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The property investment service BuyAssociation has changed the wording of an advertisement after intervention by the Advertising Standards Authority. The ASA says: “A...

The Competitioin and Markets Authority is to probe five activities involving landlords and letting agents and their responsibilities to private tenants. Sarah...

Social housing tenants are to be encouraged to hold their landlords to account as part of a taxpayer funded training scheme. From free advice on...

The Competition and Markets Authority is launching a three month probe into the workings of the private rental sector. It says the focus...

The Competition and Markets Authority has raised concern about a Build To Rent deal which it believes could result in reduced...

The government’s Green Homes Grant Voucher Scheme - which left thousands of landlords in the lurch when it collapsed earlier this...

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

Thousands of landlords trapped in developer contracts with spiraling costs could be entitled to compensation, according to legal experts.  Around 100,000 homeowners...

Buy-to-let investors can have full confidence in the protection offered to landlords and tenants by flatfair, a fintech scale-up that allows...

Citizens Advice has called for more regulation of the private rented sector after research revealed that hundreds of thousands of tenants...

Maidstone Borough Council has been criticised by a government watchdog and ordered to pay in excess of £4,000 after a private...

Buy-to-let landlords could soon find it harder to secure finance to acquire property following the news that buy-to-let mortgage lenders may...

Greater scrutiny of the capital gains tax exemption, which is used by people selling their main home, is required to help...

A top politician has been reported to the ethics watchdog following accusations that he broke strict parliamentary code on financial and...