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A landlord has quit the private rental sector after a battle with his council over why his properties were put into...

Some local authorities are quick to criticise private landlords for trying to avoid rent arrears but it appears councils themselves have...

A lack of Energy Performance Certificate enforcement is putting tenants at risk from high energy costs or cold homes, according to...

Britain’s top 100,000 taxpayers footed an average income and capital gains tax bill of £559,000 each in 2021/22. That’s up by 18...

A campaign by a UK government to help landlords retrofit their properties with energy efficient amenities has had almost zero impact,...

The government response to a Freedom of Information request has shed light on the increasing number of homes in England and...

Activist group Generation Rent is demanding that the government tighten regulations on damp and mould - and is tying this to...

Campaigning charity Shelter claims that “at least” 271,000 are homeless in England alone. The figure - compiled from a Freedom of Information...

A newspaper has discovered that over 1,500 warnings for damp or mould have been issued to landlords by just one city...

It’s claimed that Liverpool’s Labour council would take almost 150 years to process applications for its landlord licensing scheme. The council has...

A probe by the Financial Times has found that some 26,500 individuals missed the Capital Gains Tax filing deadline in 2021-22...

A Freedom of Information request by a newspaper has unveiled the almost complete lack of activity by local councils when it...

Private rental properties are now “far safer” than before thanks to recent legislation, according to the charity Electrical Safety First. Since five-year...

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

A local authority says the fact that it has conducted no prosecutions against private landlords despite over 1,100 complaints from tenants...

An MP is calling on the authorities to investigate how 15 so-called ‘super landlords’ allegedly dominate the rental market in one...

The majority of local authorities in England do not accurately record the number of private rented sector tenure complaints which they...

A lettings sector trade body is blasting local authorities for their poor record on trying to eliminate rogue landlords. The National Residential...

Over 150,000 households in Britain are in ‘exempt’ accommodation, a rental sector which some say is “dangerously under-regulated.” ‘Exempt accommodation’ is intended...

Activists group Generation Rent is urging renters who have renewed their tenancy but not moved since May 2019 to check if...

A letting agent who campaigns against rogue landlords says the government has “no idea” how many convictions there have been regarding...

A local newspaper’s investigation has revealed that a London council flouted its own policies to maximise the number of landlords it...

Over half of local authorities in England have not issued any civil penalties against rogue or criminal landlords in the last...

There’s been a sharp fall in money raised from a campaign encouraging landlords to voluntarily disclose tax owed on rental properties...

Contrary to the impression put forward by some pressure groups, there’s been a continued fall in landlord possession claims between April...

The landlords’ trade body says there’s an enforcement postcode lottery across part of the UK. The National Residential Landlords Association’s Welsh Enforcement...

Only 39 rogue landlords and letting agents have been hit with banning orders in the first three years of their existence. The...

Smoke and carbon monoxide alarms - a critical issue for landlords in light of recent legislation - are back in the...

Generation Rent activists are back on the warpath, this time accusing councils of not doing enough - and sometimes nothing -...

Buy-to-let landlords in Scotland have been left with little alternative but to serve 350 eviction notices since the beginning of lockdown,...

Letting agents who fail to obtain licences for rented properties that fall under selective licensing rules could be prosecuted either alongside...

There are more than 130,000 unlicensed properties in London that should be licensed under either selective, additional or mandatory HMO licensing...

More than £1.25bn has been spent acquiring property in London to make way for High Speed Rail 2 (HS2), according to...

Introducing a ‘rogue landlords’ database without better enforcement would be a pointless exercise, according to the National Landlords Association (NLA). A rogue...

The National Landlords Association (NLA) is calling on local authorities to take much firmer action against rogue letting agents that tarnish...

HMRC’s Let Property Campaign, which provides an opportunity for landlords to come forward and report undeclared rental income and expenditure to...

As an income investment, buy-to-let continues to look attractive, especially compared to low savings rates and stock market swings, but when...

A rogue landlord deemed unfit to rent out property in the north London borough of Brent in 2015 has since received...

Buy-to-let landlords are “getting away with murder” according to Advice4Renters, after new figures revealed that just two out of almost 2,000...

The new regulations introduced last month to bring mandatory licensing to all Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) was designed to better...

Just 0.85% of all tenancies ended in a dispute over the tenancy deposit in the 12 months to March 2018, according...

Nottingham City Council has been slammed for wasting taxpayers’ money after spending £95,000 taking a landlord to the Supreme Court and...

Rogue landlords are profiting from the housing benefit system by enticing desperate local authorities to place single homeless people into small...

Ever since Margaret Thatcher declared her belief in a ‘property-owning democracy’ and introduced Right to Buy in 1980, the UK was...

A buy-to-let landlord in Newport has become the first to be prosecuted for breaching new laws demanding that all private landlords...

A charity that receives thousands of pounds in housing benefit to accommodate vulnerable people, including the homeless with addiction problems, has...

Close to 6,300 private renters in the North East of England lodged formal complaints to their local council about their landlord between...

Councils across the country are being urged to raise their game when it comes to protecting private tenants from a minority...

There is growing concern that thousands of landlords in Wales have not yet signed up for Rent Smart Wales, designed to...

Unscrupulous landlords are providing vulnerable tenants with substandard housing and getting away with it due to low levels of enforcement of...

Several local authorities in London have launched an investigation into a multi-million pound business model where a number of letting agents...

Liverpool City Council (LCC) has issued just 2% of licensing applications since launching its citywide landlord licensing scheme in April last...

In the nine months since new Right To Rent immigration checks have been implemented across the West Midlands only seven landlords...

The Guardian has named and shamed a North London landlord after she topped a list of letting agents and landlords who have...

The Mirror has laid into UKIP by exposing the party’s housing and environment spokesman as a landlord who has received over...