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Proposed Tax Changes Affecting Landlords Delayed For Two Years

HMRC finally concedes to arguments put forward by landlords and accountancy groups and has delayed a key deadline for compulsory digital tax returns
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FLASH: The Bank of England increases base rate by 0.5% to 3.5%. ... Unwelcomed news for many UK mortgage holders!

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.
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UK Rogue Tenant Activity Rises ... A Further Headache For Genuine Tenants!

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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This is For Your Eyes Only

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UKR2R Test Article in the Tango Test Site That's Got a Long Headline

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Scrapping Of Section 21 - Possible U-Turn?

The government may be changing its mind on scrapping Section 21 eviction powers according to a bombshell story in The Times.
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Another Unlicensed HMO Rogue Landlord Outed!

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.
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We Need Help Too! Landlords Demands Help

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.
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Stamp Duty cuts to take effect immediately

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has announced that stamp duty will be cut. 
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Government Plans For Rogue Landlords

The government has outlined how a new portal will carry the rogue landlord database and be available to the general public.
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Ilford rogue landlord banned & fined 23K

Ms. Lystra Dorval was issued with no fewer than 10 penalty notices in relation to poor management of the HMOs
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Will landlords pass on energy bill discount?

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. 
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Rogue Landlords Fined Thousands!

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.
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Tenants take landlord to court - wins 000's

The Guardian newspaper has given an aggrieved tenant the opportunity to explain how he and other renters took a landlord to court - and won!
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Council offers thousands of £'s to landlords

Camden council is relaunching its appeal for private landlords to help house homeless people with mobility issues.
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Generation Rent: Demands More For Tenants

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.
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Owner ordered to remove no permission build

A huge new home built without required permission has caused distress in the Willenhall community
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Activists pays £100K in damages to landlord

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.
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Council urges tenants to inform on landlords

A council is telling private tenants to inform on their landlords if the properties they are renting have an unacceptable EPC.
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Rogue landlord couple fined 27K

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.
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How will new cladding rules affect landlords?

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.
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Generation Rent attack on AirBnb landlords

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.
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Lower EPC rated property sales up - Why?

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.
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Gove:“lazy and false” view of UK landlords

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.
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Landlords rent controls fuels move to Airbnb

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.
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Anti-discrimination guide for landlords issue

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

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