Tenants’ union Acorn has pledged to continue targeting letting agents in the city until they stop encouraging ‘bidding wars’ to help landlords achieve higher rents. […]
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 […]
The majority of letting agents expect to see more landlords leave the market in 2023, against a backdrop of rising arrears and falling house prices. […]
Landlords are being encouraged to donate the addresses of their vacant properties as part of a unique bid to stem homelessness. Dreamt up by architect […]
Renters groups have blamed letting agents for encouraging private landlords to raise rents to unacceptable levels to help boost their revenues. In a Generation Rent […]
The Government must not proceed with its plans to abolish Section 21 evictions until the problem of anti-social behavior by tenants is tackled, it has […]
Short-term holiday properties will soon face a compulsory national registration scheme after and amendment has been to the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill going through […]
Three Derbyshire councils are sharing a £1.21 million government hand-out to help them crack down on enforcement in poor quality private rental homes. The Department […]
In a landmark decision, the Court of Appeal has ruled that a landlord was wrong to serve notice on a commercial tenant who hadn’t told […]
A new index tracking the prices paid for renting property from private landlords in the UK, calculated by the Office of National Statistics (ONS), has […]
