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New figures show the scale of the rental supply slump in recent years. The respected Home website, which produces a monthly lettings...

Lettings agency chain Lomond has revealed a list of what it calls “up and coming rental hotspots” with yields having strengthened...

Fines totalling £108,000 have been issued to letting agents and landlords breaching HMO rules in part of London.  An additional HMO licensing...

Three directors from two letting agencies and a landlord have been fined £27,500 after failing to secure the appropriate license for...

Managing agents in London have been instructed to pay a £15,000 fine for operating a House in Multiple Occupation without the...

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

Six letting agencies across the London borough of Haringey have been fined a total of £12,000 after a council clampdown. Trading Standards...

An extension to a private rental property licensing scheme in London has been given the green light by the government. Haringey council’s...

An activist group in London has launched a scathing attack on councils which it claims have been ineffective in regulating rogue...

Rental demand has started to return to the majority of major UK cities during the second quarter of this year, with...

The Labour-run Haringey council in London says some housing conditions in the private rental sector lead to anti-social behaviour. Letting Agent Today...

A quarterly index suggests that there’s been a sharp uplift in tenant demand for rental properties across the UK’s major cities...

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

Deposits have risen as much as 24 per cent in the past year in some parts of the UK - according...

A lettings agency and its director have pleaded guilty to renting out an overcrowded house in the first case brought to...

The safeagent accreditation business says it has helped secure the conviction of a rogue lettings agent who falsely claimed membership of...

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

Campaigning charity Shelter claims 135,000 children in Britain are homeless and living in temporary accommodation this Christmas - the highest number...

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

Haringey council is the latest local authority in the capital to create a borough-wide additional licensing scheme for HMOs. It claims the...

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

Canterbury is the latest council to consider setting up its own letting agency. The authority hopes to tempt private landlords with promises...

A gunman who described himself as a would-be tenant has been jailed after two “terrifying” robberies on letting agencies.  The Enfield Independent...

It’s several weeks on from our story about a local authority setting up its own private letting agency and having only...

An investigation by the BBC has exposed that a London council's new private lettings agency - scheduled to cost well over...

Haringey Council in North London is the latest local authority to launch its own letting agency for private tenants. Move 51⁰ North...

A rogue landlord who illegally converted one house into a nine flats has been handed a maximum £20,000 fine after being...

The publication Environmental Health News has secured the release of files showing the details of hundreds of convicted private landlords in...

A property consultancy specialising in licensing regimes for privately-let properties says there have been 580 housing prosecutions in London under the...