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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...

The growing chorus of calls to professionalise the short lets sector has won influential backing from a senior PropTech entrepreneur. Neil Cobbold...

A leading London lettings agent wants increased regulation over Airbnb in a bid to deter criminal activity and anti-social behaviour. Martin Bikhit, managing...

The lettings agency owners behind the Advanced Rent Option, which provides landlords with up to 12 months’ rent in advance, says...

Buy to let investors in the UK are spending nearly £4.7 billion a year on their rental properties, an average of...

Portsmouth council is the latest local authority to offer to rent properties from private landlords to let out to the homeless.  The...

More nightmare tenants have been the subject of investigation in a Channel 5 TV programme to be shown this evening. In the...

There’s a claim today that around one million amateur and professional landlords in the new short lets sector are not adequately...

Short lets on Airbnb and similar platforms are causing increasing irritation for owners in residential blocks, according to a property management...

With 2019 almost upon us, letting agents are finally unburying their heads from the ignorant bliss of the sand pit and...

New research may explain why the government and Labour appear to be competing with each other to attack landlords and letting...

A tenant who was ripping off other tenants in an overcrowded bungalow "death trap" has been fined tens of thousands of...

Airbnb, which is facing tough local restrictions in many of the largest cities in which it operates, says its new link...

Three agencies have been heavily fined after a property in London was being used for multiple occupation with 11 people living...

A head tenant who changed the locks on a property that was illegally sublet to no fewer than 35 men has...

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...

Letting agents were amongst those duped by a Merseyside builder who rented 33 homes and then sub-let them to allow the...

A London council is marking 125 successful prosecutions against agents, landlords and sub-letting tenants since 2016. The authority, Brent, says the convictions...

Romans’ lettings managing director Michael Cook has given details of his agency’s approach to identifying and responding to sub-letting. Cook says: “We...

A leading legal firm is staging a free and interactive seminar on sub-letting, aimed at letting agents. The event takes place on...

A strong majority of tenants admit that they have broken tenancy rules in at least one significant way. A study for interiors...

More than 100 criminal prosecutions have been secured against landlords since the start of an enforcement crackdown by Brent council in...

Reports from Australia suggest some of the country’s leading letting agencies have inserted clauses into their tenancy contracts to ban renters...

The founder of Rightmove and former chief executive of Countrywide, Harry Hill, has joined a lettings start-up company called Lavanda which...

A new form of agency which wants to blend traditional letting with Airbnb-style short lets has launched in London.    Lavanda claims it...

Another organisation is warning of the dangers if tenants go away at Christmas and sub-let their properties without consent.    Total Landlord Insurance,...

An online student lettings agency claims there will be a growing number of students using the holiday season to boost their...

Channel 5 has commissioned a third series of Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords with eviction specialist Landlord Action at the heart of...

Failing to pay rent on time or at all is the most common rule broken by tenants that is set out...

An online letting agency claims a third of tenants are subletting without the agreement of their landlord, with an even higher...

Highly publicised stories of property damage allegedly caused by short-let tenants using Airbnb and similar online platforms highlights the advantages of...

Speculation is mounting that other European cities including London could follow the example of Berlin in effectively banning short-lets through online...

A landlord has been prosecuted for both illegal sub-letting and illegal eviction at the same time - an occurrence which is...

Specialist eviction firm Landlord Action claims that in the past 12 months the number of incidents where tenants have sub-let properties...

A survey claims that 17 per cent of private rental sector tenants in the UK admit to having rented out part...

The total number of evictions last year reached a record high of 42,728 according to data from the Ministry of Justice.  Whilst...

The practice of unauthorised sub-letting is still rife in the UK's private rented sector, according to the Association of Independent Inventory...

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

The specialist eviction company Landlord Action says it is in full support of the government’s latest proposal to crack down on...

A council has set up an anti-fraud tool to prevent social housing being illegally sub-let under the pretence of being private...

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...

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

The government appears to be trying to push its controversial idea to allow much more tenant-led sub-letting of private rented property...

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