A PropTech company has issued guidelines for landlords who want to prepare their properties for tenants doing increased volumes of home working. Paul Oxfley, managing director of Decorus for Sage, says Coronavirus has inevitably increased [...]

Social renters have the lowest life satisfaction and experience the greatest anxiety according to analysis by a property management firm.  Lettings company Apropos has analysed the latest 2019-20 English Housing Survey which shows that social [...]

Advice from a tax software consultancy suggests that landlords must declare Coronavirus grants in future tax returns, including the next self-assessment submissions due in only two weeks time. GoSimpleTax says emergency financial support such as [...]

A lettings agency says there is very large scale support amongst tenants for the extension to the current bailiff-enforced eviction ban, announced by the government last weekend. Midlands agency chain Barrows and Forrester says that [...]

A trade body says the current national lockdown may make it harder for the lettings industry to conform with an approaching deadline regarding electrical safety. NAPIT - the National Association of Professional Inspectors and Testers - [...]

Rents across much of England and Wales are performing strongly according to a new market analysis - and in some areas the annual increases are in double figures. Home, a property listing website that monitors [...]

A landlord has been hit with what a local authority calls a record £66,000 fine after being found guilty of letting an HMO that was dangerous to tenants. Reading council prosecuted Mohammed Naseer Zamir, following [...]

A landlord has opened up to a news website about the difficulties trying to accommodate student tenants during the lockdown.  Elizabeth Hunter is a student landlord in Plymouth and says she appreciates the apparent unfairness of [...]

The Rent Smart Wales quango, now five years old, has been sharply criticised by the National Residential Landlords Association.  A report commissioned by the association reveals the RSW processes to have a so-called “accountability deficit” [...]

A former tenant has been fined for sending racially offensive messages to his former landlord over three years after being evicted by him. The Stoke Sentinel reports that Dane Lloyd was drunk when he sent [...]