Keystone Buy to Let Mortgages has improved its lending criteria and is now offering loans up to £500,000 per property transaction to existing landlords. This represents an increase of £150,000 on its previous limit.
A debt counselling charity is warning of a huge increase in rent arrears which will keep people off the housing ladder for the foreseeable future.
A landlord has been hit with a record fine of £27,400 in the borough which is bringing in blanket landlord licensing of all 35,000 private rental properties in its patch from January 1.
A Green Deal service for landlords has been announced by the Residential Landlords Association.
A new report says that 10,000 more working families every month are now drawing housing benefit to help pay their private rent.
A landlord has been ordered to pay £53,500 after being prosecuted for putting his tenants at risk. Of that money, £40,000 has been ordered to be paid under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
A new and wide-ranging inquiry into the Private Rented Sector is to be conducted by an influential cross-party group of MPs.
Rent rises have accelerated to hit a new high – and tenant arrears have crept up.
A new national rental index launches today, targeted at investors looking to get the highest yields on their property investments.
A council in north London is offering private landlords incentives of up to £3,200 to take tenants off its waiting books.
TV personality and landlord Jasmine Harman is appealing for more rental properties to accept dogs.
The Government has once again rejected a call for regulation of landlords and letting, saying there is enough legislation already in place to protect the public.
