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More than one in four young people are worried that they or someone they know will become homeless in the next...

More than one in five people in the UK fear they or someone they know could be homeless in the next...

Despite a plethora of press releases and statements from pro-tenant groups, it appears only one-in-20 renters knows details of the Renters...

A cat charity claims it takes in an average of three cats daily because of landlords using Section 21 powers to...

Newly re-elected Greater Manchester Labour Mayor Andy Burnham is to spend £600,000 of council tax payers’ cash on a clampdown on...

The Renters Reform Bill returns to Parliament this week, with a First Reading of the measure in the House of Lords...

The National Residential Landlords Association predicts that the House of Lords is unlikely to make substantive changes to the Renters Reform...

The National Residential Landlords Association has taken the unusual step of extending an olive branch to the activists who run the...

The Renters Reform Bill returns to the House of Commons today with activist groups critical of amendments put forward to reach...

A property industry group wants to restrict the private letting of properties bought in the future via the Right To Buy...

Spain’s Minister for Housing, Isabel Rodríguez, says the country is taking the first steps to eliminate the Golden Visa.  This visa was...

A small number of activists have tried to erect a four metre high mock eviction notice on one of Housing Secretary...

Julian Richer - the founder of Richer Sounds, the UK's largest hi-fi retailer - says he may set up a landlord...

Activists are beginning to pile pressure on London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan, claiming the public will be disappointed if he toes...

The latest Halifax house price index results, which show mixed fortunes for the housing market, should be seen as a spur...

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

The removal of Section 21 notices and the end of fixed-term tenancies are the two issues that concern landlords the most,...

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

Private landlords applied for licences covering more than 12,000 homes during the first year of a controversial council’s selective licensing scheme. The...

A landlord has been ordered to pay £2,500 in fines, compensation and costs after a council brought a prosecution against him. Jama...

The Chancellor has rendered hundreds of lettings businesses unviable overnight as a result of his Budget tax clampdown. That’s the view of...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan is demanding the government finally abolish Section 21 eviction powers - and claims over 30,000 households in...

Millennials, long seen as a financially disadvantaged generation, are on the brink of becoming the wealthiest generation in history thanks to...

A prominent lawyer has stepped up her criticisms of Housing Secretary Michael Gove and his attacks on buy to let and...

The Generation Rent group has thrown its weight behind a ban on mortgages for holiday homes buyers - and its chief...

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

Two thirds of private renters have experienced a problem with the quality or condition of their property in the past six...

A prominent analyst says the threat of rising inflation caused by the Red Sea shipping attacks - on top of this...

A building society says it is considering ending its policy of lending to buyers of holiday lets. Martese Carton, the director of...

With 2023 drawing to a close, flatshare website SpareRoom has revealed data which suggests a slowdown in the rental frenzy -...

Britain is in the grip of a new mould crisis, a leading property association has warned.  The National Association of Property Buyers...

Solving the country’s rental crisis needs to be the number one priority for the government when it comes to tackling housing...

The Renters Reform Bill’s proposal to replace Assured Shorthold Tenancies with rolling ‘periodic’ lets could put landlords’ properties at risk, it’s...

Some £2m of government money has been channeled into a brand new country cil Taskforce aimed at identifying and clamping down...

Many landlords have dropped plans to improve the energy efficiency of their homes following the U-turn by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. In...

A senior Labour MP associated with the moderate wing of the party says private rental properties should be confiscated from serial...

A think tank that describes itself as “centre right” praises the Renters Reform Bill and claims the fear of landlords selling...

Uncertainty over government plans for the Private Rented Sector - including the controversial Renters Reform Bill - has left the industry...

The respected engineering institution the Building Research Establishment says the government must row back from its recent U-turn on rental property...

The chief executive of the National Residential Landlords Association says the controversial Renters Reform Bill will only succeed if landlords’ feel...

MPs from a range of opposition parties are pressing the government to reinstate the stricter energy efficiency rules for landlords, recently...

Britain is in the grip of a new mould crisis, a leading property agent has warned.  Jonathan Rolande says he is seeing...

There’s been a strong personal attack on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak by anti-landlord activists over the subject of energy efficiency. The Generation...

A family of landlords have been jailed for a total of 31 years after committing horrific violence against tenants and in...

A charity claims that apparent delays to the Renters Reform Bill, which has yet to get a Second Reading in the...

The Co-Op Bank, which is leading a campaign alongside charity Shelter, claims a Section 21 notice is presented to an older...

A finance house says it’s seeing an increase in tenants offering to buy their properties off their landlords. James Briggs, head of...

A prominent lawyer says the use of Section 8 eviction powers as envisaged under the Renters Reform Bill could lead to...

Rents in the private sector of England and Wales increased by 5.1 per cent in the year to June — the...

It appears that there may be months more uncertainty over new energy efficiency rules for the private rental sector. A statement from...

The Labour Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, says he is demanding the powers to seize usage or poor quality homes...

Landlords need to know the true energy efficiency of their property and have a deadline for improvements to calm fears around...

A mortgage expert is warning that a housing market crash now looks ”inevitable” as expectations run high of what many be...

The long-awaited Renters Reform Bill has been unveiled, as Ministers bid to address the housing crisis and create a fairer rental...

House prices are set to fall much further, a leading property expert has predicted.  Last week credit ratings agency Moody's warned of...

A Labour pressure group wants the party to campaign on housing at the next General Election, including railing against what it...

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

The current Housing Ombudsman, who presides over redress within the social housing sector, says private landlords should not fear the extension...

The pro-tenant anti-landlord Renters Reform Bill has at last been published by the government which first promised it in 2019. It has...

Shelter is telling the government it “must deliver” on the revolution it pledges under the Renters Reform Bill. Chief executive Polly Neate...

A newspaper claims  unrest about the Renters Reform Bill amongst Tory MPs revolves around fears that buy to let landlords will...

The National Residential Landlords Association is hosting a housing roundtable, inviting industry experts -  including Paul Shamplina - to discuss the...

Previous estimates that half a million landlords are set to sell up may actually be a massive under-estimate, a property industry figure...

Recently the government once again committed to banning 'no-fault' evictions, with the new government housing minister Rachel Maclean promising the ban on...

Shelter claims that private renters who complained to their landlord, letting agent or local council in the last three years were...

A quarter of holiday let owners are very worried about the potential of new regulations or fees being enforced following the...

A third of landlords say that the scrapping of Section 21 is of major concern to them according to a Mortgages...

The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee meets next week to consider whether base rate should rise again - but there’s...

A coalition of tenant activists has called a Day of Action to protest at delays in the government’s rental reform agenda. The...

A building society that last summer scrapped all lending on some holiday homes has now come up with another unusual policy...

An influential housing market analyst says it now looks like house prices will stay flat in 2023, rather than fall. Nicholas Mendes,...

Accused variously of being a “snake” and a “betrayer”, Michael Gove has not always been popular with his ex-boss (Boris Johnson)...

In 2020 to 2021, the private rented sector in the UK accounted for 4.4m households, housing over 11m people with an...

There are early signs that the controversial private rental sector rent freeze in Scotland could be made permanent. The freeze, along with...

A new survey by PropTech firm Goodlord has the unsurprising conclusion that the biggest worry for tenants is that their rent...

The mood music surrounding the housing market downturn appears to have become less dramatic with news from the Nationwide that there...

The Generation Rent campaign group says the latest English Housing Survey shows that 23 per cent of private rented homes fail...

Figures from across the private rental sector have written an open letter to Housing Secretary Michael Gove, calling for a halt...

Research by the National Residential Landlords Association reveals that of those private landlords who have served a repossession notice, half have...

When life is impossibly expensive, it’s not a surprise to see a rise in financial abuse. And to make matters worse,...

Landlords are to face even longer waits for eviction court cases following the spending cuts announced in the Autumn Statement, it’s...

I often use this column to discuss the reputation of landlords and the broader private rented sector which, as we all...

A former lettings agent who has become a sharp critic of landlords has made another attack - this time suggesting that...

Landlord and letting agent fears over the impact of rental reform could be eased if only the industry used rigorous and...

The government must explain how it will help the private rental sector - both landlords and tenants - through the cost...

A confused and complicated approach to holiday homes in England, Scotland and Wales threatens the future of the holiday letting sector...

There’s widespread concern that the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee, which meets today, is to unveil a 0.75 per cent...

A Selective Licensing scheme introduced by a council back in 2016 is set for expansion.  Middlesbrough council claims that its scheme has...

The average UK house price experienced a slight fall in September of 0.1 per cent, the second  decrease over the past...

Landlords have been told that if they want a fixed-rate mortgage to help them through the current financial crisis they will...

For the last decade, successive Governments have promised a review of the rules around renting in the UK – in part...

Landlords across the country will be aware of the government’s shiny new proposed policy package for the Private Rental Sector, released...

Oxford’s private rented sector faces its biggest shake up in over a decade with the start of a new licensing scheme...

New research from animal welfare charity Battersea - the new name for the Battersea Cats and Dogs Home - claims 50...

Zoopla’s latest house price index suggests capital appreciation will rumble into next year despite the slowdown.  Levels of price growth will return...

A building society will no longer lend for the purchase of second homes, saying they reduce the stock available for first...

As the cost of energy spikes and the government rolls out new support, landlords and tenants involved in ‘bills included’ rental...

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

The government is investigating a new way to tackle renters’ anti-social behaviour in the social housing sector - through a new...

The latest rentals market snapshot by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors gives the now-familiar story of how demand is far...