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Generation Rent and the Citizens Advice Bureau are offering up to £500 in incentives for renters to complete a questionnaire. Social media...

A move by one London council to refer itself to the Regulator of Social Housing should be seen as a 'national...

An investigation by Sky News and a housing campaigner have revealed that there are some 33,993 vacant council properties in England...

Seventeen London boroughs wasted over £2m in the last five years fighting rejected planning applications that were subsequently approved on appeal,...

The hardline activist group Acorn - part of the Renters Reform Coalition involving Generation Rent - now claims that some 600,000...

Southwark’s Labour council has won the backing of Housing Secretary Michael Gove for one of the largest private landlord licensing schemes...

When choosing a buy-to-let property, there are many elements that need to be balanced in order to get the biggest return...

A landlord has admitted breaching planning rules at two properties in south London. He submitted a guilty plea in response to Southwark...

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

A rogue landlord prosecuted for illegally squashing seven flats into a development with planning permission for six must pay around £250,000.  In...

The Health and Safety Executive is urging landlords to check the credentials of gas fitters following a case heard recently in...

A London council has prosecuted a builder - Valeriu Sandu, of Valmic Properties Limited - for lying about fitting sufficiently fireproof...

Research by rental portal Rentd suggests improved London yields this year after being in the doldrums during the pandemic. Rentd analysed the...

A non-profit organisation called Justice For Tenants has spearheaded a campaign which has ultimately led to a Rent Repayment Order being...

Covid-19 has undoubtedly shifted the way new landlords will be looking to invest in 2022, and our ranking makes it clear...

A Labour council in London has announced plans to expand its crackdown on what it calls “shoddy landlords.” Southwark council says the...

Fines on landlords and letting agents that fall foul of London council regulations have risen dramatically in the past month alone. Research...

A lettings sector trade body is blasting local authorities for their poor record on trying to eliminate rogue landlords. The National Residential...

A government housing minister has confirmed to the House of Lords that a new tax regime for Airbnb hosts and holiday...

Landlords wanting to break into London buy to let have been provided with a guide to boroughs with the most discounted...

There are just three weeks left for landlords to respond to one of the largest consultations undertaken by a council in...

A former tenant who tried two frame his landlord’s partner as being involved in the Westminster terrorist attack has been convicted...

Rental affordability in the capital has improved markedly during the pandemic according to London lettings agency Benham and Reeves.  The firm analysed...

The Momentum movement on the left wing of the Labour Party is staging a series of protests this weekend targeting landlords...

A property development firm says it’s to spend up to £500m in land acquisitions over the next three years, as part...

The House of Lords has narrowly voted for a low-key motion expressing regret that the current eviction ban measures do not offer more...

It appears that a London borough council’s two licensing schemes have expired at the turn of the year, with no alternative...

A London landlord must pay over £280,000 in three months after housing eight people in a flat deems illegal for even...

A London council is writing to thousands of private landlords in its borough urging them not to evict people. Southwark council says this...

A lettings market monitor says the Greater London rental sector has in recent months switched from one of scarcity of properties...

Buy-to-let landlords face having to reduce rents by at least 5% over the next five years as a growing number of...

Southwark Council has given the go-ahead for the introduction of a new licensing scheme which could see landlords across the borough...

Despite the slowdown in the UK housing market in recent years, caused in part by the Brexit vote which fuelled uncertainty...

With new research showing that direct payment of benefits to landlords contributed most to reductions in rent arrears, the Residential Landlords...

Germany’s rent controls place strong restrictions on in-tenancy rent increases, while the ‘rent brake’ introduced a couple of year ago makes...

Property search data from Zoopla over the past 12 months has been analysed to reveal the most sought-after areas for a...

A growing number of young professionals and students are choosing to house share, driving up the average cost of renting room...

As an income investment, buy-to-let continues to look attractive, especially compared to low savings rates and stock market swings, but when...

There are growing signs of confidence returning to the London market, with a resurgence in house prices being anticipated owed in...

Criminal landlords across London will be named and shamed on an online database after all London boroughs signed up to a rogue...

While rental growth may have slowed in London over recent months, the appetite to invest in HMO properties across the capital...

Buy-to-let landlords looking for an impressive return on investment in the capital through Airbnb stays should look to invest in East...

The mayor of London Sadiq Khan yesterday launched a new public online database which ‘names and shames’ dodgy landlords and letting...

A landlord who failed to provide his tenants with adequate living conditions has been sent to jail. Majid Saniinejad, of Stoke Newington,...

A furious tenant who sprayed offensive comments, such as ‘racist’, ‘Arab’ and ‘no means no’, across her landlord’s car after she...

Southwark council in south London is warning local leaseholders to refrain from renting out properties via short term holiday rental sites,...

The mayor of London Sadiq Khan has vowed to crackdown on criminal landlords by ensuring that they are ‘named and shamed’...

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

Following the events of 2016, it’s easy to see why experts across the country are torn when it comes to the...

A fraudster who posed as a letting agent with the sole intention of stealing from landlords and tenants has been jailed...

LendInvest’s latest Buy-to-Let Index has revealed that you will stand to profit most from buy-to-let in London than anywhere else in...

The new mayor of London Sadiq Khan has pledged to do all in his power to help make London “better” after...

London’s biggest social landlord, Southwark Council, has launched a new anti-fraud tool to prevent illegal subletting.   The new website (www.ilatch.co.uk) will help...

Q: What does it say on your business card?  Director of Operations – South Q: Who are Orchard and Shipman?  Orchard and Shipman is...

Local councils are offering landlords cash payments of up to £4,000 to accommodate homeless families as a shortage of social housing...