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Towns within commuting distance of big cities have seen some of the UK’s largest rent rises in recent years, says Zoopla. The...

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

A council has prosecuted an agency and landlord for not producing the right paperwork. Luton local authority has prosecuted Poplar Homes Ltd...

A landlord has been fined a four figure sum for failing to produce documentation for a council. Fathima Syeda Kauser of Luton pleaded...

A new study has compiled a league table of the best cities in the UK for investment in student accommodation. CIA Landlord...

Property fraud is on the rise and early in 2022 agents will have an opportunity to attend a webinar featuring a...

A new Buy To Let ‘tracker’ from a prominent buy to let mortgage lender has revealed what it considers to be...

Over £80,000 pounds of fines have been imposed on a letting agency and its director. Zenith Accommodation Ltd’s boss, Mohammad Mallick of...

The well-known Lenwell chain, with seven branches, has been acquired by the Leaders Romans Group.  Lenwell was established in 1990 with the...

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

** This Bank Holiday Monday both Letting Agent Today and Estate Agent Today look at how agencies have modified offices and protocols...

Lenwell is a busy lettings agency covering Luton, Dunstable, Bedford, Milton Keynes, Biggleswade, Hitchin and Northampton - and now, busy in...

Campaigning charity Shelter claims 135,000 children in Britain are homeless and living in temporary accommodation this Christmas - the highest number...

Luton council has opened Lets Squared, a High Street lettings and estate agency using public funds - even though the town...

A managing agent has been convicted by a local council for failing to properly license his property. Leon Hill, of Leighton Buzzard,...

A survey of 500 buy to let landlords suggests that well over a third are planning to increase the size of...

A council has prosecuted a buy to let investor for not making necessary improvements to his property. The landlord, Balwinder Singh Chandi,...

Buy to let investor Changhaiz Ishaq has been ordered to pay a £8,510 fine for defying a prohibition order on his...

Luton landlord Mervyn Kupshik has been ordered to pay nearly £30,000 to the Local council - and if he doesn’t do...

A Luton lettings agency and its director, plus a landlord, have all been found guilty of offences related to a breach...

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

Specialist buy to let lender LendInvest has looked at 105 postcodes across England and Wales to find the best (and worst)...

The Property Ombudsman scheme has today announced three expulsions of agencies as a result of non-payment of rent or awards. Firstly, a...

Yet another local authority is considering introducing selective licensing of private rental property. Luton council has issued a statement saying that within...

The top ten buy-to-let postcodes in England and Wales are evenly split between locations that voted for the Conservatives or Labour. Luton...

An agency staff member has received a suspended prison sentence after stealing £11,500 in unclaimed deposits from a branch of Connells.   Amy...

Lenwell Property Services, a five-office lettings agency in the Home Counties, is spreading its wings into Hertfordshire with the acquisition of...

A landlord and letting agency have been fined more than £26,000 after being found guilty of housing offences at two properties...

The average rent for a UK property grew by a negligible 0.05 per cent in October, despite a tiny fall in...

There was a series of raids on HMOs led by a local authority early one morning at the end of last...

A lettings agency has been fined over £11,000 for alleged breaches of regulations in advertising an unlicenced HMO that was later...

Average rents for single rooms across the UK increased at a faster rate than those in London, according to spareroom.co.uk. The rental...

Connells Residential Lettings has announced three new lettings area managers to grow its central division offering, covering Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Wiltshire, Berkshire...

A 24-year-old from Luton has been jailed after being found guilty of six counts of fraud in relation to obtaining properties...

A managing agent who tried to force out his tenants by filling the stopcock chamber with cement so that they would...

A tenant has been found guilty of an assault of a letting agency staff member and has been ordered to do...

A landlord has been fined a meagre £265 after a defective gas appliance was found to be in operation at his...

A couple who modernised their home in a naturist village can stay in their home after winning a court battle against...

Connells Group has acquired another lettings independent - Selective Lets in Dunstable - following a series of recent purchases and takeovers.  Selective...