Rents have risen across the country, including London, two new reports have said. The LSL report says that rents rose in April for the first time in three months...

This week’s SAFEAgent awareness week aimed at improving consumer awareness has received enormous support. The SAFE scheme was set up last year by letting agents and has so far attracted a membership of 2,000...

ARLA – the Association of Residential Letting Agents –  is the best known of the agency bodies to landlords. But only a handful have ever heard of SAFEagent – underlining the need for a publicity drive among consumers so that they are aware of the need to use an agent who ring-fences client money and who also has Client Money Protection insurance (CMP)...

The council aiming to be the first authority in England and Wales where every single private rental property is licensed has announced its first milestone, with the blanket licensing of one complete ward...

A buy-to-let lender has reacted icily to former Chancellor Alistair Darling’s description of the private rental market as ‘inadequate’...

A letting agent has discovered that private landlords across its region are increasingly in breach of the law. It is also calling for its competitors to sign up to the SAFEagent scheme...

Public sector cuts mean that councils can no longer afford to crack down on rogue landlords. The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health did a survey of local authorities, which uncovered a falling number of prosecutions of bad landlords...

Buy-to-let remortgaging is on the rise, says haart, as landlords seek to free up equity to make further property purchases. It says that the percentage of people looking to remortgage has risen to its highest level so far this year...

The private rented sector is poised for growth after one council announced that couples earning over £40,000 a year will no longer be eligible for a council house...

Tenants have criticised landlords for failing to communicate with them and fix problems – and one in ten are renting without a proper tenancy agreement...

A new fighting fund has been launched against criminal landlords of ‘beds in sheds’. Housing minister Grant Shapps has allocated £1...