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A survey of local authorities in some of the poorest areas of the country - bodies which enforce many private rental...

New data shows that online agents have failed in their bid to replace traditional agencies - and that there are more...

Landlord numbers may have dropped in recent months but a longer term analysis shows the reverse. Total Landlord Insurance analysed the current...

Six agencies have been excluded from The Property Ombudsman for failing to pay compensation to wronged complainants. One was the Belvoir...

Crossrail rental values have climbed by 15 per cent on average in the last year alone - before this week’s opening...

A lettings agent has been jailed for three years for defrauding tenants and landlords out of more than £182,000.  Lee Clarke, 42,...

If agents want to emphasise the green credentials of their local area, then a new league table may be of help. An...

A lettings agent in Slough, called Saville Park Ltd, has been excluded from The Property Ombudsman for failing to pay an outstanding award of £300.  TPO received a complaint from tenants...

You don’t need to be Greta Thunberg to know that climate change is a big issue that’s impacting our day-to-day lives....

New research by lettings management platform Howsy shows which major London commuter hubs make the most attractive potential for buy to...

Residents at home during lockdown who may have seen families crammed into overcrowded HMOs are being asked to report the properties...

A shocking case of a buy to let HMO that did not even have a working smoke detector has led to...

Officers from a local council simultaneously staged 10 dawn raids on properties owned by unlicensed landlords. All the terraced homes, in Slough,...

First, he was trying his hand in lettings, then he devised a 2.5% commission to take on Purplebricks. Now, after nine months...

A man who claimed he needed a council house but was actually a landlord has been ordered to pay back more...

Private landlords are being asked to consider letting out their properties through the local council.  Slough council is looking for flats and...

Seven agencies have been expelled from membership of The Property Ombudsman after failing to pay compensation awards made by TPO. All are...

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

Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of a letting agent who appears not to be in any redress scheme, is being investigated by...

A landlord is almost £42,000 worse off after repeatedly ignoring council orders to stop illegally letting so called “beds in sheds”...

A landlord has been fined a total of £7,298 for operating an unlicensed house in multiple occupation in Oxford that was...

Online estate agent Urban.co.uk says it has created a league table of fees that tenants are charged by agencies in different locations...

The Thames Valley Police says it wants to speak to a man in connection with an investigation in which a number of...

Allen & Crane Estates, a sales and lettings agent based in Burnham near Slough, has been expelled from membership of The...