The Latest Private Rented Sector News

Stop indulging councils over rental licensing and local schemes
It’s time, surely, for government to crackdown not just on rogue agents and landlords but on rogue councils that confuse

Labour would force UK landlords to offer indefinite tenancies
A Labour government would oblige private landlords to offer tenancies of indefinite length, based on the German system, in an

Having a tenant from hell – it can make or break you as a landlord
Last month, during filming for the next series of ‘Bad Tenants, Rogue Landlords’ (due to air on Channel 5 later

Shock warning that quarter of landlords considering stopping using agents
More than a third of landlords are looking to cut their annual spending – and many of them are considering

Buy to let rental income leaps 15% in just one year says lettings agent
A lettings agency that has analysed HMRC data says rental income for buy to let landlords has leaped 15 per

Home Office to review right to rent checks that ’cause landlords to discriminate’
Right to rent checks have “little to no effect” on controlling immigration, says judge in High Court case. The Home

Right To Rent Ruling Leads To Landlord Chaos
Right to Rent rules for landlords have been thrown in to chaos after the government lost a challenge against the

Councils need the funds to tackle rogue landlords
Over two-thirds of councils across England and Wales did not undertake any prosecutions against private landlords last year, according to

Buy-to-let landlords cool on property purchases
Philip Hammond is once again being urged to reverse the previous chancellor George Osborne’s deeply unpopular tax reforms as they

Letting adverts that discriminate against tenants on housing benefit could be banned
Ministers in England are set to meet representatives of landlord associations, tenant groups, property websites and mortgage providers in a