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Ealing opens new HMO licensing consultation for 2027

Ealing opens new HMO licensing consultation for 2027

Ealing Council has opened a consultation on a new borough-wide additional licensing scheme for smaller HMOs, with the proposed five-year designation due to start in…

29/07/2026
Savills: RRA costs lift prime rents again in Q2

Savills: RRA costs lift prime rents again in Q2

Savills says prime rents rose again in the second quarter as landlords passed through higher borrowing, tax and Renters' Rights Act costs, keeping upward pressure…

29/07/2026
Government rules out Nightingale courts for landlord possession cases

Government rules out Nightingale courts for landlord possession cases

The government says it will not use Nightingale-style courts for landlord possession work, arguing there is no national backlog and that the Digital Possession Service…

29/07/2026
Paragon: HMO landlords are ahead on EPC upgrades

Paragon: HMO landlords are ahead on EPC upgrades

Paragon Bank says two-thirds of HMOs in its latest research already hold EPC ratings of A to C, giving HMO landlords a clearer lead as…

29/07/2026
Handelsbanken: 59% tighten tenant checks after RRA

Handelsbanken: 59% tighten tenant checks after RRA

Handelsbanken says 59 percent of professional property investors are tightening tenant criteria after the Renters' Rights Act, while 63 percent have already raised rents in…

28/07/2026
St Helens opens borough-wide HMO Article 4 consult

St Helens opens borough-wide HMO Article 4 consult

St Helens Council has opened a six-week borough-wide Article 4 consultation on small HMOs, starting a 12-month path to tighter planning control across the borough…

28/07/2026
Resolution Foundation says £39bn homes plan needs £8bn more

Resolution Foundation says £39bn homes plan needs £8bn more

Resolution Foundation says ministers need another £8 billion if the full £39 billion affordable homes programme is to shift into social rent, sharpening the debate…

28/07/2026
Rayner rules out England rent controls after RRA launch

Rayner rules out England rent controls after RRA launch

Angela Rayner says ministers are not pursuing rent controls in England after the Renters' Rights Act launch, arguing the new once-a-year market-rent system is the…

27/07/2026
Chestertons: 36% of London landlords raised asking rents after bids ban

Chestertons: 36% of London landlords raised asking rents after bids ban

Chestertons says 36 percent of London landlords raised asking rents in May after the Renters' Rights Act banned offers above the advertised rent, pointing to…

27/07/2026
GOV.UK confirms Florence Eshalomi housing role as landlord rules loom

GOV.UK confirms Florence Eshalomi housing role as landlord rules loom

GOV.UK has confirmed Florence Eshalomi as an MHCLG minister, putting a recent critic of weak rental enforcement inside the department ahead of the next landlord-rule…

27/07/2026
Fairer Share petition tops 100,000 as landlord SDLT row heads for Commons

Fairer Share petition tops 100,000 as landlord SDLT row heads for Commons

The Fairer Share tax petition has passed 100,000 signatures, pushing the landlord SDLT surcharge and wider property tax debate toward a possible Commons hearing after…

27/07/2026
Greenwich opens 18-ward landlord licensing consult as councils widen HMO rules

Greenwich opens 18-ward landlord licensing consult as councils widen HMO rules

Greenwich has opened a consultation on an 18-ward selective licensing scheme, while Ealing and Hertsmere move on smaller HMO controls and standards in a fresh…

24/07/2026
NRLA says London rents are outpacing every other English region

NRLA says London rents are outpacing every other English region

The NRLA says London is now driving rental inflation higher, with rent growth in the capital pulling away from every other English region while wider…

24/07/2026
Treasury says landlords can still challenge Breathing Space cases

Treasury says landlords can still challenge Breathing Space cases

The Treasury says landlords can still challenge eligibility and seek court permission to act during a tenant Breathing Space moratorium, after ministers were pressed on…

24/07/2026
Court ruling lets landlords seek forced entry for safety checks

Court ruling lets landlords seek forced entry for safety checks

A county court ruling says landlords can ask judges to permit forced entry for gas and electrical safety inspections after an access injunction has been…

22/07/2026
SpareRoom: 85% of renters back rent controls

SpareRoom: 85% of renters back rent controls

SpareRoom says 85 percent of renters back rent controls after another year of rent rises, with 32 percent saying they were forced to move in…

22/07/2026
Pennycook says student HMO impact will be reviewed under RRA

Pennycook says student HMO impact will be reviewed under RRA

Matthew Pennycook says ministers will review how the Renters' Rights Act affects student HMOs, but has offered no student-specific fix as landlords head into the…

22/07/2026
Paragon: HMO yields push landlord returns above 7%

Paragon: HMO yields push landlord returns above 7%

Paragon says average gross rental yields across its landlord lending book rose to 7.02 percent in Q2 2026, with HMOs still delivering the strongest returns…

22/07/2026
Slough opens 10-week consultation on 17,000-home licensing plan

Slough opens 10-week consultation on 17,000-home licensing plan

Slough Borough Council has opened a 10-week consultation on licensing plans that could pull almost 17,000 private rented homes into new controls, with landlords facing…

21/07/2026
Rayner returns to housing brief as landlord database rules loom

Rayner returns to housing brief as landlord database rules loom

Angela Rayner has returned to the housing brief as ministers prepare the next Renters' Rights Act rollout phase, with landlords still waiting for dates on…

21/07/2026
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