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The severe weather that brought heavy rain and strong winds across the UK and flooded hundreds of properties this month is estimated...

The Residential Landlords Association’s (RLA) research exchange, PEARL, is currently seeking views on Rent Smart Wales (RSW), the overseeing authority for...

The UK could be heading for a rental crisis, with experts dreading the prospect of a chronic property shortage in the...

A new All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) has been launched with a view to looking into short-term lets. The new group, which...

The government has announced a new online system that will pay private landlords of those on Universal Credit directly. It is hoped...

UK rents are expected to increase by 7.5% over the next three years, as the supply of rental accommodation dwindles while...

Millennials looking to get a foot on the housing ladder are now able to do so two years earlier because of the...

The number of buy-to-let mortgages in arrears of 2.5% or more of the outstanding balance dropped in the third quarter of...

Almost two-thirds of private landlords with tenants receiving Universal Credit have had problems with non-payment and arrears, according to the latest...

Universal Credit was described by one national newspaper as an ‘ill-conceived shambles’ over the weekend, after former prime ministers Gordon Brown...

EU citizens living in the UK are at risk of facing some of the same difficulties caused for the Windrush generation...

The government is considering plans to provide financial incentives for those offering longer tenancies, according to the Sunday Times. The government is...

The Home Office is to reconvene its Private Rented Sector (PRS) stakeholder panel on Right to Rent. The government plans to take...

The Residential Landlords Association’s (RLA) next Future Renting Conference takes places in London tomorrow. The one-day conference, which will be held at...

Higher taxes, tougher mortgage lending conditions, along with political and economic uncertainty are making investment in buy-to-let less attractive to many existing and potential...

The government must start to provide financial incentives for buy-to-let landlords prepared to offer longer tenancies or risk seeing rents soar,...

The government is coming under growing pressure from landlords to be more ambitious when it comes to the energy efficiency of...

Buy-to-let landlords could face another stamp duty rate hike in the Autumn Budget to further curb the acquisition of second homes. The...

An exodus of landlords from the buy-to-let market has caused a significant drop in rental property listings in recent month with...

Tickets have been released for the Residential Landlords Association (RLA) next Future Renting conference in London. The one-day conference, which will be...

As a private landlord you have a crucial role in providing a much needed housing option for people and so why...

The security deposits that tenants leave with their landlord or their letting agent could be capped at no more than five...

The Treasury should focus on easing the housing crisis by thinking more ‘creatively’ and using taxation to ‘encourage and support’ buy-to-let...

A growing number of buy-to-let landlords are letting out their homes as short-term holiday lets, making them no longer available for...

Recent changes to Universal Credit have been broadly welcomed, which largely explains why more buy-to-let landlords are prepared to rent to...

The Chancellor Philip Hammond should scrap stamp duty because it would encourage more buy-to-let landlords to invest in the private rented...