Here is another warning about buy-to-let investors who have sold up and not told the taxman about their profits. They can expect to receive penalty letters from HMRC. 

There has been a huge rise in the number of rental properties on the London market, agents Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward have reported. 

A new comparison website has been launched for buy-to-let property owners looking for insurance. 

A friend of mine was seeking advice on dealing with the fallout of a badly placed tenant in his property and I found myself handling the situation and questioning how it had become in the first place. 

A legal firm has added its weight to calls for the regulation of letting agents – after a landlord client was left high and dry by an agent that went off with the rent money. 

Asking prices for properties new to the market have shot up to hit an all-time record high for March, boosted by buy-to-let investors “piling into the market”. 

Lloyds buy-to-let subsidiary BM Solutions is to start lending to landlords who let Houses in Multiple Occupation properties to students. 

Shelter is running a campaign for people to sign an online petition urging more lenders to lend to buy-to-let landlords who take benefits tenants. 

A new buy-to-let mortgage has been launched by Hinckley & Rugby Building Society. It is available exclusively through brokers. 

Rents nudged down across England and Wales by just 0.1% in February – but they were still 3.3% higher than the year before. 

Almost two-thirds of private tenants are struggling or falling behind with their rent, claims a new survey by Shelter. But the slant it has put on its findings has been called into question. 

The All Party Parliamentary Group for the Private Rented Sector is launching an inquiry into how to improve standards and how to regulate the private rented sector.