Industry News

The Telegraph (subscription might be required) has run two articles on the recent White Paper anouncement Why do the Tories think landlords are social workers?   June 16th Ben Wilkinson starts: 'Housing secretary Michael Gove hailed the new buy-to-let shake-up as a...

Generation Rent, the tenant lobbying group is concerned over the proposals to allow landlords to charge for additional insurance against damage if they allow their tenants to have pets contained the recent White Paper.  It is proposed that tenants would have the right...

The Government have been promising to publish a White Paper outlining their views on the Private Rented Sector (PRS) since 2019 and have finally done it. Yesterday (Thursday June 16th) the White Paper ‘A Fairer Private Rented Sector’ was published, and can be seen...

Don’t pick on landlords - that’s the message from a leading tax and advisory consultancy. Blick Rothenberg warns that the government needs to take care to ensure that responsible buy to let landlords are not burdened with so much regulatory red tape and costs that...

Bristol has been found to be one of the most expensive cities to live in the UK, according to some new research. The recent study by CIA Landlord Insurance compared monthly salaries with monthly rental places and the cost of living. It found London is the most...

The new levelling up bill will allow local authorities, from April 2024, to double council tax on owners of second homes that are furnished but unoccupied. They will also be able to charge the higher rate on unfurnished empty properties after just one year instead of...

The Social Housing Bill, which is set to be published today (9/6/22), will give more power to the Regulator of Social Housing in an effort to crack down on shoddy landlords. The legislation will impact around four million people – the number of social housing tenants...

A Peterborough landlord who changed the locks as he illegally evicted a tenant at a property he owned has been jailed for a year. Peterborough Crown Court heard how council officials were first alerted to concerns about Mirza Tariq Mahmud Jaral in July 2020 after...

John Lewis is targeting suburban locations and commuter towns in the South East as it pushes ahead with plans to build 10,000 rental homes despite warnings that the property market is cooling. The John Lewis Partnership, which also owns Waitrose, said it will build...

One in ten landlords is planning to sell their property rather than re-let at the end of their next tenancy, the English Private Landlord Survey (EPLS) has shown. The EPLS is a national survey of landlords and letting agents who own and/or manage privately rented...