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A council is to spend £10m to buy homes on the open market to house local people - some at risk...

A team of experts will look into the impact ofd Airbnbs and other short lets in a part of the UK...

A comparison website has compiled a list of what it claims to be the most common lies on tenancy applications -...

A Labour MP has told the House of Commons that “families are being turfed out of their private rented homes under...

An unlikely location heads the latest league table purporting to show the highest returns on property investment. Aldermore’s Buy To let City...

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

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

Paragon Bank has revealed the locations where landlords letting to students can achieve the strongest yields - and they are typically...

Landlords are still enjoying substantial capital appreciation - but the latest Zoopla house price index reveals the lowest rate of monthly...

A new survey claims to show the rent differences between furnished and unfurnished homes to let in various cities. For example London...

A Labour MP in the westcountry appears to be winning support for a campaign he has launched called First Homes, Not...

Buy to let landlords are increasingly targeting smaller, secondary towns and cities rather than big urban centres. Data from Paragon Bank shows...

A petition calling on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to increase tax on holiday lettings has neared its 45,000-signature target over the weekend. Former...

A lettings platform specialising in student accommodation has a new way to spot locations with excess supply. UniHomes says Southampton, Portsmouth and...

A PropTech ‘prospector’ tool which analyses Rightmove data from an investor’s perspective has produced a list of the 10 best average yields...

A landlord has opened up to a news website about the difficulties trying to accommodate student tenants during the lockdown.  Elizabeth Hunter is...

A council wants to introduce private rental sector licensing as part of a pledge made back in 2018. Plymouth’s Labour controlled council pledged...

Buy-to-let investments with a tenant already in situ are most in-demand across Glasgow, according to Howsy.  The letting management platform reports that...

A majority of tenants are looking for unfurnished homes, new research shows.  Online property management platform Howsy analysed existing rental property listings...

New data from lettings management platform offers fresh insight into which property types produce the best yields for investors. The study found...

Demand for rental properties and the supply of rental stock have dropped significantly year-on-year across the majority of UK cities and...

A buy-to-let landlord has been sentenced after failing to maintain gas appliances at a rental property he owns in Plymouth.  Plymouth Crown...

The best and worst cities for renters have been identified by taking into account several factors, including the average salary spend...

Rental yields in the private rented sector have dipped marginally since the introduction of the ban on tenant fees in June...

Fresh figures from Howsy has revealed the most in-demand cities to rent property in the United Kingdom, with some surprising findings.  The...

The worst served city for rental stock is Newport in Wales where just 13.5% of properties listed are to rent, according...

The UK Purpose-Built Student Accommodation Sector (PBSA) has grown by a record 5.3% in 2019 which equates to more than 34,000...

A buy-to-let landlord will be sentenced today in Plymouth Crown Court after he admitted to using a secret camera to spy...

The recent conviction of former letting agent Heather Crabb for illegally pocketing £260,000 from renters in Plymouth has contributed significantly to...

Plymouth has been identified as the top location for landlords looking to invest in purpose-built student accommodation in the UK by...

Private tenants who pay their rent on time are set to benefit from better credit scores, after Experian said it was...

Rents in England and Wales increased by 4.45% to an average of £861 in the 12 months to June 2018 but...

When a landlord rented out a property in a quiet residential area in Plymouth Hoe last year, he had little cause...

Police in Plymouth have seized up to £50,000 worth of cannabis in a raid. Officers searched a rented property in Plymouth Hoe,...

A major cannabis farm was discovered over the weekend at a house in Plymouth city centre after two police community support...

PayProp has added its voice to growing calls for rent payments to be added to a tenant’s credit score. The automated rental...

Buy-to-let landlords can still expect to achieve double-digit yields when investing up north, fresh research shows. A new survey by TotallyMoney provides...

It is a statutory duty for letting agents to fully publicise the fees they charge to landlords and tenants, and yet...

Rent payments should be used as part of credit scores to help private renters secure a mortgage to buy a home...

A couple in Plymouth have been scammed out of £1,200 by a fake landlord who copied and pasted pictures and details...

Private tenants who pay their rent on time could soon see their credit rating boosted in order to make it easier...

Property investors looking to invest in the buy-to-let market may wish to consider buying property in Luton, which currently offers the...

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 in Plymouth put the lives of his tenants at risk of a gas explosion after carrying out gas...

A landlord who was jailed earlier this year after being found guilty of cultivating a cannabis crop of £75,000 in two...

In what is a welcome change to the landlord bashing articles often featured in the media, the Daily Mirror and Daily...

A new study which looked at coastal towns across England and Wales has found that Hull offers landlords the highest average rental...

Affordable housing provider Rentplus has secured up to £70 million funding to support the delivery of thousands of new rent-to-buy homes   The...

A landlord has been fined £11,000 after being prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) at Plymouth Magistrates Court following...

The landlord of a property in Plymouth risked the lives of his tenants through a dangerous gas boiler installed in the...

A Plymouth landlord has been fined more than £20,000 after admitting renting out substandard houses to 30 people without obtaining a...

London, Birmingham and Bristol are the top cities where Barclays’ mortgage customers are investing in rental properties, according to research by...

A landlord has been jailed for four years for cultivating cannabis. Sixty-year-old James Sullivan was thought to have been overseeing the cultivation...