Property

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3 Feb 2016

Selective private rented property licensing is coming

Landlords in designated areas must ensure they hold a valid PRPL or face serious consequences, warns Brie Stevens-Hoare QC

27 Oct 2015

Rent control may harm, not help, tenants

Mandatory limits on housing rents might seem like the obvious solution to rising prices, but other approaches can do more to protect both landlords and tenants, says Lisa Evans

27 Oct 2015

Foxtons: Following industry standards?

Will an action against Foxtons for breaches of duty improve fee transparency, asks Chris Haan

26 Oct 2015

Rogue landlords

Government determined to crack down on rogue landlords

17 Sept 2015

Dreamland and Banksy in the High Court

Who owned the rare Banksy mural: the landlord or the tenant? Andrew Bruce, Tim Maxwell, and Becky Shaw discuss

10 Aug 2015

The wild west of letting agent regulation

While new measures offer welcome protection to consumers from rogue letting agents, there is still some way to go, believes Tessa Shepperson

27 Jul 2015

Infographics: Property possession

Private landlords are increasingly willing to give up on unpaid rent in favour of evicting tenants more quickly

23 Jul 2015

Landlords forego unpaid rent to evict tenants sooner

'They simply don't have the time to go through the potentially lengthy process of recovering unpaid rent'