News Archive

Since its introduction in 2008, Local Housing Allowance (LHA) has had a massive effect on landlords letting accommodation to housing benefit tenants...

The success of a two-year education programme for letting agents and landlords covering all aspects of deposit protection has led to the launch of the TDS Academy by the Tenancy Deposit Scheme...

A local authority is to build new homes for private rental. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea will be building on its own land, following the Government’s announcement of support for a new build-to-let sector...

Police in London are enlisting letting agents and landlords in the war against drugs. They are warning that the presence of deodorant, stained coffee filters and small plastic bags may indicate that a property has been turned into a drugs factory...

New financial products are to be sought to help people who will be receiving the new Universal Credit...

A former housing minister under the Labour government, Keith Hill, has been appointed as independent regulator for the Association of Residential Managing Agents...

Direct payment of housing benefits to landlords rather than tenants will be allowed – but only in Northern Ireland...

Agent warns of landlords' unseen costs

Housing minister Mark Prisk has followed his party’s line by claiming that private rents have been going down...

Unforeseen costs, including unexpected maintenance and a shortfall in rent, are hitting landlords in the pocket...

Classified advertising vehicle Gumtree says that the volume of London property rental ads on its site has risen by over one third in the last year...

Thursday 25th October 2012

Keystone Buy to Let Mortgages has improved its lending criteria and is now offering loans up to £500,000 per property transaction to existing landlords...

my|deposits recently received approval from the Government to continue to operate a Tenancy Deposit Protection (TDP) scheme in England and Wales after a successful procurement process...

A new and wide-ranging inquiry into the Private Rented Sector is to be conducted by an influential cross-party group of MPs...

Newham landlord is hit with record fine

A debt counselling charity is warning of a huge increase in rent arrears which will keep people off the housing ladder for the foreseeable future...

A landlord has been hit with a record fine of £27,400 in the borough which is bringing in blanket landlord licensing of all 35,000 private rental properties in its patch from January 1...

A Green Deal service for landlords has been announced by the Residential Landlords Association. It will be managed on behalf of the RLA by Enact Energy and is due to start next month, initially offering free and grant funded insulation and heating works under the Energy Company Obligation, before the Green Deal is implemented on January 28...