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A newspaper claims that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak wants British families to be given higher priority for social housing. Implicitly this may...
25 January 2024
From: Breaking News
Labour is using a Bill currently going through Parliament as a backdoor method to introduce the regulation of lettings, estate and...
22 January 2024
From: Breaking News
The controversial activist group Acorn has made a formal public apology to the chief executive of the National Residential Landlords Association. On...
04 January 2024
From: Breaking News
Escalating rents have led many first time buyers to adjust their property expectations and accept smaller homes when they purchase, a...
03 January 2024
From: Breaking News
Landlord Action supremo Paul Shamplina has endorsed a new PropTech tool aimed at stopping landlords falling victim to fraud. Title Guardian claims...
07 December 2023
From: Breaking News
The two most aggressively pro-tenant activist bodies have accused landlords without mortgages of “cashing in.” According to a poll of more than...
20 November 2023
From: Breaking News
A senior Labour MP associated with the moderate wing of the party says private rental properties should be confiscated from serial...
17 November 2023
From: Breaking News
The rise of ‘Generation Rent’ is well documented, along with the spiralling rent payments they are facing during a tightening cost...
30 September 2023
From: Lettings PropTech
The government will this week announce a new consultation on private rental sector energy efficiency - in particular, insulation. This will be...
27 March 2023
From: Breaking News
The Generation Rent campaign group is advertising for a new director - the role held in recent years by Alicia Kennedy,...
16 January 2023
From: Breaking News
The charity Action on Empty Homes, which is mounting a campaign against short let properties, has attacked Airbnb for making a...
28 October 2022
From: Breaking News
Landlords who take advantage of the annual Edinburgh festival by charging high fees for Airbnb-sale short lets have been accused of...
25 July 2022
From: Breaking News
The Guardian newspaper has given an aggrieved tenant the opportunity to explain how he and other renters took a landlord to...
08 June 2022
From: Breaking News
A council has served improvement notices on a number of properties owned by the Salvation Army and let to private tenants...
22 April 2022
From: Breaking News
A poll of Conservative voters shows strong majorities for higher taxes on second homes and empty properties, and tougher demands on...
10 February 2022
From: Breaking News
The Labour MP Dame Meg Hillier is warning that some landlords of HMOs may receive the government’s financial energy assistance- and...
08 February 2022
From: Breaking News
Landlords are being invited to a webinar which is billed as helping them understand how letting their properties to Afghan refugees...
01 September 2021
From: Breaking News
A landlord has overturned a council fine for letting her flat without a licence - and it’s the same local authority...
11 August 2021
From: Breaking News
A London news website has lifted the lid on speculation surrounding a councillor who appears to have been booted out of...
22 July 2021
From: Breaking News
TV star Robert Rinder - best known for his performances under the guise of Judge Rinder - has made an outspoken...
21 April 2021
From: Breaking News
Only 39 rogue landlords and letting agents have been hit with banning orders in the first three years of their existence. The...
06 April 2021
From: Breaking News
Generation Rent has criticised the aspirations of some landlords who appear on the daytime BBC show Homes Under The Hammer. “The regular...
17 February 2021
From: Breaking News
Over two thirds of student renters are worried about their ability to pay rent with around a quarter having been unable...
15 January 2021
From: Breaking News
Activists in a rental reform coalition say court possession hearings should be halted as well as bailiff-led evictions. They say the stress...
11 January 2021
From: Breaking News
A YMCA chief executive claims the proliferation of HMOs may be endangering private tenants’ health by encouraging overcrowding and undersized-rooms. Alan Fraser,...
09 December 2020
From: Breaking News
A London council has confirmed its right to refuse licenses to criminal landlords - even reformed ones. A story in the East...
08 December 2020
From: Breaking News
Robert Rinder, the reality TV celebrity and barrister, has joined the campaigning charity Shelter to oppose what he describes as illegal...
07 October 2020
From: Breaking News
Data from estate agency Carter Jonas reveals which borough in the capital appears to be seeing the largest number of people...
06 October 2020
From: Breaking News
It is estimated that £4.5bn of cash is currently tied up in rental deposits, providing landlords with a degree of security...
17 April 2020
From: Breaking News
Renters’ unions are calling on the government to suspend rents for the duration of the coronavirus crisis after new research found...
15 April 2020
From: Breaking News
A number of tenants are now struggling to pay rent due to the impact of the coronavirus outbreak, according to new research. Around...
15 April 2020
From: Breaking News
A growing number of buy-to-let landlords are charging what has been described as a ‘pet rent’ of up to £50 a...
05 September 2019
From: Breaking News
The widening gap between housing benefit rates and market rents means that many buy-to-let landlords are now forced to rely on...
26 March 2019
From: Breaking News
The mayor of London Sadiq Khan is developing rent control proposals as part of his 2020 re-election bid in the hope...
24 January 2019
From: Breaking News
A rogue landlord deemed unfit to rent out property in the north London borough of Brent in 2015 has since received...
22 January 2019
From: Breaking News
We all know that buy-to-let investors provide a vital service for people looking for housing, and yet an article in The...
02 January 2019
From: Breaking News
The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has warned that growing speculation the mayor of London Sadiq Khan is considering introducing rent controls...
11 December 2018
From: Breaking News
Buy-to-let is a lot tougher than it once was. Landlords’ returns have been squeezed by the introduction of the 3% stamp duty...
05 November 2018
From: Breaking News
Tenants will be offered access to the government’s rogue landlord database under fresh plans unveiled by Theresa May. The Prime Minister was...
26 October 2018
From: Breaking News
The government’s attempts to clampdown on rogue landlords have been branded ‘weak and pathetic’, partly due to the vast and complex...
25 October 2018
From: Breaking News
A benefit claimant who faced debt, rent arrears and potential eviction as a result of policy design flaws in universal credit,...
18 June 2018
From: Breaking News
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has accused the Tory government of intentionally not fixing the housing crisis after revelations that thousands of...
30 January 2018
From: Breaking News
Rogue landlords are profiting from the housing benefit system by enticing desperate local authorities to place single homeless people into small...
19 January 2018
From: Breaking News
At Horton and Garton, our message to West London is simple: we want to make a difference. Not just to the...
12 October 2017
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The owner of a three-bedroom house in Queensbury, north-west London, where 35 men were living in rooms full of mattresses has threatened to...
22 September 2017
From: Breaking News
A London council has been working with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) to identify landlords that have failed to declare their...
15 August 2017
From: Breaking News
A charity that receives thousands of pounds in housing benefit to accommodate vulnerable people, including the homeless with addiction problems, has...
08 May 2017
From: Breaking News
The north of England, supported in part by the Northern Powerhouse concept, has already attracted a lot of investment, particularly from...
06 March 2017
From: Breaking News
Following the events of 2016, it’s easy to see why experts across the country are torn when it comes to the...
10 February 2017
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Tax changes and more stringent mortgage lending conditions will sound the death knell for small buy-to-let landlords, according to Britain’s largest...
12 December 2016
From: Breaking News
Success in the letting industry hinges largely on the ability to find good tenants. And while it may be obvious what...
07 July 2016
From: Breaking News
A growing number of landlords are looking to offset the new tax rules and remain profitable by acquiring student property, new...
07 June 2016
From: Breaking News
The new mayor of London Sadiq Khan has pledged to do all in his power to help make London “better” after...
09 May 2016
From: Breaking News
Fergus and Judith Wilson, have sold their property empire of hundreds of homes in Kent to a foreign consortium for more...
10 December 2015
From: Breaking News
Aldermore has enhanced its bridging loan offering, by reducing its minimum valuation for light refurbishment to £75,000, down from £100,000, in...
17 September 2015
From: Breaking News
In the nine months since new Right To Rent immigration checks have been implemented across the West Midlands only seven landlords...
11 August 2015
From: Breaking News
The tiny number of landlord convictions is no deterrent to the worst landlords, Generation Rent has said, as it calls on...
27 July 2015
From: Breaking News
The Guardian has named and shamed a North London landlord after she topped a list of letting agents and landlords who have...
24 July 2015
From: Breaking News
An all-party group of MPs looking into the subject of hunger has written to government ministers urging that landlords who fail...