27 August 2015
A landlord has been hit with costs of £75,215 after failing to license four HMOs and comply with various notices.
27 August 2015
ARLA has told the Government that it should make it a legal requirement for all letting agents to belong to a Client Money Protection scheme.
26 August 2015
Important changes affecting letting agents and landlords are just weeks away, courtesy of The Deregulation Act.
26 August 2015
The Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA) has announced that it has joined forces with the Gas Safe Register to provide shared gas safety messages aimed at the rental property sector.
25 August 2015
Landlords trade their properties only every 17 years, compared with 14 years for the average home owner.
25 August 2015
Some 71% of landlords have not yet organised a carbon monoxide alarm in their rental property, according to a survey of tenants carried out by Axa Business Insurance.
24 August 2015
There has been a huge increase in the number of investors acquiring Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) in the North West of England in the past five years, according to a property investment firm.
24 August 2015
Newham Council has reported that in the two and a half years since its licensing scheme came into force it has made 611 prosecutions against 492 landlords.
21 August 2015
A glimmer of hope may have been handed to landlords following Chancellor George Osborne’s Budget plans to cut mortgage interest relief.
21 August 2015
A landlord has been handed a total fine of £75,215 for a number of offences, including failing to licence four houses in multiple occupation (HMOs).