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Court fees levied on landlords are rising 10% from Wednesday - the result of a consultation process held shortly before Christmas. The...

A prominent Green Party politician is arguing for rent controls - and accuses Labour of watering down its commitment to the...

The latest Rental Index from PropTech supplier Goodlord has recorded a rent rise and a reduction in void lengths over the...

Knight Frank says that the Bank of England base rate is likely to stay unchanged at 5.25 per cent for at...

Speculation continues apace over the likely measures in next month’s Budget, especially after what is seen by political analysts as a...

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

One might immediately answer 'no' to this question, but does the HMO property industry possess adequate understanding of this delicate subject...

The yo-yo economic news is now casting doubt on whether the Bank of England will cut base rate as quickly as...

Average new seller asking prices rose 1.3 per cent between December and January - the biggest rise at this time of...

An analysis of homes that have returned to the market after failing to find a buyer in 2023 suggests that sellers...

Rightmove claims that a new record number of sellers came to market on Boxing Day, with a 26 per cent increase...

A spokesperson for the Citizens Advice charity has claimed at a public meeting that private landlords serve Section 21 notices on...

Rightmove has revealed its forecast for 2024 - and has looked back on the past 12 months. This year, 2023, ends with...

It’s emerged that Housing Secretary approved yet another vast landlord licensing system just days before Christmas. On December Gove gave approval to...

The controversial Renters Reform Coalition - a band of campaigners including the Acorn and Generation Rent ginger groups - claims public...

The Renters Reform Bill in its latest amended version now runs to 15 pages, and is available on the Parliament website. The...

Christmas goodwill towards landlords seems in short supply from activist group Generation Rent.  It has this week issued a statement saying the...

A business consultancy claims the HMNRC Self-Assessment helpline - set up to assist those compiling and filing tax returns as the...

A local authority is introducing charges for the issuing of Improvement Notices to landlords - and has chosen to announce it...

Rightmove is building the hype ahead of its much-vaunted Boxing Day listing of new properties to the market. The portal claims that...

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

Campaigning charity Shelter is nearing a controversial signature threshold in its petition about the Renters Reform Bill. It now has over 123,000 of...

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

It’s not just the weather that’s wet and dreary – the outlook looks bleak for landlords too as we head towards...

The asking price of homes coming to the market this month is down 1.7 per cent on October according to Rightmove.  The...

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

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

A landlord has been prosecuted for the unlawful eviction of a tenant from privately rented accommodation in Coleraine, Northern Ireland. Leading up...

Today's inflation figures effectively seal the fate of the housing market for the rest of this year - including the crucial...

Spiralling interest rates, soaring inflation and rocketing mortgages have created a “perfect storm” which will result in another five per cent...

It appears that there may be months more uncertainty over new energy efficiency rules for the private rental sector. A statement from...

A typical two-year fixed mortgage deal now has an interest rate of more than 6.0 per cent for the first time...

The National Residential Landlords Association has reacted angrily to the latest UK government to flirt with adopting the Scottish example of...

A private landlord has been prosecuted after a family, including a baby and two older children, were left without water or adequate...

The asking-to-achieved price gap has widened to its largest for five years according to new data from Zoopla.  While sales volumes have...

A rant about rent controls by London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan appears to have backfired. Khan - who has repeatedly demanded that...

Two Members of the Scottish Parliament have broken rank with their own party to query the motivation behind a new property...

New data from flatshare site SpareRoom reveals that rents reached an all-time high in Q4 2022, with the average UK room...

House prices are likely to fall every month until the Summer but could then creep back up, a housing expert claims. Jonathan...

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

Residents in social and affordable housing are being given the chance to buy a share in their home for the first...

Landlords are not “contributing anything useful to society” a politician has claimed. Over the Christmas and New year break Ross Greer, a...

Propertymark has come out in favour of private landlords being allowed to follow the example of social landlords in agreeing an...

Foxtons says London’s market is finally cooling - at least a little - for the Christmas period. November followed the seasonal downward...

The trade body representing hosts and suppliers to the short let industry is calling on people to defray cost of living...

The government is under new pressure to introduce a last minute eviction ban to avoid private renters facing homelessness over Christmas. Liberal...

Figures from across the private rental sector have written an open letter to Housing Secretary Michael Gove, calling for a halt...

Tenant activists have turned on the bosses of Shelter - just as the charity wants to maximise income from its annual Christmas...

A new market snapshot shows that tenants in London have seen bigger rent price increases than anywhere else in the UK...

Campaigning charity Shelter claims that last month 482,000 private renters were behind on their rent. It also claims that 504,000 people have...

Despite a string of pledges on rental sector reform delivered in recent days by government ministers, including Housing Secretary Michael Gove,...

Rightmove says the average price of newly-marketed homes dipped 1.1 per cent this month - the equivalent of £4,159 - to...

Campaigning charity Shelter is warning this winter could be one of the toughest yet - and it claims high rents are...

Zoopla has now joined Knight Frank and Lloyds Bank in forecasting a price drop in 2023. The property website’s executive director, Richard...

The Welsh Government, which recently pushed back its so-called rental revolution until December, has nonetheless published extensive new guidelines about the...

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

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

As we approach what is commonly the busiest month of the year, there is one question many in the sector many...

Airbnb entered the realm of holiday lettings in 2009, but it wasn’t until 2016 that it really started to gain traction...

Buy to let mortgage rates will rise “very quickly” this year according to a leading broker. Last week base rate was increased...

With Christmas and the New Year now over, landlords, investors and property experts are back to questioning what the coming twelve...

There are numerous reasons as to why renting is the way forward and how it can bring just as much, if...

Sarah Coles, senior personal finance analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, writes: The government has announced extra breathing space for anyone who hasn’t...

A senior figure in a newly-enlarged agency that wants to become a national force in lettings has thrown his weight behind...

Labour is the latest political party to call for rent controls following similar pleas from the Green Party and the Scottish Nationalists. Paul...

A landlord who has been operating a licensable HMO without a licence has been fined £5,000 at a prosecution brought by...

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

Rental price growth in London’s commuter belt cities and towns have outperformed villages and rural areas over the past year, says...

The year is ending with void periods dropping across England as demand for rental properties continues apace.  According to the latest Goodlord...

Landlord Today would like to wish all landlords and their families and colleagues a wonderful Christmas 2021. It’s been an exhausting year...

It’s likely that you’ll have something festive lined up over the Christmas period, but in case not - here are a...

As I write, at home in bed recovering from Covid, I can’t fail to notice the irony of attempting to predict...

Build To Rent apartment brand Essential Living is giving its tenants five New Year’s Resolutions for 2022. 1. Create Home Working Space:...

The trade body representing Airbnb and other short let providers and sector suppliers says the short let industry is best placed...

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

Councillors in a second home hotspot will be asked to decide on the level of council tax premium for the next...

It’s understood there will be a Christmas truce with tenants not enduring bailiff-enforced evictions between December 13 and January 10. HM Courts...

John McDonnell, who until 15 months ago was the shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, has called for all tenants to be...

A landlord has begun legal proceedings against a pressure group after being the victim of a four-month campaign of harassment. Lawyers acting...

Over a fifth of students questioned in a new survey say they have been unable to pay rent in full over...

Few landlords deal in the rarified surroundings of the central London market, and new figures from lettings agency Knight Frank show...

Landlords have told government that while they welcome new cash help for student tenants, the rest of the lettings sector needs...

A leading market monitor suggests voids are increasing but otherwise states the rental market is in good health, one year on from...

The public believe students should go rent-free if they do not use their private or college accommodation in the coming term...

Many of us will be glad to see the back of 2020 for obvious reasons. For landlords the Coronavirus crisis has been...

Covid-19 restrictions in force across the country for the foreseeable future means landlords must remain cautious in 2021 - and they...

We’re delighted that landlords will be starting their Christmas break - and it’s rarely been more deserved after an immensely difficult...

Landlords with London properties have a short-term opportunity to list and let them for free - but they’ll have to be...

There’s been a howl of disgust from the UK’s major landlord group following the Welsh Government’s shock increase in stamp duty. Landlord...

The unknown number of landlords with properties in blocks caught in the cladding crisis may be able to benefit from a...

Wales is the latest part of the UK to follow the example of England and suspend evictions  until January 11 as...

A homelessness charity is calling for landlords to come forward with accommodation for clients to be housed over Christmas. Harbour Housing, a...

A London lettings agency is offering landlords the opportunity to list and let properties for free this month.  The offer comes from...

An eviction ban has been introduced by the Scottish Government to take effect until well into the New Year.  Because of the...

A leading figure in the short lets sector is advising tenants to “take the pub home” this Christmas. Merilee Karr, chair of...

Anti-eviction campaigners have confronted two landlords over an alleged planned eviction.  Members of the Living Rent tenants union are pictured by the...

Activists in Generation Rent claim that a fifth of families in the lettings sector suffer a shortfall between benefits and rent. Using selected data...

A  leading property law firm says the government’s ‘eviction ban by the back door’ means many buy to let properties are...

The National Residential Landlords Association is calling on the government to ensure a comprehensive financial package is provided for landlords themselves,...

Despite another national lockdown seemingly on the horizon, the property market remains resilient, with the stamp duty holiday and other initiatives...