Category: Property News

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.…

The NRLA has hit back at the government’s call for landlords to be more open-minded when considering allowing tenants to become childminders. Children and Families Minister, Claire Coutinho, has written…

Specialist buy-to-let broker Mortgages For Business (MFB) has urged landlords approaching re-mortgage to secure a new rate as early as possible following the latest update on inflation. The ONS Consumer…

Landlords in the capital’s prime rental sector are facing a stark choice between topping up a rent shortfall or selling up. Luxury residential property expert, Jo Eccles, reports that highly…

A kind-hearted landlord has been left destitute and suicidal after being tricked out of £212,000 by one of his tenants. Cruel conman Derek Conway (main pic, inset) preyed on Eugene…