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Consultation time is short for landlords wanting to comment on a new licensing scheme proposed for Scunthorpe. The public consultation closes at...

Co-living developments are a type of purpose-built rental housing, under the same principle as Build To Rent (BTR) but offering smaller size...

Four years after the first Covid restrictions, new research by Centre for Cities shows Londoners’ escape to the country during the...

A new housing deal will provide another 92 Build To Rent units run by Legal & General. The properties will be two,...

A south coast council is set to clampdown on HMOs after a report highlighted alleged issues with the likes of bins,...

Towns within commuting distance of big cities have seen some of the UK’s largest rent rises in recent years, says Zoopla. The...

A legal firm says Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has effectively slashed the value of holiday homes which are sold from April 2025...

A London council has successfully prosecuted two landlords who failed to comply with a planning enforcement notice originally issued against substandard...

The Government quietly announced population projections towards the end of January that could have major implications for the types of homes...

Countryside campaigning charity CPRE has given a warm welcome to Michael Gove’s clampdown on short lets. Last week Housing Secretary Gove announced...

According to Haslams lettings agency’s latest House Price Index, a new hotspot has emerged for private rental sector investors. It claims Reading...

A landlord has warned her local authority that high charges for licensing are unaffordable without the fee being passed on to...

The Conservative leader of a council which claims it has had problems with Airbnbs and short lets has given wholehearted backing...

Generation Rent has given a qualified thumbs up to Housing Secretary Michael Gove’s ideas for homes on brownfield land. This week Gove...

A Selective Licensing scheme proposal is out for consultation in the Scunthorpe area -  with a harsh message from a council...

A council has prosecuted a landlord after a family of nine were discovered living in an outbuilding. Tariq Khan of Peterborough was...

A property expert claims capital values on properties should drop significantly if they are not considered appropriately energy efficient. “Homes which aren’t...

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

New rent control proposals put forward by politicians are unnecessary and too costly according to a leading property expert.  David Alexander -...

The controversial activist group Acorn has made a formal public apology to the chief executive of the National Residential Landlords Association. On...

With 2023 drawing to a close, flatshare website SpareRoom has revealed data which suggests a slowdown in the rental frenzy -...

A local authority is hosting a free event for local landlords which will give them insights into latest developments in the...

The property portal ESPC has revealed the top-performing Edinburgh postcodes in terms of rental yields, for the third quarter of 2023. The...

Labour’s shadow housing secretary and deputy leader Angela Rayner says her party will scrap Section 21 on its first day in...

The growth of private renting in the past decade has given renters more political power, an activist group claims. Generation Rent’s analysis...

A landlord who repeatedly failed to comply with a Planning Enforcement Notice has received a hefty fine. Sultan Mahmood, of Woking, was...

A north of England council says it’s reviewing the fees for its selective licensing scheme “in terms of potential impact on...

Zoopla is warning that there will be further house price falls in 2024 on top of the 4.5 per cent drop...

Room rents continue to skyrocket across the UK, reaching new highs in the third quarter of 2023 according to flatware website...

Landlords frustrated by poor returns and high taxes in the buy to let arena are looking for ways to diversify investment...

Blackpool council will next week consider a new selective licensing scheme for some of the town’s privately rented properties. The scheme will...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Louis Musgrove – Group Managing Director   What is Southernbrook Lettings and...

Rental activists are up in arms because Housing Secretary Michael Gove failed to mention the Renters Reform Bill during his keynote...

The Housing Ombudsman - who presides over housing associations and other social housing providers - has ordered a chief executive to...

A council is to consult on a new licensing scheme that aims to tackle rogue landlords in parts of Scunthorpe that...

Almost one in five renters say high mortgage rates mean they can’t afford to buy now and have put purchase plans...

Savills’ latest market snapshot for prime properties in the UK regions suggest that tenant priorities are gently shifting. Across UK prime regional...

Recent years have seen a surge in the holiday lettings sector with the popularity of digital platforms like Air BnB.  It...

A city council has slammed what it calls ‘neglectful landlords’ as part of an illegal dumping crackdown. Stoke-on-Trent’s Labour authority has declared...

When choosing a buy-to-let property, there are many elements that need to be balanced in order to get the biggest return...

This year is set to bring sweeping rental reforms that will change the face of lettings forever. Landlords should be following...

One of the country’s most popular destinations for both visitors and short let accommodation is likely to be hit with a...

An uneasy relationship exists between UK politicians and the residential property market. Emotions have been running particularly high recently. More details were...

With the government considering short let landlords having to seek planning consent for the use of complete houses, AirBnb has announced...

The top UK holiday hotspot for 2023 is Yorkshire, according to Sykes Holiday Cottages’ latest Staycation Index report. Known for its picturesque...

A Liberal Democrat MP is calling on the government to bring forward a clampdown on Airbnb and other short lets.  The government...

A landlord will have to pay £22,861 after he failed to apply for a licence to operate an HMO. Mohammad Safdar, of...

An unnamed landlord in the Norfolk town of Cromer has been issued with a £2,000 penalty, after the Residential Property Tribunal...

New rules making it tougher for people to let houses via AirBnb and other short let platforms have been unveiled by...

First the troubled John Lewis Partnership announced plans to create Build To Rent properties around or on top of Waitrose stories;...

A council has prosecuted a landlord operating a property firm for not producing the right paperwork. Luton local authority has prosecuted Poplar...

Last week it was announced that North Devon's second homeowners could pay double the amount of council tax after one year...

Every year, those thinking about investing in property for the first time and even current landlords ask themselves whether it’s the...

A landlord has been ordered to pay over £10,000 at Cardiff Magistrates' Court for a catalogue of failures relating to a...

Rightmove is predicting an average drop of just two per cent in asking prices next year - far less than many...

If you were to believe recent headlines, holiday homes and short lets make everyone’s lives miserable - yet the happiest place...

Views are being sought on the designation of a scheme to improve standards in part of Middlesbrough.  A selective landlord licensing scheme...

A council has brought a prosecution against a private landlord who had not complied with a legal health and safety notice...

The charity Shelter is organising a fringe meeting at next week’s Conservative party conference, with a prominent campaigner for a mandatory...

Propertymark has welcomed a pledge by the new Housing Secretary to boost housing supply. After he was appointed last week, Simon Clarke...

The controversial rent freeze policy in Scotland has been described as being “in chaos” by a top lettings agency chief. In a...

Paragon Bank has revealed the locations where landlords letting to students can achieve the strongest yields - and they are typically...

There is a perfect storm brewing for landlords and tenants in the UK.  Sky-rocketing energy bills, food prices and increasing rent paints...

A new £71m Build To Rent scheme is on its way to commuter hotspot Leatherhead. BTR operator Get Living and developer Watkin...

Landlords in London contributed to an extraordinary £440m in stamp duty paid on purchases in the first six months since the...

Labour wants to bring in a UK-wide licensing system for holiday lets to preserve the “spirit” of costal and rural communities. The...

Airbnb has teamed up with a tourism body to produce a report it describes as “ground breaking” in spelling out so-called...

As part of The Renters’ Reform White Paper, the UK government proposed that all tenants be moved onto a single system...

A review into the way a council deals with HMOs has been launched in response to concerns about the concentration of...

A couple growing cannabis at a house in Cambridgeshire jumped through a window and hid in the loft of their rental...

A campaign to stop new build homes being sold to second home buyers for holiday lets has won a decisive victory...

A landlord has been sentenced to 12 months imprisonment for the illegal eviction and harassment of a tenant, and has been...

An insurance chief with expertise in the holiday lets sector has stood up for owners who let their properties to holidaymakers...

The highest rental growth since the Global Financial Crisis, coupled with the cost of living crisis, is putting increased pressure on...

A Midlands council is the latest to introduce an additional licensing regime for HMOs - but it’s based on a consultation...

Grainger, the UK’s largest listed provider of private rental homes, is launching its first Build To Rent development in Derby.  It is...

A new league table of capital values in seaside locations shows the affordability challenge of investing in areas with guaranteed holiday...

A council has served improvement notices on a number of properties owned by the Salvation Army and let to private tenants...

Two of the country’s leading Conservative MPs have spoken at a Shelter conference which claimed millions of private renters were being...

A points-based system of rent controls is being advocated by activists associated with a controversial pro-tenant group. Living Rent, which is calling...

Newspapers have been told by the government that next month’s Queen's Speech will include dramatic measures to bring empty retail units...

Analysis by property portal Boomin claims that rental properties on cycle lanes in London are showing premium returns above those of...

Prime central London may not seem to most obvious part of the UK for buy to let investors but a leading...

Room rents in most major UK urban locations are now at a record high according to flatshare service SpareRoom.  Some 41 out...

Local media in Sheffield are reporting that the activist group Acorn must pay just under £100,000 in costs and damages to...

Even before the pandemic, we were seeing dramatic changes across the buy-to-let landscape with holiday lets steadily increasing in appeal –...

Private landlords who let out properties in Central West Bromwich are being urged to check if they need to apply for...

The activist group Acorn is lobbying a local council to deny people the right to buy a second home or let...

Michael Gove’s Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has given £650,000 to one town to clampdown on rogue landlords. A statement...

A local politician says the quality of the private rental sector appears to be more important in cities than in towns. Ian...

Buy to let landlords are increasingly targeting smaller, secondary towns and cities rather than big urban centres. Data from Paragon Bank shows...

A prominent lettings agent says politicians wanting an open door policy for refugees from Ukraine do not explain how they will...

Build To Rent provider Wise Living is to deliver 90 new homes in two small schemes alongside an existing development of...

Airbnb says its short lets business is back almost to 2019 pre-Covid levels in cities, and it reports many work-from-home renters...

Legal & General’s Retirement Institutional division has announced a massive £2.5 billion investment to deliver as many as 7,000 Build To...

In recent days we have heard Michael Gove trumpet his plans to ‘level up’ the UK.  We knew that he would be...

Manchester council has launched its own building company - called This City - to construct affordable and market homes to rent. The...

Landlords are targeting semi-detached homes over terraced houses for the first time, but with limited stock availability and strong competition from...

The government’s new Levelling Up White Paper includes a dramatic reshaping of the private rental sector. Section 21 eviction powers will be...

Last month, I wrote about what’s in store for the private rented sector in 2022 and, like most commentators in our...