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Labour MP Matthew Pennycook has been named as the principal housing minister in the new government. He was shadow housing minister when...

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

A survey of local council private rental licensing schemes says 19 selective and additional licensing schemes and consultations will be taking...

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

A new office in the London suburb of North Acton has been announced by the LIFE Residential agency. The firm already has...

An analysis of lettings data across England and Wales shows that  there have been 3,737 rental property repossession orders granted in...

The number of HMOs in England has fallen as a result of government intervention in the market. In 2018 new regulations were...

Two more London boroughs are consulting about licensing schemes which will require landlords or their agents to pay hundreds of pounds...

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

London’s rental market gathered momentum in June as tenants anticipated a return to the office with 24 per cent more tenancies...

London lettings agency Benham and Reeves has drawn up a league table of which boroughs in the capital have had their...

A £5,000 fine has been handed to five landlords in London for failing to license HMOs.  One of the properties, a four-bedroom HMO in...

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

Greenwich council in London has resuscitated a proposal to extend its existing selective licensing regime, put on ice during the Coronavirus...

Four buy to let investors have each been fined £10,000 for letting out unlicensed HMOs. The unlicensed properties , all in the...

Several local authorities at different stages of implementing rental licensing schemes have put their proposals on ice until the Coronavirus crisis...

A rental management platform has compiled a league table of where tenant demand is strongest for homes to let - and...

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

The GMB trades union has waded in to the debate over whether rents in the private rental sector in London are...

A new Build To Rent scheme being launched shortly in Greenwich offers tenants an on-site concierge-style ‘host’, a lounger, co-working space...

A London council is inviting letting agents in its boundaries to a briefing session tomorrow morning ahead of the introducing of an...

Greenwich is the latest council to make it compulsory for planning consent to be given before converting homes into Houses in...

Greenwich is licensing all Houses in Multiple Occupation from October 1 - just the latest London council to tighten its private...

Greenwich council in London is the latest to announce an extension to its HMO licensing policy. The council is already legally obliged...

A Prohibition Order has been served on the owner of a flat being let to an elderly couple - one of...

One of Britain’s burgeoning group of Build To Rent operators has struck a deal for 249 of its new homes to...

A letting agent and his landlord client have been fined thousands of pounds for a number of offences relating to what...