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Countryside campaigning charity CPRE has given a warm welcome to Michael Gove’s clampdown on short lets. Earlier this week Housing Secretary Michael...

There’s growing anger over restrictions on private homeowners using their properties via Airbnb and other short let platforms. Earlier this week Housing...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has this morning announced wholesale changes to planning and regulations surrounding short lets. His proposals include: - planning permission...

The trade body representing short lets providers and support companies has reacted angrily to government proposals for a radical shake up. Housing...

The British Property Federation claims the time required for Build To Rent planning applications has significantly increased over the past decade...

A historic former school and hospital building in Glasgow City Centre will be restored as part of a plan to create...

Senior Labour MP Clive Betts says the party’s official house building policy won’t actually solve the shortage of homes. Labour deputy leader...

The lettings agency Winkworth has taken the unusual step of criticising policies of a series of councils. The councils are all Labour...

A body largely consisting of councils wants more controls over Airbnbs and other short lets - and it wants local authorities...

Propertymark has thrown its weight behind the idea of a compulsory national register of landlords and hosts operating Airbnb and other...

Airbnb is warning the UK government not to be heavy handed in its planning controls restricting the short lets sector. At the...

The new trade body for short lets has reacted angrily to a government plan for AirBnb and other short let hosts...

A council is set to renew its war on To Let boards. In summer 2018, Leciester council brought into effect a new...

A new block of apartments on the banks of a photogenic canal has been given the planning green light - but...

The government is to open a consultation on whether residential properties should require planning consent to be used as short lets...

The UK Short Term Accommodation Association says the Scottish Government’s backing of a bid to control short lets in Edinburgh could...

New plans to help control the numbers of residential properties turned into HMOs in parts of Coventry are moving a step...

Speculation in national newspapers suggests that the government is considering giving local mayors some powers over parts of the private rented...

The Times has named a member of the City of London’s governing council as a key figure behind rogue letting agencies. Luis...

Wales and Scotland are ahead of the game when it comes to limiting the impact of short term lets on the...

Grainger, the UK’s largest listed residential landlord, has announced two new Build To Rent developments. The company has acquired Exmouth Junction in...

One of the country’s largest commercial and retail landlords - Capital & Regional - is to expand is current programme of...

A consultation is to begin next month regarding the designation of an entire city as a Short Term Let Control Area. If...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

Grainger - which last week committed to spend £850m on the burgeoning UK Build To Rent sector - has announced that...

A local authority is considering introducing measures to prevent landlords turning family homes in one of its conservation areas into HMOs.  Reading...

A previously-convicted landlord has been ordered to pay over £200,000 by a court for illegally converting two properties into flats without...

A rogue landlord who illegally converted one house into a nine flats has been handed a maximum £20,000 fine after being...

There is uproar in Brighton as a result of students being let rooms in an HMO - despite the property’s owners...

A landlord has a bill of more than £85,000 for unlawfully letting a basement flat. As part of a council planning enforcement...

A landlord has been ordered to pay more than £400,000 after converting a property into flats without permission. Gilbert Garrick let the...