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A council has become the first to require home owners to secure planning consent before their property can be used as...

Plaid Cymru, the party of Wales, has issued a manifesto with a clampdown on the private rental sector as one of...

A landlord who illegally converted a property into six flats has been ordered to pay more than £220,000. A previous unlawful change...

Media outlets in Scotland are reporting that Edinburgh council is considering charging short let landlords for bin collections. The plans are to be...

A bid to make three Northumberland holiday cottages available as permanent private residences has been rejected by planners. At a time when...

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

A local authority is calling for emergency legislation to help it and other councils stop the spread of Airbnbs and other...

Over the last 15 years, the HMO market has been transformed.  Back in the ‘90s, multi-lets were mainly student housing or cheap...

An Airbnb flat owner in Scotland has been refused access to let out her flat because it is in a block...

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

Next Thursday voters up and down the country will be casting their votes in a series of local elections which are...

The government is considering making home owners apply for planning consent if they wish to use a property for holiday lets. The...

Limits to the number of homes being converted into Houses in Multiple Occupation in parts of Leicester are due to be...

A landlord who lives in the US and lets her apartment out via Airbnb has been banned from doing so in...

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

Councils will be able to control numbers of second homes and holiday lets under new plans unveiled by the Welsh Government. There...

Talk is getting louder about restrictions surrounding Airbnb and other short let platforms - and nowhere is the volume greater than...

A lettings agent says his client landlords are already turning their back on short let platforms including Airbnb ahead of likely...

Landlords wanting to let out via Airbnb and other short let platforms in Edinburgh will have to apply for planning consent...

A Midlands city is starting consultation on a major extension of powers over HMOs. Leicester council wants to have an extended Article...

A council clampdown on four short let flats in Edinburgh has been backed by the Scottish Government. The council discovered that the...

The minister for local government, housing and planning in Scotland, Kevin Stewart, has received a joint letter from the UK Short...

The Scottish government has announced new measures to regulate short-term lets north of the border.  The government is handing local authorities fresh...

Paragon has expanded its product range with the introduction of short-term finance for landlords to fund property refurbishment. The short-term finance products...

More needs to be done to stem the rise in short-term lets on Airbnb in Scotland to ensure that the market...

John Warburton, director of Belvoir Leamington Spa, reveals some simple steps to investing in a successful student let. Providing properties for students...