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02 September 2024
From: Breaking News
A Labour council in London is seeking much greater control over the creation of so-called ‘small HMOs’. Lambeth council wants anyone creating a...
21 August 2024
From: Breaking News
Spicerhaart has inked a deal to use Rex Software for its lettings and property management activities from early 2025. The agency chain...
26 June 2024
From: Breaking News
NatWest Group has announced a new package of what it calls ”targeted lending and support” to help local councils provide more...
27 March 2024
From: Breaking News
A survey of local council private rental licensing schemes says 19 selective and additional licensing schemes and consultations will be taking...
09 February 2024
From: Breaking News
New research shows there are 36,210 long-term vacant homes across London - that’s around one in every 100 properties. The borough in...
26 January 2024
From: Breaking News
A Labour-run London council is consulting on a new licensing scheme for private rented property. If it goes ahead it will be...
12 December 2023
From: Breaking News
A lettings agency claims foreign homeowners are sitting on £84.2 billion worth of property across England and Wales - but with...
14 July 2023
From: Breaking News
Lettings agency Hamptons, now part of Connells, has hired a former Strictly Come Dancing and Countryfile star to front a property...
25 April 2023
From: Breaking News
A London borough has been identified as having 42 per cent rental inflation in the past year. Lambeth in the south of...
16 December 2022
From: Breaking News
Propertymark’s chief executive Nathan Emerson has welcomed the dramatic government U-turn on taxes - but most importantly has retained the stamp...
18 October 2022
From: Breaking News
The number of HMOs in England has fallen as a result of government intervention in the market. In 2018 new regulations were...
13 May 2022
From: Breaking News
A lettings agency is in hot water with advertising regulators for using the phrase “What the flock are you looking at?”...
27 April 2022
From: Breaking News
Rental portal Rentd says the pandemic-long decline in the London rental market is now “reversing at speed”. Rental values are climbing annually...
18 March 2022
From: Breaking News
A rental platform has revealed the wide disparity in rents to the north and south of the Thames in London, and...
16 February 2022
From: Breaking News
Midlands estate agency Webb’s is expanding its operations after opening a new office in Lichfield city centre. The agency already has offices in Cannock,...
21 July 2021
From: Breaking News
Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Jack Reid Founding Director of Orlando Reid In your experience,...
12 May 2021
From: 60 Second Interview
At least one lettings agency is on a list of targets for socially-distanced protests tomorrow by anti-eviction campaigners in the left...
09 April 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
Letting agents should help landlords through a blizzard of red tape and regulation cause by local licensing schemes, a PropTech entrepreneur...
10 February 2021
From: Breaking News
Lambeth council is consulting agents, landlords and others on its latest licensing proposals for Houses in Multiple Occupation. The new proposals would...
19 January 2021
From: Breaking News
With the Government announcement this week of another national lockdown across England amid the surging coronavirus infections, it once again puts...
08 January 2021
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London lettings agency Benham and Reeves has drawn up a league table of which boroughs in the capital have had their...
17 November 2020
From: Breaking News
It’s been an unexpected year for the property market, shaped by the effects of the pandemic. We didn’t quite anticipate the...
27 October 2020
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New research by lettings management platform Howsy shows which major London commuter hubs make the most attractive potential for buy to...
14 August 2020
From: Breaking News
A Derbyshire estate agent has escaped a driving ban after being found smoking cannabis in a car. Annabelle Lamb was spotted with...
13 August 2020
From: Breaking News
The market for successful lettings businesses is still strong according to one of the country’s leading business transfer agents. Adam J Walker...
28 May 2020
From: Breaking News
The commercial arm of Countrywide is urging landlords currently facing huge void periods because students have been ordered home, to reconfigure...
07 April 2020
From: Breaking News
The typical landlord’s income from property has plummeted by a fifth in under a decade according to the National Landlords’ Association. Its...
19 February 2020
From: Breaking News
A London Labour council wants to introduce rent controls to its borough. The South London Press reports that Lambeth councillors have voted through...
06 February 2020
From: Breaking News
London’s Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has returned to his campaign to win powers which would allow him to impose rent controls. Khan...
08 November 2019
From: Breaking News
One of the industry’s leading trade groups has repeated a warning to the Conservatives that they cannot rely on the votes...
01 November 2019
From: Breaking News
If you want to know why inventories are vital for agents and landlords, look no further than the high-profile dispute over...
17 October 2019
From: Breaking News
Claims that the use of Section 21 ‘no fault’ eviction notices is the leading cause of homelessness in the UK are...
16 August 2019
From: Breaking News
A lettings group says the high-profile struggle performers at the Edinburgh Fringe now face to find affordable short-term accommodation was entirely...
08 August 2019
From: Breaking News
Deposit alternative service Zero Deposit has become the “exclusive deposit replacement partner” of the National Landlord Association - less than two...
01 August 2019
From: Breaking News
There’s a warning this morning that the root-and-branch reform of the agency industry recommended by a government-backed working party will be...
19 July 2019
From: Breaking News
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has been told by a lettings industry body that he’ll lose votes if he introduces rent controls...
19 July 2019
From: Breaking News
Tenants on state benefits could be the 'biggest casualties' of the government's 'ill-thought-out' plans to scrap the Section 21 evictions process,...
05 July 2019
From: Breaking News
Local authorities are failing in their duty to prosecute criminal letting agents, the National Landlords Association (NLA) has warned. The NLA says...
04 July 2019
From: Breaking News
The government has been told it needs to provide tenants with better information about their rights and responsibilities if it’s to...
24 June 2019
From: Breaking News
The National Landlords Association says it’s concerned the Fees Ban coming into effect in just two days’ time may limit access...
30 May 2019
From: Breaking News
Only one in six private landlords say they would support the Conservatives in an election according to a new poll. Buy to...
20 May 2019
From: Breaking News
Prospective tenants are being warned about a fraud scam that cons people into paying an advance fee to rent a property. The...
04 April 2019
From: Breaking News
Income tax paid by buy to let landlords now exceeds £3.8 billion annually – that’s more than double Tesco’s entire annual...
12 March 2019
From: Breaking News
Some 24 per cent of landlords have considered letting out their properties on a short let Airbnb-style basis - but only...
22 February 2019
From: Breaking News
Some 79 per cent of landlords are only servicing the interest on their mortgages, not paying down their loans, according to...
10 December 2018
From: Breaking News
Plans have been unveiled for a 23-storey development comprising 307 Build To Rent units, located overlooking Cardiff Bay. IM Properties and its...
08 October 2018
From: Breaking News
There’s less than a week to go to the introduction of new rules broadening the range of houses including in mandatory HMO...
25 September 2018
From: Breaking News
The Scottish Government’s private rental reforms are shaking up the sector according to new data, which reveals rental property sales have...
16 August 2018
From: Breaking News
Average rents in London are £1,615, up 3.3 per cent on last year, according to HomeLet’s latest index. This is the first...
08 August 2018
From: Breaking News
The new Home Secretary Sajid Javid is being urged to look again at the Right To Rent policy and produce “a...
02 May 2018
From: Breaking News
One of the industry’s highest profile trade bodies has rebranded with a new logo and heavily revised website. The National Landlords Association...
26 February 2018
From: Breaking News
There have been more expressions of support from industry bodies for the Private Members’ Bill from Labour’s Karen Buck MP which...
18 January 2018
From: Breaking News
The National Landlords’ Association says the extra £2 billion in funding made available by the government for additional affordable housing may...
05 October 2017
From: Breaking News
Housing minister Alok Sharma has been told face to face that he should rethink the government's plans to cap security deposits...
20 September 2017
From: Breaking News
The proportion of landlords who use a letting agent to help manage their property has spiked since the end of last...
01 June 2017
From: Breaking News
A buy to let expert says there should be stronger enforcement and streamlining of legislation in the private rental sector. In a...
10 May 2017
From: Breaking News
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01 February 2017
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The government will today announce that it is banning letting agents’ fees levied on tenants - meaning the fees will instead...
23 November 2016
From: Breaking News
Another prominent mortgage chief has called on the government to show its support for the private rental sector by repealing some...
10 November 2016
From: Breaking News
The National Landlords Association has launched an e-postcard campaign for letting agent and landlord members to lobby the government over the...
10 November 2016
From: Breaking News
The attempt to seek a Judicial Review of legislation reducing the mortgage interest tax relief for landlords has failed. The case was...
06 October 2016
From: Breaking News
Tenants who are advised by local councils and advice agencies to ignore eviction notices could cost the average landlord almost £7,000. The...
15 September 2016
From: Breaking News
The National Landlords Association has come out fighting in response to a weekend report by the National Housing Federation suggesting buy...
23 August 2016
From: Breaking News
New research by an online property lending company reveals that those towns which were strongest in voting ‘Leave’ in the EU...
28 July 2016
From: Breaking News
The National Landlords’ Association is warning that knee-jerk reactions to the Brexit vote could damage the buy to let sector. Chief executive...
27 June 2016
From: Breaking News
Some 36% of UK landlords have had a property abandoned by tenants, according to research. Abandonment - which occurs when a tenant...
23 May 2016
From: Breaking News
Before new London mayor Sadiq Khan has had his first working day in office, his proposals for a private rental sector...
09 May 2016
From: Breaking News
A letting agent who closed his New Malden firm leaving 17 landlords some £27,000 out of pocket has been jailed for...
26 April 2016
From: Breaking News
A financial journalist has lambasted the government’s anti-buy to let policies, describing them as “political short-termism ... a vote winner to...
18 April 2016
From: Breaking News
Two buy to let investors who breached planning regulations by converting a house into seven studio flats have been ordered to...
29 March 2016
From: Breaking News
Landlords’ confidence in the buy to let sector has collapsed to an all-time low and is now “worse than levels witnessed...
03 February 2016
From: Breaking News
A failed bid by a council to introduce a blanket landlord licensing scheme was both unnecessary and unjustified according to the...
24 December 2015
From: Breaking News
There’s been an angry reaction from letting agents and landlords to the shock news that an additional three per cent stamp...
26 November 2015
From: Breaking News
A landlord has been ordered to pay more than £400,000 after converting a property into flats without permission. Gilbert Garrick let the...
13 October 2015
From: Breaking News
The online petition against the government's proposed tax changes for buy to let investors is "a waste of time" according to...
12 October 2015
From: Breaking News
Some 88 per cent of tenants say they are unaware of the new law introduced this week intended to protect them...
02 October 2015
From: Breaking News
Over half the private rental sector tenants on housing benefit have experienced delays over its payment from their local council. Research by...
15 September 2015
From: Breaking News
The property industry has hit out at what appears to be government confusion over a raft of new rules coming into...
10 September 2015
From: Breaking News
There has been a mixed reaction to the government’s announcement that agents and landlords face jail if they fail to conduct...
04 August 2015
From: Breaking News
There has been no let-up in the anger expressed by sections of the buy to let sector after Chancellor George Osborne...
10 July 2015
From: Breaking News
Chancellor George Osborne has been warned that rents in the private rented sector could rise if he scraps the tax-deductible status...
08 July 2015
From: Breaking News
After the passing of the Deregulation Act deposits deadline this week, Richard Price, Executive Director of UKALA, is in a contemplative...
26 June 2015
From: Features
The National Landlords Association has accused the Citizens Advice report of using “loose definitions to compound a perception that private housing...
22 May 2015
From: Breaking News
In a marketplace where many providers outsource their Tenant Referencing and Rent Protection services, using one that doesn’t is essential for...