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Landlords, being key players in the housing sector, can make a significant impact by fostering a greener mindset among their tenants....

A merger of two of the biggest names in the lettings agency world will mean the combined group managing 152,000 rental...

The National Residential Landlords’ Association’s annual conference next week is a sell out with all 800 or so tickets sold to...

A local authority is reported to have said that a controversial new policy will reduce house values by five per cent. Gwynedd...

Landlords who are smarting at the end of their Section 21 powers should make sure they are experts at the expanded...

Consumer champion Martin Lewis - the man behind the Money Saving Expert website and TV shows - has backed the Renters...

A rogue landlord has been sentenced to 10 months in prison at Chesterfield Crown Court for the state of his properties. In...

Landlords are being invited to attend a free webinar about disrepair in residential property. The event takes place next Wednesday, March 29,...

Accountants and tax advisers are reporting that HMRC has sent out a spate of what are called ‘one-to-many’ letters to taxpayers. The...

There is a perfect storm brewing for landlords and tenants in the UK.  Sky-rocketing energy bills, food prices and increasing rent paints...

A utilities advice service has come up with a list of measures which it says can reduce expenditure by tenants and...

The new housing minister is a landlord - and has already attracted criticism from some sections of the media. Yesterday Chris Pincher...

Ben Beadle, chief executive of the National Residential Landlords Association, is to sit on a new Lettings sector body set up...

A branch of national lettings agency Martin & Co is to be run by a landlord. Grant Simpson - who describes himself...

Landlords are being invited to a free webinar that promises to bring them up to date with the new planning regime...

A landlord has overturned a council fine for letting her flat without a licence - and it’s the same local authority...

A landlord group in a major city in the south of England says many are giving up on HMOs and converting...

The landlord gender gap is closing, with women now accounting for half of private landlords in the UK. New research by Yieldit...

A consultation process is taking place on the Channel Island of Jersey about whether landlords should be banned from refusing to...

A councillor has criticised an MP who came out in favour of landlords in a dispute over licensing. Earlier this week Landlord Today...

Martin Lewis, the celebrity consumer rights campaigner behind MoneySavingExpert, has called upon the government to extend the current ban on bailiffs...

Anti-eviction campaigners have confronted two landlords over an alleged planned eviction.  Members of the Living Rent tenants union are pictured by the...

HomeLet’s latest monthly index shows a four per cent surge in the all-UK average rent over just three months, but there...

SimplyBiz Mortgages has added buy-to-let lender Zephyr Homeloans to its mortgage panel. Zephyr offers standard and specialist products to both individuals and...

Average rents across the UK increased by 2.1% in August when compared with a month earlier, according to the latest data...

Average rents across the UK increased by 1.5% in July when compared with a month earlier, the latest data and analysis...

Average rents achieved on tenancies in June dropped marginally compared to May, but remain higher on an annual basis, the latest...

SimplyBiz Mortgages has added Paragon’s buy-to-let range to its mortgage panel.  The buy-to-let range includes support for SPV limited company lending, including...

Average rents across the UK increased by 2.7% in May when compared to the same month last year, according to the...

Student groups are urging landlords not to charge full rent on university accommodation left vacant by the coronavirus shutdown. Some universities have...

Housing market activity has plummeted over the past week or so and looks set for another volatile period ahead, as the...

UK rents have risen yet again, with the latest survey showing higher rents across the whole of the UK.  The increase in...

New technology is being launched in an attempt to improve fire safety in the rental sector.  Following the changing recommendations around fire...

Leading rent protection firms Barbon Insurance Group, trading as HomeLet and Rentshield Direct, and Let Alliance have today joined forces and...

Rents in the UK’s private rented sector reached a record high in August, according to the latest data from HomeLet.  The figures...

A landlord has been penalised for operating an unlicensed house in multiple occupancy  (HMO) in south London. Fouad Ahmad, from Streatham, pleaded...

UK rents have increased by an average of 13.9% over the past five years, according to HomeLet. The group said its June...

With some analysts predicting that buy-to-let landlords are about to flood the market with properties for sale, investors are being urged...

UK rents have started to increase at a rate not seen in the market for more than two years, fresh figures...

Renowned internationally for its designer shopping outlet, Bicester has long been the jewel in Oxfordshire’s crown, attracting millions of visitors annually...

Many people tend to hold off on buying property during times of uncertainty and that appears to be precisely what is...

The average cost of renting a property in the UK rose by 1.5% in the 12 months to December 2018, the...

HMO properties look very good on paper. Why charge a single rent when you can charge four or five lots of...

The average cost of renting a property outside London rose by 1.7% in the 12 months to October, while tenants in...

A number of tenants have been hit by rent rises over the past 12 months as landlords respond to extra taxes...

The average cost of renting a property in the UK rose by 1.7% in the 12 months to September, according to...

Rental prices continued to rise in August, albeit marginally, new figures show. The average rent agreed on a new tenancy signed last...

Trading Standards services in London are warning landlords and letting agents to ensure that they comply with the law and not...

Buy-to-let investments will continue to offer attractive rates of return compared to other asset classes, but investors will increasingly search out...

Annual rental price growth in the UK increased in June, HomeLet said on Tuesday. The latest HomeLet Rental Index shows that the...

A consortium of businesses has joined forces to form a new regional landlords association in the North East of England. The North...

Tenants are often willing to pay more for perks that add something special to a rental property, whether it is a...

Renters are spending more than £1bn of their own money every year on repairs their landlords failed to carry out, fresh...

The buy-to-let market continues to see a marginal rise in residential rental prices, and this trend appears to be fuelled by...

A new free Assured Shorthold Tenancy (AST) contract creator tool that allows DIY landlords to create a bespoke, legally-binding tenancy agreement...

Annual rental price growth in the UK edged up in December, HomeLet said on Tuesday. The latest HomeLet Rental Index reveals that...

Buy-to-let lender Landbay has been added to the SimplyBiz Mortgages panel. The lender offers a host of products aimed at buy-to-let landlords, including...

Annual rental price growth in the UK slowed to just 0.7% in November, down from 0.9% a month earlier, HomeLet’s latest...

The average cost of renting a property in the UK rose by 2.1% in September, while tenants in the capital faced...

The Charitable Foundation of TDS, the deposit protection scheme, has announced that it made just over £94,000 in awards in its...

A couple in Plymouth have been scammed out of £1,200 by a fake landlord who copied and pasted pictures and details...

The number of new rental property listings increased by 2.4% during August compared to the same month a year ago, the...

The rental market remains firm despite the various economic and political headwinds the sector has faced recently, the latest data shows.  Newly...

UK rental prices returned to growth in July, the first rise recorded for three months, according to the latest HomeLet Rental...

A crowdfunding page has been set up by concerned tenants who are looking to pay for an independent fire safety inspection...

UK rental prices fell for the first time in eight years in May, according to the latest HomeLet Rental Index. The figures...

Rents in London have recorded their first annual drop for eight years, according to the latest HomeLet Rental Index. In April, the...

Rental price growth in the UK remains sluggish, the latest HomeLet Rental Index shows. The annual rate of rental price inflation reached...

The gap between income and house prices has sky-rocketed so much in recent years that a growing number of younger people...

A landlord has been found guilty of being in possession of stolen goods, having accepted £40,000 worth of stolen whisky in...

Rental price inflation is now running below general inflation as measured by the consumer price index, as a growing number of buy-to-let...

Rents across the UK are continuing to cool down, according the HomeLet Rental Index. The annual rate of rental price inflation fell to...

Annual rental price growth slowed to just 1.7% in December, which was less than half the 3.8% increase recorded in December 2015,...

Annual rental price growth reached 3.1% in November taking the average UK rent to £898 per month, which although higher than November...

Private landlords believe that this week’s Autumn Statement provides the chancellor Philip Hammond with an opportunity to bolster activity in the...

It is not the best time to be a buy-to-let landlord at the moment, with a raft of changes introduced by...

Annual rental price growth slowed to 3% in October, which is the lowest rate of increase this year, HomeLet’s latest Rental Index has...

Deciding to let your property because you cannot sell it is not an easy option and should not be undertaken lightly,...

One of UK’s leading developers of homes for private rent is calling on the government to exempt the build-to-rent sector from...

Annual rental growth slowed to 3% in September, which is the lowest rate of increase this year, HomeLet’s latest Rental Index has...

The rental market remains steady in the face of the various economic and political headwinds the sector has faced recently, according...

Rents on new tenancies continued to increase across most parts of the UK over the three months to July, albeit at...

Rents on new tenancies rose across most parts of the UK over the three months to June, albeit at a slower...

An unscrupulous letting agent who conned landlords and tenants out of more than £220,000 has been sentenced to four and a half...

Plans for the Northern Powerhouse scheme, designed to rival London and the South East as the main driver of economic growth...

Tenants are set to see the cost of renting a home rise faster than their incomes and faster even than house...

Rents on new tenancies rose across most parts of the UK over the three months to May, led by gains in...

Professional investors should be exempt from the recently introduced 3% stamp duty surcharge, according to the Better Renting for Britain campaign. Some of...

Rents on new tenancies rose across most parts of the UK over the three months to the end of April, led...

Rental prices in the private rented sector (PRS) rose by an average of 2.6% over the year to March 2016, unchanged...

Data from Homelet shows that Brighton, Bristol, Edinburgh and Newcastle showed the highest rental increases in 2015. HomeLet’s annual review of the...

In a welcome change to rogue landlord stories, a number of national newspapers have run a story about tenants trashing a...

Rent price rises have slowed to match the pace of house price growth in the UK after nine months of sustained...

The rate of rent price increases across the UK is slowing – but rents are still 10.5% higher than a year...

Rent prices continue to rise across the UK, with many diverse regions now keeping pace with, or exceeding, the pace of...

A portal dedicated to investment and buy-to-let property has launched this week. Buy2Let.com, which describes itself as the first of its kind,...