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Landlords and renters’ activists are at either end of the spectrum reacting to a controversial report on the private rental sector. Yesterday...

Labour leader Sir Kier Starmer and the party’s controversial Mayor of London Sadiq Khan are at loggerheads over rent controls. Khan has...

The management of BTL properties, whether it's a modest collection of three units or a more sizable portfolio of fifteen, can...

Rents across the UK continue to retreat from their 2023 highs, falling by 2.9 per cent over the last three months,...

A council is to spend £10m to buy homes on the open market to house local people - some at risk...

More than a quarter of private landlords plan to increase the size of their property portfolios in the next year, compared...

The government should tax property ‘hoarders’ cashing in on the UK housing market says a left-leaning think tank. A report by the New Economics...

It’s not just the weather that’s wet and dreary – the outlook looks bleak for landlords too as we head towards...

Landlord confidence has improved over the course of the past quarter according to a respected quarterly sentiment survey. The Q3 2023 BVA...

A think tank that describes itself as “centre right” praises the Renters Reform Bill and claims the fear of landlords selling...

Over a third of private landlords would sell properties if rent controls were introduced in their area, according to a trade...

Dashly, a platform that monitors over £100 billion of mortgages, says landlords in London renewing loans soon will be, on average,...

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

The data from the 2021 to 2022 tax year reveals that it has been a bumper year for capital gains in...

Last month, Housing Secretary Michael Gove declared the Government was “asking too much, too quickly” of landlords by setting a 2028...

Property investment dates back centuries – millennia, even. As a fundamental necessity for post-nomadic humanity, residential and commercial real estate have...

An angry reader has contacted Landlord Today with a letter from housing minister Rachel Maclean - which the recipient has branded...

Rightmove has this morning revealed that 16 per cent of properties currently for sale were previously available on the rental market,...

An experienced property lawyer who has specialised in residential landlord and tenant law for 22 years says she is embarrassed at...

I have read a great deal in the media recently about a mass landlord ‘exodus’. The story goes along the lines of...

Section 21: Research carried out by Leaders Romans Group has found that Section 21 is rarely overused, and even more rarely...

A mortgage broker claims there’s “no downside” to the current problem of landlords quitting the private rental sector. Jonathan Burridge, founding adviser...

The controversial Section 21 powers are neither overused by landlords, nor abused by them - despite some organisations claiming otherwise. Research by...

The mass exodus of landlords unhappy with increased tax and regulation appears not to have happened - at least yet. A quarterly...

Renters’ Reform Bill The Renters’ Reform Bill will dominate the PRS policy agenda in 2023. Signs are encouraging that DLUHC is considering...

Tenants should brace themselves for soaring rents in the New Year, a property expert warns.  The National Association of Property Buyers predicts...

Landlord and letting agent fears over the impact of rental reform could be eased if only the industry used rigorous and...

Rent rises could finally be set to slow down because more housing stock is becoming available due to the cost of...

The time taken to introduce legislation reforming the private rented sector is triggering an exodus of landlords, a lettings industry chief...

The buy-to-let market is going through a rough patch. With legislative change on the horizon, coupled with bleak ROI forecasts, many...

The Scottish Government’s dramatic immediate introduction of a rent freeze and eviction ban could mark the beginning of the end of the...

A range of mortgage brokers are reporting an increase in enquiries from private tenants who have been given first refusal to...

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

A lettings agent says his client landlords are already turning their back on short let platforms including Airbnb ahead of likely...

A prominent Conservative has branded the rush towards rent controls by some politicians as “heavy-handed and economically illiterate”. Janet Finch Saunders, an...

The number of private rental homes has increased by 18,610 in the last five years - defying those suggesting an exodus...

There is no evidence of a mass exodus of landlords from the sector despite the new regulations and slashed tax benefits...

Rents in Greater London are up an annualised 25 per cent, with much of the increase attributed to the stock of...

Bromsgrove is a classic rental market. The Worcestershire market town is enveloped by green space but is just a thirty-minute commute...

A leading market forecaster has described the level of rent rises in one part of the country as “going ballistic”. “The London...

The demise of the buy to let market has been much predicted over recent years. Major tax changes, a three per...

A lettings agent says a new HMO licensing regime in one of London’s highest profile boroughs will reduce the number of rental...

One of the first submissions to Chancellor Rishi Sunak ahead of his autumn Budget and spending review later this month asks...

A mortgage expert who is a prominent sceptic about the lettings market has stepped up his criticisms, saying renting is no...

A new report to be released on Wednesday reveals that far from the pandemic building up arrears, it significantly reduced them. A...

There’s a warning today that some office-to-resi and shop-to-resi conversions - often thought to be popular purchases by buy-to-let investors -...

One of the most respected and experienced agents in Prime Central London has given an insight into the lettings market in...

London agency Dexters says the number of lettings applicants rose 50 per cent in 2020 with a particular surge in November...

New data from letting agents suggests that there’s been a substantial rise in the number of landlords selling buy to let...

The chancellor’s decision to order a review of capital gains tax, signalling a future raid on second homeowners, including buy-to-let landlords,...

It’s no secret that the war on landlords has escalated heavily since 2016 and as we find ourselves in a new...

Is the UK on the brink of a mass landlord exodus? It may seem like an ominous question, but ask people...

The housing plans being put forward by Boris Johnson have been described by the National Landlords Association (NLA) as “ruinous” and...

Proposals by the main political parties, including the Tory government, to scrap Section 21 notices to evict tenants could potentially pave...

Almost a quarter of landlords are planning to sell at least one property from their existing buy-to-let portfolio, new research from...

The tenant fee ban is new to most of the UK, but has been in place in Scotland since 2012. Advocates...

The rental market in prime central London has proved resilient this year despite the impact of political uncertainty surrounding Brexit negotiations,...

Tax and legislative changes have unsurprisingly left many buy-to-let investors with little alternative but to pass costs onto tenants by pushing up...

There was a significant increase in the number of landlords exiting the rental market in December 2018 as rents increased for...

Rents in the UK’s private rented sector increased by 0.97% in the 12 months to November 2018, virtually unchanged from the...

Rents in London are expected to increase further in 2019 due to the widening supply-demand imbalance in the capital’s rental market,...

The reversal of controversial alterations to mortgage interest relief and the scrapping of the 3% stamp duty surcharge on additional properties understandably...

The chances of a no-deal Brexit are looking increasingly likely after EU leaders snubbed Theresa May’s latest compromise offer, but that...

Fears that regulatory changes will pave the way for an exodus from the buy-to-let market may be a little premature, according...

Rent prices in London are forecast to see strong growth following a significant drop in the number of homes available to rent...

Landlords are selling close to 4,000 buy-to-let properties a month resulting in the first recorded fall in the number of rental...

One in five landlords plan to stay in the buy-to-let market indefinitely, with the same number of portfolio landlords foreseeing the...

Landlords generally believe that many recent regulation changes have gone too far and want to see the government rethink the swathes...

The government must start to provide financial incentives for buy-to-let landlords prepared to offer longer tenancies or risk seeing rents soar,...

Bricks and mortar have provided stellar returns for many people over the past couple of decades, prompting many to rely on...

An exodus of landlords from the buy-to-let market has caused a significant drop in rental property listings in recent month with...

The UK is facing a critical rental shortage as many landlords continue to offload properties due to recent tax a change,...

The private rented sector will not experience a “mass exodus” of private landlords as a result of tax changes and tougher...

Lord Flight, a former Conservative Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, has once again criticised his own party’s buy-to-let tax changes,...

This week, there have been warnings that the buy-to-let market is looking ‘increasingly bleak’ and that landlords are deterred from entering...

2017 was a year of flux for landlords, with Brexit becoming a reality and two Budgets from Phillip Hammond dictating the...

As the government prepares to invoke Article 50 to leave the EU, very few experts forecast that Brexit will have an...

Our latest infographic shows figures of how the majority of deposits are repaid at the end of tenancy and goes into...

There has been a surge in high quality tenants, including many corporate tenants working for blue chip companies, flocking to the...

Two managing agents, who own and manage properties in Hatfield, were ordered to pay a total of £42,534 in fines after...