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Blackburn with Darwen council in Lancashire is consulting on a new selective licensing regime covering 1,266 properties on 42 streets.  Running to...

The government is ruling out any U-turn on the tax changes regarding furnished holiday lettings - despite substantial complaints from Tory...

A housing industry group wants the energy efficiency of a social rented property to be factored into the rent the tenant...

It is possible that licensing regimes operated by local councils could cut the fees they impose on landlords. The House of Commons...

Environmental health officers are making a last ditch bid to save local council licensing. The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health reckons that...

There wasn’t much by way of good news in the Spring Budget for landlords and property investors last month. Although some rumours...

Property logbook company Chimni is trialling a new form of Digital Property Logbook aimed at the rental markets.   The new logbooks...

A Labour council in London has issued a statement appearing to celebrate its role cracking down on landlords. The statement from Brent...

The UK government's long awaited Spring Budget announced some key changes for the property market in an effort to stimulate activity...

The chief executive of a short lets service says Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is wrong to think penalising landlords will help solve...

A legal firm says Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has effectively slashed the value of holiday homes which are sold from April 2025...

A landlord has quit the private rental sector after a battle with his council over why his properties were put into...

Although SDLT receipts have been volatile in recent years, the property tax’s effectiveness as a revenue-raiser for the Government is not...

New additional and selective licensing schemes are to be considered by the controversial Bristol city council. The council’s Labour Mayor - Marvin...

A council claims “hundreds of residents have been made safer in their homes” thanks to a licencing regime. Sheffield council insists the...

A prominent lettings agency is advising landlords to fit out homes in prime locations to the same high specification as if...

Labour-controlled Haringey Council in London says the owners of short lets and furnished holiday homes will be forced to pay double...

Labour is using a Bill currently going through Parliament as a backdoor method to introduce the regulation of lettings, estate and...

The capital gains tax allowance will be cut on April 6 from £6,000 to £3,000, so more people will pay CGT. The...

The Office for National Statistics says private rents in England experienced a 6.1 per cent rise in 2023, the sharpest annual...

Despite a sharp fall in the number of homes bought by landlords in 2023, the number of limited companies set up...

Middlesbrough is the latest council wanting to expand its landlord licensing regime. It’s consulting on extending its existing scheme to another ward. The...

A new council licensing scheme has been given the go ahead by the government. Peterborough council’s selective licensing scheme will be run...

The substantial majority of landlords lack any optimism about their sector as they enter 2024. That’s the result of a new sentiment...

Former housing minister Rachel Maclean - the victim of a shock sacking by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak last month - has...

Landlords providing much-needed private rented accommodation in part of Merseyside are to fall under an expanded  licensing regime.  Wirral councillors have voted...

Labour’s Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves has campaigned for a selective licensing regime in her Leeds constituency. She joined the city council leader...

The Renters Reform Bill’s proposal to replace Assured Shorthold Tenancies with rolling ‘periodic’ lets could put landlords’ properties at risk, it’s...

The National Residential Landlords Association says the Renters Reform Bill won’t win the support of landlords in its present form. The Bill...

The short-term holiday letting industry has significantly expanded in recent years, but this could all change with the introduction of a...

A council statement announcing a complex new licensing regime for the local private rental sector claims “landlords and agents who are...

A controversial licensing scheme is due to come into force tomorrow - just as the council administering it has declared itself...

The government claims that millions of homeowners in England and Wales will be given greater rights, powers, and protections over their...

The Levelling-up and Regeneration Act received Royal Assent last month, meaning a major new piece of legislation has now entered the...

Next month Ben Beadle, chief executive of the National Residential Landlords Association, will be one of the experts at an Agent...

Plans to introduce Selective Licensing of privately rented properties have been agreed by leading Stockton-on-Tees councillors and now go for consultation. Under...

Warwick council is the latest to introduce an Additional Licensing Scheme for HMOs. The district wide scheme will start on January 18...

Middleton Advisors commissions ongoing research to investigate key trends and structural changes in prime UK housing markets.  Our latest research considers the...

A collection of pressure groups, fronted by Generation Rent, wants all private rental homes going on sale to be offered first...

The Additional Licensing HMO scheme in the Bath and North East Somerset area ends on New Year’s Eve.  The scheme covers around...

Scotland’s controversial licensing regime on Airbnbs and other short lets, due to start next month, may breach the European Convention on...

Brent council in North London has launched a new selective licensing regime across part of the borough. Landlords who let properties in the...

A countryside property organisation has added its voice to the calls for an extension to a licensing scheme for Airbnbs and...

Trade bodies and short let landlords have made a last-ditch appeal to politicians to stop new rules which could see the...

A council is warning HMO landlords to apply for a licence ahead of a new regime starting this week. From September 1...

Making an investment in a country with a different currency introduces exchange rate risk. Ideally, a UK investor would buy the...

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

Landlords are unwittingly exposing their tenants to the serious danger of fire because they opt for the cheaper option when hiring...

A controversial licensing scheme will come into force this winter with the blessing of Housing Secretary Michael Gove. Nottingham council’s selective licensing...

Successive Chancellors (we’re looking at you Gordon Brown and George Osborne) have monkeyed around with the market as if it was...

A council has given an insight into its past five years of enforcement actions against private landlords. The Labour council in Newham,...

The Labour Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, says he is demanding the powers to seize usage or poor quality homes...

One of London’s most aggressive landlord licensing regimes says it has an early-bird offer running until July 14. Landlords applying for Newham...

A new borough-wide additional licensing regime has been given the go ahead in part of London. Redbridge council’s scheme has extended licensing...

The Labour Mayor of Newham in London has called for a vast extension of landlord licensing. Rokhsana Fiaz says she welcomes a...

One of the country’s largest landlord licensing regimes has expanded even more this week. Some 700 more private sector homes in Manchester...

The National Residential Landlords Association says it could take up to 18 months for many elements of the Renters Reform Bill...

A council launching a new selective licensing regime admits that three quarters of the applicants so far have omitted to provide...

A Labour MP has told the House of Commons that “families are being turfed out of their private rented homes under...

A Tory council in Middle England has backed a committee of MPs calling for rental reform measures to be tightened up. The...

The government’s proposed tenancy reforms - including the banning of section 21 evictions - could be undermined by delays in the...

Landlords and letting agents are invited to join a virtual forum for details of a new licensing requirements and to find...

The consumer service Which? Has taken the unusual approach of setting out a 12 point guide to landlords about how to...

Improving yields throughout 2023 may stop more landlords quitting - and, in addition, rental reforms are unlikely to be as bad as...

The local media in Yorkshire says Labour’s Rachel Reeves - the Shadow Chancellor - is campaigning for the introduction of a...

Landlords are being hit with record fines as growing numbers of local councils launch licensing schemes.  PropTech firm Kamma, which monitors council...

A consultation on a new licensing regime looks set to start in Warwick in the new year. The council will next week...

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

A new property licensing scheme that claims to provide “safer, well managed housing for renters” has now come into force in...

Proposals have been brought forward by Wandsworth council in London to set up a review into the feasibility of introducing discretionary...

An influential new report wants higher taxes for landlords letting holiday properties. The Office for Tax Simplification - a division of HM...

A landlord has paid a £12,400 civil penalty after failing to license their HMO. In March this year officers from West Northamptonshire council attended...

A scheme which some regard as the most controversial landlord licensing regime in the country is coming under scrutiny. Labour councillors on...

It is a fundamental principle of a functioning democracy that parties, when in power, should pay at least lip service to...

The landlord of a property in Northampton has paid a £2,750 civil penalty after failing to licence their HMO. In December 2021...

The landlord of a property in Northampton has paid a £2,750 civil penalty after failing to licence their HMO. In December 2021...

Landlords and agents are being asked their views on proposals to expand Selective Licensing to eight new areas of Manchester. There are...

Greenwich council in south London has launched a new selective licensing scheme: all private-rented single-household properties in five wards of the...

From November Gedling council in Nottinghamshire wants its Selective Licensing extended to four additional wards.  This follows a pilot where over 78...

A probe by the Financial Times has found that some 26,500 individuals missed the Capital Gains Tax filing deadline in 2021-22...

A new campaign has been launched calling for the regulation of Airbnb and other short lets in England. Action on Short Term...

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

Activists in the Acorn group is hoping to attract Labour councillors who run Leeds to a meeting next week, which will...

The early bird discount period for what many regard as the country’s most controversial landlord licensing scheme has been extended. The discount...

A tourism chief has likened new anti-holiday let regulations to those of a Stalinist dictatorship. Ashford Price, secretary of the Welsh Association...

Opposition continues to build to the prospect of rent controls in part of the UK, with the latest voice citing the...

Shelter - for so long an outspoken critic of private rental landlords and letting agencies - has now turned its fire...

A PropTech company which aims its products at landlords, claim that over 600,000 landlords are breaking the rules when it comes...

Another council is conducting a consultation process aimed at renewing its existing landlord licensing for a further five years. Sefton council has...

A Midlands council is the latest to introduce an additional licensing regime for HMOs - but it’s based on a consultation...

Activists have expressed their delight that the government has “listed to the voice of renters” in its provisions for widespread reform...

A consultation is underway into the extension of yet another private landlord licensing scheme for a further five years. Since March 2018...

An industry trade body is alerting landlords that new smoke and carbon monoxide alarm rules are likely to be introduced soon -...

A Labour city council that has already called for powers to impose rent controls has now extended its existing landlord licensing...

Private landlords who let out properties in Central West Bromwich are being urged to check if they need to apply for...

Michael Gove’s Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has given £650,000 to one town to clampdown on rogue landlords. A statement...

A Labour MP in the westcountry appears to be winning support for a campaign he has launched called First Homes, Not...

Birmingham’s Labour controlled council is writing to Housing Secretary Michael Gove for consent to apply a new licensing scheme over 25...

A London council is urging landlords in the area to check whether they require a license ahead of a new regime...

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, wants the government to put a stop to the capital being used for international money...