Estate Agent Hamptons warns of financial pressures involving cost of living increases for private tenants.

The Levelling Up, Housing & Communities select committee, made up of backbench MPs, has said that [buy to let] "landlords are no more to blame than other leaseholders for historic .... safety defects"

Walsall Borough Council have started a public consultation on a new proposed additional licensing scheme covering 5 wards in the town.

In a 2nd February 2022 decision by the Upper Tier Tribunal (Lands Chamber) in Global 100 Ltd v Jimenez & Ors the tribunal dismissed an appeal by Global 100 Ltd against the First Tier Tribunal decision that an empty office building occupied by Property Guardians was an unlicensed HMO and subject to a £6,251.85 rent repayment order.

On top of other forces causing a squeeze on household incomes this year the conflict in Ukraine, according to a new report by the Resolution Foundation think tank, could cause a further £1000 drop in non-pensioner household income this year as compared with 2020/2021.

Minster for Rough Sleeping and Housing, Eddie Hughes MP, has written to english Local Authority leaders about the rough sleeping "snapshot" carried out annually by the Govt.

A Burnley landlord has pleaded guilty to 4 counts of being "a person managing a house .... required to be licensed under Part 3 of the Housing Act 2004, but which was not so licensed".

Govt guidance on how people can complain about the service they have received from the DWP directly or an organisation that provides public services on behalf of the DWP.

Research carried out on behalf of the NRLA project that London will need 83,000 new private rented homes to meet current Govt targets and satisfy growing demand from renters.

Although the Green Homes Grant Scheme has closed (to new applicants) there are still home owners or landlords who will need to redeem grant vouchers so that contractors who, under the grant scheme, installed energy efficiency upgrades in a dwelling can be paid.