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A charity is calling for landlord licensing schemes which cost enough to fund annual inspections, and the issuing of “sentencing guidelines”...
28 March 2024
From: Breaking News
Lots and lots, is the short answer. I think the more you know, the more you're armed with information and knowledge,...
16 March 2024
From: Top tips & guides
Towns within commuting distance of big cities have seen some of the UK’s largest rent rises in recent years, says Zoopla. The...
11 March 2024
From: Breaking News
Supporters of council selective licensing start rearguard action Some of those involved in local councils have started a campaign to save selective...
01 March 2024
From: Breaking News
Rightmove is calling on Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to use next week’s Budget as an opportunity to incentivise landlords to make properties...
28 February 2024
From: Breaking News
The bank Shawbrook has completed a buy to let remortgage for a new customer in just 37 working hours. The landlord was...
27 February 2024
From: Breaking News
Landlords selling up because of rising taxes and unaffordable regulations are being advised not to be over ambitious with asking prices. Tim...
19 February 2024
From: Breaking News
Analysis by Zoopla says rent controls introduced in Scotland have directly led to higher rents. The property portal’s research team has analysed...
15 February 2024
From: Breaking News
A legal services provider is claiming that landlords risk criminal prosecution for breaches of licensing rules that are often “unreasonable and...
02 February 2024
From: Breaking News
A flamboyant property in Oxford which has been the subject of a decades-long planning dispute has been removed from Airbnb by...
26 January 2024
From: Breaking News
An energy industry supplier claims that the housing sector in the UK offers too little help for those wanting to live...
26 January 2024
From: Breaking News
Landlords considering selling up have received guidance from Rightmove on when to do it and how. The portal claims February is the...
25 January 2024
From: Breaking News
Scottish property portal ESPC has announced a free Buy To Let event targeted at aspiring property investors and landlords. The event will...
25 January 2024
From: Breaking News
Amendments to the Renters Reform Bill, designed to give landlords more protection, have won the backing of a prominent industry figure. Neil Cobbold,...
23 January 2024
From: Breaking News
Labour is using a Bill currently going through Parliament as a backdoor method to introduce the regulation of lettings, estate and...
22 January 2024
From: Breaking News
The National Residential Landlords Association is urging MPs to back what it describes as “pragmatic” changes to the Renters Reform Bill...
19 January 2024
From: Breaking News
Another survey highlights the relatively low proportion of landlords who appear to allow tenants to keep pets. The analysis, from Confused.com Mortgages,...
15 January 2024
From: Breaking News
Average new seller asking prices rose 1.3 per cent between December and January - the biggest rise at this time of...
15 January 2024
From: Breaking News
There’s a warning this morning that stricter Energy Performance Certificate measures for the private rental sector may not have gone, after...
09 January 2024
From: Breaking News
HM Treasury has opened its representations portal, meaning landlords - and anyone else - can submit their ideas for the next...
05 January 2024
From: Breaking News
One of the UK’s best known platforms for mortgages has significantly reduced its Buy To Let rates. Starting from 3.79 per cent,...
04 January 2024
From: Breaking News
A new council licensing scheme has been given the go ahead by the government. Peterborough council’s selective licensing scheme will be run...
29 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Rightmove has revealed its forecast for 2024 - and has looked back on the past 12 months. This year, 2023, ends with...
29 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Christmas goodwill towards landlords seems in short supply from activist group Generation Rent. It has this week issued a statement saying the...
21 December 2023
From: Breaking News
A London lettings agency has been expelled from The Property Ombudsman for not paying compensation to a landlord following a failure...
18 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Landlords providing much-needed private rented accommodation in part of Merseyside are to fall under an expanded licensing regime. Wirral councillors have voted...
18 December 2023
From: Breaking News
The year of proptech The proptech revolution has been a long time coming but I think that 2024 will the year in...
16 December 2023
From: Agent Advice
Rightmove is building the hype ahead of its much-vaunted Boxing Day listing of new properties to the market. The portal claims that...
15 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Controversial online agency Purplebricks claims landlords and other home owners can sell their properties for free “as part of a progressive...
13 December 2023
From: Breaking News
The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health has given a warm welcome to many of the provision in the Renters Reform Bill...
13 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Rightmove has revealed its forecast for 2024 - but just as it has done this, it’s revealed asking prices have dropped...
12 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Landlord Action supremo Paul Shamplina has endorsed a new PropTech tool aimed at stopping landlords falling victim to fraud. Title Guardian claims...
07 December 2023
From: Breaking News
The short-term holiday letting industry has significantly expanded in recent years, but this could all change with the introduction of a...
02 December 2023
From: Legislation & Compliance
Landlords will have to include many more specific points about their properties when they list them in future - whether directly...
01 December 2023
From: Breaking News
The property portal ESPC has revealed the top-performing Edinburgh postcodes in terms of rental yields, for the third quarter of 2023. The...
29 November 2023
From: Breaking News
A new rental website which claims to list “all available homes for young people in one place” has raised well over...
29 November 2023
From: Breaking News
A leader of the pro-tenant activist group Acorn has told MPs that “one man bands” are more likely to exploit tenants...
22 November 2023
From: Breaking News
The asking price of homes coming to the market this month is down 1.7 per cent on October according to Rightmove. The...
14 November 2023
From: Breaking News
Zoopla is warning that there will be further house price falls in 2024 on top of the 4.5 per cent drop...
30 October 2023
From: Breaking News
The average new seller asking price has increased by just 0.5 per cent in the past month - the smallest increase...
16 October 2023
From: Breaking News
Inventory clerks are ideally placed to protect landlords from some heavy fines triggered by the Renters Reform Bill, it’s been claimed. The...
11 October 2023
From: Breaking News
The housing market remains a buyers’ market, with 80 per cent more homes for sale than in September 2021 according to...
29 September 2023
From: Breaking News
The u-turn by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on green policies may be seen by some landlords as a rare piece of...
22 September 2023
From: Breaking News
Landlords keen to bag a bargain will be interested to know that over a third of homes now on sale have...
18 September 2023
From: Breaking News
Zoopla has given its latest market update on the private rental sector, with the headline rent rise now being 10.5 per...
18 September 2023
From: Breaking News
Zoopla says a buy to let property sold off by a landlord is “typically priced 25 per cent lower than the...
06 September 2023
From: Breaking News
An analysis conducted over the summer by Rightmove suggests it could take literally decades for the private rental sector to conform...
05 September 2023
From: Breaking News
The property portal ESPC has revealed the top-performing Edinburgh postcodes in terms of rental yields, for the second quarter of 2023. Using...
31 August 2023
From: Breaking News
New data from Zoopla this morning makes grim reading for landlords, especially those reliant on capital appreciation and with investment properties...
31 August 2023
From: Breaking News
A body called the Landlord Leaders Community - and appearing at first sight a little like a new trade group - is...
30 August 2023
From: Breaking News
There’s been a clampdown on imprecise wording used in lettings listings. The National Trading Standards Estate and Lettings Agency Team - which...
17 August 2023
From: Breaking News
The latest market snapshot from Zoopla suggests landlords’ capital appreciation over the second half of this year depends almost entirely on...
31 July 2023
From: Breaking News
The landlords’ trade body has given a firm message to Housing Secretary Michael Gove - sort out a realistic deadline for...
24 July 2023
From: Breaking News
Housing Secretary Michael Gove has this morning said his government should ‘relax the pace’ of EPC reforms expected from private landlords. In...
23 July 2023
From: Breaking News
Rightmove has this morning revealed that 16 per cent of properties currently for sale were previously available on the rental market,...
21 July 2023
From: Breaking News
A prominent accountant is warning that the upcoming Renters Reform Bill, when it becomes law, will be used by HMRC to...
18 July 2023
From: Breaking News
The average price of homes coming to the market have dipped slightly once again, according to Rightmove. The newly-marketed properties are some...
17 July 2023
From: Breaking News
Successive Chancellors (we’re looking at you Gordon Brown and George Osborne) have monkeyed around with the market as if it was...
15 July 2023
From: The Big Issues
If you are a landlord looking for the silver lining in a dark cloud, June’s interest rate decision will have certainly...
13 July 2023
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New data from Zoopla shows that 42 per cent of sellers are accepting offers over five per cent below the asking price...
28 June 2023
From: Breaking News
The Labour Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, says he is demanding the powers to seize usage or poor quality homes...
28 June 2023
From: Breaking News
A new rental market study by Rightmove reveals that more properties entering the rental market have an EPC rating of C...
28 June 2023
From: Breaking News
If this was typical of the past 10 years we would be talking of a 0.6 per cent average house price...
19 June 2023
From: Breaking News
The long-awaited Renters Reform Bill has been unveiled, as Ministers bid to address the housing crisis and create a fairer rental...
17 June 2023
From: Agent Advice
The Labour Mayor of Newham in London has called for a vast extension of landlord licensing. Rokhsana Fiaz says she welcomes a...
05 June 2023
From: Breaking News
This year is set to bring sweeping rental reforms that will change the face of lettings forever. Landlords should be following...
02 June 2023
From: Sponsored Content
Some 11 per cent of the homes on sale right now are owned by landlords quitting the private rental sector. That’s the...
31 May 2023
From: Breaking News
Details are emerging about a new Landlords Database, which is one of the major provisions of the Renters Reform Bill. Within the...
26 May 2023
From: Breaking News
An insurance firm has identified locations which, according to current portal listings, have the highest proportion of dog-friendly rental properties. The league...
25 May 2023
From: Breaking News
Landlords relying on capital appreciation have good news this morning - there’s been a significant and unexpected leap in house asking...
22 May 2023
From: Breaking News
The body representing local councils is backing the government’s Renters Reform Bill - even though Labour dominates most local authorities. Councillor Darren...
18 May 2023
From: Breaking News
The pro-tenant anti-landlord Renters Reform Bill has at last been published by the government which first promised it in 2019. It has...
17 May 2023
From: Breaking News
In a surprise move, Housing Secretary Michael Gove has given the stand-in leader of activist group Generation Rent a prime role...
17 May 2023
From: Breaking News
With the ever-changing landscape of the lettings industry and legislation, being a landlord can be a minefield. So many individuals view...
22 April 2023
From: Agent Advice
Resident satisfaction amongst Build To Rent tenants is falling for the first time since reviews were first collected five years ago. A...
23 March 2023
From: Breaking News
The average price of property coming to the market rises by 0.8 per cent this month to £365,357, reports Rightmove. This is...
20 March 2023
From: Breaking News
The asking-to-achieved price gap has widened to its largest for five years according to new data from Zoopla. While sales volumes have...
28 February 2023
From: Breaking News
A new crowdfunding platform says it’s opening up property investing to “a whole new generation.” Allbricks claims it’s disrupting “the antiquated mortgage...
07 February 2023
From: Breaking News
The rent freeze imposed on the Scottish private rental sector appears to have backfired. In the first quarter since the freeze was...
31 January 2023
From: Breaking News
Any landlord quitting the market and selling up may find demand from buyers muted until Easter. That’s the warning from Zoopla which...
30 January 2023
From: Breaking News
Average asking rents for new tenants outside London have risen to another new record of £1,172 per calendar month says Rightmove. This...
27 January 2023
From: Breaking News
After two months of falls, the average price of property coming to the market for sale rises again by 0.9 per...
16 January 2023
From: Breaking News
Renters’ Reform Bill The Renters’ Reform Bill will dominate the PRS policy agenda in 2023. Signs are encouraging that DLUHC is considering...
07 January 2023
From: Legislation & Compliance
Figures from across the private rental sector have written an open letter to Housing Secretary Michael Gove, calling for a halt...
15 December 2022
From: Breaking News
Zoopla says a “widespread repricing” is underway in the sales market, but with no sign of cooling yet in the lettings...
28 November 2022
From: Breaking News
The large majority of players in the lettings industry wants the rental reform programme outlined by the government, an agent claims. Laura...
25 November 2022
From: Breaking News
The latest data from Chestertons, one of London’s largest lettings agents, suggests that the capital’s rental market could be showing early...
08 November 2022
From: Breaking News
An organisation that describes itself as ‘politically independent and a charity’ is launching a probe into how further regulation could help...
05 October 2022
From: Breaking News
More enforcement is required if the government is to introduce the scale of reforms it has called for in its recent...
28 September 2022
From: Breaking News
There is no real prospect of improved rental supply in the near term as private landlords continue to sell off homes...
14 September 2022
From: Breaking News
The government has outlined how a new ‘portal’ will carry the rogue landlords database and be available to the general public. In...
13 September 2022
From: Breaking News
Government plans to reform the private rented sector risk becoming a charter for anti-social behaviour without urgent changes, a landlord leader...
07 September 2022
From: Breaking News
Media reports from Cambridge say that rent protesters in the city are to demand the council employs staff dedicated to chasing...
30 August 2022
From: Breaking News
New data from Zoopla suggests that growing concern about the cost of living crisis and in particular rising interest rates may...
26 August 2022
From: Breaking News
Zoopla is warning that low-income renters across England are facing a ‘housing black hole’ due to soaring rents and the freeze...
26 August 2022
From: Breaking News
The most popular search term from prospective renters scouring Rightmove has become ‘Bills Included’. The portal says that this term - which...
25 August 2022
From: Breaking News
Rising numbers of young people going to university and a relatively low supply of new student housing means that by 2025...
24 August 2022
From: Breaking News
Landlords may be alarmed at Rightmove’s latest asking price market snapshot which shows an average 1.3 per cent fall this month. But...