Rents in London and the South East fell in the year to May 2020, but rose in other parts of Great Britain. The finding comes...
Action by the Competition and Markets Authority has resulted in directors of two Berkshire estate agencies being banned for their part in an illegal price-fixing...
Poole landlord Mahmut Gilgil has received a five-year banning order preventing him from letting or managing housing in the UK. Gilgil, of 51 Blandford Road,...
<>Government action to extend the ban on tenant evictions until the end of August, leaves landlords powerless to take action against tenants committing domestic abuse...
Online house hunting is continuing at a pace, and properties outside London dominate buyers’ the top search list, the property website Zoopla. ‘It’s great to...
A Coventry landlord had been ordered to pay back just under £11,000 in rent that she received while letting an HMO without a licence. The...
From October 2020, Rebecca Marsh will take over as Property Ombudsman from Katrine Sporle, whose five year term comes to an end on 31st October....
There has been an ‘unprecedented rebound’ in house sales, the property website Zoopla has reported. The coronavirus closed down the housing market. But four weeks...
A two month extension to the ban on tenant evictions has been announced by the Government. The ban now runs until 23 August, five months...
New Ministry of Housing guidance has reminded landlords that new electrical safety regulations apply to all new tenancies from 1 July 2020 and to existing...
Amid mixed messages about the current state of the housing market, Nationwide has reported a sharp fall in house prices. Its latest house price index...
Tenants should continue to pay rent and abide by all other terms of their tenancy agreement to the best of their ability, the Government has...
From 1 June landlords and letting agents in England have been able to charge tenants with very few fees on top of rent. It is...
Re-opening of the housing market in England following the coronavirus lockdown, led to a burst of enthusiasm from would–be buyers and a small increase in...
A Bristol lettings agent is calling on landlords to apply for mortgage repayment holidays and to pass on the saving in outgoings as rent holidays...
Edinburgh City Council is urging local private landlords left with empty homes due to the coronavirus crisis to sign up to its Private Sector Leasing...
Coronavirus-hit buyer confidence will translate into short term house price falls of between 5 and 10 per cent, said researchers at international property agents Savills....
A letting agent who received and kept an undisclosed local authority incentive of £2,500, has been ordered by the Property Ombudsman to pay this to...
Over 90 per cent of landlords who had received a request from tenants for support during the coronavirus crisis responded positively, a survey by the...
From today (13 May 2020) private landlords and letting agents may conduct viewings of empty rental properties, and of properties from which tenants are moving...
A landlord in Norfolk has been hit with total fines of £40,000, after it emerged that housing conditions placed tenants in considerable risk. Issues at…
The Bank of England has delivered an unexpected blow to the economy with a substantial 0.5% increase in interest rates, pushing them up to 5%….
In an unexpected move, the Bank of England (BoE) has raised interest rates by 0.5% to 5% in its latest attempt to curb the UK’s…
The price rise rate continues to stubbornly hover at 8.7%, in spite of economists’ predictions of a slight decrease, which could have provided some relief…
Jonathan Rolande, a leading market analyst from the National Association of Property Buyers, has predicted a sharp decline in UK property values. His troubling forecast…
According to Rightmove’s latest House Price Index, the average asking house price experienced its first drop of the year in June, albeit by a slight…
Paymentshield, a leading provider of general insurance platforms, has unveiled a rolling subscription model for tenants’ contents insurance. This innovative move aims to offer more…
Julie James MS, the Welsh Minister for Climate Change, has expressed her support for revising the tax regime applied to the private rental sector. During…
The newest Rental Market Report released by Zoopla indicates that rental expenditure as a percentage of earnings has escalated to its highest point in a…
According to Rightmove, the average asking price for properties dipped by a mere £82 in June, despite the unsettling increase in mortgage rates. Rightmove’s house…
The National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) has cautioned the Welsh Government about the urgent need for support within the rental housing sector. The association stressed…
OnTheMarket Group has recently rolled out a novel financial service titled ‘OnTheMarket Money’. This service launch represents the company’s first partnership with a referral-based entity,…
Paragon Bank has introduced a new limited-edition Discounted Standard Variable Rate (SVR) product to its array of buy-to-let mortgages, providing portfolio landlords with an opportunity…
In a shocking case, a landlord who attacked his tenant with a hammer, leaving him homeless, has been prosecuted by Wolverhampton council. Inderjit Singh Ghuman…
The UK housing market braces itself for a predicted sharp decline in property values, says Jonathan Rolande, a leading market commentator from the National Association…
