Category: Property News

Landlords in the South of England are being invited to attend a landlord show being held by one of the region’s larger letting agencies. Charters, which is holding even at…

Hosts Eddie Hooker and Paul Shamplina of the HFIS group are joined by David Smith, Head of Property Litigation at JMW Solicitors, legal advisor to the NRLA and a regular…

Smaller buy-to-let landlords continue to quit the market, according to the Bank of England’s latest update on PRS conditions. The bank’s findings support the NRLA’s assessment that the landlord exodus…

Letting agents and their landlords who advertise properties as ‘no children’ face being accused of breaking discrimination rules, it has been claimed following a campaign by Shelter. The organisation says…

Tax changes in the private rented sector have lost the Treasury £1.5 billion in revenue, according to new research commissioned by the NRLA. Capital Economics found that restrictions in mortgage…

Another First Tier Property Tribunal has confirmed that a superior landlord cannot be held responsible for a Rent Repayment Order (RRO), following the landmark Rakusen case. Tenant Riaz Moola had…

Home Reit, an investment trust landlord, was set-up to house Britain’s homeless. But the company has found itself running into increasing difficulties, with tenants’ complaints and failed rent payments, a…

The Government must stop its ongoing and ‘irresponsible’ attempts to curry favour with tenants via its looming reform of the private rented sector, a buy-to-let lender has said. Mortgages for…

Councillors in Reading are set to rubber stamp plans to extend restrictions on the number of HMO conversions. An Article 4 direction already covers parts of the town where HMOs…

John Lewis’s build-to-rent strategy appears to be stalling amid local opposition to its plans for large developments in West Ealing and Bromley. The retailer has just announced pre-tax losses of…