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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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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