Landlord provides accommodation for homeless this Christmas
Five homeless people will have a roof over their heads this Christmas, thanks to a kind-hearted Liverpool landlord, Mike Georgeson. OurHouseOurPeople is a community interest company set [...]
Rent controls would hurt both tenants and landlords, warns RLA
The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has warned that growing speculation the mayor of London Sadiq Khan is considering introducing rent controls across the capital risks hurting tenants [...]
Government urged to rethink rent protection scheme
The government’s existing strategy to protect rent paid by tenants to letting agents will fail to provide adequate protection for landlords, according to the Residential Landlords Association [...]
Are tenants simply paying their landlord’s mortgage?
The latest research from the National Landlords Association has revealed that 79% of landlords are only servicing the interest on their mortgages, not paying down their loans, [...]
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 illegal boxroom empire. Vispasp Sarkari, 56, converted properties without planning permission into cramped and [...]
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 to process the Government's controversial mandatory HMO licensing scheme, This is Money can reveal. [...]