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The newly re-elected Labour Mayor of Greater Manchester - Andy Burnham - wants to end Right To Buy on new-build homes...

Labour London Mayor Sadiq Khan wants to install ‘mould sensors’ in thousands of rental homes across the capital. In a pledge ahead...

The Renters Reform Bill returns to the House of Commons today with activist groups critical of amendments put forward to reach...

MPs return to the Commons today after a substantial Easter recess - and with progress on the Renters Reform Bill on...

Following a spate of fires in rental properties a home insurance expert is warning people of the hidden fire threat of...

Anonymous reports of energy theft have skyrocketed by 62% since 2021, Crimestoppers’ figures reveal.  In 2023 alone, the charity received 11,552 reports...

Damp and mould are two of the most common issues in rented properties, with surface mould caused by condensation one of...

A flamboyant property in Oxford which has been the subject of a decades-long planning dispute has been removed from Airbnb by...

Urgent action is needed by government to protect tenants who live in poor quality private rented homes, MPs have demanded. A report...

The capital gains tax allowance will be cut on April 6 from £6,000 to £3,000, so more people will pay CGT. The...

The Build To Rent trade body, the UK Apartment Association, is backing the proposals outlined to clampdown on rogue landlords put...

New plans to clamp down on rogue social landlords who fail to provide safe homes have been announced today. This is part...

The National Residential Landlords Association has welcomed a consultation proposal by Greater Manchester’s Labour Mayor, Andy Burnham. Burnham’s Greater Manchester Good Landlord...

Labour’s Mayor of Greater Manchester and former Cabinet minister Andy Burnham says this year is when he will ”get serious” about...

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

A new study by a price comparison platform suggests that many younger Britons are waiting to inherit before buying a home. In...

The Housing Ombudsman - who presides over all social housing - has revealed a huge surge in what it calls “severe...

The National Residential Landlords Association has suspended its link with Less Tax 4 Landlords. This follows publicity surrounding Less Tax 4 Landlords...

Middleton Advisors commissions ongoing research to investigate key trends and structural changes in prime UK housing markets.  Our latest research considers the...

HMRC has contacted Landlord Today to draw attention to new guidance it has issued over a tax avoidance scheme aimed at...

A fire and rescue service is urging tenants to know their rights when it comes to fire safety. Warwickshire Fire and Rescue...

A prominent analyst says her reading of the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors market snapshot makes her believe more house...

A wealth management organisation has raised the spectre that some families may end up overpaying inheritance tax. And with property wealth being...

Buy-to-let landlords with property assets held in a company could be taking advantage of the current dip in house prices to...

The death of a 27-year-old man was not caused by the mould in the private rental property he occupied. That was the verdict...

On occasion, a landlord may find that they need to clear a property after a tenant has left unexpectedly. It might...

A landlord has been ordered to pay over £44,000 after a court found him guilty of a serious housing offence. Giuseppe Sutera,...

A leading buying agent says changing planning priorities amongst London councils are likely to mean that large lateral apartments will maintain...

A group of rental activists in London claims that over 10,000 private rented homes in the borough of Brent have a...

A mortgage expert is warning that today’s mortgage news from prominent lender NatWest could have permanently serious consequences for buy to...

The Nationwide Foundation - a charitable foundation founded by the Nationwide Building Society - says the Renters Reform Bill should be...

A retired bookkeeper lay dead in his flat for six years until a social landlord forced entry to carry out a...

The landlord of a cellar ‘flat’ where a fire resulted in the death of a man has been jailed for breaching...

The Housing Ombudsman has released its special investigation into Rochdale Boroughwide Housing, the social housing provider which supplied accommodation to Awaab...

A not-for-profit business that advocates tenants use Rent Repayment Orders against landlords has issued a furious response to a Supreme Court...

The Regulator of Social Housing has warned landlords in that sector to take immediate action over damp and mould. And the regulator...

A Good Landlord Charter - described as the first of its kind in the UK - is being created by a...

The government says it’s reviewing landlord guidance on the health risks of damp and mould following the death of two year...

A Conservative controlled council in the Cotswolds has written to Housing Secretary Michael Gove, urging him to implement rental reform legislation. The...

The ingenuity of the human race knows no bounds, especially, it seems, when it comes to exploiting opportunities. We have all become...

The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health has written to Housing Secretary Michael Gove urging him to make it easier for councils...

New figures from HMRC this week show that the Treasury raked in another £4.1 billion in inheritance tax receipts in the...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has made an announcement overnight that “the government will always act to protect tenants.” The claim comes as...

The charity Crisis says rising rents are a contributing factor to the homelessness crisis. The comment come as  new data from the...

A council wants private tenants to ‘grass’ on rogue landlords in the light of the tragic death of toddler Awaab Ishak. Telford...

A prominent figure in the lettings industry is warning the Tories against ‘stealth increases’ for Capital Gains and Inheritance taxes. David Alexander...

Generation Rent, the activist group led by Baroness Alicia Kennedy, is staging a Renters Rights Awareness week in October. It was originally...

Both Shelter and Generation Rent have paused their campaigning on social media for the duration of national mourning for The Queen. A...

A range of mortgage brokers are reporting an increase in enquiries from private tenants who have been given first refusal to...

Amateur landlords have fallen out of favour. Buy-to-let properties – once the darling of budding investors looking for stable, long-term returns...

Unintended consequences. Let’s face it, they happen across lots of different areas of our lives. We start out with the best...

A re-offending landlord housed himself and five tenants in what has been described as a death trap property.  The rogue Harrow landlord...

A private tenant who stabbed his landlords to death has been convicted of murder. Daniel Garcia unleashed what an Old Bailey trial...

The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan wants rogue landlords to pay bigger fines and more compensation to tenants. He is also introducing...

Landlords appear to be well ahead of the game when it comes to carbon monoxide detectors. For around six years it’s been...

The government has released new forms for secure and assured tenancies - and agents who fail to use them risk having...

The government has announced changes to tenancy notice periods in line with the phased easing of the pandemic restrictions.  Whilst some notice...

Two men - one a landlord, the other a shopkeeper- have been jailed after being found guilty of gross negligence manslaughter. Mushtaq...

A landlord has been prosecuted following the death of a tenant in a house fire at an HMO said to have...

A leading estate agent is launching a campaign to get the UK to observe a minute’s silence for all coronavirus victims...

The property market had enjoyed a boost thanks to the outcome of the general election in December, but now the market faces...

A buy-to-let investor, who previously spent time in prison for perjury after he lied during an inquiry into the deaths of...

A new fire safety campaign urging private sector landlords and letting agents to always abide by the law and install smoke...

A buy-to-let landlord was killed while renovating a property she owns with her husband when a 6ft garden wall collapsed on...

The chances of a no-deal Brexit are looking increasingly likely after EU leaders snubbed Theresa May’s latest compromise offer, but that...

Two years on from sweeping tax reforms to the buy-to-let sector, the industry is rapidly shifting towards professional landlords, according to...

A tenant who illegally sublet an unlicensed and poorly-maintained bungalow in north London, which was described by Brent Council as a...

A benefit claimant who faced debt, rent arrears and potential eviction as a result of policy design flaws in universal credit,...

The government must focus on urgently improving dangerous housing conditions across the country after new figures revealed that thousands of private...

A buy-to-let investor, who previously spent time in prison for perjury after he lied during an inquiry into the deaths of...

Uncertainties over Brexit will continue to hit property investor sentiment in prime central London (PCL), according to a leading letting agent. While...

Almost a third of rental properties in the UK are potentially at risk from carbon monoxide poisoning, according to new research. The study, carried...

A landlord who endangered the lives of his tenants has been successfully prosecuted and fined more than £200,000 for failing to...

A private landlord in Liverpool has been handed a hefty fine for putting his tenants at risk of fire. Following an inspection...

A crowdfunding page has been set up by concerned tenants who are looking to pay for an independent fire safety inspection...

The owner of a rental property in west London, which was described by a judge as a “deathtrap”, has been told...

The debate between property or pensions has been discussed for many years, with the changes to mortgage interest and finance costs...

The number of second homes liable to pay stamp duty increased to 62,800 in the final quarter of last year, up...

A buy-to-let landlord in Plymouth put the lives of his tenants at risk of a gas explosion after carrying out gas...

Tax changes and more stringent mortgage lending conditions will sound the death knell for small buy-to-let landlords, according to Britain’s largest...

A landlord was left with a £2,000 cleaning bill after a group of tenants left his property in a state of...

A Coventry-based landlord has avoided a prison sentence over fire safety offences after his tenant suffered life-threatening burns to 40% of...

A landlord in Bolton, Lancashire, has been fined £1,500 at Bolton Magistrates Court after a fire at one of his properties...

A firefighter has been jailed after inadequate fire safety measures contributed to the deaths of five people at a rented property...

On 9 June Ceyam Rahman, 24, of Whalley Range, pleaded guilty to seven offences and was hit with fines and costs...