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The Renters Reform Bill, heavily amended by the government and in some cases by individual MPs, has now passed through all...

A think tank based in central London says landlords would not quit the sector if much tougher - and more expensive...

A charity representing older people has taken up almost all of the key demands of activist group Generation Rent. Independent Age says...

Seasonality is returning to the prime London lettings market after three tumultuous years.  The pandemic meant the market was initially flooded with...

Airbnb is banning the use of security cameras inside rental properties from the end of April. Airbnb currently allows security cameras in...

Newham council in London has won what it calls a landmark case against a convicted rogue landlord. The court has dismissed the...

The Labour Party says it will outlaw rental bidding wars if it wins the next General Election. The party's shadow housing minister,...

A prominent lettings agent says he can see why tenants have lost faith in the government following delays in the banning...

A landlord has found himself on the Rogue Landlord Database after repeatedly renting out hazardous properties in Sheffield. Local landlord and businessman...

A website claims that Banning Orders on private landlords have not been served because of local government funding shortfalls. Open Democracy says...

A criminal businessman has been given a London council’s first ever landlord banning order. Property dealer Jaydipkumar Rameshchandra Valand, who lives in...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned any further publication of an advertisement for holiday homes that made them appear to be...

The landlords’ trade body has given a firm message to Housing Secretary Michael Gove - sort out a realistic deadline for...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has this morning said his government should ‘relax the pace’ of EPC reforms expected from private landlords. In...

A council has given an insight into its past five years of enforcement actions against private landlords. The Labour council in Newham,...

A council chief has spoken out in support of landlords who lost money to a “despicable fraudster” who is now in...

This year is set to bring sweeping rental reforms that will change the face of lettings forever. Landlords should be following...

A landlord who was banned from letting properties after repeatedly failing to meet the required standards, has lost an appeal to...

Propertymark says it’s spotted what may be the first sign of a U-turn on one aspect of the controversial Renters Reform...

Labour’s proposed reforms to the housing market “raise many questions”, a property industry figure claims. Under controversial plans put forward by party...

Landlords are to be given more powers to evict unruly tenants who ruin neighbours’ lives through persistent noise or by being...

I am, by my own admission, ever the optimist, but with a barrage of enquiries from concerned landlords facing very real...

A nine-page legal document outlining landlords’ arguments has effectively stopped a controversial housing minister and campaigning organisations giving evidence to a...

A Labour council which banned councillors who were landlords from contributing to a key debate has done a U-turn on legal...

Ruling politicians in Scotland have agreed that from April private rents can rise by 3.0 per cent in a 12 month period...

A Wirral landlord has become the first in the region to be served with a Banning Order, which will prohibit him...

A rogue landlord who created false identities and fake lcompanies as part of an elaborate web of misinformation designed to exploit...

Bristol councillors who are landlords have been told they cannot speak in a debate on rent controls.  Earlier this week we explained...

Rogue landlords who exploit the supported housing system at the expense of vulnerable residents could be banned from operating or fined...

A combination of Labour, the Green Party and the Scottish Nationalists have pushed through a rent freeze proposal. The Cost of Living...

A Bristol landlord has been banned from letting properties after repeatedly failing to meet the required standards. Naomi Knapp, a portfolio landlord...

In what has been described as a ‘first’ by the local authority concerned, a rogue landlord has been banned from letting...

A Freedom of Information request by a newspaper has unveiled the almost complete lack of activity by local councils when it...

A landlord who lives in the US and lets her apartment out via Airbnb has been banned from doing so in...

On 16 June 2022, the Government introduced a White Paper called “A Fairer Rented Private Sector”. It proposes the biggest changes...

A re-offending landlord housed himself and five tenants in what has been described as a death trap property.  The rogue Harrow landlord...

A council has secured a banning order against a rogue landlord who was found guilty of failing to comply with legal...

The government has announced that its ban on charging ground rent on new leases in England and Wales comes into force...

A senior committee of MPs claims that it’s “too difficult for renters to realise their legal right to a safe and...

The head of a guaranteed rent business has been given an 11-year ban for scamming £6.7m from property investors. Sam Eustace, 36,...

A London council has secured banning orders against four rogue landlords after they were found to be letting an unlicensed and...

A landlord who let out a property that raised serious concerns for the safety of 18 residents, including six children, has...

A council has obtained a banning order on a landlord in a ruling that is the first of its kind in...

A report by the National Audit Office has sharply criticised the government and councils for not doing enough to help tenants...

An unnamed landlord has been banned from letting out his property after allowing it to fall into poor condition.  He was served...

The sleaze allegations engulfing the government have moved to those MPs letting out their London homes while claiming money from taxpayers...

Climate change is at the top of the political agenda this week thanks to Cop26 taking place in Glasgow in a...

The government is poised to announce a ban on the installation of gas boilers by 2035. Instead home owners including landlords will...

Outspoken landlord Fergus Wilson, who has reportedly become a millionaire through his buy to let investments, has been hit with a...

An agency says its bizarre list of items left behind by departing tenants shows how many renters actually appear to keep pets...

The government is not budging on the Tenant Fees Act and will not amend it to allow separate and additional charging...

Eight landlords letting flats on the same street have been banned from renting them out on Airbnb. The Edinburgh News website says...

The resumption of bailiff-enforced evictions, banned for over a year until just days ago, could be “catastrophic” for one of the...

It may not be a typical part of the country but on one of the Channel Islands there is now a...

Airbnb has blocked nearly 80,000 UK reservation attempts following the introduction of restrictions that prevent under 25-year-olds from making entire home...

Three lettings agencies have been expelled for The Property Ombudsman for failing to pay compensation to landlords. And as they are now...

A consultation process is taking place on the Channel Island of Jersey about whether landlords should be banned from refusing to...

Only 39 rogue landlords and letting agents have been hit with banning orders in the first three years of their existence. The...

A landlord who persistently broke residential lettings rules has been banned from operating in what a local council calls “a landmark...

The National Residential Landlords Association has called for flexibility from government when it comes to insisting private rental sector properties have...

Gas boilers may be the next big issue for the private rental sector as an influential committee has called for them...

The chief executive of the National Residential Landlords Association has admitted in a newspaper article that some landlords do misuse their...

Private landlords are setting out a manifesto of radical changes for the rental sector, starting with more repossession rights. The demands are...

Mark Horsey, a landlord who has been convicted of voyeurism, has now been banned from continuing to work in the financial...

It’s common knowledge that asbestos is a highly damaging group of microscopic fibres that can severely impact the health of our...

With new regulations and rules now in place for landlords, our in-house property experts outline their 10 essential safety requirements for...

The Green Party says there should be an end to private rental sector eviction grounds “such as the wish of the...

The Generation Rent campaign says a mandatory landlord register is necessary - and would have stopped the actions of a rogue...

A landlord who unlawfully let cramped and overcrowded bedsits and then harassed tenants who complained has been fined thousands of pounds...

A landlord in Oxford is no longer allowed to offer a local property for short-term lets following a lengthy planning battle...

In recent years, there has been considerable controversy over the use of ‘no DSS’ in homes being listed for let, with...

A man deemed not to be a fit and proper person to hold a licence for a house in multiple occupation...

There are growing concerns that buy-to-let landlords could be banned from evicting private tenants beyond next month due to the coronavirus...

Landlords who have benefited from a mortgage holiday should pass this on to financially distressed tenants, according to Mary-Anne Bowring, group...

Buy-to-let landlords could be banned from evicting private tenants in Scotland for up to six months if the Scottish government’s plans...

An unscrupulous landlord who illegally rented out properties in Fife has been sentenced to two years in prison after failing to...

A senior director at a letting agency in Exeter has been handed a six-year ban after failing to safeguard more than £68,000...

A rogue landlord in Doncaster has been given a banning order for two-and-a-half years after repeatedly putting tenants’ lives at risk...

‘For Sale’ and ‘To Let’ boards are one of the oldest and most important property marketing tools, even in this modern...

A man deemed not to be a fit and proper person to hold a licence for a house in multiple occupation...

A growing number of buy-to-let landlords are charging what has been described as a ‘pet rent’ of up to £50 a...

It is now illegal for tenants to be charged by landlords or letting agents in Wales in order to set up or...

On Sunday 1st September 2019, the Renting Homes (fees etc) (Wales) Act will come into force in Wales. The Act means that...

With just a few days until the Welsh tenant fee ban is introduced, landlords in Wales are being urged to adapt...

The number of tenants experiencing rent rises hit the highest level on record in July, according to ARLA Propertymark’s latest PRS...

The Renting Homes (Fees Etc.) (Wales) Act 2019, banning landlords and letting agents from charging fees to tenants, will come into...

Portsmouth City Council is controversially planning to introduce a landlord licensing scheme in the city without potentially allowing around half of...

Private landlords would be banned from above-inflation rent rises if Labour wins power after the next general election, according to a...

Rents are expected to increase over the next few months, according to the latest survey from Just Landlords. The study found that almost half of...

A buy-to-let landlord in Nottingham has been ordered to pay just over £1,600 for allowing five tenants to live in what...

A growing number of private landlords are turning to Airbnb and similar platforms, but Apropos by DJ Alexander Ltd, a property management...

As many of you already know, the ban on tenant fees will come into force on 1 June 2019, and the...

Landlords and letting agents will soon be banned from charging fees to private rental tenants in Wales after a Bill banning...

One of the UK’s largest and arguably most controversial buy-to-let landlords who has in the past banned ‘coloured people’ from renting...

Many people invest in property or sign up to investment club arrangements, which are not uncommon in the industry, but sometimes it...

A buy-to-let landlord in Leeds who left his tenant homeless after changing the locks while he was on holiday has been...

Buy-to-let investors should be ‘extremely wary’ of buying property in an area affected by selective licensing rules because many local authorities...

Section 8 delays are leaving more than half of landlords with no alternative but serve Section 21 notices, according to new...

After the Tenant Fees Bill received Royal Assent last week, landlords and letting agents will, from June 1st 2019, no longer...

Three rogue directors of a letting agency in London who conned at least landlords and tenants out of more than £105,000 were...