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A council is introducing a service which it claims will help identify properties which cannon future be used as private rental...

A property firm has been fined £8,000 for operating an HMO on one of Britain’s most famous roads. Westminster council has won...

Westminster council wants central London to have the same powers as Paris and Amsterdam to stop anti-social behaviour caused by Airbnb...

A lettings agency says a new HMO licensing regime in one of London’s highest profile boroughs will reduce the number of rental properties. This...

The UK’s largest ever additional licensing scheme for HMOs has come into effect over the long weekend.  Westminster council’s scheme will focus...

A prominent London Conservative MP has made a scathing attack on the current rental sector’s structure, saying it is skewed in...

London’s Westminster council - with 43 per cent of housing stock in the private rental sector - has launched a consultation on...

A London council has launched a strategy it claims will protect private tenants and ensure they live in good quality and...

A London council is telling its private rental sector residents to use a new tool to check whether they may be...

The leaseholder of a council property in central London has been found guilty of advertising it on Airbnb and the Booking.com...

A London council has caught out a rogue lettings agency for illegally operating two properties, with issues ranging from gas safety...

A rogue landlord who divided his three-bedroom home in central London into eight flats has ended up with a bill of...

The Property Ombudsman says agents can display weekly rents for homes they market - but they should be displayed alongside monthly...

The Labour party has expressed outrage at the news that London councils are spending over £22m each year renting back homes...

A new team of investigative council officers are hitting the streets of the capital to tackle unlawful nightly letting using websites like...

A London letting agency with connections to Westminster council is now being investigated by the same council’s trading standards department. CityWest Homes...

A property company and a landlord have been fined over £200,000 after being accused of putting tenants’ lives in danger by...

Two landlords must pay a combined total of over £300,000 following legal action by a central London council.    Westminster council claimed that...

Tenants on a social housing estate in north east London are to be asked to pay a means-tested rent - thought...