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A leading expert on the private rental sector predicts it will take three years for the government to scrap Section 21 evictions...

The next episode of the Channel 5 show Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords this evening features an agent offering a supposed guaranteed...

Justice Secretary Dominic Raab says it will take a year for court backlogs to be reduced substantially and even longer to...

Letting agents using rent protection and legal expenses insurance via Goodlord will have their rent protected until vacant possession, with no cap...

A London lettings agency is exposed on TV this evening over what turns out to be a sham guaranteed rent scheme. Landlords...

A leading figure in the lettings sector says the government’s new Housing Possession Mediation Scheme can help agencies and landlords recover...

One of the industry’s leading experts wants letting agents to engage with tenants and landlords over Covid-related arrears, agree to mediation,...

Paul Shamplina, the man behind Landlord Action and a Channel 5 show on handling rental crises, is warning that county courts...

There’s an hour-long webinar this morning, aimed at giving property professionals the latest information on arrears, possession cases and evictions.  It’s at...

There’s been a further tweak to the eviction controls introduced in England for the duration of the lockdown, lasting until December...

One of the highest profile figures in the rental sector says rogue letting agents should be named and shamed as a...

One of the leading figures in the lettings industry has described the government’s eviction ban U-turn as “devastating.” Paul Shamplina, founder of...

Agents and landlords are urged to lobby MPs to highlight the threat of the current eviction ban and to urge no...

Labour’s proposal to extend the current ban on private rental sector evictions could end up with some landlords in financial ruin.  Landlord...

PropTech firm Goodlord is hosting two webinars - the first of which is today - looking at issues surrounding rent defaulting...

Paul Shamplina, the founder of Landlord Action and star of a Channel 5 programme on evictions, says he fully backs the...

What appears to be the first court adjournment of an eviction case caused by the Coronavirus outbreak has happened - raising...

High profile eviction company Landlord Action says as many as 50 per cent of Section 21 cases it handles involve tenants...

Eviction expert Paul Shamplina has urged letting agents and referencing companies to invest in technology to improve fraud detection. The call comes...

More nightmare tenants have been the subject of investigation in a Channel 5 TV programme to be shown this evening. In the...

Two landlords will this evening be seen securing the £16,000 they are owed by a rogue lettings agent - and TV...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is one of many industry groups in a new coalition calling for S21 repossessions to be...

There’s been another call on the government to rethink its plans to change the Section 21 eviction process.  The founder of Landlord...

Hamilton Fraser’s Academy programme has announced its next workshop, on May 14, to target how lettings agents can future-proof their business...

There has been a furious response from landlords and tenants to a police letter which says a local force is not...

A TV show on Channel 5 this evening may well serve as a warning to letting agents about the dangers of...

A rogue lettings agency which is no longer trading is to be featured in a TV documentary this evening on Channel...

Tonight's edition of BBC Panorama will investigate the Section 21 evictions process, also known as 'no-fault evictions'. The show - 'Evicted for...

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

One of the leading eviction specialists is calling for unregulated companies offering similar services to sign up to redress schemes in...

HF Resolution Ltd, a subsidiary of Hamilton Fraser, has acquired one of the industry’s leading tenant eviction solicitor firms, Landlord Action.   Landlord...

The founder of eviction specialist Landlord Action is advising landlords to use accredited letting agents and not try to take the...

Hamilton Fraser - parent firm to mydeposits, Total Landlord Insurance, Property Redress Scheme and Client Money Protect - has brought its...

Channel 5 has commissioned a third series of Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords with eviction specialist Landlord Action at the heart of...

Specialist eviction service Landlord Action has outlined the quickest way to evict tenants under new regulations introduced by the Ministry of...

The Property Redress Scheme (PRS) has announced the details of a workshop for Welsh letting agents, taking place in July. The event...

Specialist eviction firm Landlord Action claims that in the past 12 months the number of incidents where tenants have sub-let properties...

This evening at 9pm sees the start of a second season of Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords on Channel 5.  The 10-part series...

A survey claims that 17 per cent of private rental sector tenants in the UK admit to having rented out part...

The total number of evictions last year reached a record high of 42,728 according to data from the Ministry of Justice.  Whilst...

Eviction specialist company Landlord Action wants the government to complement its action against rogue letting agents and tenants with a ‘rogue...

A blog post by eviction specialists Landlord Action has exposed bad tenants who can clearly afford to pay the rent but...

Eviction specialists at Landlord Action say county courts are still overwhelmed by the number of possession claims being put forward, a...

The specialist eviction company Landlord Action says it is in full support of the government’s latest proposal to crack down on...

Eviction specialists at Landlord Action are raising concerns as to whether there are sufficient resources, especially at local council level, to...

A campaign has started to enable more eviction cases to be transferred from county court to High Court in a bid...

The Channel Five series Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords - which ends its first series this evening at 9pm - has been...

The latest episode of Channel 5’s Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords programme will tonight show how a rogue letting agent in a...

The second episode of Channel 5’s Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords, due to air tomorrow evening at 9pm, will feature three separate...

Channel 5 tomorrow airs the first episode of Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords, a six-part series which starts with the story of...

A pop star has been evicted from his London flat owing his landlord more than £30,000 in rent and causing him...