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Letting agents and others in the private rental sector have responded to the latest government intervention - a review into how...

The government has announced a review to assess how selective licensing is used and find out how well it is working...

A 10 week consultation period begins today on selective licensing in the central area of Blackpool - with the council threatening...

A survey by consumer group Which?, working with landlords’ associations, reveals that 70 local authorities now have selective or additional licensing...

The government has pledged to begin a review of the selective licensing across the private rental sector once MPs return from...

The Court of Appeal has ruled that councils cannot use selective licensing conditions to impose new standards on private rented homes. In...

A local authority has fined four landlords who failed to licence a total of seven properties under its selective licensing scheme. Hastings...

Brent Council has confirmed that the government has approved its request to extend the local selective licensing scheme. The local authority, which...

Two buy to let investors have been fined a total of more than £27,000 under enforcement powers introduced in Burnley to...

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

This is a rare story: a council has dropped a plan for a lettings licensing scheme as a result of 900...

Research by NALS has revealed extensive increases in the cost of licensing of lettings properties and landlords by local authorities in...

The selective licensing scheme operated by Newham council in London is reported to have won government backing to be extended until...

Four landlords have been fined and ordered to pay costs totalling £232,155.68 in the first prosecutions of its kind brought by...

Letting Agent Today understands that senior industry figures are working on the framework of a new attempt at regulation, including measures...

A Scarborough buy to let investor has been found guilty of two offences under the Housing Act 2004 for non-compliance with...

A new licensing scheme in Nottingham has moved a step closer with the proposal being sent to the government for approval.    The council’s...

Yet another local authority is considering introducing selective licensing of private rental property. Luton council has issued a statement saying that within...

Agents and landlords are unwittingly issuing incorrect Section 21 notices, resulting in thousands of pounds being wasted on aborted possession claims...

A letting agency is urging landlords to respond to the consultations for three selective licensing schemes in its local area. homes4u, which...

A local authority consultation exercise on a licensing system for local landlords has been postponed until June 12, four days after...

Another London borough is consulting on a further extension of its existing selective licensing - this time it’s Harrow council. It wants...

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

An advice website claims that more than half of the privately rented properties in the selective licensing area imposed by a...

A series of prosecutions of rogue landlords by a London council has also seen a so-called ‘property manager’ fined a four-figure...

Manchester, which already has a major private rental sector licensing scheme, is now consulting on extending it with a third phase...

A new task group is being set up to explore how a council can tackle what it calls “problems with private...

Consultation has begun on a new licensing scheme for landlords being proposed by Nottingham council.    It runs until March 31 and gives...

Manchester council - which previously described selective licensing schemes in the private rental sector as ineffective - has done a U-turn...

The National Landlords Association has rejected a central plank of London mayor Sadiq Khan’s plan for housing - the introduction of yet more...

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

A London council has agreed to implement a new ‘standards charter’ for the private rental sector from next month - in...

One the leading letting agencies in Brighton has sharply criticised a proposal by the local council to introduce a selective licensing...

Brent council in London is seeking the views of agents- as well as landlords, tenants and others - on the extension...

  A council has taken a landlord to court for failing to licence his two buy to let properties under its selective...

It appears that Wandsworth Council has backed away from a decision to implement a new landlord licensing scheme.   Research by London Property...

A company operating a number of buy to let properties has been ordered to pay more than £15,000 by magistrates for...

A landlord that continually refused to sign up to a council’s selective licensing regime has been found guilty by the courts...

The local authority in Manchester is proposing to introduce a landlord licensing scheme in the north of the city and has...

An organisation called Somerset Property Network has organised over 50 landlords in the course of little over one month and it...

A London council will introduce two new licensing schemes in the New Year. These make it a legal requirement for landlords to obtain...

Another local authority is aiming to set up its own ‘social’ lettings agency.   The proposal is one of five put forward by...

Controversial licensing conditions for a city’s landlords have been changed following complaints from an industry group.    Liverpool council has modified the conditions...

Burnley Council has brought a series of prosecutions against people responsible for unlicensed rented houses in the borough. The council has introduced...

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

Burnley Council has named and shamed eleven landlords that have been prosecuted for ignoring its selective licensing scheme. One landlord, Pierce Mullally,...

A private landlord has been ordered to pay more than £1,000 after admitting operating in Burnley without a proper licence.  Matthew Hartley...

A campaign group which last year held protests outside letting agents’ offices in Bristol is claiming victory in persuading the city’s...

A leading property solicitor says there are “secret dangers” to landlords and their letting agents when it comes to selective licensing...

Three landlords have become the first to be prosecuted by a council - almost three years after the authority introduced a...

A group of landlords in Oldham have said they are going to present the council with a petition against the town's...

The growth of the PRS has provided a long list of benefits for the lettings industry. However, it is not without...

A lettings organisation claims that a council licensing scheme in London will mean compulsory monthly visits to properties being let out. Harrow...

Yet another council is proposing a licence on properties let out in the private rental sector - this time suggesting one...

A landlord who failed to properly manage a home he rented out has become the first landlord prosecuted under a council’s...

The council which became a standard bearer for so-called ‘landlord licensing’ - Enfield in north London - appears to have abandoned...

A bid to take Rotherham council to a judicial review over a selective licensing scheme for private sector landlords has failed. All...

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