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Tenant referencing provider Canopy has released data from a rental affordability index, which claims most tenants are at the very limit...
06 April 2024
From: Tax & Finance
The Chancellor has used his Budget to confirm a 2p cut in National Insurance, from April 6. This will take it...
06 March 2024
From: Breaking News
Room rents continue to skyrocket across the UK, reaching new highs in the third quarter of 2023 according to flatware website...
19 October 2023
From: Breaking News
New data appears to show that the number of active short lets is lower - and not higher - than in...
31 May 2023
From: Breaking News
A new rental market analysis has revealed where in the UK has the highest proportion of private landlords. Benham and Reeves analysed...
10 February 2023
From: Breaking News
* Angels Media and Landlord Today are deeply saddened by the passing of HM Queen Elizabeth II * - A landlord has been...
09 September 2022
From: Breaking News
Barnet council in London is pushing ahead with plans to reintroduce an HMO licensing scheme next month, following a 15-month hiatus. Additional...
01 September 2022
From: Breaking News
It’s comforting to think that the UK has a well-established and effective judicial system. If we are wronged we can turn...
30 July 2022
From: Legislation & Compliance
The number of HMOs in England has fallen as a result of government intervention in the market. In 2018 new regulations were...
11 May 2022
From: Breaking News
Room rents in most major UK urban locations are now at a record high according to flatshare service SpareRoom. Some 41 out...
13 April 2022
From: Breaking News
Covid-19 has undoubtedly shifted the way new landlords will be looking to invest in 2022, and our ranking makes it clear...
22 January 2022
From: Tax & Finance
A Build To Rent operator, Kooky, has launched a 39-unit scheme within a new Taylor Wimpey housing estate. The estate is Oakleigh...
03 June 2021
From: Breaking News
There could be a significant increase in repossession cases in London once the tenant eviction ban ends this weekend, legal experts...
21 August 2020
From: Breaking News
Buy-to-let landlords face having to reduce rents by at least 5% over the next five years as a growing number of...
28 July 2020
From: Breaking News
Demand for rental properties and the supply of rental stock have dropped significantly year-on-year across the majority of UK cities and...
23 April 2020
From: Breaking News
Which party will win the landlord vote? Given that the mainstream parties all have policies that appear to work against BTL landlords,...
03 December 2019
From: Breaking News
A landlord who converted a house in north London into flats without consent could face legal action. Javad Aghababazadeh was given permission...
07 August 2019
From: Breaking News
Two landlords have been ordered to pay more than £30,000 for breaching fire safety and over-occupancy licence conditions at their House...
11 March 2019
From: Breaking News
New research has identified London’s most uninhabitable boroughs for the capital’s tenants, based on the cost of living there to the...
11 February 2019
From: Breaking News
Barnet Council is planning to introduce a stricter licensing scheme designed to clampdown on rogue landlords across the borough in north...
18 January 2019
From: Breaking News
Private landlords across the UK collectively earned £33.8bn from their buy-to-let investments in the year from 5 April 2017 to 2018,...
04 December 2018
From: Breaking News
Private landlords are being offered money to help encourage them to restore their empty homes in the London borough of Barnet. Empty...
22 October 2018
From: Breaking News
Rents for residential properties fell across parts of London in quarterly terms as the supply of properties coming on to the...
24 July 2018
From: Breaking News
The law has finally caught up with a letting agent who stole £22,000 from clients, including landlords. Peter Bell, now the former...
11 April 2018
From: Breaking News
A company and the manager of a house of multiple occupation (HMO) in South Hampstead, north-west London, have been hit with...
08 February 2018
From: Breaking News
A landlord has been jailed for failing to declare Capital Gains Tax from the sale of his rental properties. Richard Fuller, 53,...
14 August 2017
From: Breaking News
Barnet Council has issued a stark warning to the 2,000 landlords without correct licences across the north London borough. The council says...
09 December 2016
From: Breaking News
A Cricklewood landlord who was ordered in September to pay more than £700,000 after he breached Barnet Council’s planning enforcement rules...
06 December 2016
From: Breaking News
Dlighted is trying to persuade more landlords and tenants to use its deposit-free renting service by claiming that at least £2bn...
28 September 2016
From: Breaking News
The launch of the 24-hour tube service last month is pushing up prices of homes close to stations on the all-night...
01 September 2016
From: Breaking News
A new additional property licensing scheme has been introduced this week for landlords operating in the London borough of Barnet in north...
07 July 2016
From: Breaking News
An unscrupulous letting agent who conned landlords and tenants out of more than £220,000 has been sentenced to four and a half...
29 June 2016
From: Breaking News
The owner of a house in Colindale, north London, let out to tenants in a dangerous condition has been fined £25,000. Habib...
17 June 2016
From: Breaking News
Rogue landlords in the London Borough of Barnet are being targeted by the local council as part of a crackdown on...
08 June 2016
From: Breaking News
Several local authorities in London have launched an investigation into a multi-million pound business model where a number of letting agents...
16 March 2016
From: Breaking News
Work of council fraud investigators in Barnet to expose tenancy fraud has led to almost 50 council houses being re-let to...