A crackdown by the HM Revenue and Customs on the buy-to-let sector has seen a 145% rise in the number of landlords declaring unpaid tax in the last financial year. The number of landlords admitting to not paying …
Conservative party leadership candidates Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt are being called on to scrap the Right to Rent scheme by landlord and immigration organisations. As the campaign for the Tory leadership – and the country’s next prime …
Landlords remain optimistic about the short-term future of residential buy-to-let despite the uncertainties facing the sector – and the country. Research by Cambridge & Counties Bank revealed that while many remained cautious over Brexit and a challenging financial …
North London letting agency has urged their landlords to up their rent rates to cover increased costs of their tenancy management service as a result of the recent Tenant Fees ban. The letting agency with branches in Finchley …
Landlords and letting agents are often painted as the bad guys of the rental sector, but a new TV programme attempts to balance out this view with tales of nightmare tenants alongside the more frequent rogue landlord exposés. …
A scheme that will require landlords in a London borough to buy a five-year private rental license has been approved by the government. While councils across the country have introduced similar license schemes, this is the first of …
The Residental Landlord Association along with other landlord groups are calling on Sadiq Khan to remove adverts of short-term lets aimed at tourists, from the TFL (Transport for London) network. The RLA wants Khan to remove the current …
New data shows that landlords are now waiting longer to repossess their properties from tenants for legitimate reasons. The Ministry of Justice released new figures showing that landlords now have to wait on average 17.3 weeks for their …
New data shows buy-to-let landlords are failing to identify and deal with major household hazards posing serious danger to tenants. Property compliance company, VeriSmart conducted more than 60,000 inspections of rental properties over the last 12 months and …
Furnished properties in London are more likely to be let quicker than unfurnished ones, according to one of the capital’s leading letting agents. Benham & Reeves found that around 80% of the tenants on their books prefer fully-furnished …