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HM Treasury has opened its representations portal, meaning landlords - and anyone else - can submit their ideas for the next...

By Luke Lightfoot, Regional Director of Asset Management at Sigma Capital As the fastest growing sub-sector in the UK rental market, it’s...

The chief executive of the National Residential Landlords Association has bagged a prestigious leadership award  Ben Beadle won Gold in the Association...

Trade bodies and short let landlords have made a last-ditch appeal to politicians to stop new rules which could see the...

Landlords are to be given more powers to evict unruly tenants who ruin neighbours’ lives through persistent noise or by being...

A new How To Rent guide has been released today by the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. Trade bodies were...

The government has indicated that the delayed publication of the latest How To Rent document is to be Friday March 24. The...

The government has delayed publication of the latest How To Rent document - it had been expected today.  The How to Rent...

The government has launched the consultation on the controversial subject of disaggregation - a system which has seen council tax bills...

Illegal meter-tampering is putting people’s lives at risk as they resort to increasingly desperate measures to reduce spiralling energy bills, two...

A Good Landlord Charter - described as the first of its kind in the UK - is being created by a...

Students face chaos as government plans to reform the rental market threaten to cause widespread uncertainty as to whether housing will...

The large majority of players in the lettings industry wants the rental reform programme outlined by the government, an agent claims. Laura...

Landlord leaders are calling for a change to the Tenant Fees Act to allow renters to be charged for pet damage. Some...

Trade bodies have vigorously lobbied government during the two and a half year process leading to the delivery of the Fairer...

Politicians in a city with one of the UK’s most frenzied short lets markets are pledging to return Airbnb style units...

Thousands of landlords are to be quizzed to establish the true cost of damages to rental accommodation by tenants. The “What’s the...

A survey of private rental sector clients by accreditation body safeagent suggests 44 per cent feel government-backed loans for tenants to pay...

The minister for local government, housing and planning in Scotland, Kevin Stewart, has received a joint letter from the UK Short...

There is no such thing as 'no-fault' eviction under Section 21, according to evictions specialist Paul Shamplina. The founder of Landlord Action insists...

A single housing ombudsman is crucial to ensure that the current system for complaining about housing is no longer confusing, according...

The government’s Right to Rent' policy has been slammed by a government inspector for failing “to demonstrate its worth” by encouraging...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has appointed Paul Smee as a new director, as the trade body looks to accelerate growth...

The new blacklist of rogue agents and landlords, introduced as part of the Housing and Planning Bill, will go a long...

The Residential Landlord Association (RLA), National Landlord Association (NLA), Leeds Landlords’ Accreditation Scheme (LLAS) and​​ Unipol have teamed up with Leeds...

The new mayor of London Sadiq Khan has pledged to do all in his power to help make London “better” after...