The critical question of whether rent paid in advance is a tenant’s deposit is to be decided by the Court of Appeal. 

The Green Deal finance scheme has officially launched, bringing new obligations of disclosure for agents, sellers and landlords. 

New laws are to be introduced to tackle aggressive bailiffs in England and Wales. Likely to be implemented next year, they will ban bailiffs from entering properties when only children are present, from entering homes at night, and from using force. 

Just 100 landlords have been banned in Scotland in the last five years after the introduction of a compulsory registration scheme that has so far cost £17.4m. 

Criminal landlords, ‘rip off’ letting agent fees and longer tenancies all took centre stage in a House of Commons debate on Wednesday. 

Lenders may have to rethink their attitudes towards standard tenancies and change their terms and conditions on buy-to-let mortgages, their trade body has said. 

One in ten properties in the UK is delivering gross rental yields of 10% or more, while average yields across the country are 6.2%. 

An MP has presented his ten minute rule Bill on energy efficiency in bedsits. 

Tenants in London are paying rents that are 132% higher, and in some cases 223% more, than in the North-East. 

Landlords have been warned not to try and make false economies by saving on their insurance premiums. 

A Labour MP is due to table a Private Member’s Bill tomorrow, forcing landlords of bedsits to have to get Energy Performance Certificates. 

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