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The head of an agency is urging landlords to “embrace” tenants on housing benefits, instead of seeking to avoid them.

The Model Tenancy Agreement (MTA) is the government’s recommended legal template for landlords to use with tenants.

Homepoint – with branches in Wolverhampton, Stourbridge, Walsall and Birmingham – is being put into liquidation.

A property company and its sole director landlord have been convicted and ordered to pay more than £50,000 in fines and legal costs.

Francis Investments (East Anglia) Limited, based in Ipswich, and the company’s sole director and owner of the property, Ralph Bernard, were both convicted on 10 charges.

An estimated 131,900 properties were sold by landlords in Great Britain in 2020, the smallest number since 2013.

A key supplier is warning that landlords penalised by ever higher government taxes and rules will be forced to increase rents.

Labour’s proposals to introduce rent controls in London risks reducing the number of private homes available for rent, as landlords look to exit the private rented sector.

A landlord has been hit with a bill of £48,000 - a record for the council which brought the prosecution.Tariq Javed from Aylesbury failed to comply with House of Multiple Occupancy regulations for his property in the town. The house was regularly inspected by officers...