A leading letting agent has criticsed the progress of the Renters’ Rights Bill which left the House of Lords with few amendments.
A property lawyer has warned that landlords might fail to realise their tenant has given notice after a court ruled that a WhatsApp exchange was sufficient to create a contract.
Private renters in England have saved nearly £1 billion in letting agent fees since the 2019 Tenant Fees Act, research by Generation Rent has found.
One of the UK’s leading student lettings agencies has pointed out a huge ‘crunch point’ for HMO landlords when the Renters’ Rights Bill goes live later this year.
New poll shows landlords are planning to raise rents in response to new restrictions within the looming Renters' Rights Bil.
Property lawyer Ian Narbeth takes a detailed but scathing look at Labour's looming Renters' Rights Bill and predicts there is trouble ahead.
Comments have been made after residents at a property that was illegally converted into 11 bedsit flats remain worried about its condition.
Three landlord brothers have had a whopping £22 million pay day after selling their property portfolio to an investment trust.
A leading property expert says the UK is heading for a “horrendous housing crisis” that could worsen with the advent of the Renters’ Rights Bill.
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.
As the UK government struggles to help landlords facing tough financial situations, landlords have rallied together to help themselves.
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.
Labour’s shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has backed the expansion of a selective licencing scheme within her local constituency.
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
Short-let property owners in Cornwall, Edinburgh and Westminster had the most bookings in the UK last summer.
Smaller landlords need as much protection as tenants, a Lords committee inquiry into the regulation of property agents has been told.
Holiday let owners are being unfairly scapegoated in the guise of controlling rising house prices and availability, according to one holiday rental agency.
Liverpool City Council and Merseyside Police have stepped in to help a landlord evict his nightmare tenant.
Commercial landlords are now on high alert following a recent high court ruling over insurance commissions
The UK’s largest landlord association has called out the Government’s plans to make rental properties reach a minimum EPC ‘C’ band by 2028 as ‘unachievable’.
Rising immigration is likely to push rental demand to new heights, a banking boss has warned.
Landlords have been urged to join a legal action to challenge Leicester Council’s “unreasonably extortionate” selective licensing fees.
A leading letting agent has criticsed the progress of the Renters’ Rights Bill which left the House of Lords with few amendments.
A property lawyer has warned that landlords might fail to realise their tenant has given notice after a court ruled that a WhatsApp exchange was sufficient to create a contract.
Private renters in England have saved nearly £1 billion in letting agent fees since the 2019 Tenant Fees Act, research by Generation Rent has found.
One of the UK’s leading student lettings agencies has pointed out a huge ‘crunch point’ for HMO landlords when the Renters’ Rights Bill goes live later this year.
New poll shows landlords are planning to raise rents in response to new restrictions within the looming Renters' Rights Bil.
Property lawyer Ian Narbeth takes a detailed but scathing look at Labour's looming Renters' Rights Bill and predicts there is trouble ahead.
Comments have been made after residents at a property that was illegally converted into 11 bedsit flats remain worried about its condition.
Three landlord brothers have had a whopping £22 million pay day after selling their property portfolio to an investment trust.
A leading property expert says the UK is heading for a “horrendous housing crisis” that could worsen with the advent of the Renters’ Rights Bill.
New report from the Housing Ombudsman shows complaints about substandard living conditions in social housing in England are five times higher than they were five years ago
Wolverhampton Council has launched a mediation service for private landlords and tenants to help prevent evictions.
HMOs in Southend face a crackdown as the council considers proposals to limit landlords’ future applications.
Upcoming changes to EPCs next month could end up costing landlords more and see properties downgraded if they don’t have energy upgrade documents, it has been claimed.
It is not unusual to hearletting agents and their landlord clients complaining that operating within theprivate rented sector is has become increasingly tangled with red tape.
The public has been warned to be vigilant following a new report that shows the number of people relieved of their savings by ‘investment scams’ has increased by value for the first time since 2021, reaching £144 million.
The borough council’s planning committee will vote on whether to introduce an Article 4 direction next week.
A West Sussex landlord has been prevented from letting out HMOs after he admitted operating an unlicensed property.
Despite Energy Secretary Ed Miliband’s insistence that rents hadn’t increased when standards were raised during previous initiatives, Justice Minister Sarah Sackman has now said there are grounds for “higher market rents”.
A tenant has built up more than £10,000 in rent arrears after the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) refused to accept her landlord’s word that the rent had increased.
Report from digital planning portal suggests public fight-back against HMOs and higher taxes for landlords are beginning to bite.
Radical renting campaigners have written a new book that aims to inspire the end of UK landlords’ “despotic control” over tenants.
