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The London Assembly has published figures that claim the number of evictions in the capital by landlords and letting agents increased seven-fold from July to September when compared to the three months beforehand. The figures show evictions of tenants in the private...

Purplebricks is refusing to say how many landlords were affected by its failure to comply with the law requiring tenants’ deposits to be placed in a government-backed tenancy deposit scheme. It is also refusing to say how long tenancy deposits were held by the agency...

Rising average tenancy lengths make inventories and regular inspections much more important for letting agents and landlords, according to No Letting Go. The latest English Housing Survey (EHS), the largest and most representative dataset for the private rented...

A local council has prosecuted a rogue landlord for illegally evicting a young couple from their accommodation in Cheltenham.The landlord - Lidia Szopinska of Camden, London - let a room in a house she owned in Cheltenham to the couple for a period of nine months from...

The Housing Ombudsman has published its annual report for 2020-21 showing that it maintained strong performance against all targets in 2020-21 despite the unprecedented year. Complaint volumes initially reduced and then far exceeded previous levels by the end of the...

The Government have announced that the requirements for fitting of a CO alarm has been extended. Previously, it was only necessary to fit a CO alarm in a room where there was solid fuel heating, they strongly recommended also fitting where there was gas.  That is now...

After two years in the doldrums and high levels of over supply, prime central London is at last a landlord’s rental market according to a leading agency.“With demand outstripping supply, landlords are currently in a strong position and those who have been considered...

Airbnb has amended its rules to allow users to search for stays up to 12 months (from six) and the platform is overtly linking this with announcements by many high profile companies -  including Procter & Gamble, Ford Motor Company, PwC, and Amazon - that its...

Two thirds of councils in England have failed to prosecute any criminal landlords in the last three years, according to new research. A freedom of information request by the National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) found 67% of councils had not successfully...