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The newly re-elected Labour Mayor of Greater Manchester - Andy Burnham - wants to end Right To Buy on new-build homes...

The chief executive of a short lets service says Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is wrong to think penalising landlords will help solve...

Government proposals on limiting short lets "fall a long way short of what's needed and will do nothing to put right...

The Labour Party has committed to extending a crackdown on social housing landlords who fail to fix mouldy homes, to include...

A council is warning landlords of HMOs that they must meet all of their legal responsibilities ahead of a crackdown on...

A local authority in a tourist hotspot claims that local landlords have “overwhelmingly” backed a move to clampdown on Airbnbs and...

A group of Conservative MPs has organised a lobby of the government to demand a clampdown on Airbnbs and other short...

Illicit HMOs have been targeted in a bid to improve housing standards and make communities safer. North Northamptonshire council joined forces with...

A city council has slammed what it calls ‘neglectful landlords’ as part of an illegal dumping crackdown. Stoke-on-Trent’s Labour authority has declared...

Tax changes in the private rented sector have contributed to the loss of £1.5 billion in Treasury revenue, according to a...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has made an announcement overnight that “the government will always act to protect tenants.” The claim comes as...

A London council and Airbnb are working together to try to counter large scale fraud amongst social housing tenants who sub-let...

PropTech firm Kamma says total fines for agents and landlords have now topped £8m in London alone with a £238,000 increase...

Talk is getting louder about restrictions surrounding Airbnb and other short let platforms - and nowhere is the volume greater than...

A council says it’s going to clampdown on landlords who are “keeping deposits unnecessarily” and agents “charging unpermitted fees.” The pledge comes...

The government’s new Levelling Up White Paper includes a dramatic reshaping of the private rental sector. Section 21 eviction powers will be...

A Labour council in London has announced plans to expand its crackdown on what it calls “shoddy landlords.” Southwark council says the...

Landlords, tenants and residents in parts of Nottingham may be eligible for free home safety improvements to crackdown on burglary. Nottinghamshire police...

Over half of local authorities in England have not issued any civil penalties against rogue or criminal landlords in the last...

A warning has been issued to landlords about a crackdown on compliance issues surrounding property management. No Letting Go, the country’s largest...

The activists group Acorn, which has staged several anti-landlord demonstrations including some outside homes, is opposing a new Bill going through...

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

Buy-to-let landlords must not discriminate against benefit claimants, a court has ruled.  A court case in York has ruled that blanket bans...

Buy-to-let landlords are being urged to think twice about moving to holiday letting following proposed regulatory and financial changes to the...

Marks Out Of Tenancy, a letting review website, has launched a digital service to help local authorities crackdown on unscrupulous landlords...

Fresh funding for local councils in England to tackle unscrupulous landlords has been made available, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local...

The government crackdown on the buy-to-let sector has seen landlord regulations increase by a third since the Conservative party came into...

Following the introduction of new HMO licences in Hackney, east London, the local council has taken legal action against four landlords...

An unscrupulous landlord has been ordered to pay £47,500 after council officers found 11 people living in a small flat in...

The number of buy-to-let landlords confessing to not paying tax has soared, new figures show. A crackdown by HM Revenue and Customs...

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

Buy-to-let landlords looking to add to their property portfolios are being encouraged to use a specialist mortgage broker as they could...

London mayor Sadiq Khan is being urged to pull advertisements encouraging landlords to move into tourist lets. Following a significant drop in...

In an attempt to help crackdown on poor quality housing, BBC News is exploring the challenges and the opportunities for communities...

Fresh guidance for local authorities to crackdown on rogue landlords has been unveiled by housing minister Heather Wheeler. Local authorities across the...

Leeds Building Society has cut rates across its buy-to-let range to help landlords already facing a tax and mortgage squeeze to...

The government plans to crackdown on BTL landlords and letting agents posting ‘no DSS’ adverts discriminating against tenants claiming housing benefit. Around...

Some buy-to-let landlords are being driven out of the market by the government’s tax crackdown as growing numbers struggle to make...

Buy-to-let mortgage activity continued to slow in December with landlord investors taking out just 5,100 new buy-to-let home purchase mortgages, down...

Buy-to-let mortgage activity continued to slow in October, as fewer landlords took out home loans as a result of tax changes...

Buy-to-let mortgage activity slowed dramatically in September, as the number of landlords taking out new home loans dropped by almost a...

Yesterday’s announcement that councils in England are going to be handed an additional £2m in government funding to tackle the small...

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

The government must move now to start supporting those that invest in the private rented sector or risk seeing significantly more...

Cheshire East Council has pledged to clampdown on rogue landlords who allow tenants to live in poor housing standards within the...

One of the UK’s largest and arguably most controversial buy-to-let landlord who last year banned ‘coloured people’ from renting any of...

Rogue landlords in Ashford will now face fines of up to £30,000 after Ashford Borough Council voted to adopt new rules...

The government has launched new online information designed to help renters and landlords know their rights. The rental guides, published by the...

Landlords continue to feel the pinch after the latest phase of the government crackdown on buy-to-let came into effect last month,...

From a landlord’s perspective, it has been a tough couple of years, with a raft of changes designed to bring the...

Over half of private landlords plan to sell some of their buy-to-let properties this year, it has been claimed. Some 54% of landlords...

Despite the changes to the buy-to-let sector in recent years, there still remains a desire among many to become a landlord,...

Unscrupulous landlords who rent out substandard properties face being driven out of the private rented sector as new banning orders are...

Councils will be handed tough new powers to punish rogue landlords up to £30,000. Under the new legislation, being introduced in October,...

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

A growing number of private landlords are planning to exit the buy-to-let market, prompting fears that rents will rise sharply as the...

But-to-let landlords have shown remarkable resilience and adaptability in the face of the onslaught on their livelihoods, following justifiable concerns about...

The government announced yesterday that the implementation of the ban on letting agents’ fees levied on tenants will not take place...

The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) yesterday announced fresh plans to clamp down on rogue landlord practices such as...

The past few months have seen a number of buy-to-let investors sell up, and this is expected to place upward pressure...

The government’s plan to ban letting agents in England from charging fees to tenants will deter up to 30% of buy-to-let...

A young man has been discovered paying £250 a month for a sleeping space in a cupboard under the stairs, measuring...

The secretary of state for Wales has called for greater protections for tenants and a crackdown on rogue landlords in Wales. Welsh...

A landlord has been ordered to pay almost £10,000 after tenants were discovered living in appalling, cramped conditions, as Brent Council...

More than 130,000 homes have potentially been taken out of the long term private rented sector as more buy-to-let landlords list...

There is a direct correlation between licensed rental properties and a reduction in anti-social behaviour, according to a north London based...

Thousands of private landlords could be unfairly pushed in to a higher tax bracket following the introduction of new taxation rules...

A landlord has been fined for not licensing 12 buy-to-let properties in the North Ormesby area of Middlesbrough. John Bradley, 39, was...

The mayor of London Sadiq Khan has vowed to crackdown on criminal landlords by ensuring that they are ‘named and shamed’...

With a growing number of buy-to-let landlords in London now using short-term letting platforms like Airbnb to breach the rules for...

The government’s plan to ban letting agents in England from charging fees to tenants will not deter the vast majority of...

The UK government’s Affordable Warmth Scheme (AWS) has been in place since 2013, as part of the Energy Companies Obligation (ECO).   The...

A local council is planning to crackdown on rogue landlords by potentially introducing a selective licensing scheme, it has been revealed. Barrow-in-Furness...

Despite the recent tax crackdown, buy-to-let continues to look an attractive income investment at a time of low interest rates and...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA) has reiterated its call for the government to reconsider banning letting agents in England...

A number of mortgage lenders have now revised their affordability criteria, in line with the Prudential Regulation Authority’s (PRA) supervisory statement...

The Mortgage Works is the latest lender to announce that it is increasing its rental stress rate for buy-to-let landlords as...

But-to-let landlords face paying an extra £6,700 on their mortgages when new rules forcing them to take out longer term loans...

Specialist lender Paragon remains positive about buy-to-let, despite a tightening of regulations in the market that has included a major crackdown...

Buy-to-let landlords have come under attack from the taxman and now also from the Bank of England, which could make landlord...

No fewer than seven landlords have been fined thousands of pounds for renting out unlicensed properties in Blackburn as part of...

The government and local councils are not doing enough to clampdown on rogue landlords, according to a new report. A survey of...

Landlords in parts of Manchester may soon have to apply for a licence to let their properties as part of a...

Rogue landlords in the London Borough of Barnet are being targeted by the local council as part of a crackdown on...

A dozen landlords in Waltham Forest, north east London, have been prosecuted and fined a total of £60,000 after failing to...

The Bank of England has revealed its tougher borrowing standards to prevent buy-to-let lending overheating the wider housing market.  The Bank’s financial...

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has warned against further intervention in the buy-to-let market as the forthcoming tax crackdown looks...

The Bank of England Governor Mark Carney is the latest influential figure to hint that there may soon be additional restrictions...

Buy-to-let is in the line of fire again with reports that officials at the Basel Committee are looking to get tough...

The Government has responded to a petition opposing changes to tax relief on buy-to-let mortgages announced in the summer budget. From April...

Tax specialists have urged buy-to-let landlords affected by Chancellor George Osborne’s tax crackdown to act now to ensure their sums still...

Plans to force landlords to act as border control and potentially be jailed if they house illegal immigrants have met with...

MPs have introduced two new bills that will crackdown on rogue landlords. The first measure introduced to parliament yesterday was by the...

Two private landlords have been fined for failing to tackle sub-standard conditions in their properties after successful prosecutions by Islington Council. In...

Victorious housing campaigner Lindsey Garrett from the New Era Estate in Hackney is taking on Labour and the Conservatives for the...