Letting industry professional association Propertymark has said that a quarter of a million households have been lost from the private rented sector since 2017 and links this huge loss, in part, to the growth in the short term holiday lets market.

Wolverhampton council has successfully prosecuted a landlord for breaching HMO housing management regulations.

In September 2021 council officers entered the property with a warrant and found it to be in "intensive occupation"by tenants with separate rooms with locks on the doors, on separate contracts and with shared facilities but the property was no licensed as an HMO.

Writing for the BRE, Helen Garrett (national government data and insights lead) says that local authorities are key to ensuring that support reaches the most vulnerable groups but need to identify people in those groups, work out what are the most effective energy efficiency improvements and then decide how to deliver those improvements.

New research by the Ocasa rental platform seems to show that, for the time being at least, the private rented sector continues to be the preferred pick for many investors. The research shows that the rate of growth in the number of homes in the UK over the last decade was 7.5%, the rate of growth in PRS over the same period was 12.2%.

The national residential landlords association has put forward a solution that they say will streamline workloads for landlords and make it easier for the "vast majority of compliant landlords to prove to tenants what they already do, namely providing decent and safe housing" and that those landlords who don't so prove their bona fides "will have no option but to shape up or ship out."

A banning order has been granted against a landlord in Cambridge who was found guilty of "failing to comply with legal instruction to keep his tenants safe.".

The government has released its latest (2021) english landlord survey. Whilst unlikely to reach the top of the literary best seller lists the survey does provide a revealing snapshot of landlords operating in the private rented sector in the country.

In an ongoing crackdown on non compliant landlords with properties inside Doncaster's Edlington selective licence area, the council has issued 5 fines to landlords for licence breaches. The council says the fines handed out ranged from £500 to £2,940 and were imposed on landlords who failed to provide licence "compliance documents" when requested by the council.

Nottingham city council's executive board has approved a proposal for a new selective licence scheme to start in 2023 when its current scheme comes to an end. The city has a private rented sector estimated at just over 45,000 properties with a growth in size since 2011 from 25% of properties to 33% in 2021.

A new report from the county councils network (CCN) produced in collaboration with transformation and improvement specialists, Newton, claims that the Govt has underestimated the costs of new social care reforms to go live in 2023 until 2032 by around £10 billion.