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London’s rental market has weakened in recent months according to the fledgling online service Hello Neighbour. Rents are 1% down compared to...

Londoners looking to buy a home can expect to spend 42% more on monthly mortgage payments than tenants pay on rent,...

Two London agents who traded fraudulently through their lettings business and scammed victims out of over £24,000 have been sentenced. After a...

Rents across the UK continue to retreat from their 2023 highs, falling by 2.9 per cent over the last three months,...

A London lettings agency has been ordered to pay over £12,000 in a fine and costs for its part in running...

The agency and landlord responsible for letting a two-bedroom flat in Dagenham have been found guilty in court for providing extremely...

Landlord numbers may have dropped in recent months but a longer term analysis shows the reverse. Total Landlord Insurance analysed the current...

A rental platform has revealed the wide disparity in rents to the north and south of the Thames in London, and...

A rental demand league table produced by a lettings management platform shows the winners and losers across the UK - and...

The private rental sector dedicated to student accommodation in London could see a 24 per cent drop in income in the...

Zoopla has revealed its top 10 hotspots for buy to let investors seeking high rental yields.  The analysis is based on rental returns...

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

An east London lettings agency must pay more than £2,500 after a six-foot-high pile of waste was found fly-tipped on land...

An umbrella organisation representing councils is calling for greater freedom to introduce more and larger rental sector licensing schemes, without the...

A landlord who illegally converted a London home into two flats without planning permission has been given a prison sentence after...

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

The government has agreed that a council in London where all 51 councillors are Labour should go ahead with a five...

A buy to let investor who converted three family homes to HMOs without securing planning permission has been jailed for falsifying...

A flat-share website claims typical rents in some 38 per cent of London are now so high they render the areas...

A letting agent in east London has been fined £4,000 after apparently publishing the incorrect fees that it levies on tenants...

A couple from east London who illegally converted a town centre office block into 14 flats have been ordered to pay...

Figures drawn up for the London region of the GMB union claim that across the capital’s 33 boroughs private rents have...

A London landlord has been ordered to pay over £13,000 for breaching the conditions of his licence as a result of...

Rents in London rose by 0.1 per cent in the 12 months to June - it’s the first annual rental increase...

Three agencies have been heavily fined after a property in London was being used for multiple occupation with 11 people living...

A warning has come from a campaigning letting agent that London’s landlords agents could be costing themselves tenants by requiring them...

Almost 60 per cent of councils across Britain have not prosecuted any landlord for any offence in the past year according...

The average rent of a new letting in the UK grew by 0.24 per cent in the first six months of...

A senior Labour politician in a London borough has branded so-called ‘rip off landlords’ as “the scourge of London.”   Councillor Laila Butt,...

A London council has set up a system to allow council tenants to buy into a shared ownership scheme which it...

Enforcement officers from Barking and Dagenham council, one of the most active in chasing up private rental sector issues, has discovered...