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Airbnb has been ordered to pay some 52,000 euros in compensation to the owner of an apartment in Paris after a...
16 June 2020
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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
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An inventories supplier is advising that the growing number of sub-letting scams can be reduced by regular property visits by agents...
20 November 2019
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The growing chorus of calls to professionalise the short lets sector has won influential backing from a senior PropTech entrepreneur. Neil Cobbold...
13 November 2019
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A leading London lettings agent wants increased regulation over Airbnb in a bid to deter criminal activity and anti-social behaviour. Martin Bikhit, managing...
07 November 2019
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The lettings agency owners behind the Advanced Rent Option, which provides landlords with up to 12 months’ rent in advance, says...
26 September 2019
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Buy to let investors in the UK are spending nearly £4.7 billion a year on their rental properties, an average of...
19 July 2019
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Portsmouth council is the latest local authority to offer to rent properties from private landlords to let out to the homeless. The...
17 July 2019
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More nightmare tenants have been the subject of investigation in a Channel 5 TV programme to be shown this evening. In the...
17 June 2019
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There’s a claim today that around one million amateur and professional landlords in the new short lets sector are not adequately...
18 March 2019
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Short lets on Airbnb and similar platforms are causing increasing irritation for owners in residential blocks, according to a property management...
21 February 2019
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With 2019 almost upon us, letting agents are finally unburying their heads from the ignorant bliss of the sand pit and...
14 December 2018
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New research may explain why the government and Labour appear to be competing with each other to attack landlords and letting...
11 October 2018
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A tenant who was ripping off other tenants in an overcrowded bungalow "death trap" has been fined tens of thousands of...
23 July 2018
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Airbnb, which is facing tough local restrictions in many of the largest cities in which it operates, says its new link...
17 July 2018
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Three agencies have been heavily fined after a property in London was being used for multiple occupation with 11 people living...
04 July 2018
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A head tenant who changed the locks on a property that was illegally sublet to no fewer than 35 men has...
22 June 2018
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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
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Letting agents were amongst those duped by a Merseyside builder who rented 33 homes and then sub-let them to allow the...
14 February 2018
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A London council is marking 125 successful prosecutions against agents, landlords and sub-letting tenants since 2016. The authority, Brent, says the convictions...
13 February 2018
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Romans’ lettings managing director Michael Cook has given details of his agency’s approach to identifying and responding to sub-letting. Cook says: “We...
11 January 2018
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A leading legal firm is staging a free and interactive seminar on sub-letting, aimed at letting agents. The event takes place on...
27 October 2017
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A strong majority of tenants admit that they have broken tenancy rules in at least one significant way. A study for interiors...
09 October 2017
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More than 100 criminal prosecutions have been secured against landlords since the start of an enforcement crackdown by Brent council in...
25 July 2017
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Reports from Australia suggest some of the country’s leading letting agencies have inserted clauses into their tenancy contracts to ban renters...
29 June 2017
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The founder of Rightmove and former chief executive of Countrywide, Harry Hill, has joined a lettings start-up company called Lavanda which...
04 April 2017
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A new form of agency which wants to blend traditional letting with Airbnb-style short lets has launched in London. Lavanda claims it...
21 February 2017
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Another organisation is warning of the dangers if tenants go away at Christmas and sub-let their properties without consent. Total Landlord Insurance,...
19 December 2016
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An online student lettings agency claims there will be a growing number of students using the holiday season to boost their...
13 December 2016
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Channel 5 has commissioned a third series of Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords with eviction specialist Landlord Action at the heart of...
28 September 2016
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21 September 2016
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An online letting agency claims a third of tenants are subletting without the agreement of their landlord, with an even higher...
13 July 2016
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Highly publicised stories of property damage allegedly caused by short-let tenants using Airbnb and similar online platforms highlights the advantages of...
17 June 2016
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Speculation is mounting that other European cities including London could follow the example of Berlin in effectively banning short-lets through online...
10 June 2016
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A landlord has been prosecuted for both illegal sub-letting and illegal eviction at the same time - an occurrence which is...
26 May 2016
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Specialist eviction firm Landlord Action claims that in the past 12 months the number of incidents where tenants have sub-let properties...
20 April 2016
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A survey claims that 17 per cent of private rental sector tenants in the UK admit to having rented out part...
23 February 2016
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The total number of evictions last year reached a record high of 42,728 according to data from the Ministry of Justice. Whilst...
16 February 2016
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The practice of unauthorised sub-letting is still rife in the UK's private rented sector, according to the Association of Independent Inventory...
18 December 2015
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A survey of tenants suggests around one in nine private sector tenants sublet their propertiers, and almost half of those do...
19 November 2015
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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
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A council has set up an anti-fraud tool to prevent social housing being illegally sub-let under the pretence of being private...
03 November 2015
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A prime central London letting agency says there has been a rise in the number of subletting scams in that part...
02 October 2015
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A signed tenancy agreement is not worth the paper it is written as tenants are blatantly ignoring its terms and conditions...
18 September 2015
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Channel 5’s Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords programme, now in its fourth week, this evening looks at a serial bad tenant and...
15 July 2015
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The government appears to be trying to push its controversial idea to allow much more tenant-led sub-letting of private rented property...