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Housing Secretary Michael Gove has this morning announced wholesale changes to planning and regulations surrounding short lets. His proposals include: - planning permission...
19 February 2024
From: Breaking News
The trade body representing short lets providers and support companies has reacted angrily to government proposals for a radical shake up. Housing...
19 February 2024
From: Breaking News
A new report claims that Airbnb has generated tens of thousands of jobs in the UK and enables people to work...
07 December 2023
From: Breaking News
One of the country’s most popular destinations for both visitors and short let accommodation is likely to be hit with a...
30 May 2023
From: Breaking News
The new trade body for short lets has reacted angrily to a government plan for AirBnb and other short let hosts...
13 April 2023
From: Breaking News
A tourism chief has likened new anti-holiday let regulations to those of a Stalinist dictatorship. Ashford Price, secretary of the Welsh Association...
23 June 2022
From: Breaking News
Activists are calling on the government to impose swingeing taxes on some lettings properties “to bring them back into the residential...
01 June 2022
From: Breaking News
One of the UK’s largest lettings groups has made an outspoken attack on the policies of a political party standing in...
27 April 2022
From: Breaking News
Figures obtained by ITV News suggest that one of the country's most popular tourist locations has as many Airbnbs listed as...
14 February 2022
From: Breaking News
One of the country’s best-read and respected regional newspapers has accused Airbnb of a ‘racket’ by advertising homes on its short-let...
25 January 2022
From: Breaking News
Owners of second homes who abuse a tax loophole by claiming their often-empty properties are holiday lets will be forced to...
14 January 2022
From: Breaking News
A petition calling on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to increase tax on holiday lettings has still not hit its 45,000-signature target. Former long...
23 November 2021
From: Breaking News
A scam in one city has reportedly seen scores of individuals robbed of thousands of pounds as short lets have been...
18 November 2021
From: Breaking News
Campaigners against letting agents and landlords appear to suggest that the issue of rising rents is uniquely confined to the UK...
08 October 2021
From: Breaking News
A lack of longer term rental accommodation thanks to the growth of Airbnb and other short lets has led to a...
05 October 2021
From: Breaking News
Rental stock has dropped as landlords seek to profit from the staycation boom, Rightmove claims. Data from the portal suggests seaside towns...
14 September 2021
From: Breaking News
A tenant who says his former rental property has been turned into an Airbnb has set up a petition demanding Chancellor...
06 August 2021
From: Breaking News
The trade body for short lets operators - the Short Term Accommodation Association - says it wants even more travel restrictions...
06 August 2021
From: Breaking News
International research suggests that short lets - Airbnb and similar platforms - cause housing shortages and push up private rents. Research by...
20 January 2021
From: Breaking News
One in eight homes coming onto the rental market in inner London since May has previously been an Airbnb or other...
17 August 2020
From: Breaking News
A new mortgage product aimed at buy to let investors wanting to enjoy a slice of the holiday home staycation market...
17 July 2020
From: Breaking News
One of the country’s largest lettings agencies is to lose 17 jobs out of 100 in what the company founder calls...
19 May 2020
From: Breaking News
The leaseholder of a council property in central London has been found guilty of advertising it on Airbnb and the Booking.com...
02 March 2020
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A London council says nearly half of the Airbnb-style short let properties available in its patch last year exceeded their legal...
21 February 2020
From: Breaking News
Generation Rent - an outspoken organisation sharply critical of lettings agents and many aspects of the private rental sector - is...
06 February 2020
From: Breaking News
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
From: Breaking News
A local authority in Manchester is pioneering a ban to prevent buyers of homes at a new development from selling them to private...
05 August 2019
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A holiday lets and short-term lettings market boom can be put down to a combination of four reasons, according to specialist...
05 July 2019
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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
From: Breaking News
Another short let management firm, set up in the wake of an explosion of Airbnb-style renting by amateurs and professionals, is...
17 September 2018
From: Breaking News
The specialist property investment lender Together is diversifying its product range to cater for investors who want to let out their...
31 October 2017
From: Breaking News
What is believed to be the first-ever study of Airbnb’s effects on house prices - not just rents - suggests the...
30 October 2017
From: Breaking News
The local authority in Islington, north London, is attempting to close what it calls a loophole concerning private rental property and...
14 September 2017
From: Breaking News
A short-let platform says overseas students may be a new market sector for agents who handle Airbnb-style bookings on behalf of...
07 February 2017
From: Breaking News
An industry body has asked classified listings online service Gumtree to issue its users clear warnings about possible scams involving fake...