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![Short Lets Crisis - council urges action from Housing Minister](/img/default/lat.png)
A council has written to Housing Minister Chris Pincher calling for a new approach to the short lets issue. Oxford council leader...
01 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Letting agent in court over unlicensed rent-to-rent HMO](/img/default/lat.png)
A letting agent has been fined £11,500 for breaking HMO houses and fire safety rules at a property he manages. Agent Benjamin...
04 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Fifth of city’s private rental homes have serious problems - claim](/img/default/lat.png)
A council claims that as many as a fifth of all the private rental sector homes in its area have a...
07 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Council HMO rules force agency to ban tenant from using bedroom](/img/default/lat.png)
A lettings agency is in the news because it has asked a student to stop using a specific room in a...
08 December 2020
From: Breaking News
![Activists gather outside city agency after licensing protest](/img/default/lat.png)
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
From: Breaking News
![Labour council proposes controversial city-wide licensing scheme](/img/default/lat.png)
Oxford council, which has 49 per cent of its housing stock in the private rental sector, is starting a formal consultation...
02 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Blow for Airbnb and short lets in landmark appeal ruling](/img/default/lat.png)
A council has won a planning appeal banning the use of a property for short lets - considered a landmark case...
21 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Labour council wants city-wide licensing and possible £12m windfall](/img/default/lat.png)
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
From: Breaking News
![Council uses drone to identify illegal rental ‘beds in sheds’](/img/default/lat.png)
A council has used a drone with a thermal imaging camera to identify illegal ‘sheds’ where tenants are being rented beds...
03 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![“It’s Illegal!” - council licensing scheme blasted by trade body](/img/default/lat.png)
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
![RLA threatens council over 'unlawful' and 'discriminatory' accreditation scheme](/img/default/lat.png)
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
From: Breaking News
![Council endorses lettings review website ‘to improve rental stock’](/img/default/lat.png)
Oxford’s Labour council has given its support to a lettings review website because it claims it will help drive up the...
08 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Fine for BTL investor after unlicensed HMO was let to disabled](/img/default/lat.png)
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
![HMO above Indian restaurant was one of three targeted by council](/img/default/lat.png)
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
![Tenants to be refunded £3,000 after HMOs found to be unlicensed](/img/default/lat.png)
A legal tribunal has ruled that a landlord must refund his tenants rent totalling £2,934 because he housed them in unlicensed...