Liverpool City Council has stepped up as the second local authority seeking to licence all private landlords and rental properties in the city.
EPC rule changes leave landlords confused
Lack of information about imminent rules changes for marketing private rented homes is confusing landlords and letting agents.
Landlord in court for third time in a year
Complaints and petitions from neighbours have failed to sway a private landlord to spend money on doing up his properties to meet basic legal standards.
Newham starts private landlord licensing
The first council-wide private landlord licensing scheme is underway – and landlords who fail to sign up risk fines of up to £20,000.
Illegal eviction warning to landlords
Landlords must follow eviction procedures when they want a tenant to leave and should not take matters in to their own hands.
Google grabs share of buy to let mortgage market
Search engine giant Google has lined up another assault on the mortgage market with the launch of a new buy to let loan comparison service.
Property tax cheats banned as directors
Property developers who tried to dodge paying £500,000 in corporation tax by placing their firm in liquidation without settling the debt have been banned from acting as directors for four years by The Insolvency Service. Walid Wasfi Wasif Musmar, 38, and Antoni Fields , 53, of Barnet, London, ran Oberon […]
Mansion tax door closed for good
The mansion tax and any similar valuation-based property taxed has been consigned to the Whitehall dustbin for good, said Chancellor George Osborne in his Autumn Statement.
Landlord forged gas safety papers
A private landlord who faked gas safety certificates for a buy to let home was handed a suspended jail sentence and ordered to pay court costs of almost £5,000.
Stop corrupt letting agents, urges RICS
Private landlords are falling victim to unscrupulous letting agents who are corrupt or badly run their businesses, according to research by the surveyor trade body.
