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Two new reports - from lettings agency Foxtons and data consultancy LonRes - show London’s rental market returning to pre-pandemic normality. Foxtons...

Rental markets near London’s Crossrail stations have seen premiums emerge, a new survey suggests.  Areas which have benefitted from the largest reductions...

New figures from Foxtons show that average weekly rent in July 2023 was 12 per cent higher than July 2022.  The agency’s...

Hawks Properties Limited has been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme for failing to honour a compensation award. The agency - with...

A council has given an insight into its past five years of enforcement actions against private landlords. The Labour council in Newham,...

Data from London lettings agency Foxtons reveals that average weekly rental prices in May have surpassed the peak of 2022. The average...

A charity is reported to be claiming that increasing numbers of landlords use security guards dressed as bailiffs to help evict...

Activists who until last week were focussing their campaigning on demanding the publication of the Renters Reform Bill have now announced...

A recent study by nationwide conveyancers Muve, using official data from the Office for National Statistics, has revealed the most and...

Foxtons says London’s market is finally cooling - at least a little - for the Christmas period. November followed the seasonal downward...

The freeholders to a block of maisonettes have been ordered to pay more than £22,000 after failing to carry out repairs...

Figures from London-focussed agency Foxtons suggest that rentals have reaching the highest ever weekly price in the capital. The average in September...

New figures from London agency Foxtons highlight the continuing imbalance between supply and demand across the capital. It says rents were up...

PropTech firm Kamma says total fines for agents and landlords have now topped £8m in London alone with a £238,000 increase...

Research by rental portal Rentd suggests improved London yields this year after being in the doldrums during the pandemic. Rentd analysed the...

A Labour-controlled local authority with a reputation for clampdowns on rogue landyhas issued a statement celebrating its successes. Tower Hamlets council in...

A remarkable four year court battle has ended with £190,000 in fines for a rogue landlord couple who falsely claimed they...

Build To Rent giant Grainger says east London’s lettings sector is seeing improvements thanks to returning office workers as the pandemic...

Redbridge council in east London has undertaken its toughest ever clampdown on buy to let, visiting 171 properties in a week. The...

Lettings agency JLL says improved interest in East London’s lettings market is being accelerated by the expected surge in demand from...

Two landlords of a property in East London have been ordered to pay costs and fines totalling £61,057.05 after they were prosecuted...

London-focussed lettings agency Portico has drawn up highly localised hotspots within the capital for landlords seeking the best yields.  According to the...

Two landlords have to pay almost £8,000 for letting their flats in defiance of a Prohibition Order.  The order came into force...

The owner of a property used for an illegal party has been fined by a London council for breaking lockdown. Police were called...

Two men have been ordered to pay almost £8,000 for letting out flats in defiance of regulations designed to keep tenants...

A London council has confirmed its right to refuse licenses to criminal landlords - even reformed ones. A story in the East...

Buy-to-let landlords in Walthamstow, north east London, have been ordered to pay a collective total of £375,000 after modifying their buy-to-let...

Tenants who own at least one pet will often struggle to find pet-friendly accommodation, and yet despite efforts to encourage more...

Landlords should be aware that eight estate and letting agents have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme (TPO), which means...

More than 100 residents in east London have been refused a rent reduction by their letting agent.  Residents living at Tower Quay in...

A landlord was almost reduced to tears after discovering a house he rented out ‘in a state of squalor’, with the...

Demand for rental homes is continuing to outpace supply and drive up prices in London and that is an attractive proposition...

Following the introduction of new HMO licences in Hackney, east London, the local council has taken legal action against four landlords...

A number of MPs are currently earning rental income from properties let to private tenants, including eight ministers in Boris Johnson’s...

A rogue landlord who made almost £130,000 in illegal rent after converting his three-bedroom house in east London into two flats...

A buy-to-let landlord who used violence and intimidation to illegally evict his tenant has been handed a suspended jail sentence and...

Eight men were found living in cramped conditions in a one-bedroom flat in east London during a raid by Barking and...

A mixed-tenure development of private sale and affordable housing has been launched on the site of West Ham’s former Upton Park...

A rogue managing agent of an overcrowded house of multiple occupation (HMO) in east London has been fined £26,000 for breaches...

Landlords with property in Hackney, east London, should be aware that following a consultation earlier this year Hackney Council has now...

SDV HQ Limited, trading as Sterling de Vere, has been ordered to pay more than £50,000 after letting an overcrowded flat...

If you own a house or flat in London, there is a fair chance that you may have heard of, and...

Bexley in South East London has been identified as the most affordable place to rent in London, based on four people...

A new build development of eight luxury flats has come on to the rental market in Shoreditch, east London. The new homes,...

Colchester has been named the best place for buy-to-let investors in today’s market, based on a combination of capital value growth,...

Hackney in east London has recorded the fastest growth in rents on a typical two-bedroom home over the past decade, according...

Unscrupulous landlords in Hackney, east London, who leave tenants living in substandard conditions, will be forced to improve the condition of...

Buy-to-let landlords looking for an impressive return on investment in the capital through Airbnb stays should look to invest in East...

A but-to-let landlord in south east London has been penalised for allowing his elderly tenants to live in a property that...

A landlord who failed to provide his tenants with adequate living conditions has been sent to jail. Majid Saniinejad, of Stoke Newington,...

A young man has been discovered paying £250 a month for a sleeping space in a cupboard under the stairs, measuring...

Plans to introduce an additional licensing scheme across 12 wards in Havering, east London, have been approved. Local councillors met on Wednesday...

Plans to introduce an additional licensing scheme across 12 wards in Havering, east London, look set to be approved tomorrow. Local councillor will...

A landlord in east London will have to cough up more than £100,000 or face going to jail for illegally converting...

Two landlords have been fined more than £85,000 for illegally cramming tenants into a rental property in Leytonstone, east London, and...

Landlords have identified what they believe to be London’s next buy-to-let hotspots, which includes the likes of Woodford, Leytonstone and Redbridge. North...

A high number of buy-to-let investors prioritise rental rents over capital gains when making property purchase decisions, and with that in...

After lobbying Tower Hamlets Council for three years, private renters in the east London district have finally been granted a new...

A landlord has been ordered to pay in excess of £235,000 for renting out illegal bedsits in east London after pleading...

A landlord who broke the law by converting a building into seven flats in east London without planning consent could be...

Landlords in Lewisham are being urged to rent their homes to Syrian refugees after the borough accepted families from the war-torn...

A recent poll by Simply Business has revealed that over 70% of buy-to-let investors prioritise rental rents over capital gains when...

A man has been sentenced to almost three-and-a-half-years in jail after being found guilty of remortgaging his elderly parents’ £1.5m house...

Waltham Forest Council’s planning committee has awarded planning consent for the construction of a 440-home build-to-rent scheme in Walthamstow on the site...

Manchester has been identified as the top city for rental yield but London offers buy-to-let landlords the best overall returns, a...

LendInvest’s latest Buy-to-Let Index has revealed that you will stand to profit most from buy-to-let in London than anywhere else in...

A landlord has been ordered to pay more than £100,000 for developing illegal flats at her property after being prosecuted by...

A dozen landlords in Waltham Forest, north east London, have been prosecuted and fined a total of £60,000 after failing to...

Police and housing officers raided an unused police station in Barking, East London and found up to 30 people living there. An...

Enforcement officers from Barking and Dagenham Council swooped on three addresses in east London last week as part of clamp down...

Plumstead in South East London is currently the cheapest place to rent a two-bed property in the capital, according to research...