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A website is being prepared to assist private renters know where to turn if their landlord or lettings agent fail to...

A landlord deemed to be unfairly profiting from properties has been fined a total of £5,825.27. Greenwich council prosecuted Anna Yang, an...

Political parties should stop bickering and instead work together to boost enforcement of rental standards in the private sector. That’s the view...

Trading Standards has defended the introduction of ‘material information’ requirements on details of properties for sale, after a conveyancer warned landlords...

Landlords quitting the sector could have to spend hundreds of pounds more when selling their home owing to new Trading Standards...

Rental sector and property industry views are split over the controversial idea of allowing first time buyers to put down a...

The government has confirmed that Making Tax Digital for Income Tax Self Assessment (MTD for ITSA) will cost landlords both extra money...

Painful tax traps have been set for millions of people this year. Your pay may not even have kept pace with...

Labour is using a Bill currently going through Parliament as a backdoor method to introduce the regulation of lettings, estate and...

The yo-yo economic news is now casting doubt on whether the Bank of England will cut base rate as quickly as...

Airbnb has taken further steps to get in the good books of HMRC by issuing a guide on tax for its...

Many landlords say they’re set to expand investments in 2024 despite facing up to 80 per cent higher costs in the...

A London lettings agency has been expelled from The Property Ombudsman for not paying compensation to a landlord following a failure...

Landlords will have to include many more specific points about their properties when they list them in future - whether directly...

A prominent estate agency says there’s a stronger case for a stamp duty cut now than there was during the pandemic. Knight...

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

Making an investment in a country with a different currency introduces exchange rate risk. Ideally, a UK investor would buy the...

There’s been a clampdown on imprecise wording used in lettings listings. The National Trading Standards Estate and Lettings Agency Team  - which...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned any further publication of an advertisement for holiday homes that made them appear to be...

Hawks Properties Limited has been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme for failing to honour a compensation award. The agency - with...

Owners of short-term let properties are being urged to apply for a licence under Scotland’s short-term licensing scheme before the October...

The average price of homes coming to the market have dipped slightly once again, according to Rightmove. The newly-marketed properties are some...

A council chief has spoken out in support of landlords who lost money to a “despicable fraudster” who is now in...

A landlord who left his tenants homeless after breaking into their house at night with a hammer has been prosecuted by...

When choosing a buy-to-let property, there are many elements that need to be balanced in order to get the biggest return...

TV property expert Phil Spencer has called for a radical simplification of the rules surrounding landlord licensing, fees and other regulations. In...

There’s a 50:50 chance of yet another Bank of England base rate rise this week according to a leading business analyst. Susannah...

For many years, investing in property has been seen as a way of obtaining “passive” income. Compared to other types of...

A building society that last summer scrapped all lending on some holiday homes has now come up with another unusual policy...

Lloyds Bank says house prices are forecast to drop seven per cent this year.  The bank - which is Britain’s largest mortgage...

The relatively small number of landlords who use Purplebricks to handle tenants for their properties appear to face an uncertain future. The...

Over the last few years, the property industry has been focusing on the need to provide more information to buyers ‘up...

Grainger, the Newcastle company that is active in Build To Rent and claims to be Britain’s biggest landlord, has enjoyed a...

A landlord has admitted breaching planning rules at two properties in south London. He submitted a guilty plea in response to Southwark...

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

Purplebricks has detailed the price it is paying for a lettings compliance blunder first spotted last year. It predicts that, at worst,...

An upbeat trading statement from buy to let mortgage lender Paragon suggests that the sector is relatively healthy, but losing many...

Many landlords have welcomed the zero deposit insurance concept - but is this being damaged by the pressure-selling techniques of some...

An online platform is launching to match people with space to let with tenants in need - but no rent will...

An influential new report wants higher taxes for landlords letting holiday properties. The Office for Tax Simplification - a division of HM...

A landlord representative is to be a member of a new advisory panel which has been set up by the Property...

If you are involved in property, it is important for tax purposes to be aware if your activities will be classed...

Grainger, the UK’s largest landlord and a huge player in the Build To Rent sector, says it’s going to implement only...

As the cost of energy spikes and the government rolls out new support, landlords and tenants involved in ‘bills included’ rental...

A council has prosecuted after a landlord who it alleges put his tenants’ safety at risk. Beej Patel and his company Hatfield...

The Guardian newspaper has given an aggrieved tenant the opportunity to explain how he and other renters took a landlord to...

A rogue landlord prosecuted for illegally squashing seven flats into a development with planning permission for six must pay around £250,000.  In...

The Health and Safety Executive is urging landlords to check the credentials of gas fitters following a case heard recently in...

Are you a landlord with an EPC rating of D or below? Newable Finance has launched EPC Finance – a range of...

Trading Standards has approved a new alternative dispute resolution body for the private rental sector. It’s The Dispute Service Ltd, and it...

A leading figure in the PropTech sector says more regulation could make the rental sector fairer and more transparent - but...

A London council has prosecuted a builder - Valeriu Sandu, of Valmic Properties Limited - for lying about fitting sufficiently fireproof...

Landlords are likely to be obliged to supply agents with additional details in future, before their properties are listed to let...

A council says it’s going to clampdown on landlords who are “keeping deposits unnecessarily” and agents “charging unpermitted fees.” The pledge comes...

Airbnb says its short lets business is back almost to 2019 pre-Covid levels in cities, and it reports many work-from-home renters...

Purplebricks claims that its failure to comply with tenant deposit legislation last year is now in the past and was merely...

A landlord has been fined almost £5,000 for failing to install smoke detectors into a house he let to a family. The...

A tenant has received what has been described as a “grovelling” apology from the Connells lettings agency after it switched her...

The BBC Radio 4 consumer affairs programme You and Yours says 4,746 rental scams have been reported to the police and...

Residential landlords need no reminding of the restrictions that have prevented possessions for substantial periods during the pandemic. Nor do they...

Landlords with family properties are in the pound seats when it comes to rent increases, according to data from lettings agency...

Automated rental payment platform PayProp recently held a webinar, attended by well over 100 people, in which a condensed video of...

Private sector landlords are being warned by a council to check their investments meet the legal minimum energy efficiency standard, or...

Something that has been touching a raw nerve with me for some time now is the issue of so called ‘rent...

A landlord has been fined £24,750 and told to repay his tenants almost £47,000 in rent. In December 2018, Preston council responded...

The live launch of a roundtable event hosted by rental payments platform PayProp takes place tomorrow – and landlords can still...

The steps landlords need to take to improve their own image and enhance their reputation in the eyes of consumers was...

A warning has gone out to landlords with properties in Scotland regarding legislation coming into effect in early 2022. Trade association SELECT is...

The buy to let pipeline for one of the sector’s main mortgage lenders is now £911.4m some 39.9 per cent up...

The Citizens Advice consumer charity is warning that fake investment scams are amongst the fraudulent activity that’s on the rise across...

A warning has been issued to landlords about a crackdown on compliance issues surrounding property management. No Letting Go, the country’s largest...

Several high-flying lettings sector bodies say rental properties advertised on portals should carry much more upfront information. This means landlords who use agents...

An 83-year-old landlord who let a property through collapsed agency Homepoint says he is being pursued for nearly £2,400 by liquidators. Homepoint...

Three lettings agencies have been expelled for The Property Ombudsman for failing to pay compensation to landlords. And as they are now...

Specialist buy to let lender Landbay has launched a range of mortgages for trading limited companies buying or remortgaging houses, apartments, HMOs...

A lettings agency being put into liquidation owes landlords almost £500,000 in unpaid rent.  Local media in the Midlands report that the...

Two landlords have to pay almost £8,000 for letting their flats in defiance of a Prohibition Order.  The order came into force...

Scams involving fake landlords and bogus lettings agents are rife in the private rentals sector, and may have been made worse...

The owner of a property used for an illegal party has been fined by a London council for breaking lockdown. Police were called...

Two men have been ordered to pay almost £8,000 for letting out flats in defiance of regulations designed to keep tenants...

An estate agency that bucks the industry trend by selling only tenanted properties to landlords says it’s had a record year. Portfolio,...

A London landlord must pay over £280,000 in three months after housing eight people in a flat deems illegal for even...

Airbnb’s UK operation is under scrutiny by the City watchdog over fears it could be exploited for money laundering purposes Although there...

The trading standards team charged with policing lettings and estate agents is to investigate whether a new guideline on referral fees...

An investment consultancy says landlords seeking mortgages to acquire new properties via a company have been finding some applications rejected as...

The Financial Conduct Authority wants to find people who unwittingly invested in an unauthorised land banking scheme - they may be...

One of Britain’s biggest corporate student landlords is warning of reduced income in the year ahead thanks to Coronavirus. Unite has told shareholders...

Landlords and tenants in Chelmsford, Essex, are being warned that a local letting agent appears to be trading, despite being expelled from...

Landlords and tenants are being warned that Foremost Lettings Ltd (trading as Foremost Lettings), based in St. Leonards-On-Sea, has been expelled...

The UK economy shrank by a record 20.4% in April as the coronavirus caused huge swaths of businesses to seize trading and the government...

Many buy-to-let landlords are heavily exposed to young renters most at risk of losing their job, according to new research from...

As more people start to think about moving home as the coronavirus restrictions are eased, sales and letting agents are being...

Landlords should be aware that eight estate and letting agents have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme (TPO), which means...

Insurers are set to pay out an average £32,000 per household for flood claims following the destructive storms last month, according...

Who are you? Rolitex was Established in 1995, we are based in Greenford and a leading residential property company in the UK,...

Who are you? Cole Harding is a community based estate agent, who offers maximum exposure on all the online portals and social...

Short-term let property management firm Hostmaker has gone into administration, prompting redundancies for the entirety of the company’s London-based team.  Houst, formerly...

A letting agent who failed to safeguard £28,000 worth of tenants’ deposits and rent destined for landlords has been handed a...

A rogue landlord in Gainsborough will be sentenced later this month after being found guilty of unlawful harassment towards his tenants...

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