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A council has banned a rogue landlord from letting properties - either directly or through the agencies that he runs -...

Just days after suggesting rent controls of any kind were off the table, it now appears Labour may be considering them...

A landlord deemed to be unfairly profiting from properties has been fined a total of £5,825.27. Greenwich council prosecuted Anna Yang, an...

A new survey of over 1,000 landlords has revealed that just over half would consider leaving the market due to the...

A pressure group claims the threat of being evicted makes tenants age more quickly.  Generation Rent claims there is a study by...

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

The landlord of a former hotel with no working kitchen, unusable toilets, blocked drains, and rats, has been ordered to pay...

Home buying agency Spring has analysed which parts of the country have the dubious distinction of having the most rental homes...

Many landlords who do not want to commit to high levels of expenditure to improve the energy efficiency of their homes,...

A landlord has been hit with a huge £23,000 fine for failing to properly maintain two HMOs. Landlord Lystra Dorval from Ilford...

New research from animal welfare charity Battersea - the new name for the Battersea Cats and Dogs Home - claims 50...

Government plans to ban Section 21 evictions could push up rents and reduce rental stock, a property dispute expert is warning. Lee Pearce...

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

A landlord has been fined and sentenced to a 12-month community order for failing to maintain gas appliances at a rental...

An online student accommodation platform has identified where demand from students is strongest as they prepare for the next academic year. UniHomes...

A landlord who failed to properly look after two HMOs has been fined £70,500 by an Essex council. Lystra Dorval, of Ilford,...

Landlords and tenants in Chelmsford, Essex, are being warned that a local letting agent appears to be trading, despite being expelled from...

Buy-to-let rental yields have remained largely flat, increasing by just 0.1% over the past 12 months, according to Sourced Capital. The research...

Landlords should be aware that eight estate and letting agents have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme (TPO), which means...

Who are you? Cole Harding is a community based estate agent, who offers maximum exposure on all the online portals and social...

The former owner of an estate agency in Ipswich which went bust owing landlords and tenants just over £28,000 after being...

A letting agent who failed to safeguard £28,000 worth of tenants’ deposits and rent destined for landlords has been handed a...

Ilford-based Kingsman Property has gone out of business after being expelled from The Property Ombudsman (TPO) scheme owing a landlord almost...

A number of MPs are currently earning rental income from properties let to private tenants, including eight ministers in Boris Johnson’s...

A man has been jailed for a six years and three months for stabbing his landlord in an unprovoked attack. Ainars Jozans,...

A private landlord who was reported to police for sending what has been described as a “threatening letter” to a letting...

Buy-to-let landlords will need to pay £1,200 for a licence to rent their properties in Bristol as part of the local...

A buy-to-let landlord has been ordered to pay a fine of £2,646, costs of £2,000 and a victim surcharge of £170...

Investing in residential properties can be a great way to accumulate wealth. But before parting with your cash, an investment strategy...

An unscrupulous landlord who converted three family homes into houses in multiple occupation (HMO) without planning consent has been jailed for...

The Tenancy Deposit Scheme (TDS), one of three government-backed tenancy deposit protection (TDP) schemes, has appointed a new external independent complaints...

The High Court has shut down a Ponzi scheme operated by a property investment firm after ruling that it was misusing...

A new landlord reward scheme designed to increase the stock of private rented accommodation in the marketplace in Rochford, Essex, has...

A landlord in Ilford, Essex, who allowed 23 people to live in overcrowded conditions has been fined £7,500. Tenants in a house...

A buy-to-let landlord has been fined £2,525 after failing to obtain a license for a shared house in Thurrock, Essex. Adeola Makinde was...

Luton and Colchester have been named among the best places for buy-to-let investors in the existing market, based on rental yields. The...

A new TV show called ‘Bad Tenants, Rogue Landlords’, a companion series to ‘Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords’, starts today. Following the success...

The average buy-to-let investor who sold their rental property in 2017 did so for £86,651 more than they paid for it,...

Private landlords in Basildon are being invited to attend a free rental workshop this week. The event, which is being run by...

A buy-to-let landlord in Tiptree has been fined for poor property management that left a family in Poor living conditions. Mohibur Rahman,...

A landlord in Ilford, Essex, has been sentenced to four months in jail for continuing to rent out his property despite...

The Cambridge has launched a new range of buy-to-let mortgages, as the lender battles to remain competitive. Highlights include a two-year fixed rate...

Havering Council has defended its decision to advise a tenant to break back into a rental property that she had vacated...

A landlord in Essex has had to start eviction proceedings to remove a sitting tenant after she broke back into a...

Buy-to-let landlords looking to acquire properties in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire and Suffolk, can now apply for two...

The ESTAS, a kite mark of excellent service for property professionals, has announced the winners of the Letting Agents of the...

A buy-to-let landlord has been fined for renting out ‘dangerous and poor’ accommodation after a fire broke out at her property...

Some buy-to-let landlords are bracing themselves for smaller profits over the coming years as a result of the new mortgage interest...

Student rents look set to increase amid a housing shortage across many of the UK’s main university cities, according to a...

Owners of vacant homes in the Rochford district in Essex are being offered grants of up to £1,000 by Rochford District...

Enquiries from investors seeking to acquire buy-to-let properties have increased by 30% since May, following an initial dip in activity after the...

Chelmsford City Council is hoping to attract more buy-to-let landlords in the Chelmsford and the wider Essex area with its Homes2Lease Scheme,...

A landlord has been prosecuted for illegally claiming council tax support for his primary residence while receiving rent from an undeclared...

Our latest infographic shows figures of how the majority of deposits are repaid at the end of tenancy and goes into...

British pensioners are increasingly choosing a rent a home by the seaside when they retire because the cost of buying property...

A letting agent in South London has been found to be the front for a cannabis growing operation, with drugs grown...

The latest TDS stats show that there has been a steep 25% rise in tenancy deposit disputes, with one-third of agents...

A landlord who let tenants sleep in an outbuilding in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex has been fined nearly £6,000. Syed Junid Ul Hassan Shah...

Landlords in the East of England are reaping the rewards of strong rental and house price growth in the region over...

Landlord Investment Show heads to Woking in Surrey on Thursday 29th January at the H.G Wells Centre in Woking. We hear much...