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The Government wants more private landlords to sell their properties and exit the market, commentary within Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Statement briefing document has revealed.

7/3/2024

Generation Rent calls for holiday lets to be licenced

Generation Rent calls for holiday lets to be licenced

Generation Rent has called for even stronger action to be taken against holiday lets which it says have been “making life a misery” for renters in the UK’s most popular tourist destinations.

Could American “mega-landlords” buying portfolios be the lifeline British landlords need to get out?

Could American “mega-landlords” buying portfolios be the lifeline British landlords need to get out?

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As the UK government struggles to help landlords facing tough financial situations, landlords have rallied together to help themselves.

Landlord Sales Agency

BREAKING: Chancellor reveals bombshell budget for landlords

BREAKING: Chancellor reveals bombshell budget for landlords

Landlords received a surprise hand-out from Chancellor Jeremy Hunt when he cut the higher rate of Capital Gains Tax from 28% to 24% in today's Spring statement.

Helen Gregory

Shadow chancellor backs selective licencing expansion

Shadow chancellor backs selective licencing expansion

Labour’s shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has backed the expansion of a selective licencing scheme within her local constituency.

The compulsory registration of leases with the Land Registry

The compulsory registration of leases with the Land Registry

Since October 2003 tenants have been obliged, as a tenant of a commercial or residential leasehold property, to formally register the lease with the Land Registry

Tom Entwistle

2.8m bookings in three months! Official data reveals hottest holiday let areas

2.8m bookings in three months! Official data reveals hottest holiday let areas

Short-let property owners in Cornwall, Edinburgh and Westminster had the most bookings in the UK last summer.

Smaller landlords 'need protection from rogues too' says Trading Standards

Smaller landlords 'need protection from rogues too' says Trading Standards

Smaller landlords need as much protection as tenants, a Lords committee inquiry into the regulation of property agents has been told.

'Squeezing holiday lets will not solve housing crisis'

'Squeezing holiday lets will not solve housing crisis'

Holiday let owners are being unfairly scapegoated in the guise of controlling rising house prices and availability, according to one holiday rental agency.

Council and police step in to help landlord evict nightmare tenant

Council and police step in to help landlord evict nightmare tenant

Liverpool City Council and Merseyside Police have stepped in to help a landlord evict his nightmare tenant.

Student housing sector 'in crisis' warns coalition of providers

Student housing sector 'in crisis' warns coalition of providers

The Government is doing too little to support the student landlords and many places are short of accommodation for second- and third-year graduates, a new poll has found.

'Hostility to landlords has cost Scotland 22,000 rental properties'

'Hostility to landlords has cost Scotland 22,000 rental properties'

Almost 22,000 homes may have been lost in Scotland during the last year due to perceived hostility towards landlords and concerns over increasing regulation.

Landlord must pay back £20,000 to posh tenants, says Tribunal

Landlord must pay back £20,000 to posh tenants, says Tribunal

An absentee landlord who used the excuse of not speaking good English and delegated property management to a family member has been stung with a £20,700 rent repayment order.