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The Employment Rights Bill aims to overhaul employment legislation in the UK, with significant implications for letting agents and businesses. Here’s a summary of the key changes and their potential impacts as highlighted by Propertymark: Key Proposals in the...

Savills Warns Landlords Face Tough Decisions Ahead: Sell or Stay? Property consultancy Savills is urging landlords to prepare for a critical decision: whether to sell or stay in the market. The consultancy highlights upcoming changes to Minimum Energy Efficiency...

A landlord who illegally converted a property into five flats has been ordered to pay £282,000 for breaching planning consent and other planning policies. Krzysztof Pogwizd, 50, from Rickmansworth, was fined and ordered to pay a confiscation order for ignoring...

The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) has raised concerns about the significant enforcement burden that will be placed on council officers under the proposed Renters Rights Bill. In written evidence submitted to the House of Commons Public Bill...

Writing in Property118, Mark Alexander asks the question - The Rise of Corporate Landlords: Are We Heading Toward a Rent Monopoly? The original article can be seen here, stating that the rise of corporate landlords in the UK’s private rental sector is reshaping the...

UK house prices edged up to a record high in October, data published by Halifax showed Thursday. The average house price rose by 0.2% monthly to GBP293,999 in October. It was up 3.9% from a year ago when it stood at GBP283,053, however the growth was slowed from 4.6%...

The Big Issue has published an article criticising the decision to freeze the LHA rates. The original article can be seen here, and discusses the recent decision by Chancellor Rachel Reeves to maintain the freeze on Local Housing Allowance (LHA) in her autumn budget...

Writing in Property118, Julie Ford comments on the recent decision to re-freeze Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates which she claims is an alarming development for low-income renters in the UK, especially given the ongoing rise in rental prices and the severe lack of...

Writing in Property118, Mark Alexander is critical of Nick Bano’s recent article in The Guardian, “The End of Landlords,” which proposes the radical idea of driving private landlords out of the UK housing market to solve the housing crisis. The original can be seen...

The proportion of chain-free homes for sale on Zoopla has surged recently, with a notable one-third of homes now being advertised as chain-free, reflecting a larger trend driven by both landlords and second homeowners looking to sell up ahead of the anticipated tax...