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In a bid to improve relationships between letting agents, landlords, and tenants north of the border, fresh funding has been made...

With a growing number of Londoners renting property outside the capital, where affordability is stretched, more buy-to-let landlords are now looking...

Demand from new tenants in London’s private rented sector is rising at a time when the number of homes available to...

The new Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018 will be introduced from tomorrow giving tenants the tenants the right to...

A number of buy-to-let landlords are currently thinking about exiting the private rented sector due to recent policy changes, including the...

Pet-friendly rentals are growing in popularity, as reflected by Zoopla’s latest analysed search data from its keyword property search tool, which...

Platform, the intermediary lender of The Co-operative Bank, will no longer restrict landlords from letting to tenants in receipt of housing...

The cost of taking out a buy-to-let mortgage remains at an historic low, according to the latest analysis from Mortgage Brain. Despite...

Virgin Money has increased the maximum loan-to-value on its buy-to-let portfolio landlord range from 70% to 75%, while previous portfolio growth...

An online petition calling on Rightmove to ban ‘No DSS’ wording in rental adverts has attracted more than 40,000 signatures. The petition...

The controversial Right to Rent scheme, which requires landlords in England to check the immigration status of their tenants, has been...

Landlords are being urged to prepare for the new Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018, which came into effect earlier...

HMRC could soon be flooded with stamp duty surcharge refund requests from buy-to-let investors following a potential precedent set at a...

HMRC’s Let Property Campaign, which provides an opportunity for landlords to come forward and report undeclared rental income and expenditure to...

The government is being urged to do more to address the ‘scourge’ of empty homes in England by supporting buy-to-let landlords...

The cost of repairing a faulty boiler currently stands at about 60% more than the average UK monthly rent, according to...

Short-term letting providers, including landlords who list properties on Airbnb, are not adequately protected by major insurance providers, according to a...

Buy-to-let landlords are often blamed, primarily by those under the age of 40, for the existing housing crisis because property investors acquire...

It is good practice to have a detailed and accurate inventory completed at the start of the tenancy, and again when...

Buy-to-let landlords should not be deterred from acquiring leasehold properties, but rather target homes with ‘high service charges’, and then set...

Four in ten buy-to-let landlords are planning to expand their portfolio this year, according to new research. With buy-to-let continuing to deliver...

Tax and legislative changes have unsurprisingly left many buy-to-let investors with little alternative but to pass costs onto tenants by pushing up...

Private rental prices in the UK increased by 1.1% in the 12 months to February, according to the Office for National...

Residential properties in London are being wrongly valued due to outdated measurement techniques used to measure floor space, it has been...