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Rightmove has released its annual league table of busiest rental locations. Wrexham is this year’s busiest, with each home available to rent...

Reapit has inked a deal with fast-expanding PropTech service Kamma to automate information about private rental sector council licensing. This year is...

PropTech Kamma has entered into a partnership with agency and consultancy JLL. This means JLL’s UK residential agents will have access to...

London letting agents and landlords have so far been hit with more than £900,000 in fines in the first half of...

A London-focused lettings agency says actual rents in the capital are far greater than official average figures produced by the government.  Benham...

Rents across Greater London are up 21 per cent year-on-year according to the Home property website, which prepares a mon they...

Over the next three months Redbridge council in London is consulting on proposals to renew selective licensing in the borough. It says...

Households living in rental properties across the North of England face the biggest financial headache from soaring fuel price rises, according...

The number of HMOs in England has fallen as a result of government intervention in the market. In 2018 new regulations were...

A bizarre fine imposed on a managing agent by a local authority appears to have been reversed because the council flouted...

It’s a case of London versus The Rest when it comes to the rental market, according to HomeLet. Its latest market snapshot shows...

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

New research shows that some buy to let investors in London could typically lose over £19,000 a year if Berlin-style rent...

A crooked lettings agent who illegally pocketed tenants’ deposits to pay for his gambling addiction and lavish lifestyle has been convicted...

A property management company which kept up to 23 adults in overcrowded conditions has been fined £7,500 by a council in...

Redbridge council in London is offering 50 per cent off the cost of its private rental sector licensing scheme until September...

Yet another London borough is introducing a selective licensing scheme, under which parts of a local authority patch are subject to...

Canterbury is the latest council to consider setting up its own letting agency. The authority hopes to tempt private landlords with promises...

Yet another local authority looks likely to adopt a licensing scheme for private rental sector properties, described as a bid “to...

A failed bid by a council to introduce a blanket landlord licensing scheme was both unnecessary and unjustified according to the...

The Secretary of State for Department of Communities and Local Government, Greg Clark, has rejected a council’s call for a blanket...

The government’s apparent opposition to council-wide landlord licensing schemes will be put to the test in the coming weeks following a...

A property consultancy specialising in licensing regimes for privately-let properties says there have been 580 housing prosecutions in London under the...