more...

A survey of local council private rental licensing schemes says 19 selective and additional licensing schemes and consultations will be taking...

New research shows there are 36,210 long-term vacant homes across London - that’s around one in every 100 properties. The borough in...

A Labour-run London council is consulting on a new licensing scheme for private rented property.  If it goes ahead it will be...

A lettings agency claims foreign homeowners are sitting on £84.2 billion worth of property across England and Wales - but with...

Lettings agency Hamptons, now part of Connells, has hired a former Strictly Come Dancing and Countryfile star to front a property...

A London borough has been identified as having 42 per cent rental inflation in the past year. Lambeth in the south of...

Propertymark’s chief executive Nathan Emerson has welcomed the dramatic government U-turn on taxes - but most importantly has retained the stamp...

The number of HMOs in England has fallen as a result of government intervention in the market. In 2018 new regulations were...

A lettings agency is in hot water with advertising regulators for using the phrase “What the flock are you looking at?”...

Rental portal Rentd says the pandemic-long decline in the London rental market is now “reversing at speed”. Rental values are climbing annually...

A rental platform has revealed the wide disparity in rents to the north and south of the Thames in London, and...

Midlands estate agency Webb’s is expanding its operations after opening a new office in Lichfield city centre. The agency already has offices in Cannock,...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Jack Reid Founding Director of Orlando Reid  In your experience,...

At least one lettings agency is on a list of targets for socially-distanced protests tomorrow by anti-eviction campaigners in the left...

The Daily Mail says it has informed Trading Standards of a lettings agent which is claims is “illegally working” despite not...

Letting agents should help landlords through a blizzard of red tape and regulation cause by local licensing schemes, a PropTech entrepreneur...

Lambeth council is consulting agents, landlords and others on its latest licensing proposals for Houses in Multiple Occupation. The new proposals would...

With the Government announcement this week of another national lockdown across England amid the surging coronavirus infections, it once again puts...

London lettings agency Benham and Reeves has drawn up a league table of which boroughs in the capital have had their...

It’s been an unexpected year for the property market, shaped by the effects of the pandemic. We didn’t quite anticipate the...

New research by lettings management platform Howsy shows which major London commuter hubs make the most attractive potential for buy to...

A Derbyshire estate agent has escaped a driving ban after being found smoking cannabis in a car. Annabelle Lamb was spotted with...

The market for successful lettings businesses is still strong according to one of the country’s leading business transfer agents. Adam J Walker...

The commercial arm of Countrywide is urging landlords currently facing huge void periods because students have been ordered home, to reconfigure...

The typical landlord’s income from property has plummeted by a fifth in under a decade according to the National Landlords’ Association. Its...

A London Labour council wants to introduce rent controls to its borough. The South London Press reports that Lambeth councillors have voted through...

London’s Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has returned to his campaign to win powers which would allow him to impose rent controls. Khan...

One of the industry’s leading trade groups has repeated a warning to the Conservatives that they cannot rely on the votes...

If you want to know why inventories are vital for agents and landlords, look no further than the high-profile dispute over...

Claims that the use of Section 21 ‘no fault’ eviction notices is the leading cause of homelessness in the UK are...

A lettings group says the high-profile struggle performers at the Edinburgh Fringe now face to find affordable short-term accommodation was entirely...

Deposit alternative service Zero Deposit has become the “exclusive deposit replacement partner” of the National Landlord Association - less than two...

There’s a warning this morning that the root-and-branch reform of the agency industry recommended by a government-backed working party will be...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has been told by a lettings industry body that he’ll lose votes if he introduces rent controls...

Tenants on state benefits could be the 'biggest casualties' of the government's 'ill-thought-out' plans to scrap the Section 21 evictions process,...

Local authorities are failing in their duty to prosecute criminal letting agents, the National Landlords Association (NLA) has warned. The NLA says...

The government has been told it needs to provide tenants with better information about their rights and responsibilities if it’s to...

The National Landlords Association says it’s concerned the Fees Ban coming into effect in just two days’ time may limit access...

Only one in six private landlords say they would support the Conservatives in an election according to a new poll. Buy to...

Prospective tenants are being warned about a fraud scam that cons people into paying an advance fee to rent a property. The...

Income tax paid by buy to let landlords now exceeds £3.8 billion annually – that’s more than double Tesco’s entire annual...

Some 24 per cent of landlords have considered letting out their properties on a short let Airbnb-style basis - but only...

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

Plans have been unveiled for a 23-storey development comprising 307 Build To Rent units, located overlooking Cardiff Bay. IM Properties and its...

There’s less than a week to go to the introduction of new rules broadening the range of houses including in mandatory HMO...

The Scottish Government’s private rental reforms are shaking up the sector according to new data, which reveals rental property sales have...

Average rents in London are £1,615, up 3.3 per cent on last year, according to HomeLet’s latest index. This is the first...

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

One of the industry’s highest profile trade bodies has rebranded with a new logo and heavily revised website.  The National Landlords Association...

There have been more expressions of support from industry bodies for the Private Members’ Bill from Labour’s Karen Buck MP which...

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

Housing minister Alok Sharma has been told face to face that he should rethink the government's plans to cap security deposits...

The proportion of landlords who use a letting agent to help manage their property has spiked since the end of last...

A buy to let expert says there should be stronger enforcement and streamlining of legislation in the private rental sector. In a...

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The government will today announce that it is banning letting agents’ fees levied on tenants - meaning the fees will instead...

Another prominent mortgage chief has called on the government to show its support for the private rental sector by repealing some...

The National Landlords Association has launched an e-postcard campaign for letting agent and landlord members to lobby the government over the...

The attempt to seek a Judicial Review of legislation reducing the mortgage interest tax relief for landlords has failed. The case was...

Tenants who are advised by local councils and advice agencies to ignore eviction notices could cost the average landlord almost £7,000. The...

The National Landlords Association has come out fighting in response to a weekend report by the National Housing Federation suggesting buy...

New research by an online property lending company reveals that those towns which were strongest in voting ‘Leave’ in the EU...

The National Landlords’ Association is warning that knee-jerk reactions to the Brexit vote could damage the buy to let sector.  Chief executive...

Some 36% of UK landlords have had a property abandoned by tenants, according to research. Abandonment - which occurs when a tenant...

Before new London mayor Sadiq Khan has had his first working day in office, his proposals for a private rental sector...

A letting agent who closed his New Malden firm leaving 17 landlords some £27,000 out of pocket has been jailed for...

A financial journalist has lambasted the government’s anti-buy to let policies, describing them as “political short-termism ... a vote winner to...

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

Landlords’ confidence in the buy to let sector has collapsed to an all-time low and is now “worse than levels witnessed...

A failed bid by a council to introduce a blanket landlord licensing scheme was both unnecessary and unjustified according to the...

There’s been an angry reaction from letting agents and landlords to the shock news that an additional three per cent stamp...

A landlord has been ordered to pay more than £400,000 after converting a property into flats without permission. Gilbert Garrick let the...

The online petition against the government's proposed tax changes for buy to let investors is "a waste of time" according to...

Some 88 per cent of tenants say they are unaware of the new law introduced this week intended to protect them...

Over half the private rental sector tenants on housing benefit have experienced delays over its payment from their local council. Research by...

The property industry has hit out at what appears to be government confusion over a raft of new rules coming into...

There has been a mixed reaction to the government’s announcement that agents and landlords face jail if they fail to conduct...

There has been no let-up in the anger expressed by sections of the buy to let sector after Chancellor George Osborne...

Chancellor George Osborne has been warned that rents in the private rented sector could rise if he scraps the tax-deductible status...

After the passing of the Deregulation Act deposits deadline this week, Richard Price, Executive Director of UKALA, is in a contemplative...

The National Landlords Association has accused the Citizens Advice report of using “loose definitions to compound a perception that private housing...

In a marketplace where many providers outsource their Tenant Referencing and Rent Protection services, using one that doesn’t is essential for...

There has been widespread criticism of Labour's proposals for the private rental sector. The policies will “backfire” according to the National Landlords’ Association.  "We understand...