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A Court of Appeal judgement could have major consequences for landlords, opening them up to legal action from tenants because they unwittingly broke the law on tenancy deposit protection...

Recovering rent arrears for private landlords by docking Universal Credit from housing benefit tenants will not work...

Precise Mortgages, an intermediary only lender, has launched a bridge-to-let product which is claimed to be a first in the UK lending market...

Shadow housing minister Jack Dromey has applauded Newham Council for its crackdown on landlords. Dromey went with the mayor of Newham, Sir Robin Wales, on a joint operation between the council, police and UK Border Agency...

We are sorry to hear of the death of the president of the National Landlords Association, Geoffrey Cutting MBE, at the age of 88...

There has been a sharp rise in the number of repossession claims for rental properties. The number of claims for possession by landlords went up 12% in England and Wales during the first quarter of this year, according to the latest official court statistics...

Monday 17th June 2013

• People living in rented or shared accommodation are seven times more likely to have a fire • About 400 people a year die in accidental house fires • Not having a smoke alarm doubles your risk of death • Fault electrics cause around 7,000 house fires a year • Candles cause more than 5 fires a day Landlords and letting agents are failing to protect their tenants with adequate fire safety protection and in some of the worst cases, are in serious breach of fire safety legislation according to the Association of Independent Inventory Clerks (AIIC)...

Monday 17th June 2013

Hot on the heels of its Florida Investment Guide, this new launch is the latest in a series of online videos by the North West property investment company, designed to educate investors on the intricacies of investing in different countries and sectors of the property market...

Shelter has launched its widely-expected campaign to get all letting agent fees charged to tenants banned throughout England...

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Shelter’s campaign has come under fierce attack from the Residential Landlords Association. Although the campaign is aimed at letting agents, RLA chairman Alan Ward said it was anti-landlord because of the proposal that landlords should bear all the costs of setting up a tenancy...

Landlords have expressed their deep concern over the impact of Universal Credit on the private rented sector...

The gap between the cost of renting and owning a property has narrowed because of rises in house prices...

A new range of specialist buy-to-let mortgages has been released by Shawbrook Bank. They are available via mortgage brokers TBMC...

House prices soar to a new record high

House prices have shot up to their highest on record thanks to ‘steroid’ injections in the mortgage market, it was reported this morning...

A mechanism to recover rent arrears is to be incorporated into the new Universal Credit system. Landlords who are owed rent by tenants receiving benefit will be able to request direct payment once a certain level of rent arrears – as yet undecided – is reached...

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Members of the London Assembly have called for a package of tough reforms in the capital’s private rental market, including rent controls...

Students looking for private rental home are most likely to use Google rather than a property portal or university accommodation bureau in their search...

A renewable energy company which aimed to be a major Green Deal provider in the private rented sector has gone into administration...

BM Solutions, owned by Lloyds, has removed its minimum income requirement of £25,000 for all its buy-to-let mortgages...

A former police officer is one of five people who have been convicted of a £20m buy-to-let mortgage fraud...

Monday 10th June 2013

Following hot on the heels of its recent launch Halley House, which is already 50% sold out after only three weeks of marketing, Knight Knox International have announced the launch of Plymouth development, Greenbank Court, as they branch out into the Southern student accommodation market, following on from their staggering success in the North...

Landlords’ yields have dropped almost everywhere, with any rises in rents being outpaced by hikes in house prices...

The National Landlords Association is making some of its key membership benefits freely available online to every single landlord in the UK...

One in five private tenants has reported electrical faults in their properties that are either ignored or not put right immediately...

A Labour government would give local councils powers to negotiate with private landlords to bargain down rents for tenants on housing benefits...

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More than 700 letters of objection have been received in a single batch by a city council which wants to extend its control of Houses in Multiple Occupation through a selective licensing scheme...

Specialist buy-to-let lender Mortgage Trust has launched two new ‘limited edition’ products...

Tuesday 4th June 2013

Six in ten landlords and agents are concerned about receiving rent if they accept housing benefit tenants...

Tuesday 4th June 2013

Median rents across the country stood at £575 per month by the end of March, says the Valuation Office Agency...