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The National Residential Landlords Association has slammed yesterday’s lacklustre Budget as a missed opportunity. Yesterday’s announcements - like to be the last...

An estimated 1.6m private renters are set to receive an uplift to their housing support for 12 months from April 2024,...

Across the country landlords and renters are struggling as mortgage costs soar, tax hikes bite and uncertainty remains about the impact...

A Labour MP who last held shadow office under the party leadership of Jeremy Corbyn has attacked the government for having...

Landlords have hit back at claims made by Shelter overnight, suggesting that one in seven private tenants in the UK have...

The House of Commons Library provides books, journals and online resources for MPs, MPs' staff and parliamentary staff. Some of this is...

A council is notifying its landlords with tenants on housing benefit that it is switching its payment schedule from paper to...

The head of an agency is urging landlords to “embrace” tenants on housing benefits, instead of seeking to avoid them. Mish Liyanage,...

A lettings agency is telling landlords to take more tenants claiming housing benefits. The agency in question says it’s wrong that some...

A landlord who failed to licence his property has been ordered to pay back over £5,000 in rent. Michael Convery from Belfast...

A landlord who failed to licence his properties has been ordered to pay back over £8,000 in rent. Dexter Blackstock, a former...

A YMCA chief executive claims the proliferation of HMOs may be endangering private tenants’ health by encouraging overcrowding and undersized-rooms. Alan Fraser,...

A landlord body says some tenants will have little choice but to increase their risk of contracting Coronavirus because of inadequate...

The Lettings Industry Council has published a report outlining why Section 21 should not be abolished, despite the government’s commitment to...

In recent years, there has been considerable controversy over the use of ‘no DSS’ in homes being listed for let, with...

A buy-to-let landlord in Bristol has been forced to hand £1,569 back to the council for housing benefit payments he received. Charles...

The government is being urged to increase housing benefits and remove the benefit cap to help support more tenants, especially in...

MPs on parliament’s Housing, Communities and Local Government have called for greater financial support to be provided to all tenants during...

Renters in London are being discriminated against ‘because they are on benefits’, according to ITV News London. ITV News reporter Katie Barnfield...

The widening gap between housing benefit rates and market rents means that many buy-to-let landlords are now forced to rely on...

Half the people seeking help with their Universal Credit claim are in rent arrears, according to Citizens Advice. More generous advance loans...

Thousands of landlords and lettings agents across the country could be flouting equality laws by rejecting housing benefit claimants, according to...

With Universal Credit problems forcing a growing number of claimants into destitution and rent arrears, anti-deposit campaigner Ajay Jagota is urging more...

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

Nearly half of landlords across the UK would refuse a tenant applicant with a poor credit score, despite in-depth credit checks...

A buy-to-let landlord is raffling off a three-bedroom house in the Leicestershire town of Wigston which is worth in the region...

A private landlord who converted several houses into bedsits without planning consent has been ordered to pay more than £340,000. Latif Rehman,...

A buy-to-let landlord who failed to obtain a license for a property in London has been ordered to repay close to...

Private landlords north of the border have received more than £2bn in housing benefit over the past five years, new figures...

Recovering rental arrears from non-paying tenants is one of a landlord’s biggest challenges. But while no-one actually enjoys chasing money, it...

Close to 100,000 households, including more than 40,000 single parents with a child under the age of five will be materially...

Private landlords pocketed in the region of £9.3bn in housing benefit last year – double the amount they received a decade...

The government and local councils are not doing enough to clampdown on rogue landlords, according to a new report. A survey of...

London has become one of the most expensive cities in the world to rent a home, prompting a leading trade union...

Private landlord Pierce Mullally has been ordered to repay more than £3,000 for operating in Burnley without a proper licence. He admitted...

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

Private sector landlords are facing discrimination as the government rolls out Universal Credit, according to the Residential Landlords Association. The Department for...