Lettings
Labour reiterates promise to ban letting agent fees
Miliband's rent control proposals also under fire
Lettings
Finance
Landlords being wooed by record number of buy-to-let mortgages
Competition increasing among lenders as rental market demand increases
Law
New snooping powers on tenants under attack as going too far
Information about benefits tenants to be made available to social, but not private, landlords
Finance
Bosses asked to lend rental deposit money interest-free to employees
Scheme running in London expected to be rolled out nationally
Lettings
BBC programme to highlight issues with tenants on benefits
Tonight's Inside Out to show how evicted tenant owing £6,000 went straight to council for rehousing
Agency
Sequence set to become fastest growing letting agent
Connells-owned firm to open 75 new lettings branches this year
Compliance
Ex-letting agent boss banned after deposits scandal
Letting agent of collapsed firm took money for benefit of business
Compliance
Too much? Tenants paying £1,700 upfront each time they move
Tenants struggling with costs at start of each tenancy raise queries over fees
Law
Lost in France: French landlords hang on to UK properties
Landlords based abroad sign up to tenancy deposit protection
Acquisitions
Countrywide’s buying spree of letting agents set to continue
Chain spent £40m last year on acquiring 29 businesses – and wants more
Lettings
City where new rents rose 45% last year
New rents rise across UK but with startling variations from town to town
Lettings
Rents still going up, according to LSL
Rents up 3% year on year as demand is hotter than expected
Lettings
Landlords call for voluntary schemes – to let councils go after rogues
Residential Landlords Association launches 'manifesto' aimed at all parties
Law
Tenants should get refunds if properties are unsound, call
Citizens Advice says tenants should have legal right to rent repayments
Lettings
Most Scottish tenants ‘happy with their homes’
And rent rises during term of tenancy are rare
Lettings
Letting agents in revolt over rent controls proposals
Scottish agents also object to proposals to end 'no fault' ground for possession
Lettings
New rents in Scotland jump nearly 8% in a year
Soaring new rents underline need for more home building, says portal boss
Law
Agent and landlord hit with huge bill over illegal HMO
Agent will have to pay over £33,000 after admitting 13 offences
Lettings
Ministers slated over flood insurance scheme which omits rented homes
Tenants could be left homeless if landlords cannot afford insurance, warns landlord body
Agency
Landlords’ Barometer #8: coming up, a year of two halves
Here are some of the trending topics of interest to landlords – and agents