Category: Property News

The boss of a large London borough has asked LandlordZONE readers who have properties within its borders to respond to the council’s consultation on a larger selective licensing scheme. Tony…

Merton Council, which includes the famous Wimbledon lawn tennis centre, is embarking on a big push to license all rented properties and HMOs in the borough as well as limiting…

Brighton & Hove Council is squeezing its HMO sector even harder by introducing a tough new set of policies designed to reduce their impact on local communities. Its City Plan…

Leading evictions expert Paul Shamplina (main pic) has called out Generation Rent’s claim that private renters are “under stress like never before” as eviction activity rises within the private rented…

The way that private rented sector (PRS) landlords operate their properties in Wales is going through one of the biggest changes in decades as the Welsh Government, under its devolved…

There is a licensing regime in England for houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) which comes under the Housing Act 2004. It requires that landlords of properties occupied by a number…

An entrepreneurial landlord has just bought her fourth buy-to-let property and started her first estate agency by scrimping and saving since she was a teenager. Rachel Ollington (main pic), 41,…

The rental market continues to race huge structural problems including low supply, high demand and rising rents, the latest housing market survey by RICS has revealed. Its surveyors reported that…

Junior Housing Minister Felicity Buchan (main picture) has been tasked with overseeing the private rented sector, taking over from Lee Rowley in the latest instalment of ministerial musical chairs. Rowley…

The mention of Japanses knoweed has the effect of putting the fear of God in property owners, but the bamboo plant, which is lesser known, can be even more devastating.…