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Midlands estate agency Webb’s is expanding its operations after opening a new office in Lichfield city centre. The agency already has offices in Cannock,...

A lettings agency is using its latest podcast to explore the retail-to-resi trend in the housing market. Winkworth’s podcast under The Property...

The UK Association of Letting Agents trade body is warning of “widespread evictions” unless government support is offered to tenants. UKALA chairman...

Leeds property investment agency ERE Property has undergone a company-wide rebrand in the UK and Hong Kong. No images have been released...

Wales’ Labour-led administration is to announce a three-pronged approach to affordability issues - and it looks likely to involve a clampdown...

The new President of the lettings side of Propertymark says her aim is to lift the profile of the organisation amongst...

The narrative from some activists and pressure groups is that private renting is some kind of ordeal endured by those who...

Cornish MPs have spoken up in the House of Commons to highlight what they claim is the danger of having too...

An experienced buy to let mortgage specialist has completed on its largest and most complex loan to date — a £17.35m...

Research by the British Property Federation shows that 6,937 new Build To Rent homes won full planning permission in the first...

A student accommodation provider has been granted planning consent to turn a building in central Leeds into a 350-bed purpose-built block. Study...

A landlord who appealed against a local council decision regarding the letting of her apartment on Airbnb has lost - and...

Today’s Queen’s Speech, setting out the government’s legislative programme for the next year, is expected to include rental reform. It’s thought one...

The extended stamp duty holiday is having a significant positive impact on the rental market, according to new research. In a survey...

Letting agents body ARLA Propertymark has joined the criticism of London Mayor Sadiq Khan who wants to be given the power...

Some 39 agents and landlords have had banning orders over the past three years according to a report in The Guardian. Under the...

Leaders Romans Group is launching a consultancy and management service for Build To Rent developers - a bid to engage with institutions in...

Targeting the specialist student rental market can be rewarding for letting agents and landlords if they take the right approach. The current...

Unite Students, the UK’s largest owner, manager and developer of purpose-built student accommodation, has been granted planning approval for a new...

Uncertain market means additional revenue streams are more important than ever The last year has been an uncertain period for many business...

With one of the world’s most successful vaccine rollout programmes under way in the UK, the chances of a complete lockdown...

A first attempt to regulate Airbnb-style short lets through licensing has been withdrawn. The SNP-led Scottish Government had drawn up a licensing...

Lettings agents are being told by an online platform to be extra-vigilant as increasing numbers of student tenants are getting pets. The...

A landlord who built unlawful extensions to a family home and squeezed up to 14 people into the rooms has forfeited...

Letting agents have been told to document all arranging, planning and scheduling of work related to electrical checks in a bid...

One of the country’s largest Build To Rent players, Legal & General, says it’s started work on 6,000 residential units in...

Another local authority is considering a clampdown on the spread and condition of HMOs. Bath and North East Somerset Council, which is...

One of the biggest commercial property operators in the country is to build 338 apartments to rent on the site of...

A long-running case about a house divided up and let out without planning permission has resulted in a fine of nearly...

Recent debate about urgent need for reform and better collaboration within the property industry, has once again come under the spotlight...

A property entrepreneur critical of the quality of traditional buy to let says the government should create a Minister for Renting...

The last year was one which none of us will forget both personally and professionally. Every aspect of life has been...

A late-year surge in the number of Build To Rent applications has been forecast by a market commentator. Alex Blagden, senior researcher...

Councillors from a town council in Wales are to be given an audience with the country’s First Minister to discuss the...

The first part of a massive Build To Rent scheme from developer Lendlease is nearing completion at Elephant Park in the...

The latest Build To Rent snapshot up to late summer shows the number of BTR homes in stages of planning across...

There’s been a flurry of new PropTech products launched, mostly focussed on lettings agencies. Australian-based supplier Movinghub, which works the UK market...

A London council has dropped plans to restrict the creation of HMOs, a full 12 months after a consultation on the...

The announcement of the Renters’ Reform Bill in the Queen’s speech last December caused a collective groan across the country from...

Here at The ValPal Network, we know that there are other options available when considering to use a valuation tool, so...

It’s been an unexpected year for the property market, shaped by the effects of the pandemic. We didn’t quite anticipate the...

A new nationally recognised letting agent qualification is being launched by a landlord body. The Managing Property and Residential Lettings Level 3...

The Welsh Government wants to reform compulsory purchase powers - meaning any landlord with a long-term empty property in the region...

John Lewis Partnership, until now best known for its department stores and ownership of Waitrose, is to build homes for rent. The...

A new agency set up in Wiltshire says it goes beyond the traditional lettings services of existing operators, and instead seeks...

With no clear end in sight and conflicting Government advice as to whether we should work from home or go to...

Prospective tenants are increasingly searching for properties outside of commuter hubs and urban areas, according to Rightmove. Its analysis of over 60 million...

A new report demands that online rental platforms and portals allowing direct advertising by clients do more to deter fake landlords...

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

The lettings agency Portico is partnering with Goodlord to offer a new insurance policy to its landlords. Portico landlords can now benefit...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has postponed its conference - for a second time. Back in March it was postponed until...

One of the biggest names in the Build To Rent sector, Legal & General, says all of its new housing stock...

The council at the centre of one of the planning controversies involving Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has issued a warning to...

A Labour Baroness, Alicia Kennedy, has been named as the new director of the fiercely pro-tenant Generation Rent campaign group. The announcement...

A property built without planning consent and then illegally let to a family has been knocked down by Ealing council in...

The director of renters’ campaign group Generation Rent says the long-running scandal of a planning decision made by the Housing Secretary...

Agents and landlords of private rented homes are urging the Scottish Government to continue work on improving the energy efficiency of...

A document outlining options for the future regulation of Airbnb and other short let platforms in the UK is to be...

A council wants buy to let landlords with one-bed flats or rooms in shared homes to help it find homes for...

The Labour head of a special ‘taskforce’ looking at London housing issues in the light of the Coronavirus crisis says he...

One of the country’s largest Build To Rent players, Legal & General, says it’s to construct another 350 homes as part...

One of the official redress operators - Property Redress Scheme - has launched a tenancy mediation service for agents, landlords and...

A pro-Build To Rent online platform is hosting a webinar to discuss whether the sector will emerge from the Coronavirus crisis...

There’s been a 12 per cent increase in the number of Built To Rent homes across the UK that have been...

Here are two sets of advice from the good folk at Aston Mead Land & Planning - some more appropriate than...

The commercial arm of Countrywide is urging landlords currently facing huge void periods because students have been ordered home, to reconfigure...

Although the worst of the stock market bloodletting triggered by Coronavirus now appears to have gone, franchise agency group Belvoir has...

A row is erupting in Swansea over the number of HMOs in the city. Council leaders in the city want to implement...

A landlord has been ordered to pay back no less than £190,000 - equivalent to nine years’ rent - after he...

A London council says nearly half of the Airbnb-style short let properties available in its patch last year exceeded their legal...

Grainger, one of the biggest names in Build To Rent, has agreed to buy a proposed 348 home-scheme in central Nottingham. The...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Catherine Shinerock - ARO Account Manager What is your ‘company name’...

Generation Rent - an outspoken organisation sharply critical of lettings agents and many aspects of the private rental sector - is...

New regulations governing HMOs are coming into effect in a north of England council. Landlords and developers will now need planning permission...

The latest lettings market snapshot by mortgage lender Paragon has found that of the landlords planning to purchase property in the...

The new body representing short let digital platforms like Airbnb and the large number of associated companies that have sprung up...

A landlord in one of the most scenic parts of Devon had been served with a £18,000 civil penalty because he...

An agent acting on behalf of a landlord has defended a bid for retrospective planning permission, but a Labour councillor has...

Councils that have been awarded additional cash injections by government could use their windfalls to enhance their enforcement of the private...

A leading agency in a part of the UK where local government wants to clamp down on the spread of Airbnb...

Politicians from several parties say they want their local council in Bristol to have the powers to regulate the number and...

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents has thrown its weight behind an initiative by the Scottish Government to control the growth...

Some 26 per cent of buy to let investors plan to sell one or more of their properties in 2020 according...

Birmingham’s Labour-led council is to introduce a city-wide Article 4 Direction from June, which means a planning application must be submitted for...

Just over third of private landlords are planning to quit the sector or cut the number of homes they let in...

More details have emerged of the long-term scheme to site Build To Rent homes at Transport for London tube stations and...

Another survey of private landlords show a majority feeling less confident about the market than they were three months ago. Last week...

A new piece of legislation has been invoked to ban a landlord from any involvement in the private rental sector for...

A leading agent has repeated his controversial belief that the proposed scrapping of Section 21 eviction powers should be seen as...

Research by the British Property Federation shows that there are now 148,046 build-to-rent homes complete, under construction or in planning across...

New research from Rightmove shows almost a quarter of landlords are planning to sell at least one property from their current...

An umbrella organisation representing councils is calling for greater freedom to introduce more and larger rental sector licensing schemes, without the...

The majority of the UK’s private renters don’t want to purchase a home according to new research, coming just as the...

Labour is backing new guidelines which ban adverts which can be interpreted as encouraging landlords and home owners to flout restrictions...

A rogue landlord who divided his three-bedroom home in central London into eight flats has ended up with a bill of...

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents is urging member agents and the industry to ensure it is up to date with...

Data published by specialist lender Precise Mortgages suggests that over a fifth of landlords are planning to expand their portfolio with...

As the row over Labour’s proposal rumbles on the think tank Centre for Policy Studies - which has previously argued that...

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

A new rental option for landlords could see them receiving an upfront annual lump sum of over £10,000. The Advanced Rent Option...

New guidance from the government on its controversial Right To Rent scheme would see agents and landlords breaking the law if...

A tenant pretending to be landlord has been ordered to pay more than £21,000 after he carved up five family homes...

There’s been a sceptical response to news leaked from government over the weekend suggesting that a database of rogue landlords would...

A trade association has called for a 'moratorium' on any further government intervention in the buy-to-let sector in order to stop...

The Welsh government is planning to make changes to the notice period for eviction which would see tenants given 12-month contracts...

A leading trade body is urging the candidates to lead the Conservative Party to adopt a more positive approach to the...

An independent review into selective licensing in the private rental sector makes a series of recommendations to tighten processes, with the...

A landlord who illegally converted a London home into two flats without planning permission has been given a prison sentence after...

Landlords have been urged to seek advice about potential stamp duty rebates on ‘uninhabitable’ second properties after a landmark tribunal case. A...

Controversial London lettings agency Flintons has again been named by a BBC TV programme for allegedly unreasonable behaviour in relation to...

Legal & General has exchanged contracts on two adjacent sites in south London to deliver its largest Built To Rent scheme...

A new PropTech tool already used by three leading agencies claims to identify and speed up contact between pre-qualified tenants and...

The operations director of letting agency haart has told landlords not to 'stress too much' over Brexit. Paul Sloan says it's easy...

A quarter of private landlords are looking to sell at least one property over the next year according to new research...

A London council has won one of the largest-ever Proceeds of Crime claims from an unscrupulous buy to let investor. Andre Charles Trepel,...

A property investment platform claims that investor sentiment in buy to let is actually improving despite ongoing political and economic uncertainty...

A building expert is warning buy to let investors that they won’t enjoy unfettered rights to extend their properties upwards when...

The rapid growth of Airbnb-style short lets could lead to the loss of private rented homes and displacement of long-term residents...

A buy to let investor who hid families in windowless rooms after failing to get planning permission for a block of...

Large-scale buy to let investors are continuing to move to limited company status in a bid to limit their exposure to...

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

The implementation and costs of landlord licensing schemes in Britain are a lottery. That’s the conclusion of a new analysis of licensing...

More than a third of landlords are looking to cut their annual spending - and many of them are considering ending...

Gregory Property Group has announced forward funding and the start of work on one of the country’s largest purpose-built student blocks.  It’s...

Another London local authority is proposing to insist HMOs require planning permission in future.  Currently in Croydon multi-bedroom properties can be converted...

Over 250 new units constructed by Telford Homes are to be used for Build To Rent according to a deal announced...

A buy to let investor who converted three family homes to HMOs without securing planning permission has been jailed for falsifying...

Who are you? I’m the Director of Sales for both the well-known industry leading Today publications and The ValPal Network. Leading publications: Estate...

High-end lettings agency Knight Frank is predicting that £75 billion of investment will be committed to the Build To Rent sector...

One of the country’s major Build To Rent providers has signed a deal to deliver 324 flats in a major city...

There’s been a big rise in the volume of purpose-built student accommodation in the UK, suggesting that the market may be...

A buy to let investor has lost possession of his flat after converting it into an Illegal House in Multiple Occupation...

There has been a massive surge in the volume of lettings properties under construction for the burgeoning Built To Rent sector. Data...

A court has ordered a husband and wife pair of buy to let investors to pay back £322,282 in illegal income. A...

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

A couple from east London who illegally converted a town centre office block into 14 flats have been ordered to pay...

A notorious rogue landlord must pay £1.5m or risk spending up to nine years in prison after what is thought to...

We regularly carry stories about fines for landlords and letting agents who have apparently broken council or national laws - but...

A landlord is almost £42,000 worse off after repeatedly ignoring council orders to stop illegally letting so called “beds in sheds”...

The Republic of Ireland has adopted new policies requiring owners in 'high housing demand areas' to secure planning consent if they...

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

Brexit is causing concern among landlords, according to HomeLet. The initial results of HomeLet’s annual landlord survey says nine out of 10...

Labour has outlined its proposals for the private rental sector if it gains power at the next General Election - and...

Reports have emerged this week that the government is planning a U-turn on its proposals to introduce mandatory three-year minimum tenancies...

A London council has fined a letting agency over £10,000 for failing to install smoke alarms in a rental property. Waltham Forest...

An Essex council claims it is one of the first to be granted a rent repayment order - part of legislation...

A newspaper in warning that the beleaguered buy to let sector may be under attack yet again with the government considering...

The British Property Federation says there are now 124,037 Build To Rent homes complete, under construction and in planning across the...

Well-respected London lettings agent and former ARLA president Lucy Morton is the latest key figure to pour cold water on government...

Legal & General, one of the biggest players in Britain’s burgeoning Build To Rent market, has exchanged contracts on its largest...

Buy to let landlords are welcoming proposals being considered by the government to provide financial incentives for those offering longer tenancies. In...

The Independent online newspaper says Conservative MP Gary Streeter will tomorrow meet with Prime Minister Theresa May and urge her to...

One in five UK landlords have entered buy to let without even planning to, finding themselves with a property ‘accidentally’ or...

Letting agents and landlords will have to win planning consent to erect To Let signs in student areas of Leicester from...

New research nearly two out of five landlords will use limited companies to buy properties over the next year compared to...

Two million tenants will this year be hit with rent rises totalling a combined £46m a month according to an online...

Buy to let investors are taking a wait and see approach when it comes to additional investment in the sector according...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Ben Robinson, Director of Agency Services at Landmark What is Landmark...

New figures show a 30 per cent rise in the past year in the number of Build To Rent units planned,...

Build To Rent provider Get Living has revealed plans to invest up to £180m in 756 units in Leeds. Acquired by Get...

Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, will is to reveal his vision for the private rental sector to a Residential...

A couple who illegally converted an office block into 14 flats have been found guilty for disregarding planning laws - and...

A trade body is calling on the government to repeal the fee that councils can now charge when an Article 4...

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

The British Property Federation is calling upon more councils to support Build To Rent following the government’s recognition of the sector in...

Reaction to the government’s call for developers and planning authorities to be more flexible in their approach to increasing the housing...

Experts suggest that Build To Rent is likely to be heavily promoted when the government announces its latest revamp to the...

The government has given the go ahead to what will be one of the UK’s largest selective licensing scheme outside of...

Build To Rent developer and operator PLATFORM_ has announced its first scheme in Scotland and an expansion of an existing development...

A range of factors - including fierce competition under the supplied housing market, rising property prices and political uncertainty – have...

Legal & General has exchanged contracts to acquire land in the centre of Brighton in order to deliver the city’s first...

The government has been accused by a lettings sector trade body of skewing the market to encourage more short-lets.  The claim comes...

Legal & General - one of the country’s largest players in the burgeoning Build To Rent sector - has made a...

A new team of investigative council officers are hitting the streets of the capital to tackle unlawful nightly letting using websites like...

Larger scale landlords with 10 properties or more appear to be the most confident about the private rental sector, and are...

A database of rogue letting agents and landlords and new banning orders, first promised in the Housing and Planning Act announced...

Grainger - Britain’s largest listed residential landlord, which has pledged to invest £850m in Build To Rent - says the rental...

The owner of a property firm who reportedly misled tenants and let an illegally converted property has been jailed for 155...

Legal & General, one of the largest operators in the growing Build To Rent sector, has acquired a 272 acre site...

One of the senior figures in the UK’s burgeoning Build To Rent sector has called on the Chancellor to help this...

Mandatory Client Money Protection for lettings agents - currently the subject of a formal government consultation - will contribute towards making...

Latest figures suggest that there are almost 100,000 Build To Rent units either completed, under construction or awaiting planning permission across the...

A buy to let investor has been fined over £12,000 for illegally renting out a basement underneath an outbuilding at his...

The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration has started what is described as an official inspection of Right To Rent. Legislation...

You may think there are enough horror stories going around the agency industry and Britain as a whole right now -...

PropTech firm PayProp has welcomed the latest measures to clamp down on rogue elements within the lettings industry - but warns...

Greenwich is the latest council to make it compulsory for planning consent to be given before converting homes into Houses in...

Letting agency Saxons has been fined more than £3,000 after pleading guilty to the offence of displaying an unauthorised To Let...

A buy to let investor reported to be receiving rental income of £150,000 a year must pay over £340,000 after illegally...

Bob Parry Lettings, a north Wales agency, has removed a claim from its website concerning a plot of land, following a...

LSL Property Services’ new consultancy and management service for the Build To Rent sector - PRSim - has teamed up with...

A third of tenants can't imagine ever taking their first step on the property ladder and owning their own home. This is...

A landlord who was found guilty of illegally converting a hotel into 26 flats has been given three months to pay...

A London letting agency is opening a new branch thanks to continued high demand from EU nationals looking for rental property...

Landlords who rent out their property via online letting agents are in a stronger position to deal with new financial and...

More landlords are quitting conventional letting and resorting to holiday lets or, increasingly, Airbnb-style short lets.    The move is particularly acute in...

New figures compiled by the British Property Federation chronicle the continuing growth of Build To Rent across the country.    The BPF says...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has started work on a TV advertisement to highlight the importance of landlords instructing agents. The...

A survey of almost 3,000 landlords suggests more than one in five plans to sell at least one of their investment...

Planning permission has been granted for a hybrid letting agency and a café bar to be installed - together - in...

A man who illegally housed tenants inside his converted garage has been ordered to pay £173,141 by a court.   Amir Golesorkhi turned...

Rightmove is testing an experimental Facebook Messenger bot in the London lettings market.    For the unitiated a bot is software that can...

The reasons behind ‘landlord churn’ - when buy to let investors sell up - are more connected with personal circumstances than...

A specialist student lettings agency says the drop in the number of applicants for UK higher education courses this year threatens...

A lettings firm and a property management company that converted a family home into micro flats have been found guilty of...

Letting and estate agencies in Brighton and Hove have agreed to voluntary restrictions on the erection of To Let and For...

A local authority has clamped down on what it describes as illegal advertising boards, fining agencies thousands of pounds in the...

The number of EU nationals looking to move to the UK and rent has fallen in the year since the UK...

A proposed amendment to the government's Housing and Planning Bill which suggests landlords are required to make homes 'fit for human...

The London council of Newham is thought to be the first local authority in the UK to use new powers to...

Landlords are increasingly looking to reduce the fees they pay to letting agents due to industry tax changes and increasing management...

A well known specialist mortgage lender for the buy to let sector, Paragon, has refreshed its offering in the light of...

An east London landlord, who was also director of a letting agency, has been forced to pay out over £235,000 for...

Kensington & Chelsea council in central London has set up a series of hotline services and a working party to investigate...

A body representing 370 councils in England and Wales wants the government to close a legal loophole which allows the conversion...

A leading letting agent campaigning against rental sector deposits is warning that the industry might be hit with “astronominal” insurance premiums...

Build To Rent operator Essential Living has won planning consent for 221 new homes in Brentford - part of the firm’s...

A landlord who illegally converted a property into seven flats and rented them out without planning permission faces having to repay...

What does it say on your business card? Luke Burton Sales and Marketing Director, Rent4sure Who is Rent4sure? Rent4sure, is an established tenant referencing company. We provide...

There is to be a new high-level and independent review of the private rental sector in England.   The Nationwide Foundation is funding...

Angry landlords in Shropshire have set up an online petition against local council proposals to introduce selective licensing.    The Wrekin Landlords Association...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has written to six short-term lets websites calling on them to introduce a 90-day limit on rentals...

Bristol council has given consent to a 255 unit city centre Build to Rent scheme to be constructed and managed by...

Manchester council is considering a city-wide ban on letting agents’ To Let boards.   The local authority says the plethora of boards in some...

The proportion of landlords considering commercial loans to fund purchases has doubled over the last 18 months as they try to...

A new form of agency which wants to blend traditional letting with Airbnb-style short lets has launched in London.    Lavanda claims it...

A company selling management services for owners short-letting their properties says there has been a 136 per cent rise in the...

Housing minister Gavin Barwell is organising a series of regional meetings for property professionals to give him their view of his...

A buy to let landlord who converted an Uxbridge house into two flats without planning permission has been ordered to pay...

The explosion in the short-lets sector continues apace with one third of London councils telling the BBC that Airbnb’s 90-day time...

Wembley Park in north London is to host Britain’s largest Build To Rent scheme yet after Quintain revealed a programme for...

The government has set out 29 key points in its Housing White Paper.   Introducing in the Commons this afternoon, Communities Secretery Sajid...

Government leaks to the Observer newspaper suggest that the Housing White Paper will show a huge policy shift towards renting - and may...

Imperial College London has paid £30m to acquire half of London’s largest Build To Rent scheme at The Perfume Factory in...

It’s been a long time coming but the government’s White Paper on Housing - tipped to contain major reforms affecting the...

A property investment financing specialist says an increasing number of buy to let investors are converting properties into Houses in Multiple...

Properties let out via Airbnb in the Republic of Ireland may come under greater planning scrutiny.    It follows the news that a...

Airbnb’s decision to enforce the London-specific legislation which limits hosts to letting their properties for no more than 90 nights a...

Mark Clare, the former Barratt Developments chief executive, is to be the next chairman of Britain’s current largest listed landlord, Grainger,...

Airbnb’s new protocol seeking to stop London hosts short-letting their properties for more than 90 days a year without formal consent,...

A building firm that carried out illegal building work to create homes to let has been hit with a £250,000 confiscation...

A new report by think tank IPPR supports those who feel the so-called ‘sharing economy’ - short lets via Airbnb and...

The fast-growing Build To Rent sector has seen another boost in investment from a major player - Legal & General.    Earlier this week...

Financial results from Grainger, which is already the UK’s largest listed residential landlord, reveals the potential profits to be made by...

At the end of an already-challenging week for the industry, a landlord group has distanced itself from comments made in its...

Phillip Hammond has delivered his first Autumn Statement, tackling amongst other things, what he called “the housing challenge.” The speech made no...

Brighton and Hove council has failed in its bid to win government backing to ban To Let boards. The council sought government...

Earlier this month we reported on Belfast council’s decision to open a public consultation on whether To Let boards should be...

Another local authority is considering a ban to reduce the impact - or possibly ban outright - agents' To Let boards.  Residents...

Local authorities appear to be at the forefront of identifying abuses of the Airbnb short-let platform and have called executives from...

Waltham Forest council has enforced an Interim Management Order on a house in its area meaning it will take over day-to-day...

It is feared that Cardiff council will later this week severely restrict the number of new shared houses in two popular...

The British Property Federation is urging Chancellor Phillip Hammond to bring in tax measures to help the purpose-built Build To Rent...

Grainger, the UK’s largest residential property owner and manager listed on the London Stock Exchange, has set out an argument to...

Two landlords must pay a combined total of over £300,000 following legal action by a central London council.    Westminster council claimed that...

A landlord guilty of breaching a planning enforcement notice has been ordered to pay £700,000 in fines and costs - the...

As the Conservatives meet at their annual conference and Chancellor Phillip Hammond considers next month’s Autumn Statement, an industry body has...

A landlords’ group says the widespread letting of homes in London on Airbnb and similar platforms is worsening the shortage of...

Some industry organisations have spotted that under new legislation now in effect, tenants’ associations are being given the right to gain...

A millionaire landlord who built an illegal outbuilding at his home has been forced to demolish it after pressure from his...

Legal & General has appointed a former Savills residential capital markets expert as it beefs up its team ahead of greater...

A Birmingham MP is to put a Bill to the House of Commons after the summer in his bid to stop...

Two more student houses in Brighton have been ordered to close by a government planning inspector. There have now been four such...

An east London council is changing its planning rules, bringing in Article 4 consent before homes in key areas are converted...

A damp garage with completely inadequate security, heating, and insulation which was being let as a flat for more than £1,000...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents and the National Association of Estate Agents have asked new housing minister Gavin Barwell to...

A group campaigning to secure refunds on alleged mortgage interest over-charging by buy to let lenders is calling on letting agents...

The Select Property Group has won planning permission for 506 residential apartments in a prime Manchester city centre location.   The two buildings...

There was an eight per cent surge in the number of homes available to rent in the second quarter of the...

The Daily Telegraph - an outspoken critic of George Osborne’s fiscal changes aimed at extracting more money from the buy to...

Next week letting agents across the country will be taking part in the fifth annual SAFEagent Awareness Week. The event aims to...

Some 36% of UK landlords have had a property abandoned by tenants, according to research. Abandonment - which occurs when a tenant...

The number of Build To Rent homes planned across the UK has doubled in just six months to 45,000, according to...

Havering council has successfully prosecuted a landlord who must now pay £101,300 for building illegal flats at her property. Jaghtar Khaira was...

The Romans Group has snapped up Handovers in Guildford, another acquisition using its £30m facility for expansion purchases. Handovers is now fully-incorporated...

A leading trade body has called for the Housing and Planning Bill now going through parliament to be widened to include...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has given its support for what appears to be a government U-turn on Client Money...

The government is planning to update its Right To Rent guidance following the roll out of the scheme across the country,...

Countrywide - which has already acquired a string of letting agencies in recent months - continues to demonstrate its emphasis on...

The additional homes stamp duty surcharge is contributing to a slowdown in the central London development market according to JLL. The number...

The two landlords behind the bid to seek a judicial review of George Osborne’s buy to let mortgage interest relief tax...

Two buy to let investors who breached planning regulations by converting a house into seven studio flats have been ordered to...

An unauthorised outhouse with a concealed entrance constructed at the back of a residential property in west London - one of...

A council has asked agents in its area to tell landlords of additional planning powers taken by the authority which may...

It is safe to say that in the cyber world of today, a reviewing culture has been born. We have review...

Returns from buy to let properties have risen to their highest level in over a year.  Data from Your Move and Reeds...

A report by the British Hospitality Association appears to reveal the latest estimates of the impact of people who use Airbnb...

A landlord who has had previous conflicts with his local council has effectively lost control of his 16 private rental properties. William...

Legal & General Capital, which last week announced its intention to work with a Dutch pension fund manager to build 3,000...

New figures from the British Property Federation show that there are now over 30,000 Build To Rent units with planning permission...