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A council has written to Housing Minister Chris Pincher calling for a new approach to the short lets issue. Oxford council leader...

A letting agent has been fined £11,500 for breaking HMO houses and fire safety rules at a property he manages. Agent Benjamin...

A council claims that as many as a fifth of all the private rental sector homes in its area have a...

A lettings agency is in the news because it has asked a student to stop using a specific room in a...

Activists from the so-called renters’ union Acorn have held a protest outside the office of a lettings agency in Oxford. A photograph...

Oxford council, which has 49 per cent of its housing stock in the private rental sector, is starting a formal consultation...

A council has won a planning appeal banning the use of a property for short lets - considered a landmark case...

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

A council has used a drone with a thermal imaging camera to identify illegal ‘sheds’ where tenants are being rented beds...

A local authority is being warned that its landlord licensing and accreditation scheme is potentially unlawful. The Residential Landlords Association, which represents...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) is threatening Oxford Council with a judicial review of its landlord and letting agent accreditation scheme. The...

Oxford’s Labour council has given its support to a lettings review website because it claims it will help drive up the...

A landlord has been fined a total of £7,298 for operating an unlicensed house in multiple occupation in Oxford that was...

A House in Multiple Occupation located on the third floor of a property with a restaurant at ground level was one...

A legal tribunal has ruled that a landlord must refund his tenants rent totalling £2,934 because he housed them in unlicensed...

A row has broken out between landlords and the council in Oxford, where the local authority is considering a private rental...