Category: Property News

The government has promised to focus on promoting grants to make PRS homes more energy efficient and ensure that tenants won’t be penalised for demanding green improvements. During a Lords…

The Scottish Government has pledged to introduce measures to enhance tenants’ rights and protections as well as long-term rent controls. First Minister Humza Yousaf told MSPs he planned to introduce…

A rogue landlord who ignored mice and mould at his unlicensed HMO has been slapped with a £28,600 rent repayment order. His five tenants not only found Mohammed Shofiq Ali…

In a recent interview conducted for The Sunday Times, Nigel Terrington, the chief executive of Paragon Bank for the last 28 years, says he has witnessed the growth and indeed…

Landlords in Oxford who failed to apply for a licence during the first year of the city’s new scheme have been hit with a big fee hike. its Selective licensing…

A leading energy efficiency consultant has called for a transformation in the way landlords operate short-let holiday accommodation, saying this housing sector needs to reduce its carbon footprint urgently to…

One of London’s big councils says landlords with properties within its boundaries have been issued with fines totalling £207,500 for not licencing HMO properties. The extraordinary sum covers a four-year…

Serviced offices one would surmise, offer the ideal solution in a post-Covid world. Mainstream office investments are struggling in a world where a good proportion of most company’s office staff…

Northern Ireland officials have refused to get tougher on HMO landlords despite pleas from Belfast councillors that parts of the city are becoming over-run and affected by anti-social behaviour. A…

The boss of a build-to-rent (BTR) property search website has insisted the sector is not out to only attract more affluent tenants, despite criticism in the past that it does.…