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With just one day until voting day, each of the main political parties has outlined its plans for the country, including for...

Thousands of landlords trapped in developer contracts with spiraling costs could be entitled to compensation, according to legal experts.  Around 100,000 homeowners...

FirstPort, one of the largest managers of residential property in the UK, has taken over the operational management of an additional...

A new 10-point manifesto designed to drive forward leasehold reform has been published by a prominent leasehold reform campaigner, following the...

Most landlords are wary of the potential damage, smells and noise complaints that can come with accommodating a tenant with pets....

When it comes to buying, selling, letting or renting a property, you will likely be faced with words, phrases, acronyms and...

The Airbnb revolution has widely changed perceptions of short lets, opening up a potentially lucrative market for buy-to-let investors.  For landlords, short...

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has proposed that the maximum fee a landlord can charge a leaseholder...

Just days after Landlord Today and sister publication, Estate Agent Today, published stories outlining the lack of government response to our...

Throughout April and May, we ran a high-profile campaign across our sites, Landlord Today, Estate Agent Today, Letting Agent Today and...

The government has set up a £200m fund to replace unsafe Grenfell Tower-style cladding on around 170 private high-rise residential buildings...

In recent weeks our campaign to replace leasehold with commonhold has continued to gather momentum both in the press and across...

Leasehold property ownership has come under yet more fire today after a new report laid bare the scale of mis-selling in...

As a landlord, you may have purchased a flat for the purposes of subletting, but are you actually allowed to rent...

Buy-to-let landlords should not be deterred from acquiring leasehold properties, but rather target homes with ‘high service charges’, and then set...

The Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee has published a report calling for wide ranging reforms to the leasehold system in...

The Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee is due to publish its report into Leasehold Reform today, which is designed to...

Assertions made by UK Finance that the leasehold system is not in need of major reform have been rejected by Leasehold...

The government has released the first tranche of an estimated £400m to fund the removal and replacement of unsafe cladding on...

New plans to raise standards across the property agent sector have been unveiled by the housing minister Heather Wheeler. A new working...

The government has launched new online information designed to help renters and landlords know their rights. The rental guides, published by the...

We have seen a significant amount of publicity recently surrounding the sale of leasehold houses and the imposition of significant ground...

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has in conjunction with HM Land Registry launched a new survey as part of an informal consultation...

InventoryBase has announced that it is supporting the Association of Independent Inventory Clerks (AIIC) in their bid for mandatory inventories for...

A new petition has been launched calling for independent inventory reporting to become a compulsory requirement. The petition, which has been created...

The Landlord team at Tozers Solicitors act for a wide variety of landlords, from social landlords with a mixed portfolio of...

Southwark council in south London is warning local leaseholders to refrain from renting out properties via short term holiday rental sites,...

A tenant forgot to claim back a deposit of £5,250 and eventually only did so after being tracked down by staff...

The government will not force landlords of leasehold properties to belong to a redress scheme, despite growing pressure from conveyancers pushing...