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It’s a frequent question in lettings: Who should carry out inventory checks and create reports for a rented property? Should it...

ARLA Propertymark has launched a radical programme of reform for the private rental sector - getting in before the government’s own...

One of the industry’s leading suppliers says the controversy over pets in private rental properties could be defused relatively easily. Inventory management firm...

The letting agents’ trade body has issued a warning to landlords that short lets may provide quick profits - but they...

Through our FREE online deposit dispute webinars, we’ve trained thousands of landlords and letting agents about how the dispute resolution process...

The Dogs Trust campaign ‘lets with pets’ states: “Landlords and letting agencies who exclude pet owners from their properties are missing out...

Just over half the claims made by landlords against tenancy deposits in 2020 cited a need to clean or make repairs...

ARLA Propertymark has issued a warning to government not to use Capital Gains Tax reform to further punish the private rental...

Tenancy deposit disputes are messy and often frustrating for all involved. While the number of formal disputes remains low, the pandemic...

A local authority has set up what it calls The Private Sector Landlord service to try to harness some private property...

There’s still life in the buy to let market despite the regulatory and financial changes in recent years according to a...

An inventories supplier is advising that the growing number of sub-letting scams can be reduced by regular property visits by agents...

The National Union of Students claims young people at college and university are being unfairly targeted by agents and landlords when...

Most landlords are wary of the potential damage, smells and noise complaints that can come with accommodating a tenant with pets....

If you want to know why inventories are vital for agents and landlords, look no further than the high-profile dispute over...

The number of film-related enquiries for short lets received by Knight Frank in the year to May has shown a rise...

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

A holiday lets and short-term lettings market boom can be put down to a combination of four reasons, according to specialist...

The UK’s holiday lets sector could be a beneficiary of the current Brexit uncertainty and people not vacationing abroad because they...

A new free online training course which guides letting agents through the key principles of disputes has been released by The...

A leading landlord has hit out at a lettings agency’s portrayal of buy to let tax changes.  Rosalind Beck, a campaigning landlord...

London-focussed lettings agency ludlowthompson says buy to let landlords across the country claimed a record £17.7 billion in tax relief last...

New research has attempted to quantify the number and scale of rent rises that are likely to take place as landlords...

One of the most respected buying agencies, Black Brick, says the collapse in demand for buy to let is the most...

An electrical testing equipment firm and an MP are setting up a national campaign to demand new laws on appliance testing...

There’s been a huge 15 per cent slump in the number of properties to let in prime central London over the...

A trade body is claiming that armed service personnel who let out their homes whilst stationed away are being hit by...

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 accountancy and business advice consultancy says residential landlords who want to downsize their portfolios because of recent tax changes...

Wear and tear can be a highly contentious issue for many tenants and landlords; many arguments have arisen because of unclear definitions...

A leading buy to let expert is calling on agents to work more closely with landlords and tenants to improve communications...

Yields from buy to let in the UK are now amongst the worst in Europe according to a new league table drawn...

New figures assembled by the Nationwide reveal precisely how much, on average, it costs to operate a privately rented property.    The numbers...

A survey for online letting agency Upad claims that 66 per cent of landlords are not going to change their property...

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

The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks is advising letting agents and landlords to be wary of any tenant seeking to ‘game’...

  Renters are spending half their wages keeping a roof over their head, are twice as likely as homeowners to have no...

An online lettings firm claims that last year four out of 10 students had some or all of their deposits kept...

An assessment undertaken by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development shows property taxes accounted for 12.7 per cent of the...

Lettings expert Kate Faulkner says yields - a traditional long-standing measure of success for buy to let landlords - are becoming...

A well-known mortgage broker is quoted as saying that buy to let organisations are complaining too much over tax changes for...

Despite huge turmoil in the buy to let sector, there has been a significant rise in mortgage activity in the past...

As an Agent, understanding and managing your landlords’ expectations of their tenants and property is a necessary and sometimes difficult task....

Four out of 10 students lose well over a third of their deposits when they rent privately while at university or...

The Scottish Association of Landlords - which represents letting agents as well as landlords north of the border - has spoken...

When renting out a property, most landlords choose to take a deposit from their tenant prior to the tenancy starting. The...

The new Chancellor appointed by Prime Minister Theresa May has been ‘outed’ as a former buy to let landlord - raising...

For a long time, fair wear and tear has been a grey area for landlords and letting agents alike; this is...

New Chancellor Phillip Hammond has been urged by an industry trade group to reset the government’s approach to taxing the buy...

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

A senior mortgage lender is warning that government reforms of the buy to let sector could have wide-ranging and unintended consequences. Richard...

The exemption of residential property from the new Capital Gains Tax cuts tops the list of concerns expressed by professional landlords...

Housing minister Brandon Lewis has backed the raft of measures seen by many as anti-buy to let, including the restriction on...

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

Almost all landlords are considering increasing rents to pay for the higher taxes they now face. According to a survey by the...

Ian Wilson, chief executive officer of Martin & Co, has given David Cameron’s government a “two out of 10” score for...

The imposition of the stamp duty surcharge on additional homes would add another £4,500 to the cost of setting up a...

Agents acting for landlords replacing furniture and other domestic items in homes to let should be given detailed guidance from the...

Around a fifth of investors plan to sell their buy to let properties this year, thanks to the recent measures against...

George Osborne has done more for the rental market than any other chancellor in history claims Marc von Grundherr, lettings director...

The two landlords behind the possible legal challenge to George Osborne’s buy to let tax changes are appealling for “experts, mentors...

Today is the last chance for Letting Agent Today readers to have their concerns about proposed stamp duty increases and recent...

A Conservative peer and former shadow chief secretary to the Treasury has become the first senior Tory to speak out against...

A legal opinion is expected in the next few days as the legal challenge to George Osborne’s buy to let tax...

Letting Agent Today readers are being given the rare opportunity to have their concerns about proposed stamp duty increases and recent...

The latest £50,000 target to fund a legal challenge to Chancellor George Osborne’s proposed tax changes for buy to let landlords...

An online petition seeking the reversal of the Osborne clampdown on buy to let tax breaks has secured around 47,000 signatures...

Buy to let tax relief is still set to total around £15 billion annually even after changes to tax relief are introduced,...

HM Revenue and Customs has published the responses it has received to its 12 week consultation on changing the Wear and...

An online petition asking the government to rethink its raft of tax measures imposed on buy to let landlords this year...

A respected survey of the buy to let market says proposed tax changes and the increased stamp duty on additional homes...

Research shows that landlords are scaling-back repairs over the winter in order to optimise finances when a new wear and tear tax...

The head of a landlords’ association has warned the Conservative government not to demonise buy to let investors who typically have...

The controversial changes to landlords’ mortgage interest tax relief and to the wear and tear allowance “have failed to dampen the...

Thanks to Accountancy Age for drawing to our attention to the fact that not every country is tightening up on the tax...

The Chancellor’s proposed change to wear and tear tax allowance in the rental sector will hit rural lettings particularly hard, according...

While almost every lettings organisation has been up in arms at the raft of tax changes for landlords suggested by Chancellor...

“Unthought-through”, “unfair and unreasonable” and leading to “extreme confusion” - those are the thoughts of Britain’s leading professional accounting body on...

The online petition against the government's proposed tax changes for buy to let investors is "a waste of time" according to...

A columnist on FT Adviser - an online service for financial advisers and clients - says buy to let investors have...

The government is ruling out any re-think on its proposals to reduce buy to let tax breaks from next year. The Financial...

The Daily Telegraph has undertaken an interesting exercise which effectively challenges Chancellor George Osborne’s assertion that buy to let tax changes...

A firm of specialist solicitors claims that one in five landlords say they will be “out of business due to government...

The founders of the website saynotogeorge.co.uk have stepped forward to explain why they have founded the campaign.  Two Peterborough-based property developers are...

A new website - www.saynotogeorge.co.uk - has been set up as a nucleus for opposition to Chancellor George Osborne’s proposals to...

Around 47 per cent of landlords will be affected by changes to the annual wear and tear allowance. That’s the result of...

The Residential Landlords Association has launched a new campaign ‘toolkit’ to enable opponents of the proposed buy to let tax changes...

A survey suggests that renters are worried that landlords who have to pay more tax as a result of changes in...

A survey for a lettings organisation has confirmed the belief that the government’s removal of tax breaks on landlords will almost...

HMRC has revealed the scope of its proposed changes to the wear and tear allowance, as announced in George Osborne’s Budget...

The specialist buy to let mortgage sector is set to be an unexpected victim of the buy to let tax changes...

The independent Institute for Fiscal Studies has described the justification given by Chancellor George Osborne for curbing tax breaks for buy to...

One of Britain’s senior letting agents says the people likely to be hit hardest by changes of the buy to let...

There has been no let-up in the anger expressed by sections of the buy to let sector after Chancellor George Osborne...

Labour’s onslaught on the private rental sector continues, with the party now setting out how it will implement its rent controls...