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Government proposals on limiting short lets "fall a long way short of what's needed and will do nothing to put right...

A flamboyant property in Oxford which has been the subject of a decades-long planning dispute has been removed from Airbnb by...

A Labour council says local landlords have only a week to apply for a licence before a big rise in the...

A statement from Oxford’s Labour controlled council says private landlords in the city have under a month to apply for a...

Oxford council is proclaiming its citywide licensing scheme as a success - and claims it is processing more than 10,000 licence...

A Labour council introducing a vast new licensing regime claims its typical cost to a landlord would be just 0.5 per...

A tribunal has ordered a student accommodation management company to refund more than £84,000 in rent after it ran an unlicensed...

A controversial Labour council aims to make life more expensive for landlords who let out whole properties via Airbnb or other...

Oxford’s private rented sector faces its biggest shake up in over a decade with the start of a new licensing scheme...

With a month to go until a new licensing scheme for private rented homes starts, Oxford council is urging landlords to...

It’s now daggers-drawn between the National Residential Landlords Association and Oxford’s Labour-run council over a huge new licensing scheme. Government approval of...

All private rented homes in Oxford will need a licence from this September, following a green light from the government. Some 49.3...

Oxford’s Labour-run council has called on private renters to join a new tenants union. A statement from the authority says some private...

A council has written to Housing Minister Chris Pincher calling for a new approach to the short lets issue. Oxford council leader...

A council that recently demanded public cash to help Covid-related arrears has found itself in hot water over its own rent...

The resumption of bailiff-enforced evictions, banned for over a year until just days ago, could be “catastrophic” for one of the...

It’s a story that’s seldom told - how some tenants steal items from landlords’ properties when a tenancy ends. Now the Oxford...

A council has now approved plans for two of the country’s largest licensing schemes - one is so large it needs...

A Labour-controlled council says it’s confident a huge new licensing scheme for one of Britain’s most high-profile cities will be voted...

The Acorn group of rental activists has created a detailed crib sheet of responses to a council consultation on landlord licensing. Acorn,...

A new landlord accreditation scheme in Oxford has been deemed both discriminatory and unlawful by the Residential Landlords Association (RLA). The association...