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London has seen the strongest rental growth over the last year according to an analysis by lettings agency Hamptons.   The average rent...

A council has prosecuted a private landlord who let out an uninhabitable outbuilding in Kings Langley. Deborah King of Kings Langley was...

A landlord who used a fake name to evade detection has been hit with £485,000 in fines after illegally renting out...

Councils in Greater Manchester admit to charging landlords over £14,000 for “officer time” involved in licensing schemes. There are currently eight selective...

Campaigning charity Shelter is nearing a controversial signature threshold in its petition about the Renters Reform Bill. It now has over 123,000 of...

A landlord in London has been ordered to refund 12 months’ rent to tenants after failing to license their HMO. The fine...

The Mortgage Works is reducing rates on products for new and existing landlord customers by up to 0.40 percentage points, with...

Plans for leasehold reform face a major early stumbling block as analysis shows plans to retrospectively introduce a cap on ground...

A group of Conservative MPs has organised a lobby of the government to demand a clampdown on Airbnbs and other short...

A respected financial body is warning that landlords face rising costs of up to 80 per cent in the next two...

Over a third of current renters believe they will never be able to buy a home in future.  And only 29 per...

UK house prices rose for the second month in a row in November, boosted by a shortage of properties, says the...

More than a quarter of private landlords plan to increase the size of their property portfolios in the next year, compared...

Almost all landlords letting out properties in a London borough will soon be legally required to have a selective license. It’s one...

A recycling company says landlords should do more to encouraging HMO tenants to boost recycling. The firm - First Mile - suggests...

New research suggests that an influx of older renters has increased congestion in the rental market. Some 39 per cent of renters...

Landlord Action supremo Paul Shamplina has endorsed a new PropTech tool aimed at stopping landlords falling victim to fraud. Title Guardian claims...

Two landlords who let their two-bedroom flat in Tower Hamlets to as many as 22 people, have pleaded guilty to nine...

A think tank claims that four in 10 households renting privately that moved within the last year are paying an average...

The Labour Party says it will outlaw rental bidding wars if it wins the next General Election. The party's shadow housing minister,...

A countryside body is blaming the government’s failure to provide affordable housing and the rise in short lets for a homelessness...

The Renters Reform Bill’s proposal to replace Assured Shorthold Tenancies with rolling ‘periodic’ lets could put landlords’ properties at risk, it’s...

A surprising one in seven lettings agents is now reporting a fall in rents rather than a rise. Although far more agents...

Generation Rent and London Mayor Sadiq Khan have jointly slammed landlords who do not improve the EPCs of their private rental...

One in four people don’t have enough savings to cover a 25 per cent drop in earnings - and that rises...

Tenants value location, flexibility and direct landlord relationships according to new research from specialist lending bank OSB Group.  The Future Tenant Standard...

The government’s Office for National Statistics is introducing a new way of measuring rent rises from the spring. It will double the...

London’s ultra-prime rental market has returned this year to pre-Covid levels for the first time, an agency claims. Beauchamp Estates - using...

Almost one in five UK adults has missed a payment in the past 12 months - and for seven per cent...

The National Residential Landlords Association says the Renters Reform Bill won’t win the support of landlords in its present form. The Bill...

A mortgage lender survey suggests landlords are returning to fixed rate mortgages. Landbay says more investors are opting for five-year fixed mortgages...

UK house prices rose an average of 0.2 per cent month on month in November - prompting the Nationwide to call...

Some £2m of government money has been channeled into a brand new country cil Taskforce aimed at identifying and clamping down...

Landlords will have to include many more specific points about their properties when they list them in future - whether directly...

The proportion of private landlords who report increased demand for rental properties has more than tripled compared with demand for properties...

New research shows that a significant number of buyers will pay more for a home with a good EPC rating. The study,...

London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan and the leader of activist group Generation Rent have teamed up for an anti-damp and mouldy...

A council statement announcing a complex new licensing regime for the local private rental sector claims “landlords and agents who are...

A controversial licensing scheme is due to come into force tomorrow - just as the council administering it has declared itself...

The government has insisted that its commitment to reform the courts process to help deal with evictions more effectively is not...

A BBC News report claims that increasing numbers of renters aged over 30 are moving to cheaper areas as rents have...

Melton council in Leicestershire has prosecuted a resident who pleaded guilty of failing to comply with a planning contravention notice which...

Residents across part of London are invited to give their thoughts on yet another new rental licensing scheme. This is a new...

Any hope of a near-term drop in interest rates appears to have been wiped out by a statement by Bank of...

The property portal ESPC has revealed the top-performing Edinburgh postcodes in terms of rental yields, for the third quarter of 2023. The...

A new rental website which claims to list “all available homes for young people in one place” has raised well over...

There are some 141,245 second homes in England and Wales, new figures show.  Flats are the most common type of second home,...

Housr, a student living start-up, says it’s started its second year by adding 45,000 properties to its platform ahead of the...

The latest lettings market forecast from Savills says average UK rents to end 2023 at up 9.5 per cent year on...

House prices fell 1.2 per cent in the past year, according to a new Zoopla report out today, with average discounts...

A campaign by a UK government to help landlords retrofit their properties with energy efficient amenities has had almost zero impact,...

Markets are saying the UK - and for that matter the US and mainland Europe - have all hit peak interest...

The government claims that millions of homeowners in England and Wales will be given greater rights, powers, and protections over their...

New research has identified locations with the largest volume of available rental stock, based on those units at or below the...

A trade body representing short lets operators has slammed government housing failures. The Short Term Accommodation Association says it’s analysed local authority...

Many landlords have dropped plans to improve the energy efficiency of their homes following the U-turn by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. In...

Almost four fifths of landlords favour raising the Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards for private rental properties, a think tank claims. The Social...

The first meeting has been held of the Housing Coalition, a new group including a number of local and regional landlord bodies...

The National Residential Landlords Association wants the government to commit to annual uprating of the Local Housing Allowance. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced...

Good news for landlords earning under £30,000 a year - they will not have to use the HMRC’s Making Tax Digital...

Campaigning charity Shelter has welcomed the decision by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to unfreeze Local Housing Allowance - but it wants it...

The energy price cap is to rise to an annual average of £1,928 from January. Regulator Ofgem says a typical household paying...

The government should tax property ‘hoarders’ cashing in on the UK housing market says a left-leaning think tank. A report by the New Economics...

Buried in the small print of the Autumn Statement paperwork is a boost for digital technology and PropTech. In the documentation released...

The Office for Budget Responsibility - a Treasury department operating independently from the government - released its central forecast for the...

Many have welcomed the move by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to unfreeze the Local Housing Allowance - but some tenant activists say...

Large upfront costs are deterring landlords and other home owners from making their homes more energy efficient, according to Lloyds Bank...

Britain’s largest listed residential landlord, Grainger, has struck a long-term deal with =Network Rail and the property developer Bloc Group to...

A council in Wales is making changes to the system it uses to encourage private landlords to lease their properties to...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has used his Autumn Statement to reveal measures affecting both the rental market and the wider property industry.  The Local Housing Allowance is...

A leader of the pro-tenant activist group Acorn has told MPs that “one man bands” are more likely to exploit tenants...

There may be tax cuts in today’s Autumn Statement if government-fuelled rumours are to be believed - but there’s been a...

The rising cost of living - especially housing - remains the top issue on Londoners’ minds for the second year in...

A council’s version of a private lettings agency is inviting landlords to an event co-organised by the National Residential Landlords Association. Ashford...

A house building firm claims more people want to move to increasingly energy-efficient homes.  A survey by Redrow shows that 26 per...

Airbnb is launching a new Sustainability Hub to help its landlord hosts in the UK retrofit and improve the energy efficiency...

Landlord confidence has rebounded strongly in recent months according to a survey by a leading buy to let-focussed bank. All aspects of...

The trade publication Inside Housing says a 20,000-home housing association has apologised after saying it would take enforcement action against a...

A landlord has been hit with an £11,800 fine for operating an HMO without a licence. Stoke-on-Trent council launched an investigation into...

Affordability limits have been reached in several regions of the UK, the Home property website suggests. While some regions are still recording...

London’s Labour mayor Sadiq Khan wants 10,000 private homes in the capital to be brought into the social rental sector within...

Labour’s shadow housing secretary and deputy leader Angela Rayner says her party will scrap Section 21 on its first day in...

The two most aggressively pro-tenant activist bodies have accused landlords without mortgages of “cashing in.” According to a poll of more than...

A slew of MPs who are members of the Renters Reform Bill committee receive money from letting out rooms or properties...

Homes situated close to new electricity pylons and sub-stations could receive up to £1,000 a year off energy bills, for up...

A senior Labour MP associated with the moderate wing of the party says private rental properties should be confiscated from serial...

Landlord confidence has improved over the course of the past quarter according to a respected quarterly sentiment survey. The Q3 2023 BVA...

Shelter has issued new claims about homelessness triggered in part by private rents, as it prepares for its annual festive fundraising...

No fewer than 88 per cent of portfolio landlords have added to their portfolios in the last six months, despite market...

Landlords in Reading are being offered the chance to attend a free information event to help them keep up to date...

A new study claims that two thirds of privately rented homes require urgent energy efficiency improvements - and that landlords need...

A prominent lettings agent says he can see why tenants have lost faith in the government following delays in the banning...

Landlords have been urged to protect their properties against bed bugs with regular inspections. Daniel Evans, chair of the Association of Independent...

A charity is suggesting that if only the government got on with abolishing S21 eviction powers, homelessness would be eased. Crisis -...

The growth of private renting in the past decade has given renters more political power, an activist group claims. Generation Rent’s analysis...

Changes put forward to the Renters Reform Bill to crack down on rogue landlords, protect vulnerable residents and improve the safety of...

Court Reform first, then scrap Section 21 - landlord leader tells MPs Rental reforms will not work unless the government reforms the...

Inflation for the year to October has fallen to 4.6 per cent. That’s a big fall from 6.7 per cent in September...

The UK’s Office for National Statistics will soon have access to data on short-term lets listed on Airbnb, Booking .com and...

Activist’s Twitter war of words continues  It appears as if Suella Braverman is not the only figure making a personal attack in...