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The management of BTL properties, whether it's a modest collection of three units or a more sizable portfolio of fifteen, can...

The Housing Ombudsman - which assesses problems involving social housing landlords - has found severe maladministration in four cases involving Croydon...

Who are you, and what does it say on your business card? I'm Ashley Day, the Director of Bristol Property Centre.   What is...

An agency chain is urging the Tories to stop in-fighting at their party conference and instead increase supply in the private...

The government must safeguard the private rented sector and the only way to do that is to lend its support to...

Families opt to rent so they can move fast to buy a home close to London’s top schools, according to a...

This year is set to bring sweeping rental reforms that will change the face of lettings forever. Landlords should be following...

Phil Spencer’s online consumer service Move iQ has created a series on its YouTube channel looking at living in Build To...

The National Residential Landlords Association has made a blistering attack on a “big bureaucratic and unaccountable beast” at the heart of...

Something that has been touching a raw nerve with me for some time now is the issue of so called ‘rent...

The Bank of England may have voted to keep its base rate at a historic low of 0.1 per cent yesterday,...

An independent think-tank is the latest organisation wanting landlord licensing schemes across England plus a nationa landlord register, emulating similar schemes...

A leading agent is warning that any additional tax on landlords could lead to property sell-offs and a further supply shortage. Dominic...

The end of the stamp duty holiday, which was introduced in July 2020, is now only a few weeks away. The upcoming...

Evictions guru Paul Shamplina returns to the TV this evening but his Channel5 show has had a name change - it...

This 10-part series - filmed before the pandemic - follows letting agents, eviction specialists and lawyers helping landlords chase rent arrears and...

The National Residential Landlords Association has launched a new podcast series - Listen Up Landlords - for members and non-members. The association...

The changes to Mortgage Interest Tax Relief and impact on your wallet Before April 2017 landlords with a mortgage on their buy-to-let...

A philanthropist claims the difficulty some younger people have in getting on the property ownership ladder is caused by Baby Boomers...

Channel 5 will continue to provide an insight into a number of tenants and landlords across the UK, as feuds between...

Lendlord has joined forces with Property Tribes to provide landlords with a comprehensive portfolio management product. Property Tribes will make Lendlord’s platform,...

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

The locations that saw the biggest house price increases in the last year have been unveiled by the Post Office Money.  The...

There is a growing issue of tenants subletting their rental properties on websites like Airbnb, with some renters inappropriately using it...

The latest episode of Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords left many viewers stunned after the show exposed extensive damage to a property...

There is a growing need to improve fraud detection in the private rented sector, according to Landlord Action. Paul Shamplina, the founder...

A shocked letting agent found a cannabis farm in of one of his landlord’s houses while filming for a Channel 5...

Scottish rents continued to edge up in the first quarter of the year, the latest figures show. The Scottish national average increased...

Weak rental growth has resulted in improved affordability for renters across many parts of the country, including London, while rents in...

Fergus Wilson was courting controversy long before he appeared on last night’s episode of Panorama. The buy-to-let landlord, widely considered to be...

One of the UK’s largest and arguably most controversial buy-to-let landlords who has in the past banned ‘coloured people’ from renting...

Buy-to-let landlords in London are being encouraged by property management firms to break strict short-term letting laws in the capital, an...

Rental prices in Scotland increased further in the fourth quarter of 2018, the latest data shows. The Scottish national average increased to...

CreditLadder has become the first PropTech firm to be approved by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) as a payment institute. This offers...

Average rents in Scotland continued their upward trend in the third quarter of the year on the back of strong demand...

The student buy-to-let market continues to offer landlords the potential of good returns. Research by Totally Money suggests that student property is...

Rental prices in Scotland continued to edge upwards in the second quarter of the year, the latest figures reveal. The Scottish national...

Bexley in South East London has been identified as the most affordable place to rent in London, based on four people...

‘Open banking’ provider TrueLayer has teamed up with Goodlord to enhance the proptech platform’s fintech integration for landlords, tenants and agents. Goodlord’s...

Manchester has been identified as the number one place to rent out a property with an average yield of 5.55% and...

The number of rental homes on the market in Scotland dropped in the first quarter of the year, while demand from...

Tenant referencing provides all the background information on prospective tenants, helping landlords and letting agents make an educated choice about who...

Do private tenants deserve more protection in terms long-term right to stay in a property, or would new rules make the...

Ex-Big Brother TV star Heavy D was humiliated on ITV daytime show Judge Rinder yesterday after having a case against his...

As well all know, the landlord is required to provide the property, the tenant needs to pay their rent on time and ideally they...

Annual rental price growth in the UK slowed to just 0.9% in October, which was less than half the 2.1% increase...

Landlords Dan and Jamie started building their property portfolio at the age of 19. Still in their early 20s, they now...

The impact of the Brexit vote is starting to make itself felt, with growing political and economic uncertainty, the collapse in...

Our latest infographic shows figures of how the majority of deposits are repaid at the end of tenancy and goes into...

More and more tenants are subletting rental properties on peer-to-peer websites such as Airbnb, according to an eviction specialist.   Landlord Action says...

Channel Five bosses have agreed the eye-opening first series of ‘Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords’ has only scratched the surface of the...

This week’s episode of Channel 5’s ‘Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords’, featuring evictions expert Landlord Action, will feature three separate landlords all...

Stay tuned tomorrow evening at 9pm for the first in a six-part Channel 5 series about subletting. ‘Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords’ follows...

A court has heard how two landlords have lost thousands of pounds to a tenant who allegedly claimed to be their...