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With the festive season fast approaching, it is completely natural for everyone to start winding down a bit at this time...

Letting agents who fail to obtain licences for rented properties that fall under selective licensing rules could be prosecuted either alongside...

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

A growing number of local authorities are using selective licensing to introduce penalties for buy-to-let landlords that go well beyond the...

If you have inherited a holiday home or B&B you could save thousands of pounds in inheritance tax, according to Kirwans...

Landlord licensing schemes are popping up all over the UK as local authorities step up their efforts to clampdown on rogue...

A number of landlords are leaving themselves wide open to legal claims of retaliatory eviction and property disrepair by failing to...

A number of buy-to-let landlords are turning their attention to student housing, which is regarded by many property investors as a...

A number of landlords are unwittingly issuing incorrect Section 21 notices, resulting in thousands of pounds being wasted on aborted possession...

The 2015 Energy Efficiency Regulations, passed in March 2015, set out minimum energy efficiency standards (MEES) for England and Wales. These...

Recovering rental arrears from non-paying tenants is one of a landlord’s biggest challenges. But while no-one actually enjoys chasing money, it...

A large share of buy-to-let landlords trying to evict tenants are being delayed in doing so by defective Section 21 and...