Category: Property News

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…

The number of selective and HMO additional licensing schemes launched this year has already equalled last year’s total as councils come under pressure to tackle private rental housing standards. Thirty-two…

Property sector bosses have urged the government to give landlords stronger laws to take back possession of their property if it has been abandoned. In a letter to Housing Secretary…

It’s hard not to come to the conclusion after reading the most popular articles, discussions and comments in multiple landlord news portals that landlords are being blamed, disregarded and punished…

Students face two years of challenging housing supply as rental stock dwindles while demand remains high. According to rental guarantor service Housing Hand, with rent reforms now not due until…

London’s rental market is contracting dramatically as landlords exist the market, a new joint report by estate agency Savills and the London School of Economics has highlighted. Its report, which…

A court has heard the terrifying story of a tenant who attacked his landlords with a home-made flame thrower within his shared apartment. Landlords Waldemar and Justyna Fijakowski were cleaning…