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Housing Minister Jacob Young will address members of the National Residential Landlords Association in an exclusive webinar on Thursday. This is the...

Responding to confirmation that the Renters Reform Bill will return to the Commons next Wednesday, Ben Beadle of the National Residential...

The government has committed to returning the amended Renters Reform Bill to the House of Commons in mid-April. MPs return from their...

The abolition of Section 21 evictions will be a disaster without improvement to the courts system, a property industry chief insists.  Ian...

The government has written to Conservative MPs promising changes to the Renters Reform Bill to ease concerns over its anti-landlord bias. Amendments...

Rightmove is calling on Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to use next week’s Budget as an opportunity to incentivise landlords to make properties...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has this morning announced wholesale changes to planning and regulations surrounding short lets. His proposals include: - planning permission...

An insulation manufacturer is warning of unexpected consequences from insulating a property to make it more energy efficient. William Bown, the head...

Campaigning charity Shelter - which has frequently been critical of landlords and their alleged treatment of poorer tenants - is advertising...

The government may be keen on scrapping Section 21 powers for private landlords but it’s getting much tougher on social housing...

Amendments to the Renters Reform Bill, designed to give landlords more protection, have won the backing of a prominent industry figure. Neil Cobbold,...

Controversial online agency Purplebricks claims landlords and other home owners can sell their properties for free “as part of a progressive...

Britain’s largest listed residential landlord, Grainger, has struck a long-term deal with =Network Rail and the property developer Bloc Group to...

Court Reform first, then scrap Section 21 - landlord leader tells MPs Rental reforms will not work unless the government reforms the...

Homelessness charities often berate private landlords for putting income before service to tenants. But a bitter dispute at one organisation has apparently revealed...

Independent landlords are “vital” to ensuring a fair and functioning private rented sector, the Housing Secretary says. Writing in the members’ magazine...

There’s been widespread anger from the mortgage broker community in response to NatWest’s decision to make buy to let stress tests...

A group of rental activists in London claims that over 10,000 private rented homes in the borough of Brent have a...

Councils are to be given powers to enact huge tax increases on second homes and empty properties, the Scottish Government proposes. New...

Shelter’s controversial management appears to have given in to pay demands in order to end a high-profile strike by the campaigning...

A rogue landlord who created false identities and fake lcompanies as part of an elaborate web of misinformation designed to exploit...

A strike by members of Unite, employed by the charity Shelter, has been suspended pending a ballot on a new pay...

Tenant activists have turned on the bosses of Shelter - just as the charity wants to maximise income from its annual Christmas...

Over 600 workers at the campaigning charity Shelter have started a fortnight of strike action in what the trades union Unite calls...

The new Chancellor of the Exchequer spoke for only 25 minutes but effectively turned the recent history of British tax policy...

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has announced that stamp duty will be cut.  In future there will be no stamp duty on the first £250,000...

A warning has been issued that anyone wanting a mortgage in future may put their credit rating at risk if they...

Yet another committee of MPs has launched a ‘call for evidence’ as it starts an investigation into the private rental sector. The...

New forecasts from an energy industry consultancy suggests that the average domestic consumer’s energy bills could soar to £3,363 a year...

Landlords should not be downbeat about the scrapping of Section 21 eviction powers as proposed in the rental reform White Paper. That’s...

Shelter’s latest accusations about private landlords and evictions have been slammed as “scaremongering.” The charity claims that a private renter in England...

Fifteen businesses which had bought freeh­olds from housing developer Countryside have now given formal undertakings to remove terms that cause ground...

An anarchist group has admitted that protests against landlords and letting agencies present opportunities for disruption. The Solidarity Federation says it aims to “advance...

The government has rejected a call for landlords to have powers to evict tenants who fall 14 days into arrears. Property investor...

Private landlords are setting out a manifesto of radical changes for the rental sector, starting with more repossession rights. The demands are...

The Lettings Industry Council has published a report outlining why Section 21 should not be abolished, despite the government’s commitment to...

The six-month tenant eviction ban, which finally ended yesterday, has helped renters that are suffering financial difficulty, but it has also...

Barclays has announced that it is restricting all buy-to-let deals to a maximum limit of 70% loan-to-value (LTV). The bank, which was...

More than 2,500 households have agreed not to pay rent thanks to a campaign, launched by the London Renters Union (LRU), which...

Activists are calling on tenants to withhold their payments to landlords, in an attempt to generalise a growing rent strike movement. The...

Former Liverpool FC star and England striker Daniel Sturridge is suing his ex-landlord for £100,000 after finding a Netflix account had...

The UK formally leaves the European Union at 11pm tonight, at which point it will instantly enter into an 11-month transition...

Britain has faced terrible flooding this year. Floods and other property emergency can take minutes to occur and years to remedy....

A buy-to-let landlord in Nottingham has been fined £24,000 and told to pay £1,100 costs as well as a victim surcharge...

A new All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) has been launched with a view to looking into short-term lets. The new group, which...

Landlords and tenants across Scotland will be consulted over plans to impose rent restrictions north of the border. Scottish Labour wants to...

Labour has once again called for rents to be capped in Scotland after fresh data revealed rent increases were outstripping wage...

Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard has unveiled proposals to control rents and limit the power of private landlords, despite concerns that...

Buy-to-let landlords in Scotland should not be permitted to use Airbnb, and equivalent websites, to rent out their properties for longer...

A new licensing system in the West London neighbourhoods of Hammersmith, Shepherd’s Bush, Fulham, Chiswick and Ealing aims to protect landlords...

The Southern Rail strikes which have caused disruption for commuters have started to have an impact on rental price growth in...

Recovering rental arrears from non-paying tenants is one of a landlord’s biggest challenges. But while no-one actually enjoys chasing money, it...

Rents will continue to rise over the next few months, owed in part to a reduction in housing supply in the...