The Latest Private Rented Sector News
Government urged to rethink rent protection scheme
The government’s existing strategy to protect rent paid by tenants to letting agents will fail to provide adequate protection for
Are tenants simply paying their landlord’s mortgage?
The latest research from the National Landlords Association has revealed that 79% of landlords are only servicing the interest on
Rogue landlord fined £1,500,000 for converting houses into illegal tiny flats
A rogue landlord has been fined a record-breaking £1.5 million for building an illegal boxroom empire. Vispasp Sarkari, 56, converted
Government crackdown falls flat on its face as councils fail to cope with new licensing rules
Local authorities are failing to cope with the volume of additional work needed to process the Government’s controversial mandatory HMO
Rental deposits to be capped at five weeks rent
The tenancy security deposits that tenants leave with landlords or their letting agents will be capped at a maximum of
Residential demand down and landlords leave: Propertymark
NAEA and Arla Propertymark have released their respective yearly overviews, revealing that in 2018, housing demand fell and BTL landlords
University cities offer the best return for BTL investing
University cities continue to offer some of the highest buy-to-let yields for landlords, according to research. TotallyMoney, a credit report
Interior design is a question of taste for tenants — rather than landlords
The accidental landlord has given up trying to guess what style of furnishings her metro-millennial tenants would call cool. They
Cross-party calls for rogue landlords to lose properties
MPs have called on the government to confiscate properties from the country’s worst landlords after a series of revelations about
Research reveals worrying lack of landlord awareness
The private rented sector is a challenging landscape to negotiate, with tax changes and ever-changing regulation meaning that landlords now,