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13 April 2021
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The government has told estate agents to ensure at least one Union Jack is present in properties during both physical and...
01 April 2021
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Targeting the specialist student rental market can be rewarding for letting agents and landlords if they take the right approach. The current...
31 March 2021
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In an exclusive, the Daily Telegraph says emergency courtrooms will be used after their funding runs out over the comning summer...
26 March 2021
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Unite Students, the UK’s largest owner, manager and developer of purpose-built student accommodation, has been granted planning approval for a new...
23 March 2021
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An agency has been hit with a £330,000 bill after being found guilty of poor management of an HMO. Magistrates have found...
16 March 2021
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Over the last year, the majority of the UK workforce will have spent some time working from home as a result...
10 March 2021
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Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m David Hackett, Head of Business Development for The DPS What...
04 March 2021
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A landlord who built unlawful extensions to a family home and squeezed up to 14 people into the rooms has forfeited...
19 February 2021
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Airbnb and other short let operators will be the first part of the rental sector to recover once the pandemic eases, it’s...
17 February 2021
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International research suggests that short lets - Airbnb and similar platforms - cause housing shortages and push up private rents. Research by...
20 January 2021
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A new HMO and co-living property management platform launches today, aimed at optimising tenancy occupancy. The service - called COHO - claims...
07 January 2021
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There are growing calls for so-called ‘exempt accommodation’ to face the same controls that are exerted over the rest of the...
21 December 2020
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A Labour MP and a newspaper have joined forces to campaign against so-called ‘exempted rental accommodation’. One of Birmingham’s MPs - Jack...
30 November 2020
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Online lettings company Monkey vs Owl - also known as MOVO - has expanded from a regional and mostly student service...
19 November 2020
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A lettings firm has been ordered to pay over £18,000 after failing to provide adequate living conditions for his tenants. Chelmsford magistrates...
11 November 2020
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Airbnb is undertaking a widespread social media campaign in the UK about its attempts to crack down on anti-social behaviour and...
09 November 2020
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Opposition Labour councillors on a local authority says HMOs should only be let if each bedroom has an en suite bathroom. The...
28 October 2020
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A local authority is launching a six month probe into rooms let out but exempt from rental sector regulation. The project is...
22 October 2020
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Asking rents outside London have hit a new high according to Rightmove’s latest market snapshot. The pressure comes from record demand from...
14 October 2020
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Much has been made of the backlog of court cases - including landlords’ possession attempts - and now the Ministry of Justice...
24 September 2020
From: Breaking News

New research from Countrywide brand Hamptons International suggest tenants are joining vendors in a trend towards leaving cities and heading for more...
14 September 2020
From: Breaking News

One of the leading figures in the PropTech world is warning that letting agents must not be tempted into charging illegal...
08 September 2020
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A landlord taken to court by a council has ended up with a bill in excess of £20,000. Dennis Goodwin of Highbury...
21 August 2020
From: Breaking News

Two London landlords and their lettings agents will have to pay tens of thousands of pounds after a home they were letting...
30 July 2020
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A new floorpan tool has been launched which its founder claims to be “quicker and easier to use” than predecessors. Agents can add...
29 July 2020
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The lettings market in Wales reopened almost fully yesterday. ARLA Propertymark, which has analysed the restrictions that were in place until this...
28 July 2020
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Residents at home during lockdown who may have seen families crammed into overcrowded HMOs are being asked to report the properties...
01 June 2020
From: Breaking News

A council wants buy to let landlords with one-bed flats or rooms in shared homes to help it find homes for...
27 May 2020
From: Breaking News

Nearly half of households in the private rental sector have regrets about their home according to a survey by the HomeOwners...
05 May 2020
From: Breaking News

Student lettings and management company Uni2 Rent has expanded its business with the acquisition of Nottingham West Lettings, for an undisclosed...
27 April 2020
From: Breaking News

A new renovation start-up is working with letting agents and landlords to allow key workers to use empty rental properties for...
23 April 2020
From: Breaking News

Gas and electrical safety certificates should be extended for six months to cover for the impact of the Coronavirus. The call comes...
20 April 2020
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The developers behind the prestigious Television Centre scheme and its nearby White City Place development in west London are showing support...
13 April 2020
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There’s been a sharp drop in rental churn since the Coronavirus outbreak worsened according to a flat-sharing website. SpareRoom says that across...
23 March 2020
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It’s easy to forget in the Coronavirus frenzy but from tomorrow, Friday March 20, all tenancies are to become subject to...
19 March 2020
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A newspaper claims that a short lets management firm that handles properties let on Airbnb and similar platforms is scrambling for...
24 February 2020
From: Breaking News

Two bedroom properties produce the best yields for buy to let investors according to the latest research. Lettings management platform Howsy has...
21 February 2020
From: Breaking News

A survey by lettings agency Carter Jonas has revealed what the firm calls the top priorities for tenants as the 2020s...
19 February 2020
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A room-finding portal, along with the owners of a London lettings agency and management firm, must pay over £100,000 for letting...
12 February 2020
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A London council has caught out a rogue lettings agency for illegally operating two properties, with issues ranging from gas safety...
27 January 2020
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Specialist letting agency and property management company Student Housing has had its busiest quarter, it says. The Lincoln-based agency added 30 new...
16 January 2020
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A company that slots temporary tenants into properties that it manages has been found guilty of 15 charges connected with Homes...
13 January 2020
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An undercover investigation by the LBC radio station has revealed unscrupulous landlords who expect sex from women tenants in return for...
17 December 2019
From: Breaking News

A compliance consultant has explained why a local council’s penalty on a rogue landlord - initially £31,499 - was slashed to...
10 December 2019
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A dawn raid by enforcement officers from a London council has discovered 17 men sleeping on mattresses in a three bedroom...
29 November 2019
From: Breaking News

The London Airbnb property management company previously known as AirAgents, has rebranded as Nestor. Established in 2015, AirAgents went on to win...
28 November 2019
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A lettings agency has marked six months in business by embarking on a £100,000 project to create what it calls its...
26 November 2019
From: Breaking News

A rogue landlord and the property company he ran have been fined £22,000 for dishing out ‘sham licences’ to tenants in...
20 November 2019
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A new piece of legislation has been invoked to ban a landlord from any involvement in the private rental sector for...
30 October 2019
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28 October 2019
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As winter is coming, it’s time to think about how to protect your property from damp and mould. This silent assassin...
11 October 2019
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The cost of renting a room in the UK remained steady during Q3, according to SpareRoom. The country's biggest flatsharing site says...
07 October 2019
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A Shropshire man has become the first in England to be banned from being a landlord. In a case brought by Telford...
19 September 2019
From: Breaking News

Young adults aged 20 to 29 spend up to a third of their pre-tax income on rent for a room according...
16 September 2019
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A landlord has been ordered to pay £14,500 after he was found to be illegally letting his property out to 11...
09 September 2019
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A tenant pretending to be landlord has been ordered to pay more than £21,000 after he carved up five family homes...
31 July 2019
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Warwick district council has issued its first civil penalty to the landlord of an HMO. Glenn Gamblin, the landlord of the property...
25 July 2019
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An online room-letting platform claims rents have risen up to eight per cent in wake of the Tenant Fee Act. ideal flatmate...
11 July 2019
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A rogue landlord has been ordered to pay over £60,000 after - in the words of the council - “being found...
27 June 2019
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A managing agent and several landlords have been fined almost £5,000 after forcing tenants to live in unacceptable conditions in a...
24 June 2019
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Controversial London lettings agency Flintons has again been named by a BBC TV programme for allegedly unreasonable behaviour in relation to...
03 June 2019
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A survey of 500 undergraduates has given a rare insight into what they want as accommodation priorities. The study, by a landlord...
28 May 2019
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Six months on from the introduction of stricter licencing for Homes in Multiple Occupation, awareness “remains limited” according to one of...
21 May 2019
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New data looking specifically at room rental rates suggest that across the UK rents rose by an average three per cent...
03 May 2019
From: Breaking News

A new PropTech start-up that claims to make student house-hunting easier is offering free listings to lettings agents with London properties. Polygon...
02 May 2019
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A national newspaper story suggests that a couple seeking an apartment to rent in Brixton were signed up to the wrong...
23 April 2019
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Agents and prospective buy to let investors keen to grab a slice of the capital’s growing lettings market now have a...
09 April 2019
From: Breaking News

London’s lettings sector is changing with tenants still wanting to buy but increasingly accepting they must rent for longer in the...
04 April 2019
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A buy to let investor who hid families in windowless rooms after failing to get planning permission for a block of...
28 March 2019
From: Breaking News

The implementation and costs of landlord licensing schemes in Britain are a lottery. That’s the conclusion of a new analysis of licensing...
20 March 2019
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A lettings agency has withdrawn a leaflet which featured a woman’s cleavage; the leaflet had been the subject of a complaint...
20 March 2019
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A rogue lettings agent has been fined over £72,000 after being found guilty of 15 separate offences relating to three illegally established houses...
07 March 2019
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Foxtons has given a relatively upbeat assessment of the capital’s rental market in its survey of the sector in 2018. It says...
20 February 2019
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Rental values in prime London show early signs of bottoming out, says Savills, with the annual rate of falls now at...
18 February 2019
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency and its director have been fined a total of £30,000 for failing to licence HMOs and giving sham...
13 February 2019
From: Breaking News

The latest property completed in the ever-growing Build To Rent sector is a 44 storey tower standing at 141 metres tall. The...
13 February 2019
From: Breaking News

Council enforcement officers have raided a house in Wembley, north London, and found 19 tenants paying a landlord £1,000 a week. Brent council’s...
08 February 2019
From: Breaking News

There’s been a big rise in the volume of purpose-built student accommodation in the UK, suggesting that the market may be...
29 January 2019
From: Breaking News

A buy to let investor has lost possession of his flat after converting it into an Illegal House in Multiple Occupation...
22 January 2019
From: Breaking News

Three brothers and a property management company have received fines and a confiscation order, and must pay costs, following what a...
04 January 2019
From: Breaking News

There’s been a broad welcome from the industry to new guidance on room sizes on rented homes. The guidance was released just...
02 January 2019
From: Breaking News

In an announcement made just hours before much of the industry started its Christmas break, the government has clarified its guidance...
24 December 2018
From: Breaking News

Online lettings platform HomeRenter says its property listings are now more detailed and more compelling thanks to a new ‘property creation flow’...
20 December 2018
From: Breaking News

New data from online buy to let agency Yieldit claims to give an insight into which property types produce the best...
17 December 2018
From: Breaking News

The website TheHouseShop says it aims to recruit some 30 per cent of the country’s letting agents by the end of...
29 November 2018
From: Breaking News

The party conferences of the two main political parties threw up some interesting developments with regards to housing and the rental...
06 November 2018
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The Republic of Ireland has adopted new policies requiring owners in 'high housing demand areas' to secure planning consent if they...
01 November 2018
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A newspaper claims landlords who ‘game’ the current tax regime for short term lets and lodging may be in the firing...
15 October 2018
From: Breaking News

A landlord who rented out an unlicenced HMO has been fined more than £22,000 after the local council found five people...
08 October 2018
From: Breaking News

Two private landlords have been found guilty of managing Houses in Multiple Occupation with dangerous and sub-standard conditions, following a successful...
26 September 2018
From: Breaking News

An overcrowded property let by an unlicensed company with inadequate fire precautions and unheated rooms has led to a £46,620 fine...
21 September 2018
From: Breaking News

The landlord of an HMO who subjected his tenants to insanitary and unsafe living conditions has been told he will no...
13 September 2018
From: Breaking News

It is now just three weeks until licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) is extended. The new rules, which will require...
10 September 2018
From: Breaking News

A London local authority is looking for the landlord of a bungalow which had two bedrooms but was home to 15...
24 August 2018
From: Breaking News

SDL Group is celebrating its 2,000th tenant in the new but fast-growing Build To Rent sector. SDL works with developer Sigma Capital Group...
22 August 2018
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A Build To Rent operator is marking its 2,000th new-build home - an indication of how the sector is starting to...
20 August 2018
From: Breaking News

A London council has agreed to a TV crew taking part in a raid on an overcrowded and unlicensed HMO. The surprise...
07 August 2018
From: Breaking News

Government plans aimed at stopping the abuse of the current Rent A Room tax perk may overcomplicate the system and deter...
02 August 2018
From: Breaking News

A London landlord has been ordered to pay over £13,000 for breaching the conditions of his licence as a result of...
01 August 2018
From: Breaking News

An investor has been fined £2,525 after failing to licence her property and allegedly providing inadequate living conditions for her tenants. Adeola...
24 July 2018
From: Breaking News

The government has suggested that it is at least considering changing the terms of its Rent A Room system which could...
10 July 2018
From: Breaking News

Three agencies have been heavily fined after a property in London was being used for multiple occupation with 11 people living...
04 July 2018
From: Breaking News

A consumer group which conducted 30 undercover viewings in five different UK cities claims letting agents are showing potential tenants around...
03 July 2018
From: Breaking News

A buy to let mortgage firm says it’s likely that there will be a spike in refinancing enquiries as landlords meet...
02 July 2018
From: Breaking News

A city council is to investigate the impact of Airbnb and other short let online platforms on the local housing market...
20 June 2018
From: Breaking News

A buy to let investor has ended up with a bill for thousands of pounds after being found guilty of breaching...
15 June 2018
From: Breaking News

A rental sector supplier claims huge numbers of tenants are extremely ignorant of the health and safety issues surrounding their rental...
17 May 2018
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A lettings agency has been fined over £20,000 for failing to licence an overcrowded semi detached house in London. The fine was...
08 May 2018
From: Breaking News

There’s been a huge 43 per cent rise in the number of London properties registered to be short let on Airbnb...
01 May 2018
From: Breaking News

West Midlands Police and Birmingham council teamed up to investigate a property in the city which was riddled with health and...
11 April 2018
From: Breaking News

The government’s review into building and fire safety regulations is missing the opportunity to assess fire safety regulations on a wider...
09 April 2018
From: Breaking News

A rogue lettings agency which is no longer trading is to be featured in a TV documentary this evening on Channel...
05 April 2018
From: Breaking News

The Observer newspaper has published a story alleging that a London lettings agency “pressured” prospective tenants into accepting accommodation without viewing...
21 March 2018
From: Breaking News

Spotahome, a London-based student lettings platform, has acquired another platform aimed at students, Erasmusu, in a bid to expand its international...
13 March 2018
From: Breaking News

Three head tenants who sub-let a three bedroom house to 35 men have been hit with over £23,000 in fines. Gheorghe-Valentin Lingurar...
26 February 2018
From: Breaking News

A fake agent who made thousands from letting out rooms that didn’t exist has been arrested - a month after being...
01 February 2018
From: Breaking News

Virtual Staging is about presenting a property in the most appealing way to potential buyers. Many consider virtual staging is deceiving...
16 January 2018
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The government has announced new minimum space requirements for private lettings in a bid to reduce problems of overcrowding. In addition to...
02 January 2018
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The Association of Residential Letting Agents and other trade bodies have not yet responded to the government’s announcement over the holiday...
02 January 2018
From: Breaking News

There has been a record number of new student accommodation bed spaces delivered in 2017, with possible consequences for future buy...
08 December 2017
From: Breaking News

A claim has been made that as many as 80 per cent of prospective tenants have been put off renting a...
01 December 2017
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A senior housing official at Bristol city council says the increasing popularity of Airbnb has had the effect of taking “hundreds”...
30 November 2017
From: Breaking News

Police officers have seized well over £6,000 worth of cannabis and drug manufacturing equipment after being tipped off by a letting...
07 November 2017
From: Breaking News

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has issued a 10 point guide for tenants - with the emphasis very much on...
13 October 2017
From: Breaking News

A dawn raid on a home in north London has discovered 35 men bedding down on mattresses in every room except...
21 September 2017
From: Breaking News

A buy to let investor who kept 24 adults and children in what a local council calls “appalling conditions” has a...
12 September 2017
From: Breaking News

More landlords are quitting conventional letting and resorting to holiday lets or, increasingly, Airbnb-style short lets. The move is particularly acute in...
24 August 2017
From: Breaking News

A London council is using dawn raids in its clampdown on illegal subletting and on so-called ‘beds in sheds’ where tenants...
17 August 2017
From: Breaking News

The agent behind London’s newest letting opportunity says it’s the most luxurious property in the capital’s most presigious neighbourhood - and...
11 August 2017
From: Breaking News

Prime central London is seeing the rise of the micro-apartment, according to new research, as squeezed accommodation budgets have seen singles...
01 August 2017
From: Breaking News

It is being reported that one of the major providers of purpose-built student accommodation to let - Unite - could temporarily...
27 July 2017
From: Breaking News

Council officers discovered men living mattress to mattress inside a run-down flat above a commercial premises during a dawn raid. Police and...
24 July 2017
From: Breaking News

A student landlord has been fined for failing to obtain the appropriate licences for two rental properties. Lisa Chatfield was ordered to...
08 June 2017
From: Breaking News

A north London landlord who housed a family of five, including three children, in a cramped attic has been prosecuted by...
11 May 2017
From: Breaking News

A man who rented out rooms above a town centre bar has been banned from being a buy to let landlord...
09 May 2017
From: Breaking News

The landlord of a west London property, described by a judge as a "deathtrap" and an "accident waiting to happen", has...
03 May 2017
From: Breaking News

University Cribs, the student property search engine, is expanding to list accommodation in the London market. The service says that with its...
19 April 2017
From: Breaking News

A landlord of a shared house in Hove, near Brighton, has been found to be ‘putting people’s lives at risk’ and ordered to pay...
18 April 2017
From: Breaking News

You might not want to read this as you’re tucking into an early Easter egg, but an interiors firm has compiled...
13 April 2017
From: Breaking News

Build To Rent operator Essential Living has won planning consent for 221 new homes in Brentford - part of the firm’s...
10 April 2017
From: Breaking News

There are now over 38,000 active listings of London properties on Airbnb according to a monitoring service that analyses the platform’s...
27 March 2017
From: Breaking News

Labour MP Karen Buck has introduced a 10-minute Rule Bill in the House of Commons to highlight the dangers of Airbnb-style...
22 March 2017
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It seems prop-tech is exploding at a scary rate, and the latest brands are all trying to grab our attention by...
17 March 2017
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The Residential Landlords Association has spotted small print from the Budget that may suggest the government is about to review Rent...
10 March 2017
From: Breaking News

A BBC survey claims that private sector landlords are more likely to accept potential tenants who own pets than ones who...
10 March 2017
From: Breaking News

The Loughborough Building Society is launching a Buy For Uni mortgage product seeking to encourage students to buy a home -...
01 March 2017
From: Breaking News

A letting agency which has pleaded guilty of poorly managing a house in multiple occupation has ended up with a bill...
07 February 2017
From: Breaking News

New research has revealed that the vast majority of tenants have experienced problems with damp or poor drainage. A survey of 1,000...
24 January 2017
From: Breaking News

A property investment financing specialist says an increasing number of buy to let investors are converting properties into Houses in Multiple...
17 January 2017
From: Breaking News

Figures from investment company London Central Portfolio suggest that re-lets of older properties to new tenants showed a fall in rents...
13 January 2017
From: Breaking News

Airbnb’s decision to enforce the London-specific legislation which limits hosts to letting their properties for no more than 90 nights a...
05 January 2017
From: Breaking News

Specialist mortgage lender OneSavings Bank is the latest to announce that it is introducing stricter affordability assessments for all new buy...
21 December 2016
From: Breaking News

A major buy to let mortgage provider has eased the criteria to be met by landlord investors who want to borrow...
23 November 2016
From: Breaking News

Affordability pressures in the private rental sector mean that far fewer tenants are now renting properties with spare bedrooms according to...
14 November 2016
From: Breaking News

Damp and mould can mean big problems for landlords, letting agents and tenants. It can cause stress and even health issues...
02 November 2016
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The Association of Residential Letting Agents has responded to the latest government recommendations for tighter controls on the private rental sector...
19 October 2016
From: Breaking News

The landlord of an overcrowded flat which lacked proper fire precautions and had a dangerous boiler has been fined £162,000. Abbas Rasul...
17 October 2016
From: Breaking News

A trade body has accused some letting agents and landlords of “failing to get to grips” with several recent legal changes...
12 October 2016
From: Breaking News

Zoopla has moved into a new headquarters, a 45,000 square foot property adjacent to Tower Bridge in central London. The new offices...
12 October 2016
From: Breaking News

Two landlords must pay a combined total of over £300,000 following legal action by a central London council. Westminster council claimed that...
05 October 2016
From: Breaking News

A landlord guilty of breaching a planning enforcement notice has been ordered to pay £700,000 in fines and costs - the...
04 October 2016
From: Breaking News

The Associaton of Independent Inventory Clerks is warning agents and others in the lettings sector to be careful when preparing advertising...
29 September 2016
From: Breaking News

A letting agency has been fined after one of its landlords was found to be cramming six families into an unlicensed...
21 September 2016
From: Breaking News

Average rents in some of the UK's most popular university locations have increased significantly over the last year, according to SpareRoom.co.uk. As...
16 September 2016
From: Breaking News

A pair of landlords have been slapped with a hefty fine for allowing people to live in damp-riddled rooms without fire...
09 September 2016
From: Breaking News

Student accommodation provider Student Cribs has secured £200m in funding from institutions to expand its portfolio - and it’s looking for...
08 September 2016
From: Breaking News

The owner of a series of flats to let in Cardiff has been fined £3,500 and ordered to pay £200 costs...
06 September 2016
From: Breaking News

London agency Benham & Reeves Residential Lettings says student rents have risen by 55.5 per cent over the past 20 years,...
25 August 2016
From: Breaking News

A rogue landlord faces a court bill of almost £40,000 after being caught cramming 24 people into a house in north...
18 August 2016
From: Breaking News

Reports from the United States suggest that Airbnb, which has already created a revolution in short-lets, is considering asking house builders...
15 August 2016
From: Breaking News

Rents for individual rooms to let are rising fastest in Swansea, Bradford, Portsmouth and Swindon, with all of these locations seeing...
03 August 2016
From: Breaking News

Savills is the only organisation with an agency wing represented on the first board of the UK Apartment Association, a new...
01 August 2016
From: Breaking News

A hospitality start-up company claims the Brexit vote adds to uncertainty in the sales market - and it wants vendors to...
22 July 2016
From: Breaking News

The Select Property Group has won planning permission for 506 residential apartments in a prime Manchester city centre location. The two buildings...
15 July 2016
From: Breaking News

A landlord faces a bill of over £9,000 for putting his tenants at risk of harm. Jack Kensell of Folkestone was prosecuted...
12 July 2016
From: Breaking News

A landlord who illegally converted a house to squeeze 28 tenants into just seven rooms has been handed a £20,000 fine...
07 July 2016
From: Breaking News

An investment company claims government and councils should do more to stamp out so-called rogue landlords who, it says, are giving...
20 June 2016
From: Breaking News

Average rents for single rooms across the UK increased at a faster rate than those in London, according to spareroom.co.uk. The rental...
02 June 2016
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been fined almost £25,000 for a series of failings relating to a House in Multiple Occupation (HMO). Birmingham-based Salih...
31 May 2016
From: Breaking News

Institutional investment in purpose built student accommodation has 'polarised' the market, according to Knight Frank's head of student housing. James Pullen says...
23 May 2016
From: Breaking News

A student accommodation specialist is warning about the potential pitfalls of investing in individual student rooms or small pods as opposed...
05 May 2016
From: Breaking News

It’s several weeks on from our story about a local authority setting up its own private letting agency and having only...
13 April 2016
From: Breaking News

A local council has closed down what it describes as a ‘House of Horrors’ let to a family despite being in...
05 April 2016
From: Breaking News

Lettings companies and an organised group of criminals described as a “gang of chancers” have been hit with fines and costs...
25 March 2016
From: Breaking News

A new online offering wants to allow people to let out what it calls ‘dead space’ - in other words, the...
25 February 2016
From: Breaking News

A property company managing an HMO in prime central London has been £47,900. The fine is in relation to 24 charges under...
18 February 2016
From: Breaking News

A letting agent who unlawfully evicted a tenant from a property has been ordered to pay a total of £4,315. Alan Croft...
16 February 2016
From: Breaking News

The highly-publicised attempt by the founder of flat-sharing website SpareRoom to let two rooms from the London home “for what you can...
04 February 2016
From: Breaking News

A landlord who let out dark, damp and overcrowded rooms has been hit with a huge £67,000 fine. Rogue landlord Liakath Ali,...
15 January 2016
From: Breaking News

It’s probably a question you’ve never asked yourself but one online flat sharing agency has calculated the most expensive and the...
14 January 2016
From: Breaking News

A local authority is considering introducing measures to prevent landlords turning family homes in one of its conservation areas into HMOs. Reading...
23 November 2015
From: Breaking News

The specialist eviction company Landlord Action says it is in full support of the government’s latest proposal to crack down on...
11 November 2015
From: Breaking News

The government is proposing a national minimum bedroom size and a re-defining of what constitutes a House in Multiple Occupation in...
09 November 2015
From: Breaking News

There is uproar in Brighton as a result of students being let rooms in an HMO - despite the property’s owners...
30 October 2015
From: Breaking News

They might be set to squirm in discomfort under Lord Sugar's scrutiny in the boardroom, but Zoopla has revealed the luxurious...
14 October 2015
From: Breaking News

Two of Britain's most controversial landlords, Fergus and Judith Wilson, claim demand from prospective tenants is at a record high with...
01 October 2015
From: Breaking News

A landlord has received a six month suspended jail sentence, has been ordered to carry out 200 hours of community service...
28 September 2015
From: Breaking News

The shortage of rental accommodation in some university towns is so great that up to 22 people are competing for every...
21 September 2015
From: Breaking News

Parliament has approved the Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm (England) Regulations 2015 - the regulations which looked in jeopardy after a...
17 September 2015
From: Breaking News

A new lettings sector index to be launched later this month claims new “insight into the UK private rented sector.” The index...
15 September 2015
From: Breaking News

A letting agent in London has ditched the usual euphemisms and gone for the blunt approach by describing rooms to let...
10 September 2015
From: Breaking News

Barnet is the latest council appearing to edge towards increased private rental sector licensing as it enters the final two weeks...
03 September 2015
From: Breaking News

Newham Council has reported that in the two and a half years since its licensing scheme came into force it has...
24 August 2015
From: Breaking News

Enforcement officers have swooped on three addresses in east London in the latest bid to clampdown on rogue landlords and so-called...
18 August 2015
From: Breaking News

The Property Redress Scheme has expelled a letting agency following non-compliance with a redress decision. The complaint regarded a holding deposit. The...
11 August 2015
From: Breaking News

Around 445,000 smoke alarms and 40,000 carbon monoxide alarms have now been issued to the 46 fire and rescue authorities in...
06 August 2015
From: Breaking News

Changes announced to the amount of money ordinary home owners can secure, tax-free, from letting out rooms in their homes have...
13 July 2015
From: Breaking News

I don't think there is one person in lettings and property management who isn't alarmed at the scenes just over the...