The Latest Private Rented Sector News

Landlords Warned About Energy Efficiency In Rental Property
Residential landlords have been warned about the new energy efficiency laws for rental properties due to be introduced next year.

Do student properties make a good investment?
A record 535,200 people took up higher education places through Ucas in 2016, which means the need for good student

Women Make Up 40 Per Cent Of UK Landlords
The number of female buy to let investors is on the rise, with two in five UK landlords now women,
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HMO renting could be solution to ‘tenant tax’
79% of tenants could not afford the average rent rise needed for most landlords to remain profitable as a result

Dozens of landlords fined after new immigration checks
Dozens of landlords have been fined under a crackdown on illegal immigration. Financial penalties totalling £37,000 were handed out in

Four Ways Landlords Can Deal With Buy To Let Tax Changes
Landlords looking for a way out of the government’s shake-up of buy to let tax have some financial options that
The reputations of ‘good landlords’ being ‘tarnished by the bad ones’, says LGA
Local councils are calling on the government to close a legal loophole that allows landlords to get away with converting

Two-third of landlords unaware of new energy efficiency rules
Around two-thirds of buy-to-let landlords lack awareness of new Minimum Energy Efficient Standards (MEES) that come into effect in April

‘Dangerous rogue landlord benefit scam’ costs taxpayer millions.
Council chiefs are calling on the Government to close a loophole in the law which enables rogue landlords to carry