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A council is asking landlords to sign a document declaring they are letting safe and compliant properties. Dorset council has launched the...

Airbnb has released new figures showing that the typical host landlord makes a modest £5,500 a year by sharing their space...

Generation Rent has yet again come out for rent control over the private sector - and wants it to be an...

Urgent action is needed by government to protect tenants who live in poor quality private rented homes, MPs have demanded. A report...

Labour-controlled Haringey Council in London says the owners of short lets and furnished holiday homes will be forced to pay double...

The National Residential Landlords Association wants to show the government that some local councils still advise tenants served with a valid...

The chief executive of the Generation Rent ginger group has called on his former employer to make a case against landlords,...

Almost 60,000 Londoners in the private rented sector are likely to become homeless over the next six years if the government...

New directives issued by the government put the emphasis firmly on private landlords to take responsibility for issues of damp and...

A Labour pressure group wants the party to campaign on housing at the next General Election, including railing against what it...

Three quarters of local authorities are set to increase their council tax by the maximum amount in April as they complain...

The long-awaited Renters Reform Bill did not even warrant a mention in a key speech yesterday by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has delivered his long-awaited Autumn Statement - the fiscal event which he says will lead to “all of...

The new Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, says the limited cut in stamp duty in England and Northern Ireland announced in the mini-Budget...

The new Chancellor of the Exchequer spoke for only 25 minutes but effectively turned the recent history of British tax policy...

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has announced that stamp duty will be cut.  In future there will be no stamp duty on the first £250,000...

Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves says Labour would increase tax on buy to let properties and on investment income for landlords.  Reeves was...

A prominent Conservative has complained that her party, and others, have failed to do anything about a housing market in which...

Labour says the funding of social care could be achieved by increasing tax on landlords. Party leader Sir Keir Starmer is today expected...

A senior Conservative peer and consumer campaigner has spoken strongly in favour of landlords’ rights. In a House of Lords debate on...

A so-called Citizens Assembly set up by a leading politician has called for rent controls. The Citizen’s Assembly of Scotland was launched...

A new licensing scheme designed to clampdown on unscrupulous landlords has been put forward for consideration by  Liverpool City Council. The new...

Airbnb has announced that it is temporarily restricting all booking across the UK to coronavirus key workers, such as NHS and social...

An unscrupulous landlord has been punished for providing his tenant with poor living conditions by being ordered to pay more than...

Older people are facing a shortage of suitable housing for their retirement, putting pressure on the wider property market. A new report...

Rogue landlords in Milton Keynes are being put on notice as the local council announces a new ‘tough approach’, including the...

Maidstone Borough Council has been criticised by a government watchdog and ordered to pay in excess of £4,000 after a private...

With almost 5.8 million households expected to be living in private rented accommodation within four years as homeownership and social renting...

The Conservative party is under mounting pressure to look again at its plans to fund social care in England because the...