Myra Butterworth is a property writer and editor with a track record spanning across more than three decades. She has written for national newspapers, magazines and websites. This includes spending five years at The Daily Telegraph, where she worked on the news desk and won the mortgage writer of the year award for her coverage of the credit crisis. More recently, she spent almost a decade writing the property section of the MailOnline. As well as editing LandlordNEWS, she also writes for other websites and national newspapers, including The Sun.
A landlord has been fined more than £43,000 for renting unsafe and rodent-infested flats - but blamed tenants for the disrepair.
Growing numbers of landlords are moving into commercial property amid fears that the residential market is too challenging.
Sefton Council has threatened to get tough on private landlords if they don’t help tenants keep their rubbish under control.
Landlords are less likely to win their appeal against an improvement notice following an Upper Tribunal ruling.
The Renters’ Rights Bill won’t impact private landlords’ profits or slow rising rents, according to tenant referencing company FCC Paragon.
A landlord who hoodwinked her student tenants into paying higher deposits has been ordered to pay more than £11,000 in fines and costs.
