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New Freedom of Information (FOI) data from the Financial Conduct Authority shows that Labour’s plan to introduce a ‘Freedom to Buy’...

A politician is claiming that second home council tax premiums, where owners pay up to double the normal rate, is resulting...

The Renters Reform Bill cannot succeed without proper engagement with letting agents and landlords, Propertymark argues.    According to a Freedom of Information...

Scottish councils must engage with letting agents and landlords if radical rental reforms have any chance of working. Propertymark argues that the...

A group of rental activists claims that police in England are disproportionately using a 19th century law that criminalises rough sleeping...

A lettings agency claims foreign homeowners are sitting on £84.2 billion worth of property across England and Wales - but with...

A senior Savills figure, who chairs the trade body known as The Lettings Industry Council, has issued a warning to the...

Housing is back on the political agenda with a bang. The government’s new Levelling Up White Paper sets out sweeping reforms...

The Welsh Government has revealed that it hasn’t had time to evaluate its tenant fee ban due to the pandemic. Tenant fees...

A bizarre fine imposed on a managing agent by a local authority appears to have been reversed because the council flouted...

A council claims that as many as a fifth of all the private rental sector homes in its area have a...

Research by the National Residential Landlords Association and the Which? consumer body has revealed that some 53 councils in England alone...

Pressure group Generation Rent claims half of London’s councils did not fine any landlords for letting out unsafe homes in the...

It’s been revealed that a clampdown on the buy to let sector by HM Revenue and Customs has produced millions of...

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...

A long-term legal critic of selective licensing is warning that letting agents could be held jointly accountable with the landlords, -...

Research by safeagent - the new name for the National Approved Letting Scheme - has found over 130,000 unlicensed properties in...

Last week’s revelation that approaching 50 per cent of letting agents surveyed in London were in breach of the law is...

Local authorities are failing in their duty to prosecute criminal letting agents, the National Landlords Association (NLA) has warned. The NLA says...

A Freedom of Information request by The Guardian newspaper has produced the startling admission from government that not even one landlord...

Today the long-awaited Homes (Fitness For Human Habitation) Act comes into force, pioneered by Labour MP Karen Buck and giving people...

There is a warning that the HMRC’s Let Property campaign, which received huge publicity and attention for some years, has so...

The Labour party has expressed outrage at the news that London councils are spending over £22m each year renting back homes...

Shock figures released by an insurance company suggest that councils are woefully unable to police new regulations regarding mandatory HMO licensing. Figures...

Two thirds of local authorities in England and Wales brought no prosecutions against private landlords in 2017/18 according to research by the...

Fewer than one per cent of private tenancies end in a dispute over the deposit - and the figure is this...

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

Research by the National Approved Letting Scheme (NALS) has identified that some 93% of local authorities have failed to issue a...

A prominent campaigning letting agent has discovered that more than 6,000 tenants in one region alone have complained to local authorities...

The Residential Landlords Association has repeated its calls for a new housing court “to speed up justice for landlords and tenants.”   The...

A BBC survey claims that powers to combat so-called ‘revenge evictions’ are not being used by the majority of councils in...

Councils in eight of London's 32 boroughs have failed to prosecute even a single landlord for providing unsafe accommodation during the...

With just nine weeks to go before the deadline, only a small proportion of Welsh agents and landlords have registered for...

The details of 12,000 buy to let landlords - posted online by a council following a Freedom of Information request -...

The Residential Landlords’ Association has revealed what it calls “worryingly low levels of enforcement of rented housing regulations” by local authorities. Using...

Liverpool council has completed only 648 of 39,100 licence applications by landlords in the first six months of its controversial scheme.  The...

Nearly 40 per cent of all homes sold under Right To Buy in England have gone on to become buy to...

In the nine months since new Right To Rent immigration checks have been implemented across the West Midlands only seven landlords...