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![Renters Reform Bill must be changed to reassure landlords - NRLA](/upload/images/shutterstock_2017793921.jpg)
The National Residential Landlords Association says the Renters Reform Bill won’t win the support of landlords in its present form. The Bill...
04 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Homes illegally advertised as short lets returned to family use](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/LegalAdvice-400x310.png)
A clampdown has found 18 council homes were being unlawfully sublet on Airbnb and other short let platforms. The investigation led by...
14 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Airbnb sub-letting call explodes into national media controversy](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/shutterstock_2198282283.jpg)
An Airbnb survey first reported last week on Landlord Today has exploded into a national newspaper controversy. Airbnb claims that almost 80...
07 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Young renters most likely to sub-let their properties - research](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews2-400x310.png)
One in eight tenants admit to letting out part or all of their rented property - and that rises to a...
28 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Over £30k in fines for landlord who let dangerous home](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Fine-3-400x310.png)
A landlord has been found guilty of three housing offences after it was discovered a property he let out posed a...
07 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![Bloodbath - tenant guilty of murdering two landlords](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/PoliceTape-400x310.png)
A private tenant who stabbed his landlords to death has been convicted of murder. Daniel Garcia unleashed what an Old Bailey trial...
19 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Periodic inspections – what should you be looking for?](/img/default/llt.png)
Periodic inspections of your property are just as important for landlords as the inventory check at the start of the tenancy....
29 October 2020
From: Legislation, Regulation & Compliance
![Airbnb tenant subletting scam exposed](/img/default/llt.png)
There is a growing issue of tenants subletting their rental properties on websites like Airbnb, with some renters inappropriately using it...
28 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Can you let out your BTL flat? - The problem with leasehold](/img/default/llt.png)
As a landlord, you may have purchased a flat for the purposes of subletting, but are you actually allowed to rent...
28 March 2019
From: Breaking News
![Landlord to be prosecuted after 31 beds found in ‘appalling’ three-bedroom house](/img/default/llt.png)
A landlord faces prosecution after police found he had squeezed 31 beds into a very overcrowded three-bedroom house that had just...
13 August 2018
From: Breaking News
![Tenant ordered to pay more than £26k for subletting ‘death trap’ property](/img/default/llt.png)
A tenant who illegally sublet an unlicensed and poorly-maintained bungalow in north London, which was described by Brent Council as a...
23 July 2018
From: Breaking News
![Tenant jailed for illegally subletting house](/img/default/llt.png)
A private tenant occupying a three-bedroom house in north-west London has been jailed after he was caught illegally subletting the property...
22 June 2018
From: Breaking News
![New TV series to expose ‘Bad Tenants, Rogue Landlords’](/img/default/llt.png)
A new TV show called ‘Bad Tenants, Rogue Landlords’, a companion series to ‘Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords’, starts today. Following the success...
05 April 2018
From: Breaking News
![Subletting tenants who crammed 35 men into single house sentenced in court](/img/default/llt.png)
Three tenants who sub-let a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Kingsbury, north-west London, to 35 men have been fined more than 23,000. The residents...
26 February 2018
From: Breaking News
![Landlords warned of growing residential subletting trend](/img/default/llt.png)
In most cases, a tenant needs their landlord’s consent before they can sublet their home, and yet some tenants seem to...
11 January 2018
From: Breaking News
![Top tips to avoid tenant disputes](/img/default/llt.png)
Dealing with tenant disputes is one of the biggest challenges landlords must overcome, and can sometimes prove both expensive and time-consuming...
24 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![Licensed homes reduces anti-social behaviour, claims councillor](/img/default/llt.png)
There is a direct correlation between licensed rental properties and a reduction in anti-social behaviour, according to a north London based...
25 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![Are your tenants planning to secretly sublet their home this Christmas?](/img/default/llt.png)
Total Landlord Insurance is warning landlords to be extra vigilant over the festive period as it reports a 14% year-on-year increase...
19 December 2016
From: Breaking News
![A third of tenants are subletting without landlord’s consent](/img/default/llt.png)
Around a third of private rented sector tenants in the UK admit that they are currently subletting their rented accommodation without...
11 July 2016
From: Breaking News
![Airbnb phenomenon “a growing issue” for landlords](/img/default/llt.png)
More and more tenants are subletting rental properties on peer-to-peer websites such as Airbnb, according to an eviction specialist. Landlord Action says...
20 April 2016
From: Breaking News
![Rent-to-rent gang fined](/img/default/llt.png)
Newham Council has prosecuted what it called a “group of criminals” running a dodgy letting business with an estimated income of...
24 March 2016
From: Breaking News
![One in six tenants sublets their home](/img/default/llt.png)
Do you know who’s living in your property? Maybe not, according to new research. Direct Line for Business found that one in...
24 February 2016
From: Breaking News
![Landlord possessions reach record high](/img/default/llt.png)
The total number of evictions last year reached a record high of 42,728 according to data from the Ministry of Justice. Whilst...
16 February 2016
From: Breaking News
![Half of subletting cases without landlord’s consent](/img/default/llt.png)
Almost half of tenants who sublet their property do so without their landlord’s consent, according to new findings from the National...
19 November 2015
From: Breaking News
![Eviction specialist warns about subletting scams](/img/default/llt.png)
A tenant eviction specialist has warned that the Government’s proposal to introduce minimum room sizes will not prevent subletting scams which...
11 November 2015
From: Breaking News
![New website launches clampdown on subletting in Southwark](/img/default/llt.png)
London’s biggest social landlord, Southwark Council, has launched a new anti-fraud tool to prevent illegal subletting. The new website (www.ilatch.co.uk) will help...
03 November 2015
From: Breaking News
![New Channel 5 programme exposes subletting scam](/img/default/llt.png)
Stay tuned tomorrow evening at 9pm for the first in a six-part Channel 5 series about subletting. ‘Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords’ follows...