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Private rental prices paid by tenants in Scotland rose by 0.7% in the 12 months to February 2018, reaching an average...

Buy-to-let landlords are being advised to turn to the North West of England in a bid to increase their annual yields following the...

With residential property prices in super prime London continuing to fall, an increasing number of would-be purchasers are turning to luxury...

Seven in ten prospective tenants registered with MovingSoon.co.uk, a website that advertises affordable housing for renters, believe deposit-free renting is a...

Buy-to-let landlords who own properties in Blackpool are being urged to lobby against plans to introduce a selective licensing scheme in...

Plans to cap the security deposits that tenants leave with landlords or their letting agents at no more than six weeks...

A growing number of buy-to-let are struggling to obtain mortgages following the introduction of tougher lending conditions, including more rigid underwriting...

The average five-year fixed rate has fallen to a joint record-low of 3.43%, a rate last seen in October 2017, according...

Many buy-to-let landlords with two-year fixed deals that are about to come to an end are likely to face difficulties in...

A Conservative councillor has been ordered to pay more than £57,000 after being taken to court by his own council for...

The government’s Right to Rent' policy has been slammed by a government inspector for failing “to demonstrate its worth” by encouraging...

Unscrupulous landlords in Hackney, east London, who leave tenants living in substandard conditions, will be forced to improve the condition of...

Hundreds of thousands of people are experiencing acute forms of homelessness across Britain, with rough sleeping set to increase sharply over...

Capital gains tax receipts hit £5.5bn in January, leaving the Treasury on course to rake in as much as £8.8bn this...

Hundreds of thousands of buy-to-let landlords will be required to pay a ‘green tax’ of up to £2,500 per property upfront...

There was a sharp decline in the number of new listings, while the volume of properties let last month dipped, as...

Rogue letting agents have reportedly been convicted of stealing more than £750,000 worth of tenancy deposits so far this year –...

Fresh research from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) which reveals that young adults are less likely to own a home...

Buy-to-let landlords who reject housing benefit claimants could be breaking the law. A recent legal case which saw single mother Rosie Keogh...

There has been a sharp rise in the number of over 60s renting privately, according to new research from the Centre...

In the past couple of years there has been an increase in the number of private landlords running their letting business...

Most areas of England and Wales have seen rental price growth over the past 12 months, but where are rents increasing...

Rental prices continued to rise in January, albeit marginally, according to the latest HomeLet Rental Index. The average rent agreed on a...

The average cost of renting a home is now increasing across every UK region for the first time in 19 months,...