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The government’s failure to act on the Regulation of Property Agents (RoPA) working party - chaired by Lord Richard Best and...

New research shows there are 36,210 long-term vacant homes across London - that’s around one in every 100 properties. The borough in...

Reapit has inked a deal with fast-expanding PropTech service Kamma to automate information about private rental sector council licensing. This year is...

Professional cleaning firm Prompt Cleaners has created a league table of regions and local authorities where renting is cheapest and dearest. The...

PropTech Kamma has entered into a partnership with agency and consultancy JLL. This means JLL’s UK residential agents will have access to...

After announcing a new license in Southwark and Camberwell earlier this month Fine & Country is now expanding further in London...

Fine & Country is expanding its brand in London. An existing agency serving Southwark, Peckham Rye, and Camberwell is to take on...

Households living in rental properties across the North of England face the biggest financial headache from soaring fuel price rises, according...

PropTech firm Kamma says total fines for agents and landlords have now topped £8m in London alone with a £238,000 increase...

Labour’s Sadiq Khan wants an increase in Capital Gains Tax for some buy to let investors. The London Mayor made his response...

The largest operator in London for the niche co-living sector has doubled the size of its portfolio in the east of...

Build To Rent operator Avanton has pledged to build hundreds of new homes in two London hotspots under its A:Living brand. They...

A London-focussed lettings agency group has paid £2,000 as a result of breaching the Tenant Fees Act. The issue relates to the...

Council-imposed fines on letting agents and landlords that fall foul of licensing regulations have risen dramatically in the past month alone. Research...

At least one lettings agency is on a list of targets for socially-distanced protests tomorrow by anti-eviction campaigners in the left...

A London council has embarked on consultation over two new private rental licensing schemes - and says they are needed as...

New research by lettings management platform Howsy shows which major London commuter hubs make the most attractive potential for buy to...

Rental demand has dropped significantly across London and other major UK cities as a result of the pandemic. When comparing current levels...

A leading lettings sector trade body says evidence shows the direct payment of benefit to landlords is the biggest possible contribution...

Greater London rents have risen an average of four per cent in the past year - but some boroughs performing above-average...

Rents in London are rocketing but a leading market commentator says this is no reason to give in to a “Marxist dystopia”...

A London council’s action against a property agent it has accused of “repeated negligence” has resulted in £37,000 of fines and...

New research shows that some buy to let investors in London could typically lose over £19,000 a year if Berlin-style rent...

A London council has won one of the largest-ever Proceeds of Crime claims from an unscrupulous buy to let investor. Andre Charles Trepel,...

A buy to let investor has been landed with a fine and costs of over £20,000 because he failed to apply...

Just when you thought there could not be any more rival licensing or accreditation systems in the private rental sector, a...

Three brothers and a property management company have received fines and a confiscation order, and must pay costs, following what a...

A property managing agent has been ordered to pay £40,000 following the death of a woman at a fire at a...

The owner of a property firm who reportedly misled tenants and let an illegally converted property has been jailed for 155...

PropTech firm PayProp has welcomed the latest measures to clamp down on rogue elements within the lettings industry - but warns...

Southwark council in south London is sending leaflets to all its leaseholders to warn them that letting out homes on any...

A management firm and corporate landlord have been hit with a £250,000 fine after a “potentially lethal” flat blaze in London -...

A north London landlord who housed a family of five, including three children, in a cramped attic has been prosecuted by...

Letting agents who have broken the law are set to be ‘named and shamed’ by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan,...

A BBC investigation claims that people living in the private rental sector spend more than a third of their disposable income...

A man who posed as a letting agent to swindle landlords and tenants has been jailed for just over two years.   Legal...

A council has set up an anti-fraud tool to prevent social housing being illegally sub-let under the pretence of being private...

Three multi-million pound deals will provide over 1,000 new homes specifically for private rent in London, under the government’s Build To...

A property consultancy specialising in licensing regimes for privately-let properties says there have been 580 housing prosecutions in London under the...