A prominent buy to let mortgage provider is advising landlords to ensure they check EPCs and energy efficiency issues on properties they are considering buying to...
A council is making an urgent appeal to private landlords with vacant, or soon-to-be vacant, three or four-bedroom family homes for rent.
A spokesperson for Epsom &...
Foxtons has issued a wide-ranging snapshot of the London private rental market.
Overall some 27 per cent of Londoners are now privately renting, with Foxtons expecting that...
A key judgment from the Court of Appeal, announced today, is reported to have gone in favour of landlords and letting agents.
The Northwood Solihull v Fearn/Cooke/Ors...
Approaching one in four private landlords have suffered income losses as a result of the pandemic.
As a result the sector’s trade body is urging councils to...
Newly published rental yield from Rightmove reveals that the average yield across Great Britain is 5.5 per cent.
This is the highest yield since 2016 when it...
Police have imposed a Closure Order on a property in Southampton under Section 80 of the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime & Policing Act.
The order means that only the...
A landlord has been fined almost £5,000 for failing to install smoke detectors into a house he let to a family.
The property, in Liverpool, also had...
A lettings agent who also acts on behalf of tenants against landlords claims to have received 1,000 enquiries from frustrated private and social sector renters.
Ajay Jagota...
Landlords believe that energy efficiency upgrades required to comply with Net Zero regulations may cost up to £10,400 per property.
From 2025 all newly rented properties must...
A personal finance app says it’s teamed up with a new technology firm to provide a service helping landlords prepare for HMRC’s Making Tax Digital initiative.
Making...
A landlord has been fined £3,607 over properties that were so dangerous tenants’ lives were at risk.
North Lincolnshire council brought a prosecution against Amarjit Singh after...
There’s a 15 year record high in the number of buy to let mortgage products available for current or new landlords.
The data comes from independent mortgage...
Student accommodation specialist Unite Students has acquired a site for a 270-bed scheme in one of the country’s biggest academic centres, Nottingham.
Total development costs for the...
West Lindsey council in Lincolnshire is launching a consultation on proposals to change how some private rented homes are managed and licensed.
The plans will affect private...
Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves says Labour would increase tax on buy to let properties and on investment income for landlords.
Reeves was addressing the issue of paying...
One of the biggest buy to let lenders is the latest mortgage firm to launch a green product.
From today the Barclays Green Home Buy-to-Let Mortgage will...
A plan to reform Income Tax Self-Assessment for individuals with income from property or self-employment has been panned by the Association of Accounting Technicians.
Currently individuals have...
A council has launched what it calls a “scores on the doors” style accreditation scheme for landlords.
The Decent and Safe Homes (DASH) scheme, launched by North...
The Department of Work and Pensions is to slash the timescale for repayment of arrears for tenants on Universal Credit.
It has told property accreditation service safeagent,...
The campaign to ensure that landlords are included in the government’s measures to alleviate the problem of dangerous cladding is gathering momentum.
Last week the National Residential...
Almost 10 per cent of private landlords letting properties to Universal Credit claimants have experienced at least one tenant having difficulties paying rent due to benefit...
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ latest index suggests there’s no end in sight to rent rises in 2022.
RICS’ monthly sentiment survey, compiled from members’ observations...
Rents are rising at around twice the level of a year ago according to the latest market snapshot by lettings agency Hamptons.
Despite rental growth across Britain...
A specialist lettings agency is holding a series of webinars for landlords who may fell they need help navigating some 170-plus pieces of legislation surrounding the...
A relatively optimistic sentiment survey of landlords suggests many remain upbeat about the prospects for the sector.
According to the Shawbrook Bank survey a third of landlords...
A large scale survey of over 4,000 private and social tenants suggests that a significant proportion would like to buy their home from their landlord if...
The Home Office has confirmed that landlords, letting agents and employers will be able to use certified new technology to digitally carry out Right To Rent...
Together Energy, which has 176,000 households on its books, has become the latest supplier to collapse in the wake of the soaring cost of gas.
The firm...
The National Residential Landlords Association is seeking clarification from gov ernment about whether landlords are included in the latest measure to help leaseholders with cladding remediation.
An...
The Scottish private rental market is facing shortages according to one of that country’s most prominent lettings experts.
David Alexander, head of DJ Alexander - now part...
Almost three quarters of landlords have experienced an escape of water incident in their properties over the last five years, according to new research from Direct...
Cotswold council, using cash from the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, is targeting properties that fall below the minimum legal energy performance rating.
The authority...
A newspaper is suggesting that proposals for rent controls could be scuppered because of the relatively large proportion of elected politicians who are in fact landlords.
The...
A government housing minister says the Boris Johnson administration wants to shift the balance of power in the rental sector favour of tenants.
Eddie Hughes, the parliamentary...
A national awareness campaign has been launched to prepare landlords for the implementation of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 on Friday July 15.
Described by the...
A tourism chief has stood up in favour of closing what the government calls a tax loophole for landlords letting out holiday properties.
Kurt Jansen, director of...
A local authority in Scotland is calling on private landlords to get in touch if they have suffered hardship as a result of Coronavirus.
Glasgow council has...
An accountancy firm is holding a free webinar for landlords and other property investors to look east ongoing changes to tax rules and other property regulations.
Hayward...
An alliance of 25 major charities have written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak, calling for urgent action to tackle the energy bill...
A council has admitted that it had received literally hundreds of complaints about landlords, and it investigates each one - yet only two were significant enough...
A tenant has received what has been described as a “grovelling” apology from the Connells lettings agency after it switched her energy supplier without her -...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has dodged a question from an MP about the timing of the long-awaited Rental Reform Bill and associated White Paper.
Towards the end...
Suffolk Building Society has just become one of the few lenders to consider applications from landlords who intend to market and let properties using Airbnb.
The change...
With landlords under pressure to fund ever-stricter energy efficiency requirements, a new report appears to make the government’s ‘one size fits all’ approach inappropriate for the...
Landlords will have to foot the bill for the government’s energy efficiency proposals without any apparent tax or grant help.
That’s the pessimistic assessment from tax and...
A new PropTech platform that claims to make buy to let investment simpler, faster and more accessible than ever before, is expanding its footprint to cover...
A House of Lords report claims that the private rental sector has become ”increasingly unaffordable” and says out welcomes the proliferation of Build To Rent purpose...
A London landlord has been ordered to pay over £64,000 for breaking housing regulations.
In July last year Sumon Miah was found guilty of breaching a planning...
A landlord who let out a property that raised serious concerns for the safety of 18 residents, including six children, has been banned from letting or...
Landlords who make tax returns on their investment properties via VAT-registered companies must sign up to the HMRC’s Making Tax Digital initiative by April 1.
Making Tax...
Only 15 per cent of landlords say they are fully aware of changes to laws surrounding Energy Performance Certificates in the private rental sector.
That’s the claim...
The government has issued updated guidance on renters moving home during the pandemic, and for the first time the rules change according to whether tenants are...
Landlords are being warned that the next Bank of England base rate rise, possibly at its next meeting in early February, could trigger mortgage rate increases.
Despite...
Local media are reporting that landlords on a housing estate known to harbour drug traffickers and criminal gangs are being given up to £3,000 per week...
The UK Build To Rent sector recorded a total of £2.1 billion of investment in the final three months of 2021 alone according to property consultancy...
The government looks set to clamp down on holiday rentals and will this year formally consult on the concept of a mandatory register for England.
The consultation...
A leasehold expert says existing owners - including landlords - are expected to be more proactive in 2022 as they seek to escape from short leaseholds...
Landlords adopting a strategy of buying cheap in search of high yields are having a tougher task in finding the right properties.
Savills says there are now...
A leading accountancy firm says the relative good health of the rental market and house price appreciation will trigger stricter enforcement action by HMRC in the...
Northumbria Law School and the Open University are conducting research into whether private landlords rent to tenants with pets and the issues and/or benefits of doing...
The majority of the buy to let community want the name ‘landlord’ dropped and replaced by something like ‘small housing provider’
That’s the claim by specialist buy...
A prominent Conservative has complained that her party, and others, have failed to do anything about a housing market in which the younger population is “already...
A senior figure in a newly-enlarged agency that wants to become a national force in lettings has thrown his weight behind the campaign against rent controls.
Just...
One of the UK’s most prestigious agencies claims that deals to buy the country’s dearest homes have been negotiated using asset-backed ‘billionaire mortgages’ and are investments...
Purplebricks has denied speculation that it’s selling off its rental division and moving landlord clients to a new agency.
A company statement says: “The article that appeared in...
A council is considering an additional licensing scheme for HMOs in and around the High Street and town centres areas of West Bromwich.
The move follows a...
A landlord who has been operating a licensable HMO without a licence has been fined £5,000 at a prosecution brought by Chesterfield council.
An officer from the...
A former Conservative councillor has used a leading party website to call on the government to restrict the purchase of buy to let properties.
Sam Clark is...
For landlords who may want a brief update on Section 21, the House of Commons Library has published a concise description and history.
The Library in the...
Labour is the latest political party to call for rent controls following similar pleas from the Green Party and the Scottish Nationalists.
Paul Sweeney, Labour’s shadow minister for...
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With 2022 just hours away, here’s a reminder of two tax changes that will directly affect landlords next year - and that’s before any new government...
This year, landlord and owner-occupier Londoners purchased 112,780 homes outside the capital, the highest number since 2007.
New data, from Connells-owned agency Hamptons, shows that a rise...
Shelter claims that women are impacted by homelessness more than men, and says rising private rents are a contributory factor.
In a new study Shelter says 60...
Two prominent Brexiteer MPs are spearheading a campaign that claims Net Zero energy efficiency policies are unpopular.
In their launch statement, they reference what they claim to...
The charity Crisis has identified the end of the eviction ban as one of the factors directly leading to homelessness over this Christmas and New Year...
A council in the south of England is urgently looking for private landlords with self-contained one bedroomed flats or studios to house residents in need.
Maidstone council’s Housing...
The year is ending with void periods dropping across England as demand for rental properties continues apace.
According to the latest Goodlord rental index, based on late...
An agency has issued a statement standing shoulder-to-shoulder with landlords and rejecting the negative mood music surrounding the private rental sector.
Chris Wood and Ross McDonald have...
Rental price growth in London’s commuter belt cities and towns have outperformed villages and rural areas over the past year, says Savills.
The agency says that with...
Landlord Today would like to wish all landlords and their families and colleagues a wonderful Christmas 2021.
It’s been an exhausting year for the industry, mostly for...
Shelter claims that 200,000 children living in privately rented homes are at risk of being evicted this winter – equivalent to one in every 50 children in England.
A study for the campaigning charity claims that 104,000 private renting families had received an eviction notice...
The Home Office has issued yet another iteration of its guidance for landlords on how to conduct Right To Rent checks.
The previous update was on July...
Another council is encouraging landlords and tenants to get help to improve the energy efficiency of rented properties.
Shropshire Council says there are national grants available for...
Over half of private landlords responding to a new survey say recent tax changes in the rental market have had a negative impact on their investment...
Shelter has given what appears to be unconditional support to the SNP-Green proposals for reform of the private rental sector in Scotland, including national rent controls...
Scotland’s controversial Green Party housing chief - who is part of a governing arrangement with Nicola Sturgeon’s Scottish National Party - has published details of his...
A leading market forecaster has described the level of rent rises in one part of the country as “going ballistic”.
“The London lettings market has undergone a...
A leading experts on the private rental sector predicts it will take three years for the government to scrap Section 21 evictions powers.
Paul Shamplina - Head...
A company that works with private landlords to supply homes to ease London councils’ homeless issues, has won funds to secure 4,000 homes over the next...
Housing minister Chris Pincher has written an open letter to all landlords in England, telling them how to enact the government’s so-called Winter Plan to tackle...
The National Residential Landlords Association has described a six months notice period for tenants as “yet another body blow to landlords.”
Over the weekend the Welsh government...
Proposals to force landlords to pay up to £10,000 to improve energy efficiency of rental properties require a rethink, according to the national body for landlords.
In...
Landlord confidence remains high with a third of those questioned in a surveying plan to expand their portfolio in the next 12 months.
Shawbrook Bank says 34...
Inventory clerks can play a part in reducing the spread of the Omicron variant of Covid, by being sensible and safe.
“Throughout the whole pandemic, we have...
Rogue landlords in one area of London could face unlimited fines, criminal convictions and bans from letting out properties.
The measures are set out in Hackney council’s...
Bristol-based lettings management company Iletpro Ltd has been ordered to pay a total of £2,700.06 in fines and costs for failing to obtain HMO licences for...
Propertymark chief executive Nathan Emerson has given his prediction as to what the big issues will be in the 2022 lettings market.
“The private rental sector is...
A law practice claims to have seen increasing numbers of landlords falling foul of revised possession deadlines.
Newport-based Bellavia & Associates says the law in relation to...
Landlords have been issued with five top tips on how to use heating systems more efficiently and safely in a bid to avoid boiler breakdown.
The most...
ARLA Propertymark has launched a radical programme of reform for the private rental sector - getting in before the government’s own Renters’ Reform White Paper expected...
Proposals to introduce an Additional Licensing scheme for HMOs in yet another part of the country are to be discussed by a council today.
The move follows...
A landlord operating a House in Multiple Occupation without a licence has been fined £5,000.
An officer from Chesterfield council carried out an inspection at the property in...
Landlords with mortgages may be sighing with relief as some commentators are forecasting that the Bank of England will not, after all, raise the base rate...
Build To Rent apartment brand Essential Living is giving its tenants five New Year’s Resolutions for 2022.
1. Create Home Working Space: With Covid restrictions increasing, working...
High profile MP Caroline Lucas has told a newspaper that the government turns a blind eye to bad landlords.
“This government, like previous Tory governments, treats renters as...
A young law student has won a year-long battle against a landlord over the state of his rental accommodation.
Jack Simm, 19, described winning the case at...
It’s being reported in the mainstream press that the government may give landlords an extra year to make rental homes more energy efficient.
This would shift the deadline for...
A lettings platform claims a substantial number of tenants spend over £1,000 on decorating their landlord’s property.
Flatshare platform SpareRoom claims that with renters spending more time...
The Daily Telegraph is reporting that Purplebricks could face a bill of as much as £30m “after it put thousands of landlords at risk of being fined.”
The...
A London council has prosecuted a rogue landlord after a 30 month saga regarding the condition of an apartment.
Richmond council received a complaint back in March 2019 from...
Landlords selling up or converting to short lets have led to a growing housing crisis, according to a trade body of local authorities.
Some 76 per cent...
The trade body representing Airbnb and other short let providers and sector suppliers says the short let industry is best placed to accommodate tenants with pets.
It...
A lodger who punched, kicked and bit his landlord after being challenged about his drinking has been jailed.
Mickey Boots punched the landlord in the face before...
ARLA Propertymark is expressing concern at the latest figures showing a fall in the size of the private rental sector.
The latest findings from the English Housing...
Activists in the Generation Rent campaign group are urging the government to introduce what it calls “a winter truce” with no evictions.
The Baroness who is the...
The National Residential Landlords Association has thrown its weight behind the recommendations of the National Audit Office report urging the government and councils to create a...
A report by the National Audit Office has sharply criticised the government and councils for not doing enough to help tenants in the private rental sector.
A...
An investigation conducted by The Mirror newspaper claims to have found that 55 out of 72 buy to let mortgage lenders have conditions in their loans...
The National Residential Landlords Association says fewer tenants now have Covid-related arrears - but for those who do, the debt is still increasing.
A survey of over...
Shelter claims the end of the eviction ban has contributed to creating over 274,000 people who are homeless in England right now, including 126,000 children.
Shelter’s interpretation of official rough-sleeping and temporary accommodation figures shows that one in every 206 people in England is currently without...
A council is set to ask local landlords of rental properties to join an accreditation scheme to improve standards and deliver better homes for tenants.
Milton Keynes...
A new large-scale Build To Rent landlord, which describes itself as providing “high-quality luxury student accommodation,” has revealed a second scheme in a major university city.
Study...
Tenants, landlords and those living or working near houses in multiple occupation in Portsmouth are being urged to share their experiences in a survey before it...
A new large-scale Build To Rent landlord, which describes itself as providing “high-quality luxury student accommodation,” has revealed a second scheme in a major university city.
Study...
Paragon Bank increased buy to let lending to landlords by 33.9 per cent to £1.61 billion in its last financial year, the company says.
Paragon’s BTL pipeline...
Another no-deposit renting scheme has been launched, pledging to make life easier for landlords and tenants.
Rental guarantor service Housing Hand’s new product - called Depositless -...
Landlords with properties in part of Lincolnshire could benefit from Government funding secured by North East Lincolnshire Council and its regeneration partner EQUANS.
The scheme offers external...
A housing chief in a controversial council has tweeted that “Private landlords must be held accountable!”.
She also claims on social media that the rental sector is...
A council says it’s working with police to target landlords which it claims are flouting the law and illegally eviction and harassing tenants.
A statement from Mendip...
The government has approved a vast landlord licensing scheme in Liverpool - but even including 45,000 homes it is still much smaller than the local authority...
A Labour council in London has announced plans to expand its crackdown on what it calls “shoddy landlords.”
Southwark council says the majority of landlords in the...
Detectives are urging landlords to remain cautious following to discovery of a number of cannabis farms in rented properties.
In the past month alone officers in the...
An initiative set up earlier this year to help support private rented sector tenants and landlords has proved its worth according to the council behind the...
Landlords in the west country struggling with high fuel bills are being urged to take advantage of a free money-saving advice call or home visit from...
Investors seeking capital appreciation in the country’s most expensive residential markets have been given new data by a leading agency.
Bective has revealed which prime London postcodes...
A high profile PropTech entrepreneur has come out against the scrapping of Section 21 eviction powers for landlords.
Alexander Siedes, chief executive and founder of Homeppl, says it...
A council is consulting over a range of private rental sector measures.
Leicester council is proposing a range of measures requiring landlords and properties to be licensed.
Three...
Demand for rooms has rocketed in recent months, coinciding with a huge shortage in the number of rooms available in the UK.
That’s the headline from the...
A council says it’s going to contact local landlords to remind them of legal restrictions concerning energy efficiency.
Caerphilly council says it’s telling landlords that since April...
Landlords have welcomed an initiative to provide £30m to work with the private rental sector to end homelessness.
Local authorities in Wales are expected to be able...
More than half of landlords with properties rated EPC D or below are considering selling because of stringent energy efficiency rules on their way.
New research from...
Property prices will fall 1.1 per cent this month - December - according to a forecast by comparison service Reallymoving.
However any dip in capital value for landlords’...
Lewisham council in London is introducing a new licensing scheme for all Houses of Multiple Occupancy - claiming it will improve standards for renters and tackle...
The Welsh Government has announced a £30m pot from which councils can pay for easing properties from private landlords.
Under the Welsh Government’s new Private Rented Sector Leasing...
Conservative opposition councillors have derailed a local authority’s plan to introduce a landlord licensing scheme this week.
Southend council is run by a coalition of Labour, Liberal...
Shelter claims its helpline has received 1,000 callers a day since the eviction ban began easing at the start of summer.
It says the helpline - free to...
The Law Society of England and Wales has welcomed the proposal for tenants facing eviction to receive enhanced legal assistance.
“It would be a welcome step to make...
A cross-party survey of MPs shows that they want to scale up the installation of renewable heating technologies in existing homes, including those in the private...
Demand for private rental housing is at an all time high according to new research by the National Residential Landlords Association.
A survey of private landlords across...
Councils north of the border will be given powers to ensure short-term lets are safe and meet the needs of local communities under legislation being put...
Two landlords who jointly own a property to let in Wrexham have been fined for failing to licence it appropriately.
Christopher Tye and Darren Evans pleaded guilty...
The government is proposing that tenants facing eviction receive additional legal assistance through an enhancement of the current free ‘on-the-day’ law advice given by the Housing...
A Citizens Advice helpline has opened in Wales for both renters struggling with arrears, and for landlords who believe their tenants are in a difficult position.
Citizens...
A large scale survey of tenants suggests there’s a real enthusiasm for them to leave major cities and relocate elsewhere, so long as remote working was...
The UK’s largest provider of inventory services says rising tenancy lengths make a combination of inventories and regular inspections more valuable than ever.
No Letting Go cites...
Purplebricks is refusing to say how many landlords were affected by its failure to comply with the law requiring tenants’ deposits to be placed in a government-backed...
A lettings agent claims progress on climate change and energy efficiency is likely to be undermined by what he calls “dodgy landlords.”
Ajay Jagota, who runs the KIS...
Landlords are benefitting from widespread rent rises across the UK - with even London seeing a turnaround.
This is according to lettings agency Hamptons which suggests that...
An unnamed landlord has been banned from letting out his property after allowing it to fall into poor condition.
He was served with a Prohibition Order by...
A private landlord who failed to carry out essential safety work has been fined for ignoring an Emergency Prohibition Order.
Mohammed Deryo, of Manchester, pleaded guilty to...
A council is appealing to landlords to reach out if they are having problems with a tenant - instead of possibly moving towards an eviction.
The Home...
A local council has prosecuted a rogue landlord for illegally evicting a young couple from their accommodation in Cheltenham.
The landlord - Lidia Szopinska of Camden, London...
Landlords in the heart of the London commuter belt are being asked to come forward if they can provide accommodation for Afghan refugees.
St Albans council is...
Fines on landlords and letting agents that fall foul of London council regulations have risen dramatically in the past month alone.
Research by PropTech firm Kamma suggests...
The government has announced that carbon monoxide alarms must be fitted in all private rental properties with fixed appliances such as gas boilers or fires.
The new...
A new deal between a trade body and a high profile industry supplier means landlords can now hire assistants to handle viewings on their behalf.
The National...
Over half of tenants who have stayed at short let home-based properties via Airbnb or similar platforms have broken or damaged something at a host’s premises,...
Bulb Energy, which has 1.7m customers - including, it is thought, many thousands of landlords - is to be put into administration.
It is the seventh-largest UK...
The number of repossession cases in the courts involving landlords using Section 21 notices has plummeted over the past two years.
A new analysis of government data,...
Landlords with family properties are in the pound seats when it comes to rent increases, according to data from lettings agency Hamptons.
It says the desire for...
Lewisham council in south London is introducing a new licensing scheme for all HMOs in the borough.
It claims this will help improve standards for all renters...
Some 6,000 signatures have so far been added to an online petition calling on the Welsh Parliament to “address” the issue of second homes.
A website called...
A council in a largely-rural area of Suffolk is the latest to have won additional funding to push landlords into making their properties increasingly energy-efficient.
Babergh and...
The long-running saga of unscrupulous landlords taking advantage of lone tenants to suggest a ‘sex for rent’ arrangement continues with a debate in the House of...
A couple have been fined over £13,000 after they were found guilty of unlawfully evicting four tenants and breaching management regulations on a property they rented...
A leading politician in Wales has spoken out in favour of second homeowners, who are under increasing scrutiny in that country and elsewhere in the UK.
The...
Salford is the latest city to launch a consultation seeking views on plans to expand its selective licensing scheme - claiming the move would “ensure all...
Activists in the Acorn pro-tenant movement have sharply criticised the Green Party which runs Brighton council for allegedly failing to prosecute a sufficient number of rogue...
Recognise Bank has entered the rental market with a new product designed for professional landlords and investors with portfolios of at least four properties.
The product - called...
The Green Party says the fact that some landlords increased rents during the Coronavirus pandemic shows the need for rent controls.
The Scottish wing of the party...
Avoiding over-regulation across the UK should be a priority to keep existing landlords in the sector as well as attracting buy to let investment.
That’s the view...
Private sector landlords are being warned by a council to check their investments meet the legal minimum energy efficiency standard, or risk a fine up to...
A statement on the National Residential Landlords Association’s website says the group has had talks with government over rental reform.
The long-awaited White Paper - recently pushed...
Airbnb is making more overt attempts to lure long term renters away from traditional landlords.
In recent days it’s revealed new policies clearly aimed at trying to...
A business analyst is warning owners of older properties that the value of their assets may be cut if energy efficiency becomes a more central factor...
Acute tenant demand over the third quarter of 2021 has propelled UK rental growth to its highest level for over a decade, says Zoopla.
The market is...
Belfast council has unanimously passed a motion calling for the Northern Ireland Executive to introduce a rent control scheme for the city.
Under Northern Ireland law, the...
A right wing think tank has published a blog post suggesting that while rent controls appear a popular help for current tenants, they do substantial harm...
The Times has highlighted chaotic scenes at HM Revenue and Customs where a landlord, amongst others, has been impacted.
According to its report for the past tax...
Despite dire warnings from Generation Rent, Shelter and other campaigners, it appears that the end of the eviction ban did NOT produce the flurry of evictions...
A new bank called Monument wants buy to let portfolio landlords and other ‘serious’ property investors to be amongst its relatively affluent client base.
Its launch statement...
The sleaze allegations engulfing the government have moved to those MPs letting out their London homes while claiming money from taxpayers for themselves renting accommodation elsewhere...
A Labour councillor in a Green Party-controlled local authority wants the body to name and shame rogue landlords on a publicly-available database.
Councillor Gill Williams - who...
It’s understood there will be a Christmas truce with tenants not enduring bailiff-enforced evictions between December 13 and January 10.
HM Courts and Tribunal has confirmed that...
A poll suggests that many private tenants admit to being more interested in the tidiness of their properties than safety within it.
When asked what they prioritised...
Another charity has criticised landlords using eviction powers on tenants with Covid-related arrears.
StepChange, a debt advice charity, says it wants to see how the government’s much-publicised...
A government housing minister has confirmed to the House of Lords that a new tax regime for Airbnb hosts and holiday let landlords is being prepared.
Earlier...
A lettings sector trade body is blasting local authorities for their poor record on trying to eliminate rogue landlords.
The National Residential Landlords Association says two thirds...
A new report from the government’s Office for National Statistics appears to show landlords are ahead of the game when it comes to making properties energy...
Only six per cent of brokers questioned in a survey have ever sold a green mortgage, despite the high public profile of energy saving products.
That’s the...
A London council is consulting on what it claims to be “a groundbreaking property licensing scheme.”
Newham council says its licensing of more than 40,000 property has been...
A landlord group is advising members to think carefully about a ‘special offer’ from a local authority attempting to tie them into a licensing deal.
The Isle of...
A landlord has been given a severe warning over a Glasgow apartment that has been home to a noisy bagpiper and has hosted several anti-social parties.
The property...
There is a fear that work required to bring rental units up to new Energy Performance Certificate levels by 2025 could render many of them “unmortgageable...
Many agencies give their forecasts for the following year or years in the late autumn, but one of the most detailed and respected comes from Savills.
It’s...
An innovative pilot project aiming to reduce evictions by providing free mediation between private landlords and tenants has been launched in Portsmouth - but it’s running...
A series of online interviews with landlords suggests far fewer of them have been seriously impacted by the Coronavirus pandemic than had been feared.
Research on behalf...
A landlord has been fined and sentenced to a 12-month community order for failing to maintain gas appliances at a rental property.
Colchester Magistrates’ Court heard how...
Rogue landlords who create portfolios of overcrowded, unregulated and unsafe properties - including the infamous beds in sheds - now face a more coordinated investigation of...
A landlord has been fined £24,750 and told to repay his tenants almost £47,000 in rent.
In December 2018, Preston council responded to a tenant's complaint about...
The majority of private landlords helping tenants out during the pandemic by cutting their rent absorbed the losses from their savings according to new research.
The research...
A local authority has launched a free service seeking to avoid evictions.
New Forest council says its 'Call Before You Serve' programme is a no-charge service providing landlords with advice and support...
A council in the north of England has identified 166 private rental properties within the district that do not comply with new energy efficiency standards.
Mansfield council...
The live launch of a roundtable event hosted by rental payments platform PayProp takes place tomorrow – and landlords can still sign up to attend.
Attendees to...
The National Residential Landlords Association is joining forces with Flintshire council in Wales to stage a virtual landlord forum.
The Zoom event, on Wednesday December 8 from...
The Primis mortgage network, owned by estate agency-led company LSL Property Services, says it’s seen a surge of enquiries regarding holiday let mortgages.
A statement from LSL...
Labour has echoed campaign groups Generation Rent and Shelter in calling for the speediest possible ending of Section 21 eviction powers, as pledged by the Conservatives...
One of the industry’s leading legal voices is warning that the next change proposed to EPC requirements will affect almost half of the UK’s entire buy...
A council says it’s offering landlords what it calls ‘an enforcement amnesty’ if they have failed to bring their rental units up to appropriate energy efficient...
The steps landlords need to take to improve their own image and enhance their reputation in the eyes of consumers was just one of many points discussed...
PropTech firm Kamma says well over 100,000 private rental homes across the UK are being let illegally because they already fail to meet EPC requirements.
Geospatial technology...
A Midlands city is starting consultation on a major extension of powers over HMOs.
Leicester council wants to have an extended Article 4 Direction, which would mean...
Private landlords, tenants and letting agents are being asked to give their views on a Labour council’s tenancy strategy in London.
The draft sets out how Enfield...
The proportion of landlords feeling optimistic about different aspects of letting is at the highest level for five years.
As part of research carried out on behalf of Paragon...
Savills estimates that £330 billion is needed to implement all energy efficiency improvements to the UK housing sector to meet EPC level C by 2035.
That's far...
The scrapping of Section 21 and other provisions expected in the government’s White Paper on rental reform have been delayed until next year - and that’s...
The Barrows and Forrester agency has prepared a tenant guide for those hoping to hold fireworks displays at their rental home in the coming days.
Is this...
Landlords, tenants and residents in parts of Nottingham may be eligible for free home safety improvements to crackdown on burglary.
Nottinghamshire police force has secured £432,000 from...
Reigate and Banstead council is appealing to private landlords with vacant, or soon-to-be vacant, two, three or four-bedroom homes for rent.
The council has pledged to accommodate...
Landlord Gordon Lee has been sentenced to 12-months' community service and must pay the full costs of his fire safety court case within 28 days.
He had...
Landlords in the East Midlands are invited to a virtual forum to find out about the implementation of two new licensing schemes.
Charnwood council will be introducing...
It now appears that landlords had a narrow escape with this week’s Budget.
The Daily Telegraph has discovered that a report by the Office for Budget Responsibility...
A new trade body called PLAN launches this month with the aim of representing large scale Portfolio Landlords with 75 properties or more.
Portfolio Landlords Action Network...
The Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities says the long-awaited Rental Reform White Paper will now not be published until next year.
It had long been...
A council says it’s going to spend £70,000 of central government money to help “engage” with landlords over issues of energy efficiency.
Exeter’s Labour council has been...
Landlords and owners of empty homes in North Somerset are invited to a free event next month to find out more about council help and incentives.
The...
The council in Harrogate, Yorkshire, has issued what appears to be a celebration statement about its legal action against rogue landlords.
The authority has successfully issued seven...
Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Budget has made one small but welcome change to Capital Gains Tax.
For those selling UK residential property, including landlords, the deadline to file...
The Budget revealed by Chancellor Rishi Sunak does too little to help many of those struggling most to pay their rents.
That’s the view of the chief...
Paragon Bank is doubling both the maximum loan amount it lends on an individual property and the total buy to let borrowing limit with the company.
The...
A fire and rescue service is asking landlords who own or manage HMOs to get involved in a pilot scheme.
Over the coming weeks, firefighters from Northamptonshire...
The UK Muslim charity National Zakat Foundation has introduced a Covid Recovery Scheme to support tenants at risk of eviction.
The charity which collects Zakat - an...
Orkney Council wants private landlords who hold family accommodation to come forward if they would be suitable for Afghan families.
Councillors recently gave support to Afghan households...
There’s a new warning to landlords purchasing properties about a spike in scams which have seen victims defrauded out of hundreds of thousands of pounds.
The Law...
A property company claims that 14 per cent of renters are so distressed by their living situation they believe it is causing them symptoms of depression.
Wayhome...
An independent think-tank is the latest organisation wanting landlord licensing schemes across England plus a nationa landlord register, emulating similar schemes operating in Scotland and Wales.
The...
A planning inspector has ordered a rogue landlord to comply with enforcement notices after being found to be illegally renting two properties - one of which...
Landlords are hesitant about buying more property according to a new study by Simply Business.
The study of 560 landlords from across the UK reveals that government...
The National Residential Landlords Association has agreed a new commercial partnership with online electrical retailer AO.
This new partnership means that AO is now a supplier of...
The protest movement against second homes in Wales appears to be gathering pace.
The BBC reports that over 150 campaigners have gathered in Pembrokeshire, to demand action...
New figures from the National Home Building Council suggests the popularity of detached properties has soared during the pandemic - prompting the question as to whether...
The Generation Rent activist group has repeated its call for a landlord register in England, saying it could mean more tax revenues for HMRC.
It also wants...
Landlords in England with tenants in rent arrears because of Covid are to be helped via a new £65m debt fund.
Although announced today by the newly-renamed Department for...
The government has today announced a new cash injection for councils to clampdown on landlords whose properties fail to meet energy efficiency standards.
Some 59 local authorities...
Adrian Ramsay, newly-elected co-leader of the Green Party, wants a windfall tax on the value of investment properties owned by private landlords.
He claims this would be...
Three criminal landlords have paid £350,000 in fines after being found guilty of illegal ‘beds in sheds’.
Brian Linskey and Catherine Hallahan were fined £265,000 after constructing...
Two married landlords from Southall have been ordered to pay over £290,000 after failing to comply with a planning enforcement notice.
Kartar and Surinder Khosa were served an...
There’s been another report of a council targeting landlords over rubbish.
A Community Protection Warning was served on an empty house in Scunthorpe last year followed by...
The head of a building body says landlords and home owners need a replacement for the defunct Green Homes Grant to fund basic eco-improvements.
The government’s new...
Private and commercial bank Arbuthnot Latham has set out what it considers to be the 10 easy mistakes which some landlords make.
It says the some, perhaps...
Half of landlords are positive about the future but new regulations and tax changes are causing concern, according to new research from AXA UK.
A survey of...
Over 150,000 households in Britain are in ‘exempt’ accommodation, a rental sector which some say is “dangerously under-regulated.”
‘Exempt accommodation’ is intended for people with support needs,...
Generation Rent has commented on the government’s Net Zero goals, involving phasing out boilers and introducing heat pumps into rental properties.
While rental bodies such as the...
A landlord must pay thousands of pounds after illegally letting an outbuilding for over three years.
Paul Vig admitted failing to comply with a Planning Enforcement Notice which...
The government should factor in the property market’s huge regional variations when offering landlords incentives to become more energy efficient.
That’s the call from the think tank Localis,...
Tenant demand across the private rental sector is at a record high according to buy to let specialist the Paragon Bank.
A survey of 600 landlords conducted...
A piecemeal approach to how the private rental sector meets government climate change targets is fraught with problems, the landlords trade body says.
The government’s Heat and...
A Labour councillor in the Lake District says second home owners who let their properties should be obliged to pay five times the regular council tax.
The...
Experts are already warning of shortcomings in the government’s latest Green initiative, banning new boilers from 2035 and offering £5,000 grants towards the installation of heat...
London lettings agency Chestertons says the number of tenants in the capital is now at an annual high.
The agency’s latest market review, comparing September 2020 to...
A Labour-controlled local authority with a reputation for clampdowns on rogue landyhas issued a statement celebrating its successes.
Tower Hamlets council in east London says it has...
It’s been confirmed that landlords and other home owners in England and Wales will be offered subsidies of £5,000 from April to help replace old gas...
A leading market analyst says the looming threat of rent controls may be deterring landlords entering the buy to let sector, or deterring existing ones from...
The government is poised to announce a ban on the installation of gas boilers by 2035.
Instead home owners including landlords will be offered £5,000 grants to...
Foundation Home Loans has launched its new ‘Green ABC+’ fixed rate products for both buy to let and owner occupied mortgages, with rates and cashback based on...
A new PropTech platform says it allows easy digital contact between tenants, landlords and third party suppliers avoiding the need to use a lettings agent.
RentOnCloud claims...
The proportion of private renters in arrears in England has more than doubled during the Covid-19 pandemic according to government data.
The latest Household Resilience Study reveals...
A local authority admits it is using covert cameras to spot landlords illegally fly-tipping.
Darlington council claims there have been several incidents reported in recent weeks in...
A London landlord has been ordered to pay almost £275,000 for failing to comply with an existing planning enforcement notice.
Mrs Anja Bawa was served an enforcement...
Fabrik Invest, which works with holiday parks across the UK, says the staycation boom is here to stay despite the easing of travel restrictions.
“The longer-term nature...
New research shows that the average rental yield in Britain has remained at roughly 4.2 per cent throughout the pandemic.
Regionally, the North West continues to top...
Shelter says 20 per cent of private and social renters in England suffer poor health because of the condition of their properties.
A YouGov poll commissioned by...
If you let out holiday properties or have switched to Airbnb or similar platforms, tax inspectors may be coming for you.
Accountancy firm UHY Hacker Young says...
Another report has highlighted how landlords feel intimidated into putting investment plans on ice because of red tape in the private rental sector.
The survey by rental...
A major supplier to the lettings sector says there’s no reason landlords should not allow pets into properties so long as there is a tightly-written contract,
Inventory management...
Around 20 per cent of landlords surveyed by a bank used a credit card or short-term finance to fund a recent refurbishment.
The research found that close...
A lettings agent says a new HMO licensing regime in one of London’s highest profile boroughs will reduce the number of rental properties.
New licensing rules came into...
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