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Estate agency data shows that the average time it takes for a landlord other vendor to sell a house has dropped...

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 Tory has slammed the proposed clampdown on short lets proposed by Housing Secretary Michael Gove - and he calls them...

Government proposals on limiting short lets "fall a long way short of what's needed and will do nothing to put right...

A flamboyant property in Oxford which has been the subject of a decades-long planning dispute has been removed from Airbnb by...

A trade body representing short lets operators has slammed government housing failures. The Short Term Accommodation Association says it’s analysed local authority...

A Labour council says local landlords have only a week to apply for a licence before a big rise in the...

Landlords pulling out of buy to let because of high costs and overbearing regulation now have a guide to how quickly...

A statement from Oxford’s Labour controlled council says private landlords in the city have under a month to apply for a...

A court has heard that Amjad Ali Khattak, owner of a flat in Oxford, removed his tenant’s possessions and left them...

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

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

Oxford council is proclaiming its citywide licensing scheme as a success - and claims it is processing more than 10,000 licence...

A Labour council introducing a vast new licensing regime claims its typical cost to a landlord would be just 0.5 per...

Personal finance website Money has produced a league table of cities where landlords can enjoy strong returns from student tenants. Top comes...

A tribunal has ordered a student accommodation management company to refund more than £84,000 in rent after it ran an unlicensed...

A controversial Labour council aims to make life more expensive for landlords who let out whole properties via Airbnb or other...

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

With a month to go until a new licensing scheme for private rented homes starts, Oxford council is urging landlords to...

Landlords in London contributed to an extraordinary £440m in stamp duty paid on purchases in the first six months since the...

It’s now daggers-drawn between the National Residential Landlords Association and Oxford’s Labour-run council over a huge new licensing scheme. Government approval of...

A new study has compiled a league table of the best cities in the UK for investment in student accommodation. CIA Landlord...

All private rented homes in Oxford will need a licence from this September, following a green light from the government. Some 49.3...

The latest forecast for the UK lettings market this year is that there will be a four per cent rise in...

Renters are amongst the three groups likely to suffer worst as the cost of living crisis unfolds, an analyst has warned.  Sarah...

Oxford’s Labour-run council has called on private renters to join a new tenants union. A statement from the authority says some private...

There’s more evidence of councils clamping down on landlords fly tipping - Landlord Today has run a series of reports on...

A council has written to Housing Minister Chris Pincher calling for a new approach to the short lets issue. Oxford council leader...

An agency and law firm, Coulters, has produced a league table of where landlords are most likely to make a loss...

A council that recently demanded public cash to help Covid-related arrears has found itself in hot water over its own rent...

The resumption of bailiff-enforced evictions, banned for over a year until just days ago, could be “catastrophic” for one of the...

A mortgage lender specialising in high net worth clients has identified those areas outside London seeing the most prime purchases. Enness Global...

It’s a story that’s seldom told - how some tenants steal items from landlords’ properties when a tenancy ends. Now the Oxford...

An online corporate rental platform says Covid 19 has led to a six-fold increase in demand for medium-term rentals in this...

A new league table has been created of the best places for landlords to invest in buy to let. The Compare The...

The Daily Mail is reporting that Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to let his Oxfordshire cottage out - and he’s taking...

A council has now approved plans for two of the country’s largest licensing schemes - one is so large it needs...

A Labour-controlled council says it’s confident a huge new licensing scheme for one of Britain’s most high-profile cities will be voted...

A lettings platform specialising in student accommodation has a new way to spot locations with excess supply. UniHomes says Southampton, Portsmouth and...

A senior Anglican priest has stood up for renting as a concept, and suggests Britain is too pre-occupied with home ownership. Angela...

A local council has let it be known that it’s in a pilot mediation scheme set up by the government -...

A Labour MP is demanding action against unscrupulous predator landlords who demand sex from tenants in lieu of rent. The Daily Mail...

A property development consultancy is tipping five regeneration areas in England as potential good investments for the coming year. SevenCapital says they...

The Acorn group of rental activists has created a detailed crib sheet of responses to a council consultation on landlord licensing. Acorn,...

A cluster of owner occupiers living near a city centre are demanding that landlords win planning consent before operating HMOs. The Gloucestershire...

Many of our less affordable cities have seen rent levels drop because of the trend for tenants to work from home...

A ‘city tracker’ operated by a specialist buy to let mortgage company has outlined the best - and worst - places...

A league table of UK cities where it takes the longest for first time buyers to save for a deposit may...

Landlords are being urged to remain attentive when viewing or inspecting rental homes in order to weed out tenants that may...

Buy-to-let investments with a tenant already in situ are most in-demand across Glasgow, according to Howsy.  The letting management platform reports that...

A landlord in Oxford is no longer allowed to offer a local property for short-term lets following a lengthy planning battle...

A majority of tenants are looking for unfurnished homes, new research shows.  Online property management platform Howsy analysed existing rental property listings...

The average tenant in the UK is spending almost half of their monthly net income to cover the average cost of...

There has been a significant increase in the number of rental properties hitting the market after lockdown on the sector was...

A ninth person has tested positive for Coronavirus in the UK, the government has confirmed.  The woman flew into London from China...

Rental yields in the private rented sector have dipped marginally since the introduction of the ban on tenant fees in June...

More than 800 landlords have been surveyed to establish where they feel offer the best buy-to-let investment opportunities in 2020.  The study,...

Despite the recent tax and regulatory changes, buy-to-let continues to look an attractive income investment at a time of low-interest rates...

A woman in Cutteslowe, north Oxford, has pleaded not guilty to one count of attempted murder against her landlord.  A jury at...

The worst served city for rental stock is Newport in Wales where just 13.5% of properties listed are to rent, according...

With 2020 fast approaching, it is time for forward thinking buy-to-let landlords to start looking for the UK’s best buy-to-let areas...

A council used a plane with thermal imaging to catch unscrupulous landlords that allowed tenants to live in substandard conditions.  Several people...

Zoopla’s UK Cities House Price Index for July 2019, which focuses on trends in housing affordability as measured by the ratio...

Buy-to-let landlords who own property in Coventry should be wary of Coventry Council’s landlord licensing and accreditation scheme as it is...

The average cost of renting a room in the UK increased by 8% between April and June and now stands at...

Demand for rented homes looks set to increase in the coming years as new data suggests that many people who do...

Germany’s rent controls place strong restrictions on in-tenancy rent increases, while the ‘rent brake’ introduced a couple of year ago makes...

A new landlord accreditation scheme in Oxford has been deemed both discriminatory and unlawful by the Residential Landlords Association (RLA). The association...

The average cost of renting a room in the UK has increased by £15 per calendar month (pcm) over the past...

Recent years have seen a shift in buyer activity across the UK’s property market, with London’s much publicised decline in popularity...

Despite Brexit, homebuyers, including buy-to-let investors, in the north of England are showing much more confidence than those in the south. Since...

Renowned internationally for its designer shopping outlet, Bicester has long been the jewel in Oxfordshire’s crown, attracting millions of visitors annually...

There has been a moderate rise in residential property price growth across the UK, according to the latest analysis carried out...

Liverpool has managed a very interesting and appealing double win, according to data from Hometrack. The city not only topped the list...

Bootle in Merseyside has been named the best place to currently be a buy-to-let landlord, based on a number of key...

BTL landlords in Redbridge will have to abide by tougher rules after new rental licensing conditions proposed by Redbridge Council were...

A buy-to-let landlord had been prosecuted for letting rooms to three disabled people in an unlicensed property in the Rose Hill...

Many landlords purchase properties near universities in order to take advantage of the lucrative yields that the student rental market often...

A landlord who allowed tenants to live in substandard conditions in Oxford has been handed a fine of £2,500. The poorly-maintained six-bedroom...

Fresh research using a combination of house prices, salaries and rental prices suggest that Stoke-on-Trent is the best destination to invest...

Landlords can earn attractive returns when buying property near a university, but only if they are shrewd about where they purchase,...

Construction work on the largest fully funded Build to Rent scheme in Manchester is set to get underway in August after...

Two landlords in Reading have been fined almost £14,000 for failing to put right a string of housing offences at a...

A landlord has been ordered to pay £21,000 for renting out an unlicensed house in Oxford. Six people were found to be...

Two unscrupulous landlords in Reading have been fined almost £9,000 for poor housing standards and a complete disregard for the welfare...

There was a sharp increase in new rental properties listed in October, mostly in major towns and cities, according to fresh...

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

While buying property in London has proved to be a lucrative move for many buy-to-let landlords for capital gains in recent...

Student rents have increased by as much as 10% over the past 12 months amid a severe housing shortage across the...

Rental yields in London are typically among the lowest in the UK mainly due to high house prices, but there are still good...

Buy-to-let landlords seeking high rental yields should consider buying properties to let to students in the north of England, research suggests.  Of...

The most lucrative university cities in the UK, based on house prices, rents and growth in local housing markets, have been...

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

Three landlords in Oxford have been fined a total of £11,000 after being convicted of housing offences. Environmental Health Officers from Oxford...

The owner of a house in Whitethorn Way, Oxford, let to tenants as a house in multiple occupation (HMO), has been...

A Reading landlord has been fined £20,000 and ordered to pay £3,343 costs as well as a victim surcharge of £120...

An Oxford landlord has been convicted of unlawfully evicting a tenant after “a campaign of sustained harassment”. Riasat Ali was ordered to...

Accommodation for Students has released its annual report on the cost of student accommodation and found the most expensive accommodation in...

A landlord who attacked a tenant in the street following a “campaign of harassment and violence” over rent has been jailed...

Landlords and letting agents of student accommodation are putting their tenants’ lives at risk by failing to fix serious safety hazards,...