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Research by comparison site GetAgent has shown that across Britain, the number of home sellers entering the market increased by 23%...

A Build To Rent provider claims that its new scheme - where prices for the smallest units begin at £1,240 pcm...

Annual house price growth across the UK’s ‘Big Six’ regional cities has remained consistent despite the challenges posed by higher interest...

A survey claims tenants pay 20% more per month on average for a furnished apartment compared to unfurnished. And as the average...

The National Landlord Investment Show is heading to Bristol next month. It’s at Ashton Gate, the home of Bristol City Football Club,...

New research from Direct Line reveals thousands of landlords in England are facing increasing costs due to selective licensing schemes imposed...

Citra Living, part of Lloyds Banking Group, is to bring more than 150 new family homes to the rental market in...

A landlord who has repeatedly flouted housing rules has been fined a further £36,000 following a prosecution brought by a council.  Giuseppe...

Buy to let lender Aldermore has named Bristol, as the best city for landlords to invest in for 2024.  Manchester, Coventry, Brighton...

Bristol’s controversial Labour council is extending previous licensing schemes to other parts of the city at some £1,800 HMO per licence...

New additional and selective licensing schemes are to be considered by the controversial Bristol city council. The council’s Labour Mayor - Marvin...

An estimated 1.6m private renters are set to receive an uplift to their housing support for 12 months from April 2024,...

Landlords have been urged to protect their properties against bed bugs with regular inspections. Daniel Evans, chair of the Association of Independent...

A rent guarantor service says the recent Second Reading of the Renters Reform Bill has intensified scrutiny on the challenges faced...

A new but small survey by a compensation consultancy claims there are serious mould and damp issues amongst private rental properties. Some...

A Bristol landlord who confronted handed the tenant an illegal eviction notice after finding him using the bathroom in the house,...

A council has been slammed for its “absolutely outrageous” failure to stop the eviction of up to 80 tenants - a...

A bizarre situation has arisen with a Labour council securing a banning order on a landlord - who now has to...

Who are you, and what does it say on your business card? I'm Ashley Day, the Director of Bristol Property Centre.   What is...

The hardline activist group Acorn - part of the Renters Reform Coalition involving Generation Rent - now claims that some 600,000...

The latest Rental Demand Index from the Barrows and Forrester agency has revealed that rental demand has surged during the third...

Bristol’s Labour-controlled council says it wants to spend some £17m of local council tax payers’ money on two new licensing schemes...

While there has been a shortage of all types of rental accommodation across the UK for several years now, the student...

A website claims that Banning Orders on private landlords have not been served because of local government funding shortfalls. Open Democracy says...

The Labour dominated council in Bristol has written to Housing Secretary Michael Gove demanding that he gives it the powers to...

A landlord has been ordered to pay over £44,000 after a court found him guilty of a serious housing offence. Giuseppe Sutera,...

The latest rental market snapshot from lettings agency Barrows and Forrester has revealed the hottest location for tenant demand. It says Dorset...

A non-for-profit hospitality group wants tighter regulations and restrictions to be imposed on Airbnb properties which affect both the rental market...

A Labour Mayor whose post was abolished by a public vote last year now wants to become an MP. Marvin Rees’ position...

A landlord who was banned from letting properties after repeatedly failing to meet the required standards, has lost an appeal to...

An insurance firm has identified locations which, according to current portal listings, have the highest proportion of dog-friendly rental properties. The league...

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

A new study by a mortgages website says it reveals the best places for buy to let investors to purchase properties. Money...

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

An unexpected and unlikely political alliance has prevented another city council demanding powers to freeze private rents. London, Bristol, Liverpool and Manchester...

An unlikely location heads the latest league table purporting to show the highest returns on property investment. Aldermore’s Buy To let City...

London continues to dominate the list of the most attractive cities for buy to let investment for the second year running. Data...

A Labour council which banned councillors who were landlords from contributing to a key debate has done a U-turn on legal...

A rogue landlord who created false identities and fake lcompanies as part of an elaborate web of misinformation designed to exploit...

Bristol councillors who are landlords have been told they cannot speak in a debate on rent controls.  Earlier this week we explained...

A Labour council is being tipped to vote tomorrow to introduce rent controls for the private sector, even though it has...

Many private landlords lack knowledge, skills and support necessary to provide decent homes for renters, a new study claims. The UK Collaborative...

Landlord Today has been approached by researchers at the University of York and University of Bristol doing a study on tenant...

A Bristol landlord has been banned from letting properties after repeatedly failing to meet the required standards. Naomi Knapp, a portfolio landlord...

Voids hit what has been described as an historic low in recent weeks, according to PropTech firm Goodlord. It says the average...

Bristol’s Labour council has made a name for itself with policies shifting power from landlords to tenants. Earlier this year the Mayor,...

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

A new league table shows landlords the cities across the UK where the highest average Airbnb nightly prices are charged. The data,...

A mortgage lender’s buy to let market index shows yields slightly dipping. Fleet Mortgages’ regional snapshot covers all areas of England and...

A landlord has been fined and must pay compensation after being involved in an illegal eviction. The landlord - Tahir Aziz - was...

Landlords are still enjoying substantial capital appreciation - but the latest Zoopla house price index reveals the lowest rate of monthly...

A new survey claims to show the rent differences between furnished and unfurnished homes to let in various cities. For example London...

A PropTech platform says it’s giving landlords the opportunity to spread their management fees and marketing costs across the duration of...

A survey of over 600 landlords by a business insurance service has found that 55 per cent have still to make...

The independent expert advisers to government on tax simplification, the OTS, says there has been a strong response to its consultation...

A new study has compiled a league table of the best cities in the UK for investment in student accommodation. CIA Landlord...

Voters in Bristol have decided to abolish the city’s directly elected mayor following a referendum. The city was given the choice of...

The latest attack on landlords by Generation Rent director Baroness Alicia Kennedy concerns insulation and household warmth. She claims a quarter of...

A Labour city council that has already called for powers to impose rent controls has now extended its existing landlord licensing...

PropTech firm Kamma says 11 new discretionary licensing schemes for landlords are set to launch in April - a record. This is the...

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

A prominent property website, which monitors the lettings market, suggests that rent controls would drive a proportion of rental stock to...

The mayor of Labour-controlled Bristol council is teaming up with local anti-landlord activists to look at how to introduce local rent...

One of the driving forces behind a summit being held to consider rent controls in a major city says she is...

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

Together Energy, which has 176,000 households on its books, has become the latest supplier to collapse in the wake of the...

A landlord who let out a property that raised serious concerns for the safety of 18 residents, including six children, has...

Bristol-based lettings management company Iletpro Ltd has been ordered to pay a total of £2,700.06 in fines and costs for failing...

A leading lettings agent in the south west is advising landlords to take advantage of a new ‘easy to read’ guide...

A council is appealing to landlords to help it fulfil a pledge to be a sanctuary to vulnerable refugees. Bristol council has...

An online corporate rental platform says Covid 19 has led to a six-fold increase in demand for medium-term rentals in this...

Shelter and tenants’ group in a major city have mobilised to set up a campaign called Fair Renting. The campaign is focussed...

A landlord has been handed nearly £30,000 in fines and costs after pleading guilty to maintenance and safety failures at three...

A landlord has been handed penalties totalling nearly £8,000 after being found guilty of operating an unlicensed HMO. This follows an investigation...

A Labour housing pressure group has made strong public criticism of the party’s shadow housing spokeswoman, Thangam Debbonaire. Labour Tenants United was...

Investors are sitting on an average of over £37,000 each in investment capital they are poised to inject into the property market. That’s...

A lettings platform specialising in student accommodation has a new way to spot locations with excess supply. UniHomes says Southampton, Portsmouth and...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m David Hackett, Head of Business Development for The DPS    What...

A four year ban on letting any residential property has been imposed on a landlord found guilty of using accommodation that could...

A gas engineer was shocked to come across a large cannabis grow in a rental property after being called to change...

All of Leaders Romans 130 branches are to be listed on a comparison website, Rentround. The site describes itself as “connecting landlords...

Research by lettings agency Keller Williams suggests the Coronavirus crisis has led to dip in rents across the UK - but...

Insurance company CIA landlord has prepared a league table of the most and least profitable locations for buy to let landlords. It’s...

A Labour MP is demanding action against unscrupulous predator landlords who demand sex from tenants in lieu of rent. The Daily Mail...

A leading officer in a Labour council which has in the past taken landlords to court says this process is so...

A league table of UK cities where it takes the longest for first time buyers to save for a deposit may...

It’s being reported that a so-called ‘rental union’ group of activists has staged a protest outside a landlord’s own home. Acorn - a...

Buy-to-let investments with a tenant already in situ are most in-demand across Glasgow, according to Howsy.  The letting management platform reports that...

A majority of tenants are looking for unfurnished homes, new research shows.  Online property management platform Howsy analysed existing rental property listings...

The National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) has welcomed confirmation from a government minister that the courts will begin to hear possession...

A buy-to-let landlord in Bristol has been forced to hand £1,569 back to the council for housing benefit payments he received. Charles...

A buy-to-let landlord in Bristol has been ordered to repay more than £3,000 following investigations by the council’s Private Housing Rogue...

The government’s decision to extend the ban on evictions in England and Wales by a further two months has left victims...

Private renters naturally have rights and responsibilities,  but it would appear that uncertainty presented by the outbreak of Covid-19 has left...

Students at the University of Bristol have taken part in a socially distant march demanding greater help for tenants adversely affected by...

Living without outdoor space is proving a real challenge for many people during the current coronavirus lockdown, which will largely explain...

New Labour leader Keir Starmer finalised his shadow cabinet appointments yesterday, with Thangam Debbonaire securing the role of shadow housing secretary. Debbonaire,...

A private landlord has been prosecuted by Bristol City Council for providing private rented accommodation that posed a “serious risk to life”.  Nine...

Brighton has been named the most profitable city to invest in for buy-to-let landlords in the UK.  Landlords investing in Brighton’s buy-to-let...

The west of England’s Landlord Expo returns to Bristol next month.  The free-to-attend event, organised by the four West of England Local...