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Over 40% of council houses and flats sold under the long-standing Right To Buy scheme are now owned by private landlords. That’s...

A property industry commentator has set out what he calls a plan of action to rejuvenate the buy to let sector. Jonathan...

A pressure group within the Labour Party wants a future government to provide £15 billion over 10 years to allow half...

The Green Party’s co-leader Carla Denyer has branded the government’s Right To Buy scheme as a “slum landlord’s charter”.  Denyer made the...

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

* Angels Media and Landlord Today are deeply saddened by the passing of HM Queen Elizabeth II * - A council is offering...

It’s been confirmed that Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to announce plans to extend the Right To Buy to housing associations. Under...

I hope you weren’t holding your breath for the Chancellor to announce a package of help for landlords in his Spring...

The programme of selling off council houses pioneered by Margaret Thatcher has been a strategic failure adding to inequality in Britain. That’s...

Politicians of both major parties have voiced concern over former council houses being used as Airbnb and other short lets in...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan wants to buy back former council houses now in the private rental sector. Right to Buy, part of...

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

Former Labour Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has spoken out against what he calls “the greed of the mega-landlords.” The veteran MP -...

If you’re a landlord who is currently out of work or unemployed who wishes to buy a new BTL property or...

If you’re a landlord and wish to raise finance against an existing buy to let property and don’t have proof of...

Andy Burnham, former Labour leadership candidate and now the party's candidate for Greater Manchester Mayor, has put forward a number of...

One of the UK’s largest and most controversial private landlords has seen his attempts to sell his entire portfolio of around...

A government committee has raised concerns about the number of homes sold through Right To Buy that end up in the...

Work of council fraud investigators in Barnet to expose tenancy fraud has led to almost 50 council houses being re-let to...