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The government has overturned its policy to relax HMO regulations on private rental properties used by asylum seekers. The policy had previously been...

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

This guidance was issued by the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities this week. This guidance is in addition to the...

A council says it is looking to work with more private landlords to help reduce homelessness. Over recent years Shropshire council says...

Generation Rent is promoting another rent freeze campaign. In a short series of tweets, and in relation to the predicted energy price...

Airbnb entered the realm of holiday lettings in 2009, but it wasn’t until 2016 that it really started to gain traction...

A landlord has been fined £3,607 over properties that were so dangerous tenants’ lives were at risk. North Lincolnshire council brought a...

An initiative set up earlier this year to help support private rented sector tenants and landlords has proved its worth according...

A landlord has taken to the local media in his area to express outrage that a council has failed to find...

A landlord has been ordered to pay £2,400 to his former tenants after a tribunal appeal following the issuing of a...

Tenants with arrears accumulated during the pandemic are finding it tough to secure alternative accommodation because their credit scores have been...

A landlord has been handed penalties totalling nearly £8,000 after being found guilty of operating an unlicensed HMO. This follows an investigation...

Wales is the latest part of the UK to follow the example of England and suspend evictions  until January 11 as...

Councils in North Wales want to find out how the Coronavirus pandemic is affecting private tenants. Nearly one in five households in...

With demand still far outstripping supply, buy-to-let remains an attractive asset class, but while the majority of landlords say they are...

More than £500m worth of rental income is lost annually in this country because buy-to-let landlords are often encouraged to sell...

When ex-social worker and professional landlord Leslie-Ann acquired the 18th century two-bedroom cottage she lives next door to four years ago,...

A buy-to-let landlord in Colchester has been fined for poor property management that left a family in Wimpole Road, CO1, living...

Landlords are being encouraged to make crucial preparations to their buy-to-let properties as the winter fast approaches, after a new survey...

Living next to inconsiderate neighbours can be a nightmare, but letting to bad tenants can prove costly. Investing in the private rented...

Significantly more must be done to protect landlords from rogue tenants, according to a couple who were left with a £10,000...

A criminal landlord has been handed a fine of almost £40,000 after he was caught housing 24 tenants in a rental...

In what is a welcome change to the landlord bashing articles often featured in the media, the Daily Mirror and Daily...

A Kent landlord has come under attack for pursuing unpaid rent from three students “too traumatised” to return to their house...

Forty-six residents of a block of converted flats in Luton have been forced to leave their homes after it emerged the...