A council gives private landlords up to £4,250 as what it calls a “landlord welcome” for joining a scheme to help it solve ...

A council that has been at the forefront of campaigns for private landlords to improve housing quality, has itself been found ...

A landlord housing workers in unlicensed HMOs has been hit with a huge fine. Jayanti Patel, Director of Martlane Ltd, was ...

The Halifax says there will be “modest” house price growth in the second half of 2025, mostly down to two expected interest ...

In recent days they have been sentenced. Nguyen was jailed for 15 years, Dinh got 14 years, Tran was sentenced to 11-and-half ...

Hugo Davies, managing director for mortgages at LendInvest, says: “In today’s market, affordability remains key for customers and we continue to provide options for those customers, allowing them to ...

Camden council in London has renewed its licensing scheme for HMOs, extending it for a further five years until December 2030. The decision follows a 10-week public consultation which the council ...

The property boom is over – buy to let and capital appreciation are busted flushes. That’s the verdict of Rathbones, a UK wealth and asset manager which has analysed the relative performance of equity ...

Since then, stamp duty bills, as a consequence of changes to SDLT legislation, on flipped homes have risen by an average of 236%, reaching £6,375 on the initial purchase of those sold in Q1 2025. This ...

A council is boasting that it’s issued fines totalling over £500,000 to HMO landlords on its patch. The onslaught began after Salford council launched an Additional HMO licensing scheme four year ago.