Archive

Police have issued a warning to landlords after a property was left badly damaged by an illegal cannabis grow. The property -...

Activists in the Generation Rent campaign says big city Mayors should “tackle the worst landlords and seize their properties.” It also wants...

Mohammed Sharaz, a landlord from Bradford, recently seized an opportunity to enhance his property portfolio after Wildstone acquired the gable end...

The Treasury has announced March 6 as the date for the Spring Budget and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has commissioned the Office...

The Renters Reform Bill in its latest amended version now runs to 15 pages, and is available on the Parliament website. The...

The National Residential Landlords Association has created two template email letters for landlords to use to urge MPs to minimise damage...

Unpaid rent can cause significant financial problems for commercial landlords. Thankfully, there are several options available to address the issue.  Simon Smith,...

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

The Generation Rent campaign has given its support to a call by London Mayor Sadiq Khan to be given powers to...

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, wants new powers to impose higher tax on empty homes - and even seize them...

The so-called emergency rent freeze and eviction ban in Scotland “can serve as a Europe-wide template for protecting tenants rights” according...

All-inclusive rents have exploded in popularity in the student rental sector over the past few years, but the rampant surge in...

Police have arrested a teenager who they found hiding in the loft of a rented house filled with cannabis plants -...

Landlords are being urged to check their premises after officers recovered a huge stack of prepared cannabis from an empty café...

Landlords are being urged to remain attentive when viewing or inspecting rental homes in order to weed out tenants that may...

The landlord of two properties in Coventry has been arrested after police seized cash and drugs worth £400,000. The money and drugs...

The UK economy shrank by a record 20.4% in April as the coronavirus caused huge swaths of businesses to seize trading and the government...

An unscrupulous landlord who illegally rented out properties in Fife has been sentenced to two years in prison after failing to...

A private landlord in Doncaster has been found guilty of pushing a council officer down stairs during an inspection of his...

Tax and legislative changes have unsurprisingly left many buy-to-let investors with little alternative but to pass costs onto tenants by pushing up...

Dodgy solicitor Ross McKay, who helped a fraudster create a £10.8m property empire with the help of Tameside’s criminal underworld, has...

With an increasing numbers of rental properties being targeted by gangs of cannabis cultivators looking to house their criminal activities, it...

When a landlord rented out a property in a quiet residential area in Plymouth Hoe last year, he had little cause...

Police in Plymouth have seized up to £50,000 worth of cannabis in a raid. Officers searched a rented property in Plymouth Hoe,...

A landlord has been handed a £16,000 fine because his tenant would not stop playing loud music. Jason Duffield must pay the...

A private tenant in Motherwell faces a possible jail sentence after pleading guilty to producing cannabis at a flat in Addie...

Lord Flight, a former Conservative Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, has once again slammed his own party’s buy-to-let tax changes,...

With an increasing numbers of rental properties being targeted by gangs of cannabis cultivators looking to house their criminal activities, it...

Landlords are being reminded to remain attentive when viewing or inspecting rental homes in order to weed out tenants that may...

The government is being urged to scrap stamp duty for buy-to-let landlords who want to add to their property portfolio and...

As predicted, the pound is in freefall and the world stock markets are gyrating but this will be short lived once...