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The Housing Ombudsman, who presides over the social landlord sector comprising housing associations and local councils, has hit out at a...

A letter from a coalition of pro-tenant groups has been sent to the leaders of the Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrat, Reform...

New data from flat share website SpareRoom has revealed what it calls “the up-and-coming London rental hotspots” with properties further away...

Fines for rogue landlords and agents in London have surged past the £10 million mark.   With 19 council licensing schemes and...

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

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

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

New research shows that 676,000 homes in England are sitting empty. The research comes from property purchasing firm House Buyer Bureau which...

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

A council that is often outspoken in its criticism of rogue private landlords has been slammed for literally thousands of health...

The latest research by London lettings agency Benham and Reeves has revealed the uphill struggle facing those in search of a...

A landlord and three property management companies have been fined approaching £80,000 for health and safety failings. Mohammed Ali Abbas Rasool, Cadogan...

A prominent Tory thinker has suggested that English councils should be obliged to sell off an estimated 31,000 councils houses and...

A Freedom of Information request by a newspaper has unveiled the almost complete lack of activity by local councils when it...

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

Research by a rental platform suggests there are currently over 65,000 short let properties being advertised in London alone. The platform, Rentd,...

Landlords seeking capital appreciation from a recovering prime London market have been provided with a league table by a debt advisory...

A London council has secured banning orders against four rogue landlords after they were found to be letting an unlicensed and...

Covid-19 has undoubtedly shifted the way new landlords will be looking to invest in 2022, and our ranking makes it clear...

Rents in Greater London are up an annualised 25 per cent, with much of the increase attributed to the stock of...

A new website has been set up by a council purely for private rental sector tenants in one part of London. The...

A local council has prosecuted a rogue landlord for illegally evicting a young couple from their accommodation in Cheltenham.  The landlord -...

Fines on landlords and letting agents that fall foul of London council regulations have risen dramatically in the past month alone. Research...

The Home property website has identified locations where rents have risen by up to 38 per cent in the past 12...

Landlords wanting to break into London buy to let have been provided with a guide to boroughs with the most discounted...

Camden council in north London has become the first local authority to secure an anti-social behaviour injunction against a landlord in...

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

A London lettings agency says that despite its four year delay, Crossrail still presents opportunities for buy to let investors. Benham and...

Landlords looking mostly long-term capital appreciation rather than yields may have to invest in an unlikely location which topped a league...

Rental affordability in the capital has improved markedly during the pandemic according to London lettings agency Benham and Reeves.  The firm analysed...

A property development firm says it’s to spend up to £500m in land acquisitions over the next three years, as part...

Camden Council has approved the renewal of landlord licensing in the borough, extending the licensing to most Houses in Multiple Occupation...

Buy-to-let landlords face having to reduce rents by at least 5% over the next five years as a growing number of...

Renting out a property as a short-term let or holiday home has proved extremely profitable for some property investors, and a...

Those who rent out homes short-term in either the London borough of Camden or Westminster could soon face fresh restrictions. Both councils...

A now-former council tenant in north London has been handed a suspended sentence and ordered to pay close to £90,000 after...

London’s first rogue landlord banning order has been issued after tenants’ lives were put at risk through the letting of unsafe...

‘For Sale’ and ‘To Let’ boards are one of the oldest and most important property marketing tools, even in this modern...

New research looking at where is currently the best place to invest in buy-to-let property in this country, based on rental...

Many tenants who own at least one pet have struggled to find pet-friendly accommodation, and yet despite efforts to encourage more...

More than £1.25bn has been spent acquiring property in London to make way for High Speed Rail 2 (HS2), according to...

Earlier this month the Tenant Fee Ban was introduced, after much fanfare from the Government. However, it is not the only...

Property search data from Zoopla over the past 12 months has been analysed to reveal the most sought-after areas for a...

A growing number of young professionals and students are choosing to house share, driving up the average cost of renting room...

New research has identified London’s most uninhabitable boroughs for the capital’s tenants, based on the cost of living there to the...

Three rogue directors of a letting agency in London who conned at least landlords and tenants out of more than £105,000 were...

Private landlords across the UK collectively earned £33.8bn from their buy-to-let investments in the year from 5 April 2017 to 2018,...

Tenants in the London borough of Kingston upon Thames are spending the lowest proportion of their salary on rent, according to new...

A London-based property firm has been ordered to pay back 70% of their profits gained from renting poorly converted flats in...

Panoramic views of London, little noise pollution, three generous sized bedrooms and the prospect of a near 9% gross rental yield...

A rogue agent and two lettings companies in north west London have been heavily fined for operating a dangerous unlicensed house...

Criminal landlords across London will be named and shamed on an online database after all London boroughs signed up to a rogue...

Two letting agents have been hit with £14,000 fines for unlicensed shared properties in Camden, north London. The two rogue letting agents...

A Conservative councillor has been ordered to pay more than £57,000 after being taken to court by his own council for...

Tenants in London are now required to pay up to £8,650 just to move into a rented home, it has been...

A north London council is being encouraged to take a tough stance on reported Airbnb and equivalent style rentals in an...

A company and the manager of a house of multiple occupation (HMO) in South Hampstead, north-west London, have been hit with...

Two separate legal challenges have been launched against government's 'Right to Rent' policy. The scheme, which requires landlords to check the immigration...

The mayor of London Sadiq Khan yesterday launched a new public online database which ‘names and shames’ dodgy landlords and letting...

A Camden councillor who was prosecuted last year by the council he works for in north west London after failing to...

A crowdfunding page has been set up by concerned tenants who are looking to pay for an independent fire safety inspection...

A letting agent responsible for managing a large buy-to-let portfolio in Norwich has been handed a 20-month suspended sentence for two...

The mayor of London Sadiq Khan has vowed to crackdown on criminal landlords by ensuring that they are ‘named and shamed’...

Rent increases across the UK have slowed to their lowest level since 2013, fresh data has revealed, with prices in London...

The pace of rental price growth in the UK slowed to 0.05% in the month to October from a rise of...

Significantly more homes urgently need to be developed for the private rented sector to curb rising rental values in London, according...

Dlighted is trying to persuade more landlords and tenants to use its deposit-free renting service by claiming that at least £2bn...

Rental values have increased across prime central London over the past three months fuelled by greater demand from people looking to...

Success in the letting industry hinges largely on the ability to find good tenants. And while it may be obvious what...

A councillor has been told by his own local authority to pay over £30,000 after admitting he failed to carry out...

A Camden councillor has been prosecuted by the council he works for after failing to carry out improvement works to a...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has written to Camden Council urging reconsideration of a borough-wide additional licensing scheme for houses in...