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The National Residential Landlords Association says it’s met with new housing minister Matthew Pennycook to discuss improving standards in the rental...

A council has reported that its Selective Licensing scheme has had only 43% take-up from landlords after two years.  And a report...

A group of 20 major local authorities - the biggest social landlords in England - have sent an open letter to...

A nationwide survey conducted by Leaders Romans Group shows significant concerns over proposed rent controls, property taxes, and regulatory changes. Controversially, LRG...

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

London councils have slammed government plans for regulating the short-term and holiday lets sector. In a letter to Housing Secretary Michael Gove,...

A Labour member of the House of Lords is warning that a new law could allow landlords’ bank accounts to be...

MPs return to the Commons today after a substantial Easter recess - and with progress on the Renters Reform Bill on...

An activist group is demanding that the lower Capital Gains Tax should apply only to landlords who sell with sitting tenants. In...

A landlord has quit the private rental sector after a battle with his council over why his properties were put into...

One of the biggest parts of buying a holiday home is securing a holiday let mortgage which can differ substantially to...

A council is asking landlords to sign a document declaring they are letting safe and compliant properties. Dorset council has launched the...

The Housing Ombudsman has found severe maladministration by One Housing Group in its record keeping following the its failure to conduct...

The Renters Reform Coalition - a group of organisations including Shelter and Generation Rent - has again written to Housing Secretary...

The government has overturned its policy to relax HMO regulations on private rental properties used by asylum seekers. The policy had previously been...

The Department for Communities in Northern Ireland is reminding landlords who registered or renewed with the Landlord Registration Scheme during January,...

Landlords, being key players in the housing sector, can make a significant impact by fostering a greener mindset among their tenants....

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

The National Residential Landlords Association has created two template email letters for landlords to use to urge MPs to minimise damage...

Michael Gove has written to 10 social housing providers - housing associations and councils - slamming them after findings of severe...

A prominent tax consultancy says landlords who transferred their rental properties in a company in 2017/18 are being targeted by HMRC. It’s...

A leader of the pro-tenant activist group Acorn has told MPs that “one man bands” are more likely to exploit tenants...

The trade publication Inside Housing says a 20,000-home housing association has apologised after saying it would take enforcement action against a...

Lost in the noise of the King’s Speech, the general pledge to reform the leasehold system, and the subsequent political turmoil...

A senior Labour MP associated with the moderate wing of the party says private rental properties should be confiscated from serial...

Activist’s Twitter war of words continues  It appears as if Suella Braverman is not the only figure making a personal attack in...

The Housing Ombudsman - who presides over social housing landlords - has issued his report on what he calls the “deeply...

Claims on social media by a leader of the Renters Reform Coalition - who is also a contributor to a Labour-supporting website...

The respected engineering institution the Building Research Establishment says the government must row back from its recent U-turn on rental property...

MPs have given the Renters Reform Bill its Second Reading - a procedure which means it now continues into the Committee...

Shadow housing secretary and Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner has accused the government of “foot dragging” over the slow progress of...

A group of 30 charities and non-profit organisations, led by campaigners at Shelter, have urged the government to get a move...

A tenants’ union has developed an app which it claims makes it easy to complain about short lets. Living Rent - a...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has given Conservative conference delegates an update on the Renters Reform Bill. Contrary to speculation, mostly from anti-landlord...

The government's energy efficiency taskforce was quietly disbanded over the weekend, the BBC says.  The taskforce was set up in March to...

The Generation Rent activist group is urging its supporters to email MPs to protest about delays in the parliamentary progress of...

The main landlords’ trade body wants justice ministers to speed up the time taken for courts to process legitimate possession cases. In...

A local authority is reported to have said that a controversial new policy will reduce house values by five per cent. Gwynedd...

A landlord showed a “flagrant disregard” for her duties, including failing to replace a condemned boiler, and has been struck off. In...

The Generation Rent group of activists has written an open letter to mortgage firm chief executives asking for special dispensation for...

The National Residential Landlords Association is backing a call for financial help for landlords who improve the energy efficiency of their...

The new Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service kicks in tomorrow - it offers early legal advice, free of charge, to anyone...

One in eight tenants admit to letting out part or all of their rented property - and that rises to a...

The Renters Reform Coalition - an umbrella body which includes direct action groups Acorn and the Renters Rights London - has ...

An angry reader has contacted Landlord Today with a letter from housing minister Rachel Maclean - which the recipient has branded...

A prominent accountant is warning that the upcoming Renters Reform Bill, when it becomes law, will be used by HMRC to...

Successive Chancellors (we’re looking at you Gordon Brown and George Osborne) have monkeyed around with the market as if it was...

Licensing schemes continue to spread - even to the Channel Islands. The Jersey Evening Post reports that the island’s Chief Minister has...

The Labour dominated council in Bristol has written to Housing Secretary Michael Gove demanding that he gives it the powers to...

A landlord who failed to get his properties licensed has been fined. Under the Selective Landlord Licensing scheme in part of Middlesbrough...

A council has given an insight into its past five years of enforcement actions against private landlords. The Labour council in Newham,...

A lettings agent with 3,500 properties under management has written a long letter to Housing Secretary Michael Gove complaining about the...

A series of template letters have been drafted so that landlords can write to MPs about problems caused by the Renters...

A leading buying agent says changing planning priorities amongst London councils are likely to mean that large lateral apartments will maintain...

Activists who at one time appeared broadly happy with the pro-tenant Renters Reform Bill now appear to have changed their mind. Over...

An angry landlord has contacted Landlord Today to show what she calls the “twaddle” response she has received from the Department...

The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards has criticised Housing Minister Rachel Maclean for breaking MPs’ rules. Maclean broke rule 8 of the Code...

A council has issued a formal caution to a landlord for attempting to illegally evict three of his tenants. The landlord posted...

Landlords have again become the focus of HMRC. The government department is currently using data from rent deposit schemes to assess...

One of the country’s largest landlord licensing regimes has expanded even more this week. Some 700 more private sector homes in Manchester...

Over 175 investors have put well over a combined £1m into a property management tech business targeting landlords. Digital platform EVO -...

A London landlord has been ordered to pay over £33,000 in costs for illegally running an HMO. The three-bedroom HMO was identified...

Proposed government reforms of the private rented sector threaten to make it harder for students to enter higher education, according to...

The landlord of a property dubbed a “house of horrors” by Barking and Dagenham council enforcement officers has been ordered to...

A host of local Labour leaders including mayors Andy Burnham and Sadiq Khan are leading a call for an immediate private...

The Boiler Upgrade Scheme - launched in May 2022 and open to landlords as well as homeowners - is failing to...

Accountants and tax advisers are reporting that HMRC has sent out a spate of what are called ‘one-to-many’ letters to taxpayers. The...

Government plans to reform the private rented sector risk making it more difficult for students to enter higher education. That’s the warning...

The government says it’s reviewing landlord guidance on the health risks of damp and mould following the death of two year...

The Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority is telling lenders to exercise more scrutiny on loans for buy to let properties. In...

A landlord has been sentenced at Wolverhampton Crown Court after she had previously been found guilty of illegal eviction. Dr Amy Eskander,...

Three more social housing landlords have been ‘named and shamed’ by Housing Secretary Michael Gove. The trio - two of which are...

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

It appears that the government has finally woken up to the fact that there are too few rental homes to meet...

Two law partners at a legal firm have outlined a five-step process which tenants can use to complain to their landlords...

HMRC is targeting residential landlords who it suspects are not declaring their full rental income, warns tax advisory service Kreston Reeves. The...

HMRC is intensifying its efforts to track down landlords with undisclosed income, a financial consultancy claims. Perrys, a firm of chartered accountants,...

A Labour MP has written to the Housing Secretary demanding a timetable for the implementation of rental reform. Catherine West, MP for...

The government’s latest U-turn on Section 21 evictions powers - which it now says WILL be abolished, following earlier leaks that...

There’s rather a lot going on in the economy as I write this and, by the time it is published, who...

The National Residential Landlords Association says controversial Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng should use a £1.5 billion underspend to help buy to let...

Labour wants councils to have the power to implement landlord licensing across their full boundaries, without requiring government consent. Currently councils wanting...

There will be no Landlord Today newsletter or updates on Monday September 19 as a mark of respect for the state...

This week (September 12-18) marks the twelfth annual Gas Safety Week. All landlords renting properties with gas appliances have a legal duty...

* Angels Media and Landlord Today are deeply saddened by the passing of HM Queen Elizabeth II * - The landlords’ main trade...

A landlord has been found guilty by a jury of illegally evicting their tenant during the Covid-19 pandemic. Dr Amy Eskander let...

Landlords are being encouraged to work with a local council “to give families a stable home, improve the quality of properties...

Activists in the Acorn group is hoping to attract Labour councillors who run Leeds to a meeting next week, which will...

Landlords have been warned they risk fixed penalty notices and the loss of HMO licences if students leave rubbish in public...

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

Landlords who take advantage of the annual Edinburgh festival by charging high fees for Airbnb-sale short lets have been accused of...

Greg Clark is the new Housing Secretary, with responsibilities including steering the Renters' Reform Bill through parliament. He is part of a...

Two tenants who were amongst a group of activists in a battle with their landlord have written in a left-wing journal...

A rogue landlord that put tenants at risk has been fined for £4,808 for breaking housing regulations on a property in...

Labour’s London Mayor - buoyed up after the party’s successes in the capital in last week’s elections - has renewed his...

Activists from pressure groups and London-focussed tenants’ bodies have handed in a letter to 10 Downing Street asking the Prime Minister...

The National Residential Landlords Association has hit back at allegations made by Shelter, accusing the charity of sensationalising the way landlords...

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

A survey by the activist group Generation Rent is asking a series of detailed questions of private tenants in the constituency...

A campaign group wants local candidates fighting elections in London next month sign up to a set of policies including rent...