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Asking rents continue to show posi­tive growth in all regions except Greater London, the UK’s largest rental market, where they continue...

A new Build To Rent scheme launches in Manchester this summer with the first residents moving in during June. The Castings is...

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

The UK Apartment Association - a Build To Rent trade body - has given details of an expo it’s hosting in...

The lettings agency Winkworth has taken the unusual step of criticising policies of a series of councils. The councils are all Labour...

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

Landlords of more than 5,000 homes must register for a license and ensure their tenants have good quality housing or face...

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

It’s being billed as the Build To Rent sector’s biggest ever exp and now the trade body behind it has given...

Households living in rental properties across the North of England face the biggest financial headache from soaring fuel price rises, according...

London-focussed lettings agency Benham and Reeves says renters who secured bargain properties during the pandemic now face huge rent rises when...

Rental growth continues to roar ahead across prime areas of London, according to Savills. Prime London rental values increased a further 3.3...

The London rental market stock surplus spurred by pandemic uncertainty has started to subside, with prime boroughs seeing some of the...

Bristol council has approved plans to introduce licensing in more parts of the city. Additional Licensing and Selective Licensing schemes will be...

The London agency Bective says the prime areas of the capital have enjoyed an eight per cent uplift in rental values...

A London property managing agent has been ordered to pay more than £80,000 for safety failings which “exposed a potentially large...

The Generation Rent campaign group and Labour are again uniting to argue in favour of rent controls in London. Just last week...

A Labour council in London is taking the unusual measure of threatening landlords with community protection notices - associated with anti-social...

Fresh data from Knight Frank shows how uncertainty continues to dog the lettings market in some parts of central London. There appears...

A London council describes two new licensing schemes as ‘making renting fairer’ - even though they are launched during the pandemic. Islington’s Labour...

Three lettings agents who kept tenants’ rent instead of passing it to the landlords have been ordered to pay almost £100,000...

A rental demand league table produced by a lettings management platform shows the winners and losers across the UK - and...

A private rental licensing consultancy has spotted that an additional licensing scheme run by a London borough council has now lapsed...

High-end London agency chain Chestertons has snapped up an independent lettings agency in the east of the capital. Morgan Randall operated across Canary...

Government advice to local authorities to sit tight with new licensing proposals during the Coronavirus pandemic appears to have been ignored...

Winkworth says its London offices are reporting significant numbers of landlords who used to advertise on Airbnb and similar short-let platforms...

A Labour councillor on Islington council - which is controlled by the party and has Jeremy Corbyn as a local member...

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

A London council has successfully prosecuted a so-called “dodgy operator” landlord for failing to comply with fire safety regulations and carry...

A rental campaigner claims the amount of money stolen this year by crooked lettings agents and landlords has topped the £1.3m...

Three letting agents who failed to return tenants’ deposits or pass on rent payments to landlords have been convicted of fraud...

A rental management firm has launched a new home-sharing platform which it says is aimed at everyone wanting a place to...

Two private landlords have been found guilty of managing Houses in Multiple Occupation with dangerous and sub-standard conditions, following a successful...

Trading Standards departments in London are asking renters to name and shame letting agents who are not complying with the law...

The local authority in Islington, north London, is attempting to close what it calls a loophole concerning private rental property and...

This month’s prosecution of a letting agency for issuing ‘sham licences’ that suggested occupiers had no right to challenge eviction and...

It hasn’t been a happy Christmas for one London landlord, who has been told to repay £40,000 in rent received in...

A landlord’s company has been left with a bill of over £14,000 for letting unlicensed flats in north London.   Appearing at Highbury...

A BBC investigation claims that people living in the private rental sector spend more than a third of their disposable income...

Hamptons International and Day Morris have been appointed as joint lettings agents for London’s first bespoke Build To Rent scheme.   Vantage Point...

A London council has prosecuted a letting agency that was ’ghost listing’ on Zoopla flats that were not in fact available...

A letting agent and four landlords face bills totalling more than £20,000 after being prosecuted by Islington Council for operating unlicensed...

Two buy to let investors who breached planning regulations by converting a house into seven studio flats have been ordered to...

A typical tenant in a two-bed property in England will have paid over £40,000 in rent in the past five years...

A landlord has a bill of more than £85,000 for unlawfully letting a basement flat. As part of a council planning enforcement...

A landlord has been ordered to pay more than £7,000 after failing to licence a house in multiple occupation in the...

A letting agency has won a management deal for new-build homes which a landlord can buy with a choice of size,...