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A prominent lawyer has stepped up her criticisms of Housing Secretary Michael Gove and his attacks on buy to let and...

Some 69 per cent of landlords have already or are planning to increase the size of their property portfolio, increasing to...

Painful tax traps have been set for millions of people this year. Your pay may not even have kept pace with...

A prominent analyst says the threat of rising inflation caused by the Red Sea shipping attacks - on top of this...

A third of landlords have suggested they are considering retiring or quitting the sector because of attacks and obstacles in the...

A family of landlords have been jailed for a total of 31 years after committing horrific violence against tenants and in...

The continued attacks on the buy to let sector have resulted in a dramatic decline in investment plans by landlords. A new...

While there has been a shortage of all types of rental accommodation across the UK for several years now, the student...

Over two million more people are likely to be higher rate taxpayers by 2028 – thanks to the freezing of the...

Figures from across the private rental sector have written an open letter to Housing Secretary Michael Gove, calling for a halt...

Whingers who complain about financial perks for landlords and who then complain about rising rents when the perks are withdrawn and...

Generation Rent, which typically attacks all landlords and especially those involved in buy to let, has instead focussed its latest social...

An insurance chief with expertise in the holiday lets sector has stood up for owners who let their properties to holidaymakers...

The latest attack on landlords by Generation Rent director Baroness Alicia Kennedy concerns insulation and household warmth. She claims a quarter of...

A landlord has been accused of a “disgusting offence” after installing a camera in the bathroom of a house he let...

The number of private rental homes has increased by 18,610 in the last five years - defying those suggesting an exodus...

An agency has issued a statement standing shoulder-to-shoulder with landlords and rejecting the negative mood music surrounding the private rental sector. Chris...

In recent years, letting property has become more challenging due to a range of tax and regulation changes and since March...

New figures show that there is no widespread sell-off by landlords, despite the tax and regulation changes of recent years. Data from...

Generation Rent has criticised the aspirations of some landlords who appear on the daytime BBC show Homes Under The Hammer.  “The regular...

It’s common knowledge that asbestos is a highly damaging group of microscopic fibres that can severely impact the health of our...

Many landlords will be familiar with the scourge that is mould. It is a major source of complaints by tenants and...

Despite recent tax and regulatory changes, investment in buy-to-let has outperformed most other major asset classes over the past 10 years,...

The so-called housing charity, Shelter, targeted Ludlow Thompson a few months back, asking its supporters to block the letting agent’s telephone...

Bakr Mohammed bin Laden, the brother of Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden, has been revealed as one of Scotland’s wealthiest buy-to-let...

As the UK prepares to change the way landlords are taxed by scrapping the existing rules that permit them to offset all...

Buy-to-let landlords may have failed last week in their legal battle against planned government tax relief changes for buy-to-let homes set...

George Osborne has slashed the capital gains tax (CGT) rate – but not for landlords, prompting an angry response from the...