Research carried out for Direct Line business insurance appears to show that 24% of private rented sector landlords don't feel on top of and suffer stress brought on by the pace of regulatory change in the sector.

A private sector landlord in Ilford has been fined $45,000 and ordered to pay council costs of almost £14,500 with the District Judge at Stratford Magistrates Court stating that the landlord had caused a "significant degree of harm" to his tenants.

The Dept for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities is urging households to prepare for receiving the £150 portion of their energy bill rebate designed to help with the rise in cost of energy bills from April.

46% of private rented sector tenants are unsure of the energy performance rating of the home that they live in according to a survey of 2,048 tenants carried out on behalf of the NRLA.

The Home Office has announced that the end date for the temporary adjusted right to rent check process put in place due to the pandemic...

Camden Council has secured banning orders against 4 rogue landlords operating an unlicensed and unsafe HMO in the Kilburn area of the borough.

The CIEH and the CTSI (Chartered Trading Standards Institute) have jointly written to Minister of State at DLUHC, Kemi Badenoch MP warning that a shortfall of qualified officers could critically affect frontline Local Authority regulatory services that protect the public and ensure safe housing food and products for consumers as well as providing environmental protection.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has announced a new "Better Renting" training qualification for London's borough housing officers enabling them to supplement housing enforcement teams affected by shortages of qualified and experienced environmental health officers.

Originally set to close on 5th January then extended to 4th February, Lewisham Council's Selective Licensing consultation was restarted on 21st January and set to close in May.

The Government is asking private landlords to pledge offers of suitable accommodation to people evacuated from Afghanistan to the UK. Over 300 Local Authorities have already offered homes and private landlords are seen as being able to support those authorities with further housing offers from the private rented sector.

Coventry council is planning to institute an Article 4 direction to restrict residential property conversions that create more houses in multiple occupation.

The Government has proposed new amendments to the Building Safety Bill designed to protect leaseholders and private landlords in residential blocks above 11 meters which, if passed into law, will force property developers and cladding manufacturers/installers to pay for historic cladding problems.

In a guidance update on the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act 2022 for residential leaseholders, the Department for Levelling up, Housing and Communities has said that it will use civil penalties including fines of up to £30,000 against freeholders who charge ground rent in contravention of the Act.

The requirement for private rented properties to have an EPC rating of at least C from 2025/26 onwards appears to now be changing significantly the purchasing behaviour of buy to let landlords.

According to new research by the national residential landlords association (NRLA) 56% of english local authorities don't record the number of complaints they receive related to private rented accommodation.

The Home Office is asking for input from private rented sector landlords and letting agents on amending the unlawful discrimination provisions in the Right to Rent Code of Practice for Landlords carrying out such right to rent checks.

The Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) bill is now an Act of Parliament. This means that once the act comes into force (in 6 months) new leaseholds will be subject to a "peppercorn rent", in other words the ground rent will be a nominal amount.

A landlord, described as a "slum landlord" has been fined a total of £57, 577.92 including £5k per offence, costs and a victim surcharge by Reading magistrates.

After changing his plea to guilty the landlord of an HMO property in Newport, Wales, had his fine for operating an unlicensed HMO reduced from £16,000 to £14,000 and was ordered to pay costs of over £3000 and a victim surcharge of £180.

An article in The Guardian has quoted Hackney MP, Meg Hillier, as being worried that many HMO tenants may not receive the fuel bill rebate promised by Chancellor Rishi Sunak because their council tax is bundled up within the rent payment that they make to their landlord.

Only 61 criminal landlords have been placed on the Rogue Landlord Database since its set up in April 2018. This is 61 out of an estimated (by the Government as justification for the database) 10,500 operating in the private rented sector nationally. The number was provided by housing minister Eddie Hughes MP to Labour MP Gill Furniss's 25 January 2022 request for an update on the current number of entries on the database.

The release of the Govt's white paper on its Levelling Up agenda has been met with mixed reviews, certainly with regard to the plans to improve property standards in the private rented sector...

Islington Council's public consultation on re-designating its existing selective licensing scheme (which began 1st February 2020) closes on 27th March 2022.

Govt releases Levelling Up White Paper with plan to end S21 evictions, crackdown on rogue landlords, consult on a national private landlord register, make all PRS homes Decent Home Standard compliant and reduce sub standard PRS homes 50% by 2030...

The public consultation on reforming the english and welsh leasehold and commonhold system closes on 22nd February 2022.

Updated guidance on how to contact and communicate with the green homes grant scheme which includes advice on how to make an enquiry, a complaint or submit an appeal has been published.

Redbridge Council's public consultation on the proposal to renew its additional houses in multiple occupation scheme closes on 7th March 2022.