A first attempt to regulate Airbnb-style short lets through licensing has been withdrawn. The SNP-led Scottish Government had drawn up a licensing...
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22 February 2021
From: Breaking News

A PropTech firm claims agents will win a “competitive edge” through the data it provides via its platform. Sprift says its interactive...
22 February 2021
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A London council describes two new licensing schemes as ‘making renting fairer’ - even though they are launched during the pandemic. Islington’s Labour...
17 February 2021
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Letting agents should help landlords through a blizzard of red tape and regulation cause by local licensing schemes, a PropTech entrepreneur...
10 February 2021
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Scotland’s official clampdown on short lets is gathering pace with the country’s housing minister advocating a licensing regime and so-called ‘control...
05 February 2021
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Earlier this week ARLA branded local councils pursuing private rental licensing during the pandemic as “socially irresponsible” - but one of...
22 January 2021
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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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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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A council claims that as many as a fifth of all the private rental sector homes in its area have a...
07 January 2021
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A lettings agent has spoken out at a local council landlord licensing scheme, suggesting it might just be nothing more than...
29 December 2020
From: Breaking News

Teclet has announced another strategic partnership, this time with Kamma - a platform which specialises in agency compliance. It’s the latest in...
17 December 2020
From: Breaking News

A controversial Labour council that locked horns with the government over landlord licensing is now submitting a new proposal for its...
15 December 2020
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Walsall council in the Midlands is considering an Additional Licensing scheme for HMOs. As is often the case with such schemes, the...
14 December 2020
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Liverpool's mayor Joe Anderson has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit bribery and witness intimidation. Anderson has been an outspoken...
07 December 2020
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A new assessment of legislation and council rules surrounding the private rental sector suggests a severe crackdown may be coming in...
02 December 2020
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A London council has been found to have operated an unpublicised consultation exercise for a licensing proposal - and is now...
24 November 2020
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London’s Westminster council - with 43 per cent of housing stock in the private rental sector - has launched a consultation on...
20 November 2020
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Activists from the so-called renters’ union Acorn have held a protest outside the office of a lettings agency in Oxford. A photograph...
19 November 2020
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A London council has dropped plans to restrict the creation of HMOs, a full 12 months after a consultation on the...
04 November 2020
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Changes to the codes of practice surrounding Right To Rent are introduced on November 2, and tomorrow there’s a useful webinar to...
19 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 new PropTech tool called Lettings Intelligence is being launched this week with the claim that it is “revolutionising the way that lettings...
05 October 2020
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A London council has launched a strategy it claims will protect private tenants and ensure they live in good quality and...
23 September 2020
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A consultation process by the Scottish Government may herald stricter restrictions on Airbnb and similar short let platforms north of the border. The...
22 September 2020
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Two landlords have been served with civil penalty notices for operating unlicensed HMOs. The notices were from Wellingborough council; one was for...
09 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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Oxford council, which has 49 per cent of its housing stock in the private rental sector, is starting a formal consultation...
02 September 2020
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A proposed licensing regime in Kent has been abandoned because of fears it would drive landlords away. Medway council proposed a scheme...
28 August 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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The controversial Labour-led council in Liverpool has started a lengthy consultation process over its latest proposals for landlord licensing. The authority was...
14 August 2020
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Charnwood council in the East Midlands is proposing to introduce two different licensing schemes for private landlords, with agents and others...
12 August 2020
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Greenwich council in London has resuscitated a proposal to extend its existing selective licensing regime, put on ice during the Coronavirus...
10 August 2020
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Rogue landlords have been accused of tax evasion which could cost the Treasury as much as £1.73 billion a year. The accusation...
05 August 2020
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Back in March 2019 we covered the story that Weymouth council in Dorset wanted a landlord licensing scheme for a town...
04 August 2020
From: Breaking News

David Cox’s departure as chief executive of ARLA Propertymark last Friday was well signposted, particularly when he was advised he could...
28 July 2020
From: Breaking News

A local authority has extended its consultation process for a selective licensing system which, if it goes ahead, would see some...
27 July 2020
From: Breaking News

The council in Liverpool is likely to propose a scaled-back private rental licensing scheme after its original suggestion was rejected by...
13 July 2020
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A senior Conservative peer and consumer campaigner has written an article strongly defending the private rental sector, agents and landlords. Baroness Altmann...
09 July 2020
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Four buy to let investors have each been fined £10,000 for letting out unlicensed HMOs. The unlicensed properties , all in the...
09 July 2020
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David Smith - a solicitor specialising in residential property, agency and regulatory law - today launches a book advising property professionals...
06 July 2020
From: Breaking News

A council in London, where landlords yields and margins are already tight, says it wants to charge £550 for a renewed...
03 July 2020
From: Breaking News

The council at the centre of one of the planning controversies involving Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has issued a warning to...
30 June 2020
From: Breaking News

Harrow council in north London has launched a formal consultation on its plan to renew its landlord licensing scheme in the...
11 June 2020
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Residents at home during lockdown who may have seen families crammed into overcrowded HMOs are being asked to report the properties...
01 June 2020
From: Breaking News

Government advice to local authorities to sit tight with new licensing proposals during the Coronavirus pandemic appears to have been ignored...
27 May 2020
From: Breaking News

ARLA Propertymark has made a series of demands on the government in the light of the Coronavirus crisis. In a formal written...
07 May 2020
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A group of local landlords and others in the private rental sector are challenging a local authority’s licensing proposals with their...
07 May 2020
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Coventry council has been branded as irresponsible by a leading trade body for allegedly ignoring government advice on licensing schemes during...
06 May 2020
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Several local authorities at different stages of implementing rental licensing schemes have put their proposals on ice until the Coronavirus crisis...
30 April 2020
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Research by the National Residential Landlords Association and the Which? consumer body has revealed that some 53 councils in England alone...
21 April 2020
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A London council has pressed ahead with the launch of a borough-wide additional licensing scheme despite the lockdown and uncertainty created...
16 April 2020
From: Breaking News

Liverpool’s Labour council, which was prevented by the government from extending its city-wide licensing scheme for another five years, is seeking...
06 April 2020
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A local authority has postponed the extension of its private rental sector licensing regime - but it’s warning agents not to...
03 April 2020
From: Breaking News

The landlords’ newly-merged trade body has renewed its call for the government to do more to help the private rental sector...
26 March 2020
From: Breaking News

Not-for-profit accreditation service safeagent says the government should ensure councils delay the introduction of all new private rental sector licensing schemes...
20 March 2020
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency and its director have pleaded guilty to renting out an overcrowded house in the first case brought to...
17 March 2020
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A council says it’s considering lending funds for improvement to landlords who “behave fairly and appropriately” - and buy into a...
13 March 2020
From: Breaking News

The government has been called upon to issue specific Coronavirus guidance for the rental sector. The chief executive of the Association of...
12 March 2020
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A local authority has taken the unusual step of saying that a £600 surcharge will be added to the licensing costs...
10 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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The controversial Liverpool council licensing scheme is to be policed through the use of what the authority calls “cutting-edge big data...
06 March 2020
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The government has rejected a council’s bid to extend its licensing scheme for privately rented housing. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local...
28 February 2020
From: Breaking News

Another council is consulting on introducing a selective licensing scheme - and again it claims it will “create better housing for...
28 February 2020
From: Breaking News

A typical buy to let property pays over £600 in fees a year according to a new study released today. Insurance company...
28 February 2020
From: Breaking News

A buy to let investor has been hit with a bill of almost £9,500 after being accused of allowing a tenant...
26 February 2020
From: Breaking News

A London council says nearly half of the Airbnb-style short let properties available in its patch last year exceeded their legal...
21 February 2020
From: Breaking News

The government has given the green light to a council’s huge licensing scheme, set to cover 18 of its 20 wards...
17 February 2020
From: Breaking News

The government has failed the private rental sector says the Residential Landlords Association. In a statement released even before the resignation of...
14 February 2020
From: Breaking News

A room-finding portal, along with the owners of a London lettings agency and management firm, must pay over £100,000 for letting...
12 February 2020
From: Breaking News

Enfield council in London has confirmed that it will introduce borough-wide additional licensing. It is also seeking consent from the government to...
07 February 2020
From: Breaking News

A council has prosecuted five private landlords who failed to get licences for the properties they let out. Oldham council says its...
05 February 2020
From: Breaking News

A landlord has ended up with fines totalling over £90,000 after repeatedly ignoring a council’s selective licensing regime. Stephen Ige pleaded guilty...
04 February 2020
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Liverpool’s Labour mayor says he is confident that the city will, after all, be able to renew its city-wide licensing scheme. Housing...
03 February 2020
From: Breaking News

A judge has ordered two landlords to pay a total of £14,858 for illegally renting out an unlicensed house without working...
30 January 2020
From: Breaking News

A leading trade body is voicing concern over yet another council private rental sector licensing scheme - with particular worry over...
29 January 2020
From: Breaking News

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has backed a five year extension for a massive London council landlord licensing...
28 January 2020
From: Breaking News

A London council has caught out a rogue lettings agency for illegally operating two properties, with issues ranging from gas safety...
27 January 2020
From: Breaking News

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
From: Breaking News

Another Labour council wants to introduce a city-wide landlord licensing scheme - a proposal that would require government approval to implement. Last...
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
From: Breaking News

The new body representing short let digital platforms like Airbnb and the large number of associated companies that have sprung up...
23 January 2020
From: Breaking News

A newspaper in Liverpool has sharply criticised the government for refusing to allow the city council to continue a huge landlord...
21 January 2020
From: Breaking News

A trade body has come out against a council’s HMO licensing scheme, claiming that its consultation period was too short -...
21 January 2020
From: Breaking News

A council is lobbying the government to ask for landlords using Airbnb and other short let platforms to be charged business...
17 January 2020
From: Breaking News

A leading agency in a part of the UK where local government wants to clamp down on the spread of Airbnb...
17 January 2020
From: Breaking News

The fallout continues over the government’s shock refusal to allow Liverpool council to continue its huge landlord licensing scheme. Yesterday we reported that...
15 January 2020
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Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has rejected a bid by Labour-controlled Liverpool council to extend its licensing scheme for five years. Government approval...
14 January 2020
From: Breaking News

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents has thrown its weight behind an initiative by the Scottish Government to control the growth...
10 January 2020
From: Breaking News

The government has announced an additional £4m in funding for local councils to combat rogue agents and landlords - but it’s...
03 January 2020
From: Breaking News

Oldham council is the latest to seek an extension of a selective licensing scheme beyond its mandatory five year term -...
03 January 2020
From: Breaking News

A rogue landlord has been fined £1,384 for failing to get a council licence for two buy to let properties. The case...
27 December 2019
From: Breaking News

A compliance consultant has explained why a local council’s penalty on a rogue landlord - initially £31,499 - was slashed to...
10 December 2019
From: Breaking News

The owner of two properties has been fined £35,000 for breaches of the selective licensiing regime in his local area. At a...
02 December 2019
From: Breaking News

A dawn raid by enforcement officers from a London council has discovered 17 men sleeping on mattresses in a three bedroom...
29 November 2019
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been hit with court fines for a fourth time for failing to properly manage his rental properties. Landlord Jack...
27 November 2019
From: Breaking News

There’s been a steep rise in the costs of landlord joining a compulsory licensing scheme operated by Labour-controlled Nottingham city council. The...
25 November 2019
From: Breaking News

As the battle of political policies continues ahead of next month’s General Election, now Labour has unveiled a raft of initiatives...
22 November 2019
From: Breaking News

The Liberal Democrats is the first of the major parties to release its party manifesto for the December 12 manifesto, and...
21 November 2019
From: Breaking News

An inventories supplier is advising that the growing number of sub-letting scams can be reduced by regular property visits by agents...
20 November 2019
From: Breaking News

A controversial private rental licensing regime that has already made the headlines for the wrong reasons has now been branded a...
19 November 2019
From: Breaking News

Just over a fifth of lettings agents questioned in a major industry survey are concerned that may not be complying with...
15 November 2019
From: Breaking News

A Labour council is leading a trial by local authorities of a new digital platform that checks whether agents, landlords and...
13 November 2019
From: Breaking News

The safeagent accreditation scheme says the next government should not scrap landlord licensing as some trade groups have requested, but should...
12 November 2019
From: Breaking News

A leading trade body says the government’s latest injection of funds to help local councils root out rogue operators in the...
06 November 2019
From: Breaking News

The government has given an extra £3.8m to councils to come up with ways of catching rogue landlords - and in...
05 November 2019
From: Breaking News

The Association of Residential Letting Agents and the National Association of Estate Agents have issued their manifesto for next month’s General...
05 November 2019
From: Breaking News

Welsh housing minister Julie James is to address agents, landlords and other property professionals at the Residential Landlord Association’s Future Renting...
05 November 2019
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One of the industry’s leading trade bodies has revealed that the number of laws creating an obligation on landlords in the...
04 November 2019
From: Breaking News

A landlord who made a perverted request to take photographs of a teenager in her underwear has had his request for...
29 October 2019
From: Breaking News

Labour-run Leeds city council is introducing a licensing scheme which requires landlords to pay up to £825 per property. The deadline for...
28 October 2019
From: Breaking News
28 October 2019
From: Breaking News

The government is being urged to speed up the release details of the future it sees for selective licensing following revelations...
25 October 2019
From: Breaking News

The controversial tenants union Acorn has set up a web page where disgruntled renters can lodge complaints about letting agents. In the...
24 October 2019
From: Breaking News

A long-term legal critic of selective licensing is warning that letting agents could be held jointly accountable with the landlords, -...
22 October 2019
From: Breaking News

A statement from Hackney council in north east London says those who break its licensing provisions for the private rental sector...
21 October 2019
From: Breaking News

Former QPR and Nottingham Forest striker Dexter Blackstock has been fined over £25,000 and branded a rogue landlord after admitting 12 licencing offences. He...
21 October 2019
From: Breaking News

Research by safeagent - the new name for the National Approved Letting Scheme - has found over 130,000 unlicensed properties in...
14 October 2019
From: Breaking News

An umbrella organisation representing councils is calling for greater freedom to introduce more and larger rental sector licensing schemes, without the...
01 October 2019
From: Breaking News

A prominent trade body is urging its members and the wider industry to back a crowdfunding exercise to pay for a...
27 September 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
From: Breaking News

The rental sector needs to prepare for the demographic challenge of an increasingly older population, says the head of a high...
23 September 2019
From: Breaking News

safeagent’s Rent Smart Wales training course has been given the scheme’s top ‘High Assurance’ rating following its latest audit. Rent Smart Wales,...
20 September 2019
From: Breaking News

A Labour councillor on Islington council - which is controlled by the party and has Jeremy Corbyn as a local member...
17 September 2019
From: Breaking News

Landlords in a part of Teesside are to be allowed to operate a “collaborative” licensing scheme after a council backed down...
17 September 2019
From: Breaking News

The most controversial local council rental licensing scheme in the country has been deemed a success - at least by the...
16 September 2019
From: Breaking News

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
From: Breaking News

Enfield wants to be the latest London council to introduce large-scale additional and selective licensing schemes which would affect most private rented...
05 September 2019
From: Breaking News

Belvoir says consolidation between lettings and sales agencies across the industry is likely to increase as a result of greater regulation...
04 September 2019
From: Breaking News

With the country in febrile election mode, it’s perhaps unsurprising that the Association of Residential Letting Agents has got in on...
30 August 2019
From: Breaking News

A local council says it has now successfully prosecuted a landlord for flouting the law that protects the health and safety...
22 August 2019
From: Breaking News

A Labour council which has become famous for its critical approach to the private rental sector has now been given almost £200,000...
14 August 2019
From: Breaking News

The government has blocked a council rolling out selective licensing across no fewer than 3,000 homes in its patch. Under Stoke on...
13 August 2019
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PropTech, and specifically Artificial Intelligence, could help letting agents better cope with new demands created by further industry regulation. That’s the view...
08 August 2019
From: Breaking News

A local authority is being warned that its landlord licensing and accreditation scheme is potentially unlawful. The Residential Landlords Association, which represents...
05 August 2019
From: Breaking News

Another local authority has announced that it wants to introduce another selective licensing scheme and designate its entire patch for HMO...
02 August 2019
From: Breaking News

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
From: Breaking News

Warwick district council has issued its first civil penalty to the landlord of an HMO. Glenn Gamblin, the landlord of the property...
25 July 2019
From: Breaking News

Over-regulation of short-term let accommodation in some areas of rural Scotland could pose a risk to rural tourism, a business organisation...
23 July 2019
From: Breaking News

The government has published proposals for far-reaching changes to the way estate and letting agents are regulated, trained and licensed. The proposals...
18 July 2019
From: Breaking News

The concept of a so-called rental property passport would rapidly improve the quality of accommodation and landlords, and would be far...
12 July 2019
From: Breaking News

A managing agent has been convicted by a local council for failing to properly license his property. Leon Hill, of Leighton Buzzard,...
10 July 2019
From: Breaking News

Local authorities are failing in their duty to prosecute criminal letting agents, the National Landlords Association (NLA) has warned. The NLA says...
04 July 2019
From: Breaking News

Junior housing minister Heather Wheeler MP has written to Hull City Council to express her concerns about the authority's controversial accreditation...
03 July 2019
From: Breaking News

A London council wants to extend its private rental sector licensing scheme - and in doing so is boasting of the...
02 July 2019
From: Breaking News

A rogue landlord has been ordered to pay over £60,000 after - in the words of the council - “being found...
27 June 2019
From: Breaking News

An independent review into selective licensing in the private rental sector makes a series of recommendations to tighten processes, with the...
26 June 2019
From: Breaking News

A trade body has accused the government of going back on its promise not to introduce a national register of landlords. The...
26 June 2019
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A buy to let investor who let out an unsafe and unlicensed property in London has now been hit with a...
21 June 2019
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A group of activists has expressed outrage over a council’s private rental licensing scheme, claiming it is too small to catch...
20 June 2019
From: Breaking News

A lettings sector trade body has written to a council accusing it of initiating an “unlawful” fee structure for a licensing...
14 June 2019
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A London council has successfully prosecuted a so-called “dodgy operator” landlord for failing to comply with fire safety regulations and carry...
12 June 2019
From: Breaking News

Consultation is underway to extend a landlord licensing scheme in a London borough where a third of households rents privately. Three types...
12 June 2019
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The government has agreed that a council in London where all 51 councillors are Labour should go ahead with a five...
03 June 2019
From: Breaking News

The National Landlords Association says it’s concerned the Fees Ban coming into effect in just two days’ time may limit access...
30 May 2019
From: Breaking News

Six months on from the introduction of stricter licencing for Homes in Multiple Occupation, awareness “remains limited” according to one of...
21 May 2019
From: Breaking News

With the Tenant Fee Ban obliterating a key income stream, letting agents should be looking at ways they can increase the...
16 May 2019
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A rogue landlady has been hit with a fine of £24,000 after conning her tenants and the local authorities with a...
10 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 buy to let investor has been left with a £2,000 bill and a criminal conviction after letting out his property...
03 May 2019
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A senior figure at a deposit replacement service says the current flurry of changes in the private rental sector are positive. Daniel...
29 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
From: Breaking News

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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A housing minister has pledged that more key reforms for the private rental sector will be revealed soon, despite Brexit political...
03 April 2019
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A buy to let investor has been hit with a £4,000 fine plus costs of over £5,000 after failing to license...
02 April 2019
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Figures given through a Parliamentary answer have revealed just how bad councils in England are at policing and enforcement action against...
29 March 2019
From: Breaking News

The Renting Homes (Fees etc) (Wales) Bill passed its final hurdle in the Welsh Assembly yesterday evening. This has similar policies to...
28 March 2019
From: Breaking News

Leicester is the latest council to begin consultations on selective licensing in six parts of the city - with the threat...
22 March 2019
From: Breaking News

The implementation and costs of landlord licensing schemes in Britain are a lottery. That’s the conclusion of a new analysis of licensing...
20 March 2019
From: Breaking News

A dawn raid on unlicensed HMOs in north London last week were the latest sign of a crackdown on rogue operators...
19 March 2019
From: Breaking News

Haringey council is the latest local authority in the capital to create a borough-wide additional licensing scheme for HMOs. It claims the...
12 March 2019
From: Breaking News

A leading trade body says the argument that councils have insufficient powers to tackle rogue operators isn’t supported by the facts...
08 March 2019
From: Breaking News

A buy to let investor has been landed with a fine and costs of over £20,000 because he failed to apply...
06 March 2019
From: Breaking News

Just when you thought there could not be any more rival licensing or accreditation systems in the private rental sector, a...
25 February 2019
From: Breaking News

Another controversial scheme licensing landlords who let their homes out may face legal challenge. Middlesbrough council’s formal consultation on the introduction of...
25 February 2019
From: Breaking News

A local authority in the Midlands has admitted what many people have believed for some time - despite a slew of...
22 February 2019
From: Breaking News

More local authorities have announced that they want to increase the size of the areas covered by their existing selective licensing...
19 February 2019
From: Breaking News

A legal firm has renewed its criticism of local authority licensing schemes, accusing them of “persecuting” landlords. David Kirwan, managing partner at...
15 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

A lettings agency and its director have been fined a total of £30,000 for failing to licence HMOs and giving sham...
13 February 2019
From: Breaking News

Hounslow council wants its additional licensing scheme for HMOs - due to expire in May 2019 - to be extended for...
12 February 2019
From: Breaking News

Council enforcement officers have raided a house in Wembley, north London, and found 19 tenants paying a landlord £1,000 a week. Brent council’s...
08 February 2019
From: Breaking News

A landlord who failed to comply with orders to improve the standard of a property has had to pay over £7,500...
05 February 2019
From: Breaking News

A buy to let investor has lost possession of his flat after converting it into an Illegal House in Multiple Occupation...
22 January 2019
From: Breaking News

A controversial Labour-controlled local authority which already has 91 per cent of its private rental properties inside licensing schemes is now...
17 January 2019
From: Breaking News

Councils have been accused of routinely pursuing the most serious enforcement option open to them if they find a local licensing...
14 January 2019
From: Breaking News

A council has prosecuted a buy to let investor for not making necessary improvements to his property. The landlord, Balwinder Singh Chandi,...
14 January 2019
From: Breaking News

A local authority has taken the unusual step of issuing a celebratory press release stating that it issued penalty notices adding...
31 December 2018
From: Breaking News

Some 79 per cent of landlords are only servicing the interest on their mortgages, not paying down their loans, according to...
10 December 2018
From: Breaking News

Shock figures released by an insurance company suggest that councils are woefully unable to police new regulations regarding mandatory HMO licensing. Figures...
06 December 2018
From: Breaking News

One of London’s most enthusiastic councils for additional and selective licensing has pushed back the date for enforcement action against landlords...
04 December 2018
From: Breaking News

Two thirds of local authorities in England and Wales brought no prosecutions against private landlords in 2017/18 according to research by the...
29 November 2018
From: Breaking News

The head of a lettings agency has launched a petition in opposition to a bid by a local council to extend...
27 November 2018
From: Breaking News

Nottingham council - which recently introduced one of the largest and most controversial selective licensing schemes in the country - now...
23 November 2018
From: Breaking News

A buy to let investor has been forced to close down two rat infested homes he owns in Rotherham after they...
22 November 2018
From: Breaking News

Local press reports say that one of the country’s most controversial buy to let licensing schemes has seen thousands of applications...
16 November 2018
From: Breaking News

The Residential Landlords Association is threatening a council with a judicial review because of unresolved concerns over the authority’s selective licensing...
05 November 2018
From: Breaking News

A council says it has been preparing prosecution and penalty notices “for hundreds of private landlords that have failed to apply...
01 November 2018
From: Breaking News

Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has made a clear pledge to tighten regulations surrounding the private rental sector. In an interview with The...
31 October 2018
From: Breaking News

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

A landlord has been ordered to pay £452 after he breached the terms of his licence in an area of County...
23 October 2018
From: Breaking News

A poll of 1,250 landlords suggests that far from being concerned about the profitability of buy to let, almost 80 per...
22 October 2018
From: Breaking News

Since one London local authority introduced private rental sector licensing in 2013 an extra £5,002,203 in council tax has been collected...
19 October 2018
From: Breaking News

A managing agent who used ‘ghost tenants’ as a front so that she could cram 16 people into one overcrowded house...
16 October 2018
From: Breaking News

A London agency has been fined for the second time in 11 months. Local media in Barking, east London, report that Primelodge...
16 October 2018
From: Breaking News

A post on a landlord website suggests that a new trade body is being set up to challenge the dominance of...
10 October 2018
From: Breaking News

A landlord who rented out an unlicenced HMO has been fined more than £22,000 after the local council found five people...
08 October 2018
From: Breaking News

A London local authority which is part way through its five year additional HMO licensing scheme wants lettings agents to give their...
02 October 2018
From: Breaking News

The Labour-led local authority in Hackney has issued a statement pledging fines or even bans if landlords fail to get appropriate...
27 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

More than 77,000 UK landlords will be shelling out a combined £95 million this month, as new occupancy laws come into...
24 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

A lettings agent who let a tiny room behind a kitchen in a property in London has been ordered to pay...
14 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 council behind a controversial private rental sector licensing scheme is trying to justify its introduction on health and safety grounds. On...
17 August 2018
From: Breaking News

Agents and landlords are being advised to check the status of their HMO licenses in the London Borough of Harrow following...
13 August 2018
From: Breaking News

The Residential Landlords Association has told another council that its plans to introduce selective licensing in areas of its town are...
09 August 2018
From: Breaking News

A local authority has taken the unusual step of naming seven buy to let landlords prosecuted in the past month in...
09 August 2018
From: Breaking News

The proportion of visitors to Edinburgh using Airbnb surged 70 per cent in 2017 compared to the previous year. Commercial agency Colliers,...
03 August 2018
From: Breaking News

A leading PropTech entrepreneur says lettings agents should be more vocal in providing the government with feedback on council rental licensing...
03 August 2018
From: Breaking News

More big fines have been handed out in recent legal action regarding buy to let investors who have not stuck by...
02 August 2018
From: Breaking News

A London landlord has been ordered to pay over £13,000 for breaching the conditions of his licence as a result of...
01 August 2018
From: Breaking News

It appears that take-up of an apparently compulsory licensing scheme in one city has been shockingly low - and the scheme...
31 July 2018
From: Breaking News

The Residential Landlords’ Association says proposals from Great Yarmouth council to introduce selective licensing in one part of the town contains...
26 July 2018
From: Breaking News

An investor has been fined £2,525 after failing to licence her property and allegedly providing inadequate living conditions for her tenants. Adeola...
24 July 2018
From: Breaking News

From August 1 Nottingham council is introducing a new selective licensing regime covering an estimated 32,000 privately rented homes. This is an...
23 July 2018
From: Breaking News

A tenant who was ripping off other tenants in an overcrowded bungalow "death trap" has been fined tens of thousands of...
23 July 2018
From: Breaking News

Councillors in Stockton-on-Tees are under pressure to rethink plans to introduce Selective Licensing of private rented housing in two areas of...
20 July 2018
From: Breaking News

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has heaped praise on a local authority which has fined 27 lettings and managing agents...
11 July 2018
From: Breaking News

ARLA Propertymark has launched a new database to help its agent members keep abreast of compliance issues in the lettings sector. The...
10 July 2018
From: Breaking News

A petition has appeared on the government’s e-petition website calling for a review of a city council’s newly-introduced selective licensing system. Nottingham...
05 July 2018
From: Breaking News

A buy to let mortgage firm says it’s likely that there will be a spike in refinancing enquiries as landlords meet...
02 July 2018
From: Breaking News

Letting agents and others in the private rental sector have responded to the latest government intervention - a review into how...
21 June 2018
From: Breaking News

The government has announced a review to assess how selective licensing is used and find out how well it is working...
20 June 2018
From: Breaking News

Countrywide - which is making the lettings sector a key part of its ‘back to basics’ programme - is proposing to...
09 May 2018
From: Breaking News

An agent has been banned from letting properties under ‘fit and proper person’ legislation in Scotland, following an incident in which...
08 May 2018
From: Breaking News

The government has been told is should simply adopt some Labour rental policies or risk losing the next General Election -...
24 April 2018
From: Breaking News

Rental compliance platform GetRentr has raised over £500,000 from investors including a private equity firm and private individuals. GetRentr uses artificial intelligence...
16 April 2018
From: Breaking News

ARLA has branded the government’s long-awaited database of rogue landlords as “pointless” because it will not be made public. The Ministry of...
05 April 2018
From: Breaking News

Foxtons is warning that the private rental sector - traditionally a strong earner for the company even in times of challenging...
05 April 2018
From: Breaking News

A 10 week consultation period begins today on selective licensing in the central area of Blackpool - with the council threatening...
28 March 2018
From: Breaking News

Two landlords have been hit with hefty court fines for failing to comply with a local licensing scheme. The pair are the...
21 March 2018
From: Breaking News

The government has set out new measures to mitigate against overcrowded and dangerous living conditions of private tenants in shared homes. From...
16 March 2018
From: Breaking News

The National Landlords Association has revealed a seven-point plan which would allow the Welsh Government greater powers over the private rental...
16 March 2018
From: Breaking News

A survey by consumer group Which?, working with landlords’ associations, reveals that 70 local authorities now have selective or additional licensing...
09 March 2018
From: Breaking News

The government has pledged to begin a review of the selective licensing across the private rental sector once MPs return from...
05 March 2018
From: Breaking News

The Residential Landlords’ Association is upset at the government’s confirmation that the extension of mandatory HMO licensing will come into force...
02 March 2018
From: Breaking News

The local media in Bristol are reporting that landlords in the city are complaining that they face backruptcy if a hugely...
27 February 2018
From: Breaking News

The Court of Appeal has ruled that councils cannot use selective licensing conditions to impose new standards on private rented homes. In...
22 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

A local authority has fined four landlords who failed to licence a total of seven properties under its selective licensing scheme. Hastings...
21 February 2018
From: Breaking News

Brent Council has confirmed that the government has approved its request to extend the local selective licensing scheme. The local authority, which...
20 February 2018
From: Breaking News

Two buy to let investors have been fined a total of more than £27,000 under enforcement powers introduced in Burnley to...
16 February 2018
From: Breaking News

The government has given the go ahead to what will be one of the UK’s largest selective licensing scheme outside of...
15 February 2018
From: Breaking News

It is being reported that the Labour mayor of Newham council - that’s the authority which has introduced stricter controls on...
15 February 2018
From: Breaking News

This is a rare story: a council has dropped a plan for a lettings licensing scheme as a result of 900...
13 February 2018
From: Breaking News

A London council is marking 125 successful prosecutions against agents, landlords and sub-letting tenants since 2016. The authority, Brent, says the convictions...
13 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

Landlords in Wales who manage their own properties are being reminded that they must submit their licence application to Rent Smart...
06 February 2018
From: Breaking News

A London council has been the first in the country to use the Proceeds of Crime Act for a breach in...
02 February 2018
From: Breaking News

Two landlords and two tenants were fined a total of over £11,000 after losing their appeal against housing convictions concerning property...
30 January 2018
From: Breaking News

Research by NALS has revealed extensive increases in the cost of licensing of lettings properties and landlords by local authorities in...
30 January 2018
From: Breaking News

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

Rent Smart Wales says it is “heartening” that there has been a substantial recent rise in the number of agents, properties...
25 January 2018
From: Breaking News

Letting Agent Today understands that Foxtons has been asked to appear at a hearing staged by a London council to prove...
15 January 2018
From: Breaking News

The government has announced new minimum space requirements for private lettings in a bid to reduce problems of overcrowding. In addition to...
02 January 2018
From: Breaking News

The Association of Residential Letting Agents and other trade bodies have not yet responded to the government’s announcement over the holiday...
02 January 2018
From: Breaking News

The government has released more details on long-discussed proposals to tighten up licensing in the private rental sector. It wants landlords in...
28 December 2017
From: Breaking News

HM Revenue & Customs has launched a consultation on adding tax checks to private rental sector licensing schemes - in other...
14 December 2017
From: Breaking News

The selective licensing scheme operated by Newham council in London is reported to have won government backing to be extended until...
05 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

The Conveyancing Association has made a wide-ranging response to the government’s call for evidence on the regulation of letting and managing...
04 December 2017
From: Breaking News

The National Landlords Association has unveiled a new tool which could help agents and landlords keep across the ever-rising number of...
01 December 2017
From: Breaking News

A buy to let investor who failed to purchase a £542 licence for his HMO has been ordered to pay almost...
28 November 2017
From: Breaking News

Research by The Guardian newspaper reveals that massive numbers of local authority councillors are also buy to let investors - and...
22 November 2017
From: Breaking News

Rent Smart Wales, the licensing and training regime which is now a year old, has taken an agent and a landlord...
21 November 2017
From: Breaking News

A local authority currently consulting on private rental licensing is using improved energy efficiency as one of the criteria for landlords...
16 November 2017
From: Breaking News

A London council is inviting letting agents in its boundaries to a briefing session tomorrow morning ahead of the introducing of an...
15 November 2017
From: Breaking News

The National Landlords Association reports that Bournemouth council has taken the unusual step of rejecting a proposal to introduce a landlord licensing...
10 November 2017
From: Breaking News

Almost 60 per cent of councils across Britain have not prosecuted any landlord for any offence in the past year according...
31 October 2017
From: Breaking News

A leading legal firm is staging a free and interactive seminar on sub-letting, aimed at letting agents. The event takes place on...
27 October 2017
From: Breaking News

Four landlords have been fined and ordered to pay costs totalling £232,155.68 in the first prosecutions of its kind brought by...
19 October 2017
From: Breaking News

The powerful and all-party Communities & Local Government Select Committee of MPs has launched a new enquiry into improving the quality...
13 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 letting agent named in a case concerning a rat-infested House in Multiple Occupation in Leytonstone, East London, has been fined...
28 September 2017
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been fined a total of £7,298 for operating an unlicensed house in multiple occupation in Oxford that was...
28 September 2017
From: Breaking News

Letting Agent Today understands that senior industry figures are working on the framework of a new attempt at regulation, including measures...
27 September 2017
From: Breaking News

Letting agency Spicerhaart has been fined £2,670 after pleading guilty to operating an unlicensed house in multiple occupation. A prosecution was brought...
26 September 2017
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been prosecuted and ordered to repay over £5,000 to his tenants for letting an unlicensed House of Multiple...
25 September 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 Scarborough buy to let investor has been found guilty of two offences under the Housing Act 2004 for non-compliance with...
21 September 2017
From: Breaking News

Labour's housing spokesman has called on the government to give councils greater powers over the regulation of the private rental sector. In...
20 September 2017
From: Breaking News

A council claims that up to 13,000 private landlords are “of interest” to HM Revenue and Customs, where there are alleged...
15 August 2017
From: Breaking News

Redbridge council in London is offering 50 per cent off the cost of its private rental sector licensing scheme until September...
10 August 2017
From: Breaking News

More than 100 criminal prosecutions have been secured against landlords since the start of an enforcement crackdown by Brent council in...
25 July 2017
From: Breaking News

A new licensing scheme in Nottingham has moved a step closer with the proposal being sent to the government for approval. The council’s...
25 July 2017
From: Breaking News

Council officers discovered men living mattress to mattress inside a run-down flat above a commercial premises during a dawn raid. Police and...
24 July 2017
From: Breaking News

Beleagured housing minister Alok Sharma has been told by a London council that his decision over an application for a borough-wide...
20 July 2017
From: Breaking News

A new charter has been launched to promote the rights of tenants in a London borough where, for the first time...
13 July 2017
From: Breaking News

Yet another local authority is considering introducing selective licensing of private rental property. Luton council has issued a statement saying that within...
13 July 2017
From: Breaking News

Bristol council is resuscitating a so-called ‘rental standard’ which it expects local letting agents to meet. Back in January 2016 Letting Agent...
11 July 2017
From: Breaking News

The BBC is reporting that the Welsh government is offering private buy to let investors who have properties in high-rise buildings...
04 July 2017
From: Breaking News

Agents and landlords are unwittingly issuing incorrect Section 21 notices, resulting in thousands of pounds being wasted on aborted possession claims...
28 June 2017
From: Breaking News

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

At the latest meeting of the Fair Fees Forum, members described the current approach towards landlord licensing as a 'post code...
19 June 2017
From: Breaking News

Former Conservative Party leader and Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith is set to speak at a lettings sector event...
13 June 2017
From: Breaking News

A student landlord has been fined for failing to obtain the appropriate licences for two rental properties. Lisa Chatfield was ordered to...
08 June 2017
From: Breaking News

Research by the National Approved Letting Scheme (NALS) has identified that some 93% of local authorities have failed to issue a...
06 June 2017
From: Breaking News

The National Approved Letting Scheme has launched a new course which it describes as “ground-breaking” and which allows candidates to become...
26 May 2017
From: Breaking News

A family of rogue landlords who crammed 31 tenants into a 'Slumdog Millionaire'-style shanty home have this month been found guilty...
25 May 2017
From: Breaking News

The Liberal Democrats want a raft of additional controls on the private rented sector aimed at addressing what it describes as...
18 May 2017
From: Breaking News

Agents and landlords with properties in Wales have been reminded they could be breaking the law if they're not signed up to...
16 May 2017
From: Breaking News

A letting agency is urging landlords to respond to the consultations for three selective licensing schemes in its local area. homes4u, which...
12 May 2017
From: Breaking News

The founder of a PropTech start up called No Agent says despite his firm’s name he does not want to see...
09 May 2017
From: Breaking News

A prominent campaigning letting agent has discovered that more than 6,000 tenants in one region alone have complained to local authorities...
08 May 2017
From: Breaking News

The National Landlords Association and Residential Landlords Association have joined forces with Leeds city council to create a new accreditation system...
08 May 2017
From: Breaking News

Greenwich council in London is the latest to announce an extension to its HMO licensing policy. The council is already legally obliged...
05 May 2017
From: Breaking News

A local authority consultation exercise on a licensing system for local landlords has been postponed until June 12, four days after...
02 May 2017
From: Breaking News

Letting agents who have broken the law are set to be ‘named and shamed’ by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan,...
27 April 2017
From: Breaking News

Another London borough is consulting on a further extension of its existing selective licensing - this time it’s Harrow council. It wants...
20 April 2017
From: Breaking News

Angry landlords in Shropshire have set up an online petition against local council proposals to introduce selective licensing. The Wrekin Landlords Association...
24 March 2017
From: Breaking News

A landlady has been fined £15,000 for failing to license and manage a house in multiple occupation. Sharon Jacobs was also ordered...
13 March 2017
From: Breaking News

MNY Property Management Ltd has been fined £3,390 for offences under the Housing Act - specifically, failing to buy a licence...
06 March 2017
From: Breaking News

The owner of a house in multiple occupation in the leafy Hampstead area of north London has been hit with a...
06 March 2017
From: Breaking News

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

A survey of 1,000 tenants and landlords has provided evidence of what many agents already know - that the growing complexity...
01 March 2017
From: Breaking News

A Conservative MP has launched a scathing attack on some landlords in his own constituency following a local council initiative to...
28 February 2017
From: Breaking News

A council’s first case for non-compliance with its landlord licensing regime has seen one individual plead guilty to 12 offences -...
27 February 2017
From: Breaking News

The Chartered Institute of Housing wants the government to introduce a raft of new measures including significantly greater regulation of letting...
21 February 2017
From: Breaking News

A series of prosecutions of rogue landlords by a London council has also seen a so-called ‘property manager’ fined a four-figure...
17 February 2017
From: Breaking News

Manchester, which already has a major private rental sector licensing scheme, is now consulting on extending it with a third phase...
16 February 2017
From: Breaking News

The need for letting agencies to assist landlords with the increasingly-complicated private rental sector has been hammered home by the results...
15 February 2017
From: Breaking News

A group of landlords that mounted a successful legal challenge to a council’s proposed licensing scheme is continuing to recruit letting...
31 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 landlord is facing prosecution for failing to comply with various HMO regulations. For the last two days, Paul Turner has appeared...
25 January 2017
From: Breaking News

Consultation has begun on a new licensing scheme for landlords being proposed by Nottingham council. It runs until March 31 and gives...
18 January 2017
From: Breaking News

Manchester council - which previously described selective licensing schemes in the private rental sector as ineffective - has done a U-turn...
30 December 2016
From: Breaking News

The National Landlords Association has rejected a central plank of London mayor Sadiq Khan’s plan for housing - the introduction of yet more...
23 December 2016
From: Breaking News

Yet another London borough is introducing a selective licensing scheme, under which parts of a local authority patch are subject to...
21 December 2016
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

A London council has agreed to implement a new ‘standards charter’ for the private rental sector from next month - in...
15 December 2016
From: Breaking News

A council believes that a landlord was “putting tenants’ lives in danger” because he did not have local authority licenses for...
08 December 2016
From: Breaking News

A group of landlords and buy to let investors that has already successfully persuaded a council to scrap plans for a...
07 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 landlord has been prosecuted and ordered to pay a £12,000 fine as well as over £12,000 in court costs, after...
23 November 2016
From: Breaking News

Brighton and Hove council has failed in its bid to win government backing to ban To Let boards. The council sought government...
22 November 2016
From: Breaking News

One the leading letting agencies in Brighton has sharply criticised a proposal by the local council to introduce a selective licensing...
18 November 2016
From: Breaking News

A buy to let investor has been fined £29,200 after being prosecuted for 56 offences in what a local authority describes...
11 November 2016
From: Breaking News

A 71 year old landlord has been fined £5,037.97 at Birmingham Magistrates Court for failing to obtain an HMO licence and...
01 November 2016
From: Breaking News

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is warning that proposals to enforce minimum room sizes in HMOs in the privste rental...
31 October 2016
From: Breaking News

Another 400 purpose-built Build To Rent apartments have been given the green light by planners in London. Legal & General’s plans for...
26 October 2016
From: Breaking News

London mayor says the private rental sector will play an increasing part in solving the capital’s housing shortage - but insists...
25 October 2016
From: Breaking News

Brent council in London is seeking the views of agents- as well as landlords, tenants and others - on the extension...
24 October 2016
From: Breaking News

The government’s wave of measures to clamp down on the private rental sector and introduce harsher regulations for investors and landlords...
19 October 2016
From: Breaking News

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has responded to the latest government recommendations for tighter controls on the private rental sector...
19 October 2016
From: Breaking News

A council has taken a landlord to court for failing to licence his two buy to let properties under its selective...
13 October 2016
From: Breaking News

Agents and landlords in one of the country’s most politically-volatile cities are preparing to meet the local council to protest at...
10 October 2016
From: Breaking News

With just nine weeks to go before the deadline, only a small proportion of Welsh agents and landlords have registered for...
29 September 2016
From: Breaking News

A letting agency has been fined after one of its landlords was found to be cramming six families into an unlicensed...
21 September 2016
From: Breaking News

A landlord operating in Wales has been fined almost £3,000 for failing to renew the House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) licences...
16 September 2016
From: Breaking News

A letting agency and one of its landlords have been fined over £20,000 and given criminal records for failing to licence...
15 September 2016
From: Breaking News

The newly-elected mayor of Bristol and the city’s council have endorsed a so-called ethical lettings charter created by a group known...
12 September 2016
From: Breaking News

A pair of landlords have been slapped with a hefty fine for allowing people to live in damp-riddled rooms without fire...
09 September 2016
From: Breaking News

It appears that Wandsworth Council has backed away from a decision to implement a new landlord licensing scheme. Research by London Property...
08 September 2016
From: Breaking News

A firm has been fined £29,000 after a rental property was found to be - in the words of Nottingham city...
07 September 2016
From: Breaking News

A company operating a number of buy to let properties has been ordered to pay more than £15,000 by magistrates for...
07 September 2016
From: Breaking News

A letting agency has been removed from a Scottish council’s approved list after failing to conform with rules protecting the deposits...
05 September 2016
From: Breaking News

A landlord that continually refused to sign up to a council’s selective licensing regime has been found guilty by the courts...
05 September 2016
From: Breaking News

The campaign group ACORN, which has in the past organised protests outside letting agency offices, is up in arms that a...
30 August 2016
From: Breaking News

Several influential industry bodies have thrown their weight behind a review into whether Client Money Protection should be mandatory for letting...
24 August 2016
From: Breaking News

Two training seminars geared towards letting agents operating in London are being organised for the autumn. Organised by the National Approved Letting...
24 August 2016
From: Breaking News

A council has scrapped its proposal to introduce a licensing campaign for private sector landlords following large-scale opposition and the formation...
22 August 2016
From: Breaking News

The local authority in Manchester is proposing to introduce a landlord licensing scheme in the north of the city and has...
22 August 2016
From: Breaking News

Former shadow Home Secretary Andy Burnham - now Labour’s candidate for Mayor of Greater Manchester - has outlined a string of...
18 August 2016
From: Breaking News

An organisation called Somerset Property Network has organised over 50 landlords in the course of little over one month and it...
09 August 2016
From: Breaking News

Two private landlords have been found guilty of failing to obtain the appropriate licenses for their properties. Jagtar and Jagdish Kandola, who...
08 August 2016
From: Breaking News

A London council will introduce two new licensing schemes in the New Year. These make it a legal requirement for landlords to obtain...
05 August 2016
From: Breaking News

A council has issued a press release to say that a trio of prosecutions on private landlords combine to prove it...
02 August 2016
From: Breaking News

A House in Multiple Occupation located on the third floor of a property with a restaurant at ground level was one...
02 August 2016
From: Breaking News

Yet another council private rental sector licensing scheme is being drawn up with the claim that it will improve standards of...
01 August 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

The Residential Landlords’ Association says Gavin Barwell, the new housing minister appointed by Theresa May this week, is a known critic...
22 July 2016
From: Breaking News

Another local authority is aiming to set up its own ‘social’ lettings agency. The proposal is one of five put forward by...
21 July 2016
From: Breaking News

Controversial licensing conditions for a city’s landlords have been changed following complaints from an industry group. Liverpool council has modified the conditions...
15 July 2016
From: Breaking News

A local council has halted proposals to introduce a licensing regime for a town’s privately let properties after what a newspaper called...
14 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

Bexley council in south east London says it is going to announce what it describes as a “crackdown” on HMOs next...
29 June 2016
From: Breaking News

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

Yet another local authority looks likely to adopt a licensing scheme for private rental sector properties, described as a bid “to...
23 June 2016
From: Breaking News

A row has broken out between landlords and the council in Oxford, where the local authority is considering a private rental...
14 June 2016
From: Breaking News

An industry body is warning new London Labour mayor Sadiq Khan not to think he is helping renters by tying up...
09 June 2016
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been fined almost £25,000 for a series of failings relating to a House in Multiple Occupation (HMO). Birmingham-based Salih...
31 May 2016
From: Breaking News

Burnley Council has named and shamed eleven landlords that have been prosecuted for ignoring its selective licensing scheme. One landlord, Pierce Mullally,...
27 May 2016
From: Breaking News

Letting agents are being invited to join landlords and local authority rental housing experts in a Twitter debate on private rental...
12 May 2016
From: Breaking News

Twelve landlords in Waltham Forest have been prosecuted for not signing up to a council Private Rented Property Licencing scheme, and...
11 May 2016
From: Breaking News

An ‘ethical lettings charter’ set up over a year ago by a pressure group for improved private rental sector housing has...
10 May 2016
From: Breaking News

The owner of a rented property in west London has received a penalty of more than £20,000 having pleaded guilty to...
10 May 2016
From: Breaking News

Before new London mayor Sadiq Khan has had his first working day in office, his proposals for a private rental sector...
09 May 2016
From: Breaking News

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
From: Breaking News

A private landlord has been ordered to pay more than £1,000 after admitting operating in Burnley without a proper licence. Matthew Hartley...
12 April 2016
From: Breaking News

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
From: Breaking News

A local council has closed down what it describes as a ‘House of Horrors’ let to a family despite being in...
05 April 2016
From: Breaking News

The 1,000th person has been trained as part of Rent Smart Wales, the compulsory scheme that says it aims to raise...
30 March 2016
From: Breaking News

Lettings companies and an organised group of criminals described as a “gang of chancers” have been hit with fines and costs...
25 March 2016
From: Breaking News

New licence fees for letting and managing agents have been announced by Rent Smart Wales, the Welsh Government’s registration and licensing scheme which...
23 March 2016
From: Breaking News

A landlord has become the first to be prosecuted by Waltham Forest council for failing to obtain one of its controversial...
21 March 2016
From: Breaking News

A proposal to make it easier for some local councils to introduce licensing schemes governing the private rental sector will do...
08 March 2016
From: Breaking News

Enforcement officers from Barking and Dagenham council, one of the most active in chasing up private rental sector issues, has discovered...