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A survey of local council private rental licensing schemes says 19 selective and additional licensing schemes and consultations will be taking...

A council is pleading with the government to think again about proposals to suspend the need for an HMO licence for...

It already looks like 2023 is on track to see licensing fines for agents and landlords reaching nearly double the 2022...

Households living in rental properties across the North of England face the biggest financial headache from soaring fuel price rises, according...

An activist group in London has launched a scathing attack on councils which it claims have been ineffective in regulating rogue...

A lettings company has been caught up in a case where rental accommodation has been described as “atrocious” and a landlord...

A London lettings agency - that has now entered bankruptcy - has been cleared of any involvement in a rental scandal...

The Generation Rent campaign group and Labour are again uniting to argue in favour of rent controls in London. Just last week...

Rental demand has started to return to the majority of major UK cities during the second quarter of this year, with...

A quarterly index suggests that there’s been a sharp uplift in tenant demand for rental properties across the UK’s major cities...

London lettings and estate agency Benham and Reeves has calculated a league table of the most popular postcodes in the capital...

Two landlords - one of them an agent - have been given fines totalling £135,000 and must pay costs for failing to...

It’s a case of London versus The Rest when it comes to the rental market, according to HomeLet. Its latest market snapshot shows...

Research by the National Residential Landlords Association and the Which? consumer body has revealed that some 53 councils in England alone...

A London council has pressed ahead with the launch of a borough-wide additional licensing scheme despite the lockdown and uncertainty created...

The government has given the green light to a council’s huge licensing scheme, set to cover 18 of its 20 wards...

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has backed a five year extension for a massive London council landlord licensing...

Another local authority has announced that it wants to introduce another selective licensing scheme and designate its entire patch for HMO...

New research shows that some buy to let investors in London could typically lose over £19,000 a year if Berlin-style rent...

More local authorities have announced that they want to increase the size of the areas covered by their existing selective licensing...

A flat-share website claims typical rents in some 38 per cent of London are now so high they render the areas...

A managing agent who used ‘ghost tenants’ as a front so that she could cram 16 people into one overcrowded house...

A London council has fined a letting agency over £10,000 for failing to install smoke alarms in a rental property. Waltham Forest...

A gas safety engineer has pleaded guilty with a landlord of falsifying gas safety certificates for a string of private rental...

Rents in London rose by 0.1 per cent in the 12 months to June - it’s the first annual rental increase...

Almost 60 per cent of councils across Britain have not prosecuted any landlord for any offence in the past year according...

A letting agent named in a case concerning a rat-infested House in Multiple Occupation in Leytonstone, East London, has been fined...

A landlord has been prosecuted and ordered to repay over £5,000 to his tenants for letting an unlicensed House of Multiple...

The average rent of a new letting in the UK grew by 0.24 per cent in the first six months of...

A landlord has been prosecuted and ordered to pay a £12,000 fine as well as over £12,000 in court costs, after...

Waltham Forest council has enforced an Interim Management Order on a house in its area meaning it will take over day-to-day...

New research by an online property lending company reveals that those towns which were strongest in voting ‘Leave’ in the EU...

Twelve landlords in Waltham Forest have been prosecuted for not signing up to a council Private Rented Property Licencing scheme, and...

A landlord has become the first to be prosecuted by Waltham Forest council for failing to obtain one of its controversial...

A landlord who has had previous conflicts with his local council has effectively lost control of his 16 private rental properties. William...

An organisation that describes itself as “an independent group of private renters” says it has identified 21 letting agents out of...