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Aldermore has cut rates across its buy to let and residential owner occupier mortgages - the latest in a series of...

The latest lettings market snapshot by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors contains a raft of worried statements from agents. A large...

Propertymark has struck a lukewarm tone in its response to Labour’s housing ambitions. The trade body says that to meet its manifesto...

Angela Rayner has been appointed Levelling Up Secretary with responsibility for housing - a role she has in addition to being...

The housing market has suddenly become a major part of the General Election campaign as a result of a challenge thrown...

The all-party House of Lords Industry and Regulators Committee has urged the government to get on with establishing a regulator of...

Two of Martin & Co’s Oxfordshire branches are under new ownership. David Rebe has taken on the Oxford and Thame branches from...

Owners of vacant properties are being offered an improved incentive to bring their house back into use. Plymouth council is re-launching its...

Aldermore has named Bristol, as the best city for landlords to invest in for 2024.  Manchester, Coventry, Brighton and London make up...

Propertymark has responded to an HM Treasury consultation on anti-money laundering processes - and in doing so it’s slammed “heavy handed...

Corrupt elites and criminal gangs who abuse the property and financial sectors will be identified and stripped of their cash, the...

The Tenancy Deposit Scheme has announced its integration with lettings software provider Proman Technology Solutions to automate deposit registrations.  The integration is available...

Over half of all fraudulent tenancy applications involve fake or doctored pay slips, a PropTech firm claims. Goodlord analysed a sample size...

A lettings company called Trophy Homes Limited, based in Liverpool, has pleaded guilty to failing to apply for an HMO licence...

Another political party is calling for a winter eviction ban as the first part of a reform programme for the private...

A PropTech platform that boasts 200 letting agents and landlords amongst its current clientele has won over £500,000 in additional funding...

The owners of Martin & Co’s Aldershot branch have grown their managed portfolio by more than a fifth after acquiring local...

A property management company has been fined for failing to repair an open sewer in the garden of a rental property. SRA...

A new Buy To Let ‘tracker’ from a prominent buy to let mortgage lender has revealed what it considers to be...

ARLA Propertymark has listed tell tale signs which letting agents should look for to spot incidents of modern day slavery. It says...

Landlords and managing agents of HMOs could face unlimited fines following new measures being brought in to strengthen fire safety, the...

Two landlords in the same town - one the director of a lettings firm - have been prosecuted as their properties...

Wakefield Trinity rugby league club has announced that local lettings agency Cooper & Cutt has renewed its sponsorship with the club,...

The group human resources director of the Leaders Romans Group wants the agency industry to improve its reputation by embracing more...

Nearly half of prospective home buyers have delayed their plans because of the Coronavirus crisis, a mortgage company says. Research by Aldermore...

A group of local landlords and others in the private rental sector are challenging a local authority’s licensing proposals with their...

The West Midlands Police force says it’s secured what it calls a “landmark court order” against a rogue landlord who turned...

The leaseholder of a council property in central London has been found guilty of advertising it on Airbnb and the Booking.com...

The owner of a house believed to be occupied by multiple tenants has been prosecuted by a Kent council for failing...

Despite criticism from some within the industry about the effects of short lets, the high-end agency Knight Frank has spoken of...

The latest report for the rental sector by the TDS Charitable Foundation calls for greater cooperation between property professionals and tenants...

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

Three London lettings sub-markets performed relatively weakly according to data just released by Knight Frank. Wimbledon’s rental values fell 1.5 per cent...

A new analysis reveals that it takes an average of 118 days for court-appointed bailiffs to remove tenants from private homes...

The Property Ombudsman has released details of two letting agencies expelled over financial issues, and the extension of an expulsion period...

The Oxford franchisee of Martin & Co has acquired the nearby Kidlington office of independent local agency Oliver James. This takes the number...

A landlord has set up a company to handle the ownership and management of buy to let properties - and the...

The Residential Landlords’ Association has written to an immigration minister to express its concern over possible ‘further sanctions’ for landlords who...

The campaign against the phased reduction in landlords' mortgage interest tax relief is continuing with the opening of a new website,...

Four in 10 people who rent a home expect still to be renting a property for up to a decade, according...

A new app created in partnership with a homelessness charity aims to give independent agencies the ability to push properties direct...

Some of the property professionals behind the campaign against the changes to buy to let landlords’ taxation have compiled a comprehensive...

The landlords behind the failed attempt to seek a Judicial Review of legislation reducing the mortgage interest tax relief for landlords...

The attempt to seek a Judicial Review of legislation reducing the mortgage interest tax relief for landlords has failed. The case was...

Legal represenatives for two landlords will today make the case for a judicial review of Section 24 of the Finance (No.2)...

The case made by two landlords to have a judicial review of section 24 of the 2015 Finance Act - triggering...

A letting agency has been fined after one of its landlords was found to be cramming six families into an unlicensed...

The date for the court hearing to decide whether there should be a judicial review of the buy to let tax...

Housing minister Gavin Barwell has agreed to meet campaigners opposed to the clampdown on landlords’ mortgage interest tax relief. The measure -...

The people behind the bid for a judicial review into Clause 24 of the Finance Act 2015 - limiting mortgage interest tax...

The landlords campaigning for a judicial review of the legislation curtailing mortgage interest tax relief for buy to let landlords have...

There appears no change in government policy on changing buy to let tax breaks - at least not yet - despite...

The line-up has been revealed for the so-called "Tenants’ Tax Summit” this week - the campaign rally for supporters of a...

More details have emerged of the campaign rally to be held next month in support of the bid for a judicial...

The two landlords campaigning to win a judicial review of George Osborne’s restrictions on buy to let mortgage tax relief have...

Another £50,000 has already been raised through crowd-funding to help meet the costs of mounting a legal challenge to George Osborne’s...

The two landlords hoping to secure a judicial review of the legislation restricting mortgage interest tax relief on buy to let...

The two landlords spearheading a campaign to challenge the change to buy to let mortgage interest tax relief have launched another...

The people behind the campaign to seek a judicial review of the buy to let tax changes proposed by Chancellor George...

The two landlords behind the bid to seek a judicial review of George Osborne’s buy to let mortgage interest relief tax...

HM Revenue & Customs and the Treasury have at last responded to the legal team representing two landlords challenging beleaguered Chancellor...

The attempt to see judicial review of George Osborne’s buy to let tax change continues apace, with the government now having...

The latest step in the legal challenge to Chancellor George Osborne’s proposal to limit landlords’ mortgage interest tax relief comes in...

The two landlords mounting a legal challenge to the mortgage interest tax changes proposed by Chancellor George Osborne have released a...

A letting agency that has been the subject of a BBC investigation and has gone into liquidation in controversial circumstances has...

The two buy to let investors behind a campaign to seek a judicial review of George Osborne’s controversial mortgage interest tax...

The two landlords behind the possible legal challenge to George Osborne’s buy to let tax changes are appealling for “experts, mentors...

A legal opinion is expected in the next few days as the legal challenge to George Osborne’s buy to let tax...

The latest £50,000 target to fund a legal challenge to Chancellor George Osborne’s proposed tax changes for buy to let landlords...

Letting Agent Today last week reported on Lancaster Property Network Management when it went into voluntary liquidation - now the agency...

The manager of a Lancaster letting agency dealing chiefly with students says he will co-operate with any police investigation into his...

A landlord who did not have the required licence for the number of tenants living in his property, and who also...

This publication recently reported on Russell Quirk's latest attempt to upset the establishment, this time by attacking the hallowed ground of...