The buy to let market is undergoing "a profound transformation" Imran Hussain of Harmony Financial Services is quoted as saying. Lewis Shaw of Shaw Financial Services says that "Increasingly, amateur landlords are calling it a day .... they can ask agents whet the market value of a property is and then sell directly to the tenants to avoid any agent's fees."

Immediately after publication of the Govt white paper on rental reform in England the National Residential Landlord Association surveyed 3,500 landlords and says the results show that "Almost 90% of landlords feel the .... white paper .... demonstrates an anti-landlord agenda."

In an appeal, before the Upper Tier Tribunal, by Waltham Forest Council against a First Tier Tribunal ruling on a negative Fit & Proper Person (to hold a selective licence or HMO licence) decision made by the Council, the Council has only partly won it's appeal.

The LGA has, in a consultation response to a Government draft National Air Pollution Control Programme, again raised concerns about funding of Local Authority regulatory services and the shortage of skilled council officers.

The National Residential Landlords Association has raised concerns over the call made by Natalie Elphicke MP for a 2 year private rented sector rent freeze In England in an article that she wrote for the Conservative Home website.

If in England we don't have a proper home insulation and energy efficiency upgrade plan then, effectively, the money about to be thrown at the energy price freeze by the new Govt may not actually count for much in the long term says new analysis.

A report by the Northern Housing Consortium (NHC) has shown that 37.6% of private rented sector homes in Yorkshire are non-decent whilst the national average is 22% nationally and the average across the North as a whole is 30%. This at a time when Yorkshire is the region most heavily dependent on the PRS for housing provision.

Simon Clarke MP, previously a minister for Local Government has been made Secretary of State at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities in new Prime Minister Liz Truss's new Cabinet.

The LGA has responded to the Government's launch of the public consultation on a decent homes standard for the private rented sector.

A Judge has told a landlord prosecuted by Waltham Forest council for property licence application fraud that "the only thing you are sorry for is you've been caught."