Rents rose in January, in an unusual start to a new year.   According to LSL, it was the first time on record that there has been a January increase in rents...

An email to property investors offering a hands-free investment, no deposit required and 100% financing, at a ‘fantastic’ £25,000 below market value, has landed its sender in hot water with the advertising watchdog...

Two executives have been suspended from HomeLet, the largest supplier of referencing to the UK lettings industry, while an investigation into the selling of tenants’ insurance policies is under way...

A battle has broken out in a university city after students complained that they are having to sign rental agreements and hand over large sums of money almost a year early to secure their homes, because of pressure from landlords and agents...

Rents may have risen in the private sector over the last year, but more landlords are feeling the pinch, with half having experienced arrears. The latest findings from a quarterly Landlord Panel reveals the biggest rise in the number of portfolio landlords making a loss since the Landlords Panel was begun by BDRC Continental in 2006...

A landlord who is a Glasgow GP has been fined after failing to maintain a gas boiler at a student flat he owned in Oxford. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted Dr Tariq Mahmood for breaching Gas Safety Regulations...

The Metropolitan Police have issued a warning that fraudsters are stealing the personal details of landlords whose properties are managed by letting agents...

The career of a high-flying criminal barrister lies in tatters after he was jailed for three years for taking more than £70,000 from his own chambers to try and stave off the collapse of his buy-to-let business...

A landlord and tenant insurer is conducting an urgent review of some of its contracts, amidst reports of two executives at Barbon insurers having been suspended as the result of an FSA crackdown...

The steady decline of home ownership and the social rented sector, together with the unassailable rise of the private rented sector in the wake of the credit crisis, have been confirmed in latest Government figures...

A letting agent in one of the most notorious cases of recent times will have to pay over £300,000 after swindling tenants and landlords. Zulfiqar Hussain, 44, operated Charles Lawson Lettings in Cowley Road, East Oxford, and conned clients – many of whom were students – out of thousands of pounds between 2007 and 2009...