HMRC finally concedes to arguments put forward by landlords and accountancy groups and has delayed a key deadline for compulsory digital tax returns

This is the ninth consecutive base rate rise since December 2021 and even before this afternoon’s news, the rate was already at its highest level for 14 years.

Research by the NRLA revealed that 50% of private landlords who have served a repossession notice have done so because of rogue tenants' anti-social or criminal behaviour.

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The government may be changing its mind on scrapping Section 21 eviction powers according to a bombshell story in The Times.

A rogue landlord who left her tenants to live in filthy and unsafe conditions, while running an unlicensed HMO, has been prosecuted for multiple offences.

The National Residential Landlords Association says controversial Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng should use a £1.5 billion underspend to help buy to let investors and their tenants.

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has announced that stamp duty will be cut. 

The government has outlined how a new portal will carry the rogue landlord database and be available to the general public.

Ms. Lystra Dorval was issued with no fewer than 10 penalty notices in relation to poor management of the HMOs

Campaigning charity Shelter has backed a call by consumer organization Citizens Advice to seek government pledges that a £400 energy bill discount is passed on to all private tenants. 

Two landlords have been fined £3,000 and ordered to pay more than £6,000 in costs for failing to provide documents to a local council.

The Guardian newspaper has given an aggrieved tenant the opportunity to explain how he and other renters took a landlord to court - and won!

Camden council is relaunching its appeal for private landlords to help house homeless people with mobility issues.

Activists in the Generation Rent group have made seven demands on the government including a rent freeze, the clearing of tenants’ arrears with public cash, and yet another ban on evictions.

A huge new home built without required permission has caused distress in the Willenhall community

Local media in Sheffield are reporting that the activist group Acorn must pay just under £100,000 in costs and damages to a landlord, to settle a legal case for harassment, defamation and breach of data rights.

A council is telling private tenants to inform on their landlords if the properties they are renting have an unacceptable EPC.

Husband and wife landlords whose tenants had to live with no heating, broken fire safety equipment, and raw sewage outside their Northwood property have been ordered to pay £27,000.

As a result of recent changes to the proposed Building Safety Bill, owner-occupiers as well as landlords who do not live in the property but only own up to one other property (such as accidental landlords), will be protected by new laws that place the costs of fixing and replacing unsafe cladding with developers. This will also apply to overseas landlords with one or two properties in the UK.

The Generation Rent activist group has launched a lobbying campaign, giving a template letter for people to send to MPs ahead of the Budget later this month.

New research suggests that some landlords are now deliberately choosing to buy properties with weak EPCs in order to upgrade and benefit from capital appreciation.

The government has been accused of basing its policy to solve the cladding crisis on the assumption that landlords are Property tycoons. Such an assumption is lazy and false according to the National Residential Landlords Association.

A prominent property website, which monitors the lettings market, suggests that rent controls would drive a proportion of rental stock to short let platforms such as Airbnb.

The government has issued a new guide to ensure landlords do not discriminate while enforcing the Right To Rent regulations.

Exmount Construction Limited has been wound up by the High Court and the Official Receiver has been appointed liquidator of the company.

Number of families renting privately has doubled in two decades but many are living in dangerous homes

Rogue landlord couple fined £190,000 for ghost tenant scam in Walthamstow

A Right to Rent update

DORSET Council will not be using social housing to accommodate Afghan refugees and is instead looking to the private sector for support.

FRAUDULENT TENANCY APPLICATIONS ROSE BY OVER 70% DURING THE PANDEMIC