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Barbon Insurance Group, which describes itself as the UK's largest tenant referencing and specialist lettings insurance intermediary, has a new managing...

Two thirds of local authorities in England and Wales brought no prosecutions against private landlords in 2017/18 according to research by the...

Around two thirds of private landlords with tenants receiving Universal Credit have experienced rent arrears according to new research. Based on responses...

There has been limited support given from some parts of the lettings industry to a proposal offering Capital Gains Tax relief...

Media speculation over the weekend has suggested that the government may be about to give tax breaks to landlords agreeing to...

The policy director of the Residential Landlords Association (RLA) is calling on local councils to use the 'extensive powers' they have...

The government should be more ambitious when it comes to ensuring the private rented sector becomes increasingly energy efficient. That’s the message...

A trade body says the country faces a net loss of 133,000 homes for private rent over the next year -...

The government should scrap the tax on new homes which is punishing those in need of a home to rent, the...

A lettings trade body says a major house builder has blamed, in part, recent tax increases on private landlords as a...

Tax increases on the rental sector are leaving young people unable to access the homes they need, an industry body claims. The...

One of the industry’s leading trade bodies wants the government to halt the Right To Rent programme after evidence shows some...

Changes to Universal Credit have made it easier for claimants to rent homes but the government needs to do more to...

Over two thirds of landlords are reluctant to invest in new properties as a result of the stamp duty surcharge on...

New analysis shows how the phasing out of mortgage interest tax relief for buy to let investors may prove a particular...

The Residential Landlords Association has established the Private renting Evidence, Analysis & Research Lab - PEARL - to better inform policy-making...