Category: Property News

England’s HMO market has shrunk by more than 21,000 properties in the last two years as local councils ramp up planning rules and licensing schemes. Numbers were down by -2.4%…

The festive period is over, and as we enter the second month of 2023, the year has well and truly begun. For many landlords, 2022 was a mixture of tough…

Landlords with properties in central London saw the highest levels of tenant demand across England and Wales in the last quarter of 2022. After falling out of favour during the…

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has promised to scrap most leaseholds in England this year. The government will make it much easier for leaseholders in flats to take over their buildings…

A coalition of landlords and letting agencies are to seek a legal challenge to the Scottish Government’s rent control and eviction ban legislation and its proposed extension from April. The…

The case involved Sara & Hossein Asset Holdings Ltd v Blacks Outdoor Retail Ltd and revolved around a service charge certificate (SCC) issued by the landlord (SHAH), and the question…

The government has been urged to exempt all student housing from its plans for open-ended tenancies or risk making it harder for students to enter higher education. Groups representing universities…

Four former housing ministers have backed a Tory thinktank policy paper that urges a radical rethink of government housebuilding policies. The Centre for Policy Studies report, The Case for Housebuilding,…

A serial rogue landlord has become the first in the North West region to be served with a banning order after he failed to improve poor housing conditions in his…

Three tenants have only been awarded 20% of a rent repayment order application after a tribunal went easy on their forgetful landlord. Lawrence Hoo admitted he had not renewed an…