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The government and local authorities run by all political parties are keen to advocate measures to curb rogue letting agents and...

One in six landlords is seeking to reduce the size of their portfolio in the next 12 months and around half...

Research by London agency Benham and Reeves says the cumulative cost of a landlord suffering a bad tenant and then evicting...

An outspoken Conservative party figure says government policies such as the scrapping of Section 21 will play into the hands of...

The news this week that even individual private landlords must join a redress scheme is just the latest in an onslaught...

The Daily Mail has unveiled an extensive network of homes advertised on Airbnb but actually being sub-let by tenants who are...

The head of a lettings agency has launched a petition in opposition to a bid by a local council to extend...

A Select Committee of MPs investigating the proposed ban on agents’ fees levied on tenants says the measure could save renters...

The head of a major PropTech company serving the lettings sector says he want to see the introduction of a database...

Two landlords and two tenants were fined a total of over £11,000 after losing their appeal against housing convictions concerning property...

The head of a property management company is calling on the government to introduce a tenants' register which would help rogue...

Agents and many industry bodies have expressed their disappointment and anger at many provisions of the Housing White Paper produced by...

A leading personal finance journalist - and a former editor of Landlord Today - has used the columns of right wing...

Eviction specialist company Landlord Action wants the government to complement its action against rogue letting agents and tenants with a ‘rogue...

The National Landlords Association has launched a new campaign - Reinventing Renting - to encourage landlords to make their lettings businesses...

A blog post by eviction specialists Landlord Action has exposed bad tenants who can clearly afford to pay the rent but...

A survey of tenants suggests around one in nine private sector tenants sublet their propertiers, and almost half of those do...

About 80 per cent of tenants think that their landlords should pay for damage they have caused when their tenancy ends. That...

A prime central London letting agency says there has been a rise in the number of subletting scams in that part...

A signed tenancy agreement is not worth the paper it is written as tenants are blatantly ignoring its terms and conditions...

An inventory software firm claims periodic visits by agents or landlords could lead to a reduction in damage to rental properties. The...

The police have told letting agents and landlords that they are in a unique position to spot - and prevent -...

The Channel Five series Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords - which ends its first series this evening at 9pm - has been...

A report claims that agents and landlords are increasingly facing filthy property damage at the end of tenancies - and the...

A council in an area with one of the country’s largest private lettings sectors says it has launched investigations into more...

Channel 5’s Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords programme, now in its fourth week, this evening looks at a serial bad tenant and...

The second episode of Channel 5’s Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords, due to air tomorrow evening at 9pm, will feature three separate...

Channel 5 tomorrow airs the first episode of Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords, a six-part series which starts with the story of...

A north of England letting agent has made an outspoken attack on “bad tenants’ who hide behind apparent “legal loopholes.” Tariq Zarin...

Channel 5 has announced a new television series which will focus on the UK’s Private Rented Sector. Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords promises...