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Co-living developments are a type of purpose-built rental housing, under the same principle as Build To Rent (BTR) but offering smaller size...

A string of debt advice charities want Housing Secretary Michael Gove to go well beyond merely banning Section 21 in a...

The Housing Ombudsman - which assesses problems involving social housing landlords - has found severe maladministration in four cases involving Croydon...

New research suggests that an influx of older renters has increased congestion in the rental market. Some 39 per cent of renters...

If you live in a rented home, you’ll know the struggles of wanting to make your home feel like your own...

Making an investment in a country with a different currency introduces exchange rate risk. Ideally, a UK investor would buy the...

A prominent lettings industry figure has summed up the continuing rental market frenzy in three words - “the madness continues.” Andy Halstead, HomeLet &...

The government has back-tracked on its decision to publish the long-awaited Renters Reform Bill this week. The Mirror newspaper reports this morning that...

Labour will create a national landlord register to protect tenants from what the party calls “unscrupulous property owners.: Party leader Sir Kier...

The landlords’ trade body is broadly welcoming some proposals from MPs to reform the private rented sector. Some aspects of the Levelling...

Investment buyers will snap up a higher proportion of homes in 2022 than they did in 2021, the Hamptons agency forecasts.   So...

The great rent rise continues according to new data from ARLA Propertymark.  The trade body says while there has been a long...

Thank goodness the uncertainty is over - but is it all too skewed towards tenants? That’s the worry of suppliers as Daniel...

The Mirror newspaper has launched a campaign to “make rented homes safer”. It says its campaign - called Safe As Houses -...

The new housing minister is a landlord - and has already attracted criticism from some sections of the media. Yesterday Chris Pincher...

A lettings platform claims a substantial number of tenants spend over £1,000 on decorating their landlord’s property.  Flatshare platform SpareRoom claims that...

An investigation conducted by The Mirror newspaper claims to have found that 55 out of 72 buy to let mortgage lenders...

As founder of Landlord Action and chief operating officer at Hamilton Fraser, I’ve been talking to landlords for over 25 years...

The Financial Conduct Authority is extending the ban on repossessions by two months until April 1, in light of the pandemic...

The number of UK landlords has risen 49 per cent in the last five years to an all-time high of 2.7m...

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

The UK housing market could see what first looks like a V-shaped recovery only for it to be quickly flattened out,...

Imagine if you could make the properties that you are currently trying to let look larger, brighter, cleaner, warmer, more homely,...

A new online property management platform has been launched by Herddle.  The new service, which combines proprietary technology and traditional property management...

Rents look set to rise over the next 12 months as the supply of new rental properties dries up, according to...

A number of MPs are currently earning rental income from properties let to private tenants, including eight ministers in Boris Johnson’s...

The next prime minister, Boris Johnson or Jeremy Hunt, will almost certainly face a housing crisis if the government does not...

Rental yields have increased to their highest level for two years, according to the latest edition of Kent Reliance for Intermediaries’...

Keystone Property Finance has launched a new product range for purchase applications only, offering a cashback incentive. The buy-to-let lender’s new range...

There was a significant increase in the number of disputes under the Property Redress Scheme last year, according to the organisation’s...

A number of MPs are currently earning rental income from properties that they bought with public help, according to a fresh...

The Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed (IPSE) has backed the Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable’s calls for a halt...

Many landlords remain committed to the buy-to-let sector despite government interventions and a wider housing slowdown, new figures show. Despite the adverse...

Who are you? Will Handley, CEO of HomeRenter What does it say on your business card? CEO and Co-founder What is HomeRenter? HomeRenter’s mission is to...

There are plenty of changes that you could make to ensure 2018 is more profitable, with Simple Landlords Insurance advising buy-to-let...

A new online property letting website backed by newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror has been launched, offering to cut out the role...

The buy-to-let market in Scotland has remained resilient throughout 2016 and continues to offer enticing rental yields for landlords, according to...

We all know headlines sell newspapers, but a report in yesterday’s Daily Mirror brought shame on a host of letting agents...

In what is a welcome change to the landlord bashing articles often featured in the media, the Daily Mirror and Daily...

The Mirror has laid into UKIP by exposing the party’s housing and environment spokesman as a landlord who has received over...