Landlords defending a rent increase in a tribunal could strengthen their case with evidence of completed lettings after a tenant’s lower advertised prices failed to overturn a landlord’s proposed rise. The First-tier Tribunal backed Get Living London’s proposed increase from £3,102 to £3,180 a month for a two-bedroom flat in London. The tenant appealed the […]

The Private Rented Sector (PRS) Database must be workable for landlords and letting agents, claims an industry body. Propertymark is warning the government not to duplicate information already available through selective licensing, saying it risks increasing workloads without improving standards. Under the Renters’ Rights Act, all landlords will need to sign up for the database, […]

More than half of the taxpayers required to use Making Tax Digital, including landlords and sole traders, had still not registered as the first quarterly reporting deadline arrived. That’s according to the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), citing HMRC data. It shows that just over 400,000 of around 850,000 affected taxpayers had signed up […]

Hi, I’m an accidental landlord hoping for some advice from more experienced landlords, thank you in advance. We have had a flat rented through a Guaranteed Rent agency – i.e. a Rent to Rent agreement for over a decade. We have no direct agreement with the actual tenants, just an agreement with the agency. However, […]

A low-energy home offering much lower running costs can still leave a new tenant baffled at the front door, one organisation says. Now new guidance says landlords, Build-to-Rent operators and letting agents should support residents from their first enquiry through to later tenancies. The Future Homes Hub and Good Homes Alliance said all-electric properties increasingly […]

Social housing landlords already have strong powers to deal with anti-social behaviour, the government has claimed. In a parliamentary written answer, Labour’s Baroness Taylor of Stevenage said the Crime and Policing Act had strengthened the powers available to police to deal with anti-social behaviour. The news comes as a Labour MP suggested PRS landlords should […]

As the founder of Property118, I have watched our clients spend more than two years living with HMRC allegations, discovery assessments and repeated suggestions that the incorporation arrangements they entered into after taking professional advice were somehow artificial or improper. Many of those clients incorporated because they faced genuine commercial problems involving refinancing, succession, business […]

Every business uses its assets to generate better results.  Manufacturers buy machinery to increase productivity. Retailers buy stock before they can make a sale. Developers invest in infrastructure before they build. Landlords shouldn’t be any different. The equity tied up in a property isn’t simply something to collect when the sale completes. It’s part of […]

Now that the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 has largely come into force, landlords are having to grapple with the many changes it brings. One important change is that tenants now have greater rights to challenge the rent set by their landlord. They can do this: during the first six months of a new tenancy, if […]

New building regulations due to come into force next year will require housing providers to prepare for tougher ventilation standards. Ventilation manufacturer EnviroVent has warned that the Future Homes and Buildings Standards will introduce stricter low-carbon requirements for new homes. The new regulations will apply in England from 24 March 2027 for most building work, […]

New reforms for flood-stricken homes will help, but uncertainty over eligibility remains, claims an industry body. The government has announced an overhaul of the Flood Re scheme, including cheaper contents insurance for some households. However, Propertymark warns significant gaps in eligibility remain, with rental properties continuing to be excluded from the Flood Re scheme. Further […]

Landlords searching for higher LTV finance have been handed several rate cuts from buy to let lenders, alongside greater borrowing capacity on residential bridging deals. Accord Mortgages has reduced every fixed-rate product at 80% loan-to-value (LTV) by 0.10 percentage points, while leaving its lower LTV range unchanged. Its five-year purchase fix now stands at 5.50%, […]

Landlords in Norwich could face a new licensing regime covering smaller HMOs and privately rented homes in four wards. Norwich City Council will present its private rented sector review to the scrutiny committee this week. The report says evidence could support city-wide additional licensing for three- and four-person HMOs, alongside selective licensing in Nelson, Mile […]

This article, ‘Why Labour needs a rogue tenant database to protect decent tenants‘ by Landlord Crusader, just demonstrated the Government’s extraordinary disregard for the interests of property owners. A former Conservative housing figure involved in the development of the Renters (Reform) Bill — subsequently inherited, substantially expanded by Labour and enacted as the Renters’ Rights […]

The government has confirmed that Right to Manage (RTM) companies can grant permission for pets where leases require approval and may charge fees to cover their reasonable costs. In a written parliamentary answer, Labour’s Baroness Taylor of Stevenage said that fees and administration charges must be reasonable and only cover costs that have actually been […]

AI-generated payslips, employment records and identities are making tenancy fraud harder for landlords and agents to detect. The warning comes after tenancy platform Goodlord analysed more than one million tenant references submitted over two years. It found fraudsters were moving beyond individual forged documents with fake employment references increasing by 226.6% during 2025. That is […]

Incorporating a property business can resolve several immediate commercial challenges, including liability management, refinancing flexibility, business continuity and the practicalities of bringing the next generation into a family enterprise. Incorporation does not, by itself, solve the longer-term succession problem, because a conventional company with a single class of ordinary shares places control, dividend income, existing […]

I built Property118 in the belief that, if I created a place where landlords and good professionals could share knowledge freely, the right people would come. They did. Together, we solved commercial problems that no single profession could solve alone. HMRC spent years fighting what that community created without ever properly understanding it. HMRC spent […]

Labour’s Renters’ Rights Act, which was sold as a tool for ‘levelling the playing field’ for tenants, brought into being the new Private Rented Sector database. Landlords will soon pay to register every property, upload compliance documents and sit on a system that The Lettings Industry Council (TLIC), the industry’s own advisory body, has already […]

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has announced £400,000 in funding to help tenants challenge rogue landlords. The Mayor’s Renters’ Rights Enforcement Fund will provide two organisations with funding to help tenants understand their rights and challenge rogue landlords. The remaining funding will be used to train council officers to use their powers under the Renters’ Rights […]

The government has admitted it has not carried out any assessment of the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) by tenants to help them challenge landlords and letting agents. In a written parliamentary answer, Housing Minister Baroness Taylor of Stevenage said ministers had not examined the role AI is playing in housing disputes. The news […]