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A landlord has failed to convince a court that stress and financial difficulties excused her from paying a rent repayment order. Instead, Jaya Sanah’s four tenants will share £16,191 after…

Multi-millionaire landlord Judith Wilson (main picture, inset) has been hit with a £166,000 court bill after losing a legal battle against Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council. Wilson, wife of the…

Paul Bradley, a landlord with a single rental property in North London, has told the BBC how the ongoing mortgage crisis has seen his monthly interest-only loan payments triple over…

Only one-third of Oxford’s private rental properties have been registered for its city-wide selective licensing scheme – and could soon face steeper fees or a hefty fine. The scheme, which…

Over the last 15 years, the HMO market has been transformed and there has been a boom. The reason for the boom was, quite simply, that HMOs could generate far…

Landlords in Wales have called for the country’s government to make more effort to encourage private investment in the sector during a face-to-face meeting with housing minister Julie James. The…

Fewer than one in five private rental properties in England were within the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates last year, according to new joint research by the Chartered Institute of…

A large County Court in London has written to its legal clients to warn them that some of their scheduled evictions face being cancelled or rescheduled. The announcement has been…

Buy-to-let landlords will influence house prices if a large number choose to sell up, according to rating agency Moody’s. The firm is predicting that prices will fall by 10% in…

With increasing costs, inflation hovering around the 10 per cent mark and mortgage rates approaching 6 per cent there’s lots of talk about increasing rents. Many landlords are unable to…