Robert Jenrick, who was appointed Housing Secretary by Robert Jenrick in 2019, is to run for Tory party leader. During his time...
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A wealthy landlord who set up a fake lettings agency in Hull has been jailed for 11 years for allowing ‘ghost tenants’ to...
07 February 2024
From: Breaking News
Newspaper report claims some 710 properties have been put into the private rental market by the government - and they are...
03 January 2024
From: Breaking News
A thieving lettings agent stole over £128,000 which should have gone to landlord clients - and with it she funded an...
07 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Speculation in national newspapers suggests that the government is considering giving local mayors some powers over parts of the private rented...
28 June 2022
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What looks suspiciously like a government leak to the Daily Mail says the long-awaited Rental Reform White Paper will be unveiled...
15 June 2022
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The House of Lords will today discuss the apparently-growing Sex for Rent scandal. Campaigners say a search on websites such as Craigslist...
22 November 2021
From: Breaking News
It’s been reported that the Lloyds Banking Group is set to buy its first property as it seeks to become a...
21 June 2021
From: Breaking News
The Daily Mail says it has informed Trading Standards of a lettings agent which is claims is “illegally working” despite not...
17 February 2021
From: Breaking News
A fake lettings agent has been caught trying to cheat prospective tenants out of £1,500 which she claimed was a deposit...
26 October 2020
From: Breaking News
The director of renters’ campaign group Generation Rent says the long-running scandal of a planning decision made by the Housing Secretary...
22 June 2020
From: Breaking News
The government’s hugely-publicised database for rogue letting agents and landlords has been running for almost two years and has…wait for it…just...
07 February 2020
From: Breaking News
As the row over Labour’s proposal rumbles on the think tank Centre for Policy Studies - which has previously argued that...
05 September 2019
From: Breaking News
With the country in febrile election mode, it’s perhaps unsurprising that the Association of Residential Letting Agents has got in on...
30 August 2019
From: Breaking News
Who are you and what does it say on your business card? That depends on which business card. One says ‘Properganda PR,...
01 July 2019
From: 60 Second Interview
A dispute concerning a ‘no deposit option’ put forward by a letting agency has reached the Daily Mail. The newspaper’s online service...
12 April 2019
From: Breaking News
The Daily Mail has reported on a massive buy to let fiddle which involved a £10.8m property empire, rents totalling £500,000...
08 January 2019
From: Breaking News
The Daily Mail has unveiled an extensive network of homes advertised on Airbnb but actually being sub-let by tenants who are...
03 January 2019
From: Breaking News
A landlord has set up a company to handle the ownership and management of buy to let properties - and the...
02 May 2017
From: Breaking News
David Miles, a former Bank of England economist, has described the government’s mortgage interest tax relief reform as “terrible” - but...
06 February 2017
From: Breaking News
Deutsche Bank has issued a dire warning about the buy to let market in the UK, along with a broadside warning...
20 June 2016
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More criticism of Chancellor George Osborne’s raft of buy to let reforms has appeared in the mainstream media, with much emphasis...
01 April 2016
From: Breaking News
A columnist on FT Adviser - an online service for financial advisers and clients - says buy to let investors have...
09 October 2015
From: Breaking News
It’s been revealed that Airbnb - the online informal lettings service which can be used to by-pass letting agents - passes details...
12 August 2015
From: Breaking News
It appears that the former presenters of BBC consumer programme Watchdog are amongst those participating in a class action against Foxtons...
15 June 2015
From: Breaking News
Foxtons could be facing a hefty legal bill after charging a landlord over £600 to change a light fitting. In 2013 London...