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Insurance firm CIA Landlord is offering advice to landlords on how to prepare for five likely problems to appear this winter...

Buy-to-let landlords are bending over backwards to support tenants struggling to pay their rent as a consequence of coronavirus, new research...

The vast majority of landlords are supporting tenants needing help during the COVID-19 pandemic, new research shows.  A yet to be published...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has published updated guidance for landlords with tenants in receipt of Universal Credit. The information is designed to...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has published updated guidance for landlords with tenants in receipt of Universal Credit. The information is...

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has proposed that the maximum fee a landlord can charge a leaseholder...

In recent weeks our campaign to replace leasehold with commonhold has continued to gather momentum both in the press and across...

Leasehold property ownership has come under yet more fire today after a new report laid bare the scale of mis-selling in...

Buy-to-let landlords should not be deterred from acquiring leasehold properties, but rather target homes with ‘high service charges’, and then set...

The Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee has published a report calling for wide ranging reforms to the leasehold system in...

The Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee is due to publish its report into Leasehold Reform today, which is designed to...

An increasing number of over 60s are looking to sell up and rent in retirement, research shows. According to the Centre for...

Assertions made by UK Finance that the leasehold system is not in need of major reform have been rejected by Leasehold...

There has been a notable increase in the number of people wanting to step off the property ladder and rent in...

There has been a sharp rise in the number of people wanting to step off the property ladder and rent in...

A free mortgage advice clinic has been launched by The Happy Tenant Company in conjunction with the mortgage broker Lee Grandin...

Very few of us enjoy filling in a tax return. But here are a few suggestions put forward by London based...

Buy-to-let landlords currently contribute £15.9bn per year to the British economy through pre-tax spending on running their portfolios, which is more...

New Street Mortgages has fresh buy-to-let criteria changes, including reducing its lowest rental cover rate from 145% to 125%. From next Monday,...

We all know headlines sell newspapers, but a report in yesterday’s Daily Mirror brought shame on a host of letting agents...

Chancellor George Osborne is presenting the “summer budget” tomorrow with rumours circulating that he will give in to calls to close...