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Changes to Renters Reform Bill after Easter

The government has written to Conservative MPs promising changes to the Renters Reform Bill to ease concerns over its anti-landlord bias. Amendments...

28 March 2024

From: Breaking News

Call for “sentencing guidelines” to punish landlords over licensing

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

What Research Should You Do Before Investing in Spain?

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

Working From Home adds to pressure to raise rents - claim

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

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

Call for eco-tax incentives to make landlords improve, and not sell

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

Landlord secures buy to let remortgage in 37 working hours

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

Selling Up? Don’t push the asking price to avoid being left on the shelf

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

Backfired! Rent Controls lead to Higher Rents, says Zoopla

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

Landlord Alert: licensing risks of double jeopardy and entrapment

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

Council says Airbnb needs planning consent after years of short-letting

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

Rental listings should include energy efficiency details - new call

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

Selling Up? Rightmove reveals optimum date and tips for speedy sales

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

Free in-person event for landlords in buy to let hotspot

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 Renters Reform Bill backed by senior industry figure

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

Letting agents could face regulation under Labour amendment tactic

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

NRLA accepts S21 abolition but wants “pragmatic” amendments to Bill

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

Pets In Lets - still a minority of landlords happy to see them

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

Upbeat Housing Market start to 2024 reports Rightmove

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

Tough EPC targets to return despite Sunak’s U-turn - new warning

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

Budget - landlords have three weeks to give Hunt advice

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

BTL Mortgage Rates slashed by prominent specialist lender

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

Latest council licensing scheme takes over £900 from each landlord

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

2024 - Rightmove’s Forecast for the Housing Market

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

Landlords intimidate tenants into not reporting faults, says Generation Rent

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

Landlord complaint leads to agency being expelled from Ombudsman scheme

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

Consultation starts on renewing and extending selective licensing regime

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

What's Going To Happen To The Rental Sector in 2024?

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 ramps up the hype on new Boxing Day listings

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

Purplebricks claims to sell landlords’ homes ‘for free’

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

We want more selective licensing insists environmental health chiefs

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 reveals its 2024 housing market forecast

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

Shamplina endorses new anti-fraud PropTech tool

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

Big Changes This Month for Holiday Lets

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

Many More Details expected when landlords advertise properties

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

Capital city’s three best-yield postcodes revealed by portal analysis

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

Landlords list student homes free on new portal (until they let)

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

Activist leader claims ‘one man band’ landlords worst at exploiting tenants

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

Quitting Buy To Let? Prepare to accept a lower sale price…

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

Capital Appreciation to slam into reverse again in 2024 - forecast

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

Capital Appreciation at lowest October level for 15 years - Rightmove

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

Inventories will save landlords from Renters Reform Bill fines - claim

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

Discounts Grow for Landlords Expanding Portfolios - Zoopla

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

Sunak’s Eco U-turn offers hope for beleaguered landlords

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

Canny landlords can expand portfolios with £22k average price cuts

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

Typical tenant pays £2,800 more per year than in 2020 - Zoopla

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

Typical buy to let sold 25% below wider market price - Zoopla

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

EPC Reform - government must give massive incentives, says Rightmove

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

High yields defy rent cap - agency’s buy to let league table

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

It’s Grim Down South - capital appreciation tumbles in the south

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

New ‘Landlord Leaders Community’ group launched

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

Clampdown on wording of lettings listings

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

Capital Appreciation to dip for next two years - warning

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

Message to Gove - sort the EPC deadline and stick to it!

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

Government to ‘relax the pace’ of threatened EPC reform

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 reports huge landlord exodus as EPC worries kick in

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

HMRC to use Renters Reform Bill to hammer landlords - claim

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

Rightmove market snapshot - latest on asking prices and volumes

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

Beat the base rate shock

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

From: Sponsored Content

Sellers accepting low offers - is this an opportunity for landlords?

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

Labour plan to seize unsafe or poor homes from rogue landlords

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

Landlords spend thousands to improve EPCs ahead of law change

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

Mortgage Meltdown hurts landlords’ capital appreciation hopes

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

Agent’s Message To Landlords - keep calm and carry on

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

Labour Mayor backs call for vast increase in landlord licensing

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

Landlords guide to making the right decisions in 2023

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

Sales of buy to lets now a big factor in housing market

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

Renters Reform Bill: details emerge about new Landlord Database

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

Paws For Thought - dog-friendly rental locations revealed

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

Good news as capital values see unexpected leap

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

Labour local politicians back Michael Gove’s Rental Reform Bill

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

‘Anti-Landlord’ Renters Reform Bill published by government

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

Gove puts activists in pole position at launch of Reform Bill

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

Providing Landlord Education with Free Webinars

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

Gloss comes off Build To Rent as tenant satisfaction falls

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

House prices up but deals for savvy landlords

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

Landlord opportunities to buy - five-figure discounts on homes

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

Crowdfund property platform targets ‘new generation’ of investors

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

Rent Freeze backfires according to property portal analysis

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

Landlord sales may slow as buyers sit tight until Easter

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

Another Day, Another New High Rental Record…

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

Here we go again - asking prices going UP once more 

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

Predictions for 2023 - What’s Coming Up

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

Christmas message for Michael Gove - stop attacking landlords

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

Sales market in decline - “widespread repricing” warns Zoopla

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

Most landlords want hard-core rental reform - agent’s amazing claim

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

London landlords “flexible” over rent as supply improves

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

Probe launched into national landlord register and council licensing

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 needed if rental reform ever actually happens - claim

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

Taxes, Rent Freeze and red tape will drive out landlords - Zoopla

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

Rogue Landlords to be listed on new Property Portal

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

Goodbye S21, Hello anti-social behaviour! - claim

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

Activists want council to recruit staff to catch rogue landlords

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

Frustrated first time buyers may have to continue renting

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

Low-income tenants face ‘housing black hole’ says Zoopla

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

‘Bills Included’ becomes the most searched-for term by renters

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

Buy To Lets to prosper as student accommodation shortfall worsens

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

House prices dip - it’s just the time of year, insists Rightmove

Landlords may be alarmed at Rightmove’s latest asking price market snapshot which shows an average 1.3 per cent fall this month. But...

15 August 2022

From: Breaking News

Shamplina Speaks - So what do YOU want to tell the government?

In June, the government finally released its long-awaited White Paper ‘A Fairer Private Rented Sector’. You will almost certainly have seen...

06 August 2022

From: Rental Reform

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