BBC Panorama's Big Housing Rip-Off exposes ghost tenants and neglect in Birmingham supported housing, with £410m of housing benefit paid out and licensing reform now…
August finds only 23% of landlords know about the mandatory PRS database and ombudsman, with rollout from December and a £65 per-property fee putting unaware…
Citizens Advice finds 58% of private renters on housing support face a rent shortfall, up by almost 300,000 since May 2024, and urges ministers to…
Fleet Mortgages has launched one-year buy-to-let fixes from 3.49 percent and cut two-year HMO rates by 30 basis points, while Molo has reduced specialist two-year…
The Letting Partnership finds 35 percent of letting agents faced attempted fraud in the last year, with AI-generated scams now ranked the biggest financial threat…
TwentyEA reports rental stock up 12.1 percent year on year in the third quarter of 2026, the highest level in seven years, with build-to-rent completions…
Chartered Institute of Housing says only about one million homes will be built in England by July 2029, leaving a 500,000 shortfall against the 1.5…
Savills reports prime central London rents posted their strongest quarterly growth in two years, with homes below the £100,000 Renters' Rights Act threshold leading gains…
LegalforLandlords finds only 28 percent of landlords confident letting stays viable for five years, with 40 percent set to raise rents on Budget tax rises…
NRLA analysis of HMRC figures shows more than 275,000 landlords and sole traders who should be in Making Tax Digital have yet to sign up,…
The government introduced the Remediation of Unsafe Cladding Bill to Parliament on 14 October 2026, creating a new legal duty on building owners to fix…
Zoopla research published on 15 October 2026 shows 51% of two and three-bedroom houses are now priced within reach of an average-income household, up from…
Norfolk Crown Court has given a 12-month suspended sentence to former Swaffham letting agent Victoria Steele after she admitted 19 fraud offences involving £48,858 in…
The Bank of England and the FCA have permanently removed the 15% firm-level cap on high loan-to-income lending from 28 October 2026, replacing it with…
Rightmove reports average advertised rents outside London passed £1,400 a month for the first time, reaching £1,418, while London hit a record £2,825 as supply…
The Health and Safety Executive says Wirral landlord Adam Evans was fined £2,400 with £5,000 costs at Wirral Magistrates' Court after admitting eight years without…
Moneyfacts data puts average two-year fixed residential rates at 5.97 percent, near 6 percent for the first time since December 2023, while buy-to-let five-year fixes…
HomeLet's September Rental Index puts average UK rent at £1,387, up 0.4 percent on August and 3.3 percent on the year, with London up 1.5…
COHO's State of Shared Living 2026 finds 21 percent of 5,145 HMO tenants felt unsafe because of a housemate, with 42 percent moving in with…
Stoke-on-Trent City Council's Cabinet has approved a city-wide Article 4 Direction removing permitted development rights for small HMOs, with controls taking immediate effect from 23…
SpareRoom has called on the Chancellor to lift the £7,500 Rent a Room threshold in this week’s Budget as lodger rooms fell 1.4 percent to 29 percent of flatshare supply.
Sefton Council has secured £22,477 in rent repayment orders against landlord Robert Edwards after the First-tier Tribunal ruled four homes were let without selective licences.
Connells and LRG warn the Renters Rights Act one-month cap on rent in advance is locking nurses, poor-credit renters and international students out of lets.
Gateshead Council has fined a landlord £3,600 for serving a Section 21 notice after the 1 May 2026 ban, cutting the penalty to £3,060 for early payment and warning further cases are under review.
The UK House Price Index shows annual growth slowed to 0.9 percent in August with the average home at £273,000, as London prices fell 2.2 percent and the North East led growth at 3.2 percent.
Houseprice.AI analysis of 21.2m certificates finds 161,000 private lets cannot reach EPC band C even with every recommended improvement, with one in five inner London rentals affected ahead of the 2030 deadline.
Housing minister Matthew Pennycook confirms councils must make landlord licensing registers available for public inspection with certified copies on request, but they are not required to publish them online.
The UK Government has opened an ability to charge consultation for England, giving tenants a clearer route to install EV charge points with a 16 December 2026 deadline.
UK Finance reports 58,051 new buy-to-let loans worth £10.7 billion in Q2 2026, up 21 percent by number on a year earlier, with remortgages leading and arrears down 26 percent.
Spencer West partner Lisa Wilson has urged the Chancellor to cut stamp duty on additional properties in the 28 October Budget to clear a backlog of unsold ex-rental homes left empty after the pre-deadline Section 21 sell-off.
Winkworth says landlords now seek a sale valuation at every void as the Renters Rights Act bars sale evictions in year one; three tenants register per buyer in prime London.
The Cabinet Office has confirmed rogue Hounslow landlord Nirpaul Riat has been stripped of his OBE after a £300,000 court penalty for letting illegally converted homes, closing a three-year council campaign for forfeiture.
Chancellor John Healey will leave Capital Gains Tax rates unchanged in the 28 October Budget, sparing higher-rate landlords an extra £11,911 and additional-rate landlords an extra £15,633 on a typical £74,442 ten-year gain calculated by The Letting Partnership.
Rushbrook research published on 20 October counts 1,322 investment portfolios listed for sale across England at a combined £1.398 billion, with London alone accounting for £450.9 million ahead of the 28 October Budget.
East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service confirms Hastings agency boss Gareth Reed was fined £24,525 after ignoring inspectors over a May 2025 blaze that trapped three residents.
