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Escalating rents have led many first time buyers to adjust their property expectations and accept smaller homes when they purchase, a...

A landlord has been found guilty of operating eight unlicensed HMOs and a range of breaches of the HMO Management Regulations. Northampton...

A new study has revealed the top 10 UK areas with the greatest rental yield making them ideal for a buy-to-let. Confused.com...

The latest Rental Demand Index from the Barrows and Forrester agency has revealed that rental demand has surged during the third...

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

The new director of Generation Rent, Ben Twomey, takes over from Baroness Alicia Kennedy this morning. A statement announcing his appointment earlier...

A mystery unnamed landlord has been hit with a bill of over £115,000 as a result of a series of problem...

Eight criminal landlords - three of them companies - have been fined approaching half a million pounds. They were prosecuted for offences...

The new director of Generation Rent is Ben Twomey, who takes over from Baroness Alicia Kennedy on June 14. A statement from...

A Conservative MP is calling on the government to help landlords boost rental supply by reforming taxation. Andrew Lewer, Conservative MP for...

An unlikely location heads the latest league table purporting to show the highest returns on property investment. Aldermore’s Buy To let City...

A landlord has paid a £12,400 civil penalty after failing to license their HMO. In March this year officers from West Northamptonshire council attended...

The landlord of a property in Northampton has paid a £2,750 civil penalty after failing to licence their HMO. In December 2021...

The landlord of a property in Northampton has paid a £2,750 civil penalty after failing to licence their HMO. In December 2021...

A review into the way a council deals with HMOs has been launched in response to concerns about the concentration of...

Buy to let landlords are increasingly targeting smaller, secondary towns and cities rather than big urban centres. Data from Paragon Bank shows...

A fire and rescue service is asking landlords who own or manage HMOs to get involved in a pilot scheme. Over the...

A landlord has pleaded guilty to the unlawful eviction of his tenant. Jalal Uddin of Wellingborough has pleaded guilty at the town’s...

A landlord who committed 33 offences at a property he owns has been issued with civil penalties totalling £50,500. Zaheer Uddin Babar,...

A councillor has called for all new HMOs to be created with en suite bathrooms, and not shared bathrooms. The call came during...

Northampton council is seeking a so-called Charging Order against a landlord who failed to carry out improvements to her property and then...

Average UK rents slowed in the second quarter of the year as the coronavirus pandemic took its toll. Zoopla’s latest quarterly Rental...

Landlords with student tenants in Northampton are being urged to acknowledge the financial hardship some students are facing and give them...

Newcastle upon Tyne has been named the most affordable place to rent in the UK.  According to the research, undertaken by CompareTheMarketcom,...

Buy-to-let has recently taken a bit of a bashing with some landlords forced to exit the market as profits drop amid...

Luton and Colchester have been named among the best places for buy-to-let investors in the existing market, based on rental yields. The...

The law has finally caught up with a letting agent who stole £22,000 from clients, including landlords. Peter Bell, now the former...

Colchester has been named the best place for buy-to-let investors in today’s market, based on a combination of capital value growth,...

A private landlord in Northampton has been fined £3,300 and ordered to pay the council’s £1,890.26 legal costs along with a...

The Cambridge has launched a new range of buy-to-let mortgages, as the lender battles to remain competitive. Highlights include a two-year fixed rate...

Buy-to-let landlords looking to acquire properties in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire and Suffolk, can now apply for two...

Property investors looking to invest in the buy-to-let market may wish to consider buying property in Luton, which currently offers the...

Rents in the residential property sector are continuing to rise across many parts of the UK with no fewer than 20...

Buy-to-let landlords are being invited to attend a special public event tomorrow which will offer expert tips and advice.  The event, which...

The pace of rental price growth in the UK slowed to 0.05% in the month to October from a rise of...

The supply of homes listed on the market to let has fallen sharply now that pretty much all of the buy-to-let...

Renters now spend more than a third of their disposable income on rent across large parts of England, new research has...