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Buy to let lender Aldermore has named Bristol, as the best city for landlords to invest in for 2024. Manchester, Coventry, Brighton...
06 March 2024
From: Breaking News
The controversial activist group Acorn has made a formal public apology to the chief executive of the National Residential Landlords Association. On...
04 January 2024
From: Breaking News
A local authority is introducing charges for the issuing of Improvement Notices to landlords - and has chosen to announce it...
18 December 2023
From: Breaking News
A council is telling landlords that its new selective licensing fee is so low it should be entirely tax deductible and...
25 September 2023
From: Breaking News
One in eight tenants admit to letting out part or all of their rented property - and that rises to a...
28 July 2023
From: Breaking News
A council has issued a stern warning to landlords that the current situation in which hundreds of homes have non-compliant EPC...
19 June 2023
From: Breaking News
Landlords are exiting the market in droves. According to an accountancy firm who analysed HMRC data, 70,000 buy-to-let landlords left the sector...
06 April 2023
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An immediate private sector rent freeze and eviction ban for the duration of the cost of living crisis is the key...
06 April 2023
From: Breaking News
A landlord who failed to provide a fire detection and alarm system in an HMO has been fined a total of...
14 February 2023
From: Breaking News
A local authority controlled by the Green Party says it’s issued 550 per cent more fines against landlords in the past...
30 January 2023
From: Breaking News
An unlikely location heads the latest league table purporting to show the highest returns on property investment. Aldermore’s Buy To let City...
27 January 2023
From: Breaking News
A Wirral landlord has become the first in the region to be served with a Banning Order, which will prohibit him...
19 January 2023
From: Breaking News
Two groups of activists who campaign for rent controls and reform of the private lettings sector have turned on each other. Acorn...
29 November 2022
From: Breaking News
The MPs Natalie Elphicke and Lloyd Russell-Moyle are to lead a debate today in the House of Commons on the private rental...
03 November 2022
From: Breaking News
A 10 week consultation by Portsmouth council on proposals for new HMO licensing has finished with 1,050 responses. Licences are required for...
17 August 2022
From: Breaking News
Landlords in London contributed to an extraordinary £440m in stamp duty paid on purchases in the first six months since the...
21 July 2022
From: Breaking News
A new league table shows landlords the cities across the UK where the highest average Airbnb nightly prices are charged. The data,...
19 July 2022
From: Breaking News
A new survey claims to show the rent differences between furnished and unfurnished homes to let in various cities. For example London...
24 June 2022
From: Breaking News
Another council is conducting a consultation process aimed at renewing its existing landlord licensing for a further five years. Sefton council has...
18 May 2022
From: Breaking News
A consultation is underway into the extension of yet another private landlord licensing scheme for a further five years. Since March 2018...
10 May 2022
From: Breaking News
A pressure group of campaigners highly critical of landlords and letting agents is organising protests at cities this weekend. Acorn - which...
07 April 2022
From: Breaking News
Covid-19 has undoubtedly shifted the way new landlords will be looking to invest in 2022, and our ranking makes it clear...
22 January 2022
From: Tax & Finance
New preliminary figures released by CBRE reveal that a record £4.1 billion was invested in the UK’s Build to Rent sector...
15 January 2022
From: The Big Issues
High profile MP Caroline Lucas has told a newspaper that the government turns a blind eye to bad landlords. “This government, like previous...
14 December 2021
From: Breaking News
Activists in the Acorn pro-tenant movement have sharply criticised the Green Party which runs Brighton council for allegedly failing to prosecute...
19 November 2021
From: Breaking News
A Labour councillor in a Green Party-controlled local authority wants the body to name and shame rogue landlords on a publicly-available...
15 November 2021
From: Breaking News
The SpareRoom online service has drawn up what it calls an affordability guide, which is effectively a league table of room...
23 August 2021
From: Breaking News
Housing minister Chris Pincher has confirmed that the definition of ‘substantial arrears’ for the purposes of possession orders and evictions will...
25 January 2021
From: Breaking News
Insurance company CIA landlord has prepared a league table of the most and least profitable locations for buy to let landlords. It’s...
25 January 2021
From: Breaking News
A Labour MP is demanding action against unscrupulous predator landlords who demand sex from tenants in lieu of rent. The Daily Mail...
04 January 2021
From: Breaking News
A ‘city tracker’ operated by a specialist buy to let mortgage company has outlined the best - and worst - places...
24 November 2020
From: Breaking News
A league table of UK cities where it takes the longest for first time buyers to save for a deposit may...
11 November 2020
From: Breaking News
Generation Rent activists are back on the warpath, this time accusing councils of not doing enough - and sometimes nothing -...
12 October 2020
From: Breaking News
Renting out a property as a short-term let or holiday home has proved extremely profitable for some property investors, and a...
30 July 2020
From: Breaking News
Brighton has been named the most profitable city to invest in for buy-to-let landlords in the UK. Landlords investing in Brighton’s buy-to-let...
27 February 2020
From: Breaking News
A new online calculator highlighting how much more rent landlords can make by letting to holidaymakers via Airbnb across a range...
07 February 2020
From: Breaking News
The locations that saw the biggest house price increases in the last year have been unveiled by the Post Office Money. The...
14 January 2020
From: Breaking News
Despite the recent tax and regulatory changes, buy-to-let continues to look an attractive income investment at a time of low-interest rates...
10 December 2019
From: Breaking News
An HMO landlord’s attempt to rent out bedrooms smaller than the national minimum size has been thwarted after his legal case...
09 September 2019
From: Breaking News
With the summer holiday season in full swing, UK coastal districts are seeing a boom in staycation bookings. Cornwall was discovered to...
13 August 2019
From: Breaking News
Top-flight football returns this weekend, with Liverpool preparing for tonight’s Premier League opener versus Norwich City, but what team should landlords...
09 August 2019
From: Breaking News
A landlord has been ordered to pay £7,000 for neglecting the garden at one of his properties and allowing to become...
19 June 2019
From: Breaking News
Legal & General has been granted planning permission to develop the Longley Industrial Estate into Brighton’s first Build to Rent (BTR)...
27 March 2019
From: Breaking News
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...
26 March 2019
From: Breaking News
A number of buy-to-let landlords prefer to rent out property on a room by room basis instead of renting the whole...
15 February 2019
From: Breaking News
Property website Zoopla is trialling a new Property Valuation Report (PVR) in nine areas across the country ahead of a broader...
04 December 2018
From: Breaking News
A private landlord who illegally modernised an historic house in Brighton has been told by a judge to pay out more...
23 October 2018
From: Breaking News
Brighton and Hove Council has given the go-ahead for new selective landlord licensing to be introduced across 12 wards in the...
20 September 2018
From: Breaking News
A now former landlord has been fined £20,000 for putting the lives of five residents at risk after a broke out...
13 August 2018
From: Breaking News
One in three renters never intend to buy their own home, mainly because they are happy living in the private rented sector,...
13 July 2018
From: Breaking News
Colchester has been named the best place for buy-to-let investors in today’s market, based on a combination of capital value growth,...
03 April 2018
From: Breaking News
The average tenancy deposit paid by tenants in Britain’s largest cities now stands at £1,057, with deposits for properties in London and...
12 March 2018
From: Breaking News
Legal & General has announced that it will be creating 200 new Build to Rent (BTR) homes in Brighton as part...
01 February 2018
From: Breaking News
The average two-year buy-to-let fixed mortgage deal at 75% loan-to-value (LTV) has fallen to a record-low of 2.47%, as many landlords...
30 January 2018
From: Breaking News
Tenants are spending an increasing proportion of their earnings on rent, new figures have revealed. Fresh research undertaken by rentals platform CreditLadder...
11 January 2018
From: Breaking News
UK rents grew by 0.56% in 2017, led by gains in London commuter hotspots, according to the latest rental price index...
08 January 2018
From: Breaking News
Ever since Margaret Thatcher declared her belief in a ‘property-owning democracy’ and introduced Right to Buy in 1980, the UK was...
11 December 2017
From: Breaking News
Buy-to-let landlords can still expect to achieve double-digit yields when investing up north, fresh research shows. A new survey by TotallyMoney provides...
17 November 2017
From: Breaking News
There has been a significant increase in the number of students living in purpose-built student accommodation across Britain, making it harder...
26 October 2017
From: Breaking News
Jeremy Corbyn has vowed to give cities the power to introduce rent controls under a Labour government. Yesterday was the last day...
28 September 2017
From: Breaking News
A tenant who has won a legal case permitting him to pay cheap rent for life has panned his landlord for...
29 August 2017
From: Breaking News
Maintaining your property is one of the most important aspects of being a homeowner or landlord, and that includes giving your...
02 August 2017
From: Breaking News
Rogue landlords who target vulnerable people for sex by posting online classified adverts offering accommodation in exchange for other services, could...
01 August 2017
From: Breaking News
Fresh research using a combination of house prices, salaries and rental prices suggest that Stoke-on-Trent is the best destination to invest...
19 June 2017
From: Breaking News
Some rogue landlords are targeting young, vulnerable people for sex by posting online classified adverts offering accommodation in exchange for other...
18 April 2017
From: Breaking News
A landlord has been fined more than £45,000 after 12 people were found living in slum-like conditions in a four storey...
18 April 2017
From: Breaking News
The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) is urging landlords to lobby their local MP over taxation changes announced by the now former...
24 February 2017
From: Breaking News
Rents in the residential property sector are continuing to rise across many parts of the UK with no fewer than 20...
13 February 2017
From: Breaking News
The Southern Rail strikes which have caused disruption for commuters have started to have an impact on rental price growth in...
23 January 2017
From: Breaking News
The supply of homes listed on the market to let has fallen sharply now that pretty much all of the buy-to-let...
18 October 2016
From: Breaking News
Student rents have increased by as much as 10% over the past 12 months amid a severe housing shortage across the...
16 September 2016
From: Breaking News
Buy-to-let landlords seeking high rental yields should consider buying properties to let to students in the north of England, research suggests. Of...
26 August 2016
From: Breaking News
The most lucrative university cities in the UK, based on house prices, rents and growth in local housing markets, have been...
10 August 2016
From: Breaking News
There has been a notable increase in the number of people wanting to step off the property ladder and rent in...
27 July 2016
From: Breaking News
A new study which looked at coastal towns across England and Wales has found that Hull offers landlords the highest average rental...
24 June 2016
From: Breaking News
British pensioners are increasingly choosing a rent a home by the seaside when they retire because the cost of buying property...
10 June 2016
From: Breaking News
In less than seven years Sawyer & Co has become the fastest growing Lettings Agents in Brighton & Hove. Silver winners of...
16 February 2016
From: Sponsored Content
Data from Homelet shows that Brighton, Bristol, Edinburgh and Newcastle showed the highest rental increases in 2015. HomeLet’s annual review of the...
12 January 2016
From: Breaking News
Two Brighton & Hove landlords of shared houses have been prosecuted for failing to license their properties as Houses in Multiple...
14 December 2015
From: Breaking News
The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has hit out at claims made by the new Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell. During his speech...
29 September 2015
From: Breaking News
Wakefield, Coventry, Brighton, Nottingham and Greater London top the list of hotspots where tenants new to the area account for the...