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A government-supporting newspaper says the Renters Reform Bill will be back in the House of Commons next week. Observers have been expecting...

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

Amendments to be made to the Renters Reform Bill when it returns to the Hoise of Commons next week won’t significantly...

UK house prices grew in March on a quarterly basis, by 2.0%, with annual growth slowing to 0.3%, from 1.6% in...

The government has committed to returning the amended Renters Reform Bill to the House of Commons in mid-April. MPs return from their...

The controversial proposal for permanent rent controls in Scotland, published just ahead of the Easter holiday, doesn’t go far enough for...

The government has written to Conservative MPs promising changes to the Renters Reform Bill to ease concerns over its anti-landlord bias. Amendments...

A newspaper reports that Housing Secretary Michael Gove is willing to rely on Labour votes to pass the Renters Reform Bill...

UK house prices rose for the fifth consecutive month in February, up by 0.4 per cent or £1,091 in cash terms,...

A wealthy landlord, who also ran a fake lettings agency, has been jailed for 11 years for allowing ‘ghost tenants’ to...

Rightmove has revealed its forecast for 2024 - and has looked back on the past 12 months. This year, 2023, ends with...

London’s ultra-prime rental market has returned this year to pre-Covid levels for the first time, an agency claims. Beauchamp Estates - using...

Another council may be considering a tax on guests staying at Airbnb or other short let properties. North Norfolk council, which covers...

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

New data from Zoopla this morning makes grim reading for landlords, especially those reliant on capital appreciation and with investment properties...

A UK holiday lets firm insists the sector is in good health despite the return of foreign vacations and the end...

Overseas buyers - likely in many cases to be investors - have taken a bigger stake in the wealthy enclave of...

The latest phase of a new Build To Rent scheme being launched in London is offering a wine bar and electric...

Any landlord quitting the market and selling up may find demand from buyers muted until Easter. That’s the warning from Zoopla which...

2022 is a La Niña year - a rare third in a row.  A La Niña year relates to cooler than average...

A new study has compiled a league table of the best cities in the UK for investment in student accommodation. CIA Landlord...

Landlords will be breathing a sigh of relief following a Supreme Court decision delivered just before the Easter holiday. The court refused...

A leading lettings industry figure is warning politicians that they risk shrinking the size of the private rental sector if they...

A landlord in the east of England says she was unaware of her tenant’s worries over back to back viewings of the property...

Whilst 24% of adults have welcomed a new pet into their home since March 2020, or are planning to before Easter...

A £4,550 fine has been upheld after an appeal by the landlord was rejected by a property tribunal. Fenland council served five...

Rents have unsurprisingly dropped over the past month, while the dip in void periods has fluctuated across the UK, the latest...

The weather is set to get warmer as we head into the Easter weekend, but people will not be making the...

There has been a sharp rise in letting market activity in Stockton-on-Tees, according to Zoopla. The North East market town has seen...

More than a third of residential properties in southern England are in property markets experiencing house price falls as the slowdown...

Landlords and letting agents have joined forces to campaign against government plans to scrap Section 21, the so-called ‘no fault eviction’. ‘Fair...

There has been an improvement in the letting market, according to board company Agency Express. The number of new rental property listings...

Overseas investors snapped up more than half of all properties for sale in prime London in the second half of 2018...

An unscrupulous landlord who forced a tenant to live in appalling conditions has been ordered to repay more than £1,000 in...

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

Landlords in Norfolk claim that they are owed thousands in unpaid rent while tenant deposits were left unprotected by a local...

Buy-to-let landlords who own properties in London that look set to be empty over the Easter bank holiday weekend are being...

The number of overseas investors with buy-to-let properties has dropped sharply after a tax and regulatory clampdown, reducing the number of...

There has been a notable decline in the proportion of overseas based landlords in the UK as a growing number of...

There has been a sharp decline in the number of in EU nationals looking to move to the UK following the...

Holiday home landlords who own property in sought-after locations in the UK can earn up to almost six times the average...

Landlords who own properties in London that look set to be empty over the Easter period are being urged to make...

One of the UK’s largest and most controversial private landlords has seen his attempts to sell his entire portfolio of around...