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A 10 week consultation by Portsmouth council on proposals for new HMO licensing has finished with 1,050 responses. Licences are required for...

Private rental properties are now “far safer” than before thanks to recent legislation, according to the charity Electrical Safety First. Since five-year...

Legal & General’s Retirement Institutional division has announced a massive £2.5 billion investment to deliver as many as 7,000 Build To...

Police have imposed a Closure Order on a property in Southampton under Section 80 of the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime & Policing Act. The...

The UK Build To Rent sector recorded a total of £2.1 billion of investment in the final three months of 2021...

A new league table of investment potential has given a ringing endorsement to buy to let in cities. Select Property Group has...

An online student accommodation platform has identified where demand from students is strongest as they prepare for the next academic year. UniHomes...

New figures released by Rightmove this morning show that 65 per cent of London locations now have lower rent levels than...

A lettings platform specialising in student accommodation has a new way to spot locations with excess supply. UniHomes says Southampton, Portsmouth and...

A council has prosecuted a local landlord for failing to safeguard the health, safety and welfare of his tenants. Eastleigh council took...

Buy-to-let investments with a tenant already in situ are most in-demand across Glasgow, according to Howsy.  The letting management platform reports that...

A majority of tenants are looking for unfurnished homes, new research shows.  Online property management platform Howsy analysed existing rental property listings...

Demand for rental properties and the supply of rental stock have dropped significantly year-on-year across the majority of UK cities and...

A ninth person has tested positive for Coronavirus in the UK, the government has confirmed.  The woman flew into London from China...

More than 800 landlords have been surveyed to establish where they feel offer the best buy-to-let investment opportunities in 2020.  The study,...

London remains one of the biggest property investment destinations in the world, attracting a wide range of national and international investors.  But...

An unscrupulous letting agent has been jailed for two years for conning landlords and tenants out of almost a quarter of...

The worst served city for rental stock is Newport in Wales where just 13.5% of properties listed are to rent, according...

Zoopla’s UK Cities House Price Index for July 2019, which focuses on trends in housing affordability as measured by the ratio...

Top-flight football returns this weekend, with Liverpool preparing for tonight’s Premier League opener versus Norwich City, but what team should landlords...

Residential property prices are increasing faster in cities in the north of England and parts of Scotland than they are in...

The slump in the UK home ownership rate from 73% a decade ago to just 63% today reflects the fact that...

There has been a moderate rise in residential property price growth across the UK, according to the latest analysis carried out...

A number of buy-to-let landlords prefer to rent out property on a room by room basis instead of renting the whole...

One in three renters never intend to buy their own home, mainly because they are happy living in the private rented sector,...

Grainger plc, the UK’s largest listed residential landlord, has purchased a Private Rented Sector (PRS) build-to-rent development on East Street, an...

A buy-to-let landlord has been given a suspended prison sentence, handed a 16-week curfew and ordered to pay more than £10,600...

The average two-year buy-to-let fixed mortgage deal at 75% loan-to-value (LTV) has fallen to a record-low of 2.47%, as many landlords...

Liverpool, Nottingham and Cardiff are among the latest hotspots for buy-to-let investors looking for the best returns. The latest edition of Private...

Buy-to-let landlords can still expect to achieve double-digit yields when investing up north, fresh research shows. A new survey by TotallyMoney provides...

dLighted, the insurance backed deposit-free renting solution, is once again trying to persuade more landlords and tenants to use its service...

Liverpool has been identified as the UK’s number one buy-to-let hotspot, with landlords who own property in the city achieving rental...

The first large-scale PRS development along the south coast is set to launch soon as part of the Bow Square scheme...

The Society of Mortgage Professionals (SMP) has announced that it will deliver a CPD event programme dedicated to buy-to-let following the...

Student rents have increased by as much as 10% over the past 12 months amid a severe housing shortage across the...

The most lucrative university cities in the UK, based on house prices, rents and growth in local housing markets, have been...

A landlady in Southampton has been fined more than £700 for failing to licence a house in the city. Anuoluwapo Olaosun pleaded...