Private Rental Sector Archives

Rising rental profits with increasing property yields for UK landlords

Landlord profits hit six-year high but confidence slips

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

3rd November 2025, 6 months ago | 0

Landlords across the UK are reporting their best profits and yields in years, even as confidence in the market continues...

Landlords silenced as the Renters’ Rights Bill runs out of steam

Author: Landlord Crusader

17th October 2025, 6 months ago | 52

Well, that’s that then. No glorious resistance in the House of Lords, as the Renters’ Rights Bill limps back to...

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Renters’ Rights Bill could create 1 million new pet owners

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

12th September 2025, 8 months ago | 17

Landlords are facing the prospect of the Renters’ Right Bill enabling a surge in pet ownership with up to one...

Fleet Mortgages executive discusses new rate cuts and market trends.

Fleet unveils Renters’ Rights Bill guide for landlords and advisers

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

29th August 2025, 8 months ago | 0

Fleet Mortgages has launched a comprehensive guide called ‘Getting Landlords Renters’ Rights Ready: A Guide for Advisers’. The resource aims...

Two people sit together in a rainy tent encampment, highlighting the risk of homelessness for renters.

Landlords selling up is putting tenants at risk of homelessness – NRLA

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

31st July 2025, 9 months ago | 7

A sharp rise in landlords selling their properties has left thousands of private renters in England at risk of homelessness,...

Concerned landlord reading about the Renters’ Rights Bill reforms

Nearly 40% of landlords are unprepared for Renters’ Rights Bill impact

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

25th July 2025, 9 months ago | 9

There appears to be a serious lack of understanding among self-managing landlords about the impact of the Renters’ Rights Bill...

Paragon Bank celebrates 30 years of pioneering landlord mortgages

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st July 2025, 9 months ago | 1

Paragon Bank is celebrating three decades since launching its inaugural mortgage for landlords, a move that helped shape the UK’s...

Close-up of a dial being turned to increase rental yield to high levels

Strong rental yields fuel landlord investment – Fleet

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

7th July 2025, 10 months ago | 0

Most landlords in England and Wales are enjoying robust rental yields despite minor regional fluctuations, one BTL rental barometer reveals....

An envelope with a complaints paper and a graphic with a tax document and house

Call for landlord tax incentives as social housing complaints soar

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

23rd June 2025, 10 months ago | 4

A shocking 474% increase in complaints about substandard living conditions in social housing has sparked urgent calls for a stronger...

Labour’s tax raid on landlords: A recipe for higher rents and housing chaos

Author: Landlord Crusader

23rd May 2025, 11 months ago | 21

All private landlords know the PRS is under siege, and Labour’s latest madcap tax proposals are pouring fuel on an...

Labour doesn’t like landlords but really needs us for growing numbers of asylum seekers

Author: Landlord Crusader

2nd May 2025, 12 months ago | 42

It’s bizarre, isn’t it? Landlords, already battered by a barrage of legislative changes and economic pressures, are now being asked...

Keys and a stop notice over a tenancy agreement

Tenants are quitting tenancies early believing the Renters’ Rights Bill is already law

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

1st May 2025, 12 months ago | 4

There appears to be a growing misconception among tenants that the Renters’ Rights Bill is already law to trigger a...

Property for sale and rent signs outside UK homes highlighting active rental market

PRS crisis deepens as landlords increasingly sell up

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

16th April 2025, 1 year ago | 3

Renters will increasingly struggle to find somewhere to leave as growing numbers of landlords sell up and leave the private...

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One in 10 renters with children say they face rental discrimination

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

10th April 2025, 1 year ago | 17

One in 10 parents who rent their homes report feeling discriminated against when searching for new accommodation simply because they...

A man with his hand up in front of him, PRS and I quit on a post it note,

A third of landlords consider quitting the PRS to avoid rising costs and new laws

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th April 2025, 1 year ago | 4

Nearly one in three landlords are considering quitting the private rented sector, driven by escalating maintenance costs and tougher regulations,...

Will Shelter ever step up to help tenants AND landlords?

Author: Landlord Crusader

28th March 2025, 1 year ago | 23

For many of us, the private rented sector has turned into a battlefield, and at the heart of the latest...

Providers or parasites? The vilification of landlords continues

Author: Landlord Crusader

21st March 2025, 1 year ago | 5

Two stories on Property118 on the same day manage to spell out the real issue facing PRS landlords in the...

Councils reap £327m from landlord licensing fees

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th March 2025, 1 year ago | 3

Britain’s landlords have handed over an astonishing £327,737,160 to the top 50 local authorities through property licensing schemes, research reveals....

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Rent arrears fuel one in five tenancy disputes

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

11th March 2025, 1 year ago | 0

There has been a big escalation in tenancy disputes with rent arrears now accounting for a fifth of all disagreements,...

Tenants praise landlords but call for better communication – survey

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

7th March 2025, 1 year ago | 3

A tenant survey is overturning gloomy clichés about landlords to reveal a largely upbeat relationship with 55% of renters commending...

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