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A property industry group wants to restrict the private letting of properties bought in the future via the Right To Buy...

A council is looking to work with more private landlords to help reduce homelessness. Over the past few years Shropshire council has...

A private landlord from Bridlington has been ordered to pay £1,500 for putting tenants into a dangerous property, thereby breaching a...

A charity is calling for landlord licensing schemes which cost enough to fund annual inspections, and the issuing of “sentencing guidelines”...

The National Residential Landlords Association has slammed yesterday’s lacklustre Budget as a missed opportunity. Yesterday’s announcements - like to be the last...

The Housing Ombudsman has ordered Yorkshire Housing to pay £3,780 after it found three findings of severe maladministration for how it...

‘Save the tenancy – don’t serve notice.’ That’s the message to landlords from a west country council. Landlords and tenants are being...

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

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

A Labour-controlled council is inviting private rental sector representatives to a round-table event which it pledges will not be a talking...

Both sides of the rental divide have criticised Conservative proposals to boost housing demand while doing nothing about supply. Over the New...

A council is to spend £10m to buy homes on the open market to house local people - some at risk...

The chief executive of campaigning charity Shelter is blaming “skyrocketing rents” for a crisis of homelessness. As part of an appeal for...

A group of Conservative MPs has organised a lobby of the government to demand a clampdown on Airbnbs and other short...

Campaigning charity Shelter has welcomed the decision by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to unfreeze Local Housing Allowance - but it wants it...

Many have welcomed the move by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to unfreeze the Local Housing Allowance - but some tenant activists say...

The rising cost of living - especially housing - remains the top issue on Londoners’ minds for the second year in...

London’s Labour mayor Sadiq Khan wants 10,000 private homes in the capital to be brought into the social rental sector within...

When Chancellor Jeremy Hunt gets to his feet on Wednesday to deliver his Autumn Statement, he should consider offering support to...

Housing Secretary MIchael Gove is reported to be pressing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to increase Local Housing Allowance in next week’s...

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

A controversial ‘housing emergency’ declared by a city council is the result of decades of low investment in social housing according...

A major council has declared a Housing Emergency for its city, attributing part of the problem to rising private rents. A statement...

A local authority in London is to buy back over 300 properties it built and sold off years ago under Right...

Shelter says “skyrocketing rents” and the government’s freeze on housing allowance lie behind the increased spend on temporary accommodation for homeless...

London local authorities say there’s been a surge in landlords withdrawing from the sector providing temporary accommodation for homeless households. A survey by the...

The Generation Rent group of activists has written an open letter to mortgage firm chief executives asking for special dispensation for...

A London council that just days ago threatened private landlords with unlimited fines and “have control of their properties removed” has...

A group of local authorities is asking the government to give individual councils the cash to buy properties off private landlords. London...

Across the country landlords and renters are struggling as mortgage costs soar, tax hikes bite and uncertainty remains about the impact...

New research shows a 41 per cent reduction in the number of London properties available for private rent since the Covid-19...

A sports team has made the unusual move of issuing a direct appeal to private landlords to help it find accommodation...

A charity is reported to be claiming that increasing numbers of landlords use security guards dressed as bailiffs to help evict...

A three bedroom house has been freed up after a remarkably long investigation by a London council.  The result follows a legal...

A news service claims that in many UK cities there are now more entire homes listed on Airbnb than there are...

Flat-pack furniture giant IKEA has teamed up with campaigning charity Shelter to highlight the issue of homelessness. The Scandinavian firm, citing Shelter’s...

Campaigning charity Shelter claims that “at least” 271,000 are homeless in England alone. The figure - compiled from a Freedom of Information...

January 9 this year, the first working Monday after the Christmas Break, has been dubbed Divorce Day. This is typically when enquiries...

A council says it is looking to work with more private landlords to help reduce homelessness. Over recent years Shropshire council says...

A council claims that a substantial number of private landlords in its area have evicted long term tenants to make space...

A landlord and owner who failed to repair a serious water leak have been fined £4,000 after their tenants’ bathroom ceiling...

A council says it’s offering private sector landlords an opportunity to lease their vacant property and help support local residents who...

A London council is relaunching an appeal for private landlords to help house homeless people with mobility issues. Landlords in Camden and...

A rogue landlord prosecuted for illegally squashing seven flats into a development with planning permission for six must pay around £250,000.  In...

A London council chief is asking for help from private landlords.  The leader of Kingston council in the south west of the...

Shelter claims that women are impacted by homelessness more than men, and says rising private rents are a contributory factor. In a...

The charity Crisis has identified the end of the eviction ban as one of the factors directly leading to homelessness over...

A company that works with private landlords to supply homes to ease London councils’ homeless issues, has won funds to secure...

Shelter claims the end of the eviction ban has contributed to creating over 274,000 people who are homeless in England right now, including 126,000 children. Shelter’s interpretation of official...

Shelter claims its helpline has received 1,000 callers a day since the eviction ban began easing at the start of summer. It says...

The relationship between the overwhelming number of good landlords and local authorities tends to be limited or possibly non-existent. With the far...

A call has gone out to shift tens of thousands of the poorest tenants in the private rental sector into social...

Private landlords interested in leasing properties in Bridgend, south Wales, are being invited to join a scheme which would see them...

A landlord has pleaded guilty to the unlawful eviction of his tenant. Jalal Uddin of Wellingborough has pleaded guilty at the town’s...

Labour councils in London have backed the initiative from Mayor Sadiq Khan to buy back ex-council houses now in the private...

Labour MPs have quizzed junior housing minister Eddie Hughes over the effects of the ending of the eviction ban. At the regular...

A pressure group for tenants wants the next Mayor of London to win powers from the government to reduce rents, through a...

An appeal has gone out to private landlords to lease their properties to a council seeking to boost its supply of...

One of the country’s best known Labour politicians wants the eviction ban extended yet again. Currently there is a moratorium on bailiff-enforced evictions...

The Liberal Democrats want Airbnb to ensure its landlords offer free accommodation to victims and survivors of domestic abuse in Tier 3...

Landlords of a property in Peterborough have been compensated £6,000 by the local council. The payment follows a delay in agreeing a...

An analysis of the private rental sector by the London School of Economics suggests there could be three times the current...

Campaigning charity Shelter is back on the warpath against private landlords, criticising how much of the country’s temporary accommodation budget for...

Student property is one of the most lucrative investments available to landlords, with sky-high double-digit yields currently on offer in many...

UnderTheDoormat, which provides short-let properties in London, is opening up its homes to doctors and nurses for free as they care...

Insurers are set to pay out an average £32,000 per household for flood claims following the destructive storms last month, according...

We all know that buy-to-let investors provide a vital service for people looking for housing, and yet an article in The...

Foundation Home Loans has launched a new short-term let product, as part of the buy-to-let range, available exclusively through Legal &...

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

The short-term letting industry, which includes the likes of Airbnb, joined local authorities and community groups at City Hall yesterday to...

Many private sector landlords see social housing tenancies as a higher risk than traditional rentals, and rising rents in the open...

A Hertfordshire-based housing association is looking for landlords to join a newly launched social letting scheme to help tackle the increasing...