Draconian tax changes will force landlords to ‘evict tenants’ or ‘increase their rents’
Draconian tax changes applying to buy-to-let investors will leave many private landlords with [...]
Landlord provides accommodation for homeless this Christmas
Five homeless people will have a roof over their heads this Christmas, thanks [...]
Rent controls would hurt both tenants and landlords, warns RLA
The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has warned that growing speculation the mayor of [...]
Government urged to rethink rent protection scheme
The government’s existing strategy to protect rent paid by tenants to letting agents [...]
Are tenants simply paying their landlord’s mortgage?
The latest research from the National Landlords Association has revealed that 79% of [...]
Rogue landlord fined £1,500,000 for converting houses into illegal tiny flats
A rogue landlord has been fined a record-breaking £1.5 million for building an [...]
Government crackdown falls flat on its face as councils fail to cope with new licensing rules
Local authorities are failing to cope with the volume of additional work needed [...]
Rental deposits to be capped at five weeks rent
The tenancy security deposits that tenants leave with landlords or their letting agents [...]
Residential demand down and landlords leave: Propertymark
NAEA and Arla Propertymark have released their respective yearly overviews, revealing that in [...]
University cities offer the best return for BTL investing
University cities continue to offer some of the highest buy-to-let yields for landlords, [...]
Interior design is a question of taste for tenants — rather than landlords
The accidental landlord has given up trying to guess what style of furnishings [...]
Cross-party calls for rogue landlords to lose properties
MPs have called on the government to confiscate properties from the country’s worst [...]
Research reveals worrying lack of landlord awareness
The private rented sector is a challenging landscape to negotiate, with tax changes [...]
Rogue landlords: 90% of local authorities fail to issue fines
FoI responses from 293 English councils reveal string of weaknesses in private rented [...]
When is a landlord not a landlord?
You would think that by now there would be a clear and simple [...]
Landlords wrongly refusing tenant requests to switch energy
More than three-quarters of a million tenants may be wrongly denied the right [...]
Landlords and tenants will be relied upon to help enforce letting fees ban
Trading standards will almost certainly need help from consumers to help police the [...]
Should I use a letting agent?
Letting agents – some landlords avoid them, some couldn’t do their job without [...]
£450,000: is this a record penalty for a buy to let landlord?
We regularly carry stories about fines for landlords and letting agents who have [...]
Landlords have to wait five months to get possession of a property
Private landlords have to wait an average of over five months to regain [...]