Lord Richard Best (pictured) has recently suggested that the government should consider an exemption from capital gains tax if landlords sell to a housing association as a way to boost social housing ...

The government has admitted that landlords can raise rents to pay for costly EPC upgrades. Despite Energy Secretary Ed Miliband’s insistence that rents hadn’t increased when standards were raised ...

News - Helen Gregory - The Liberal Democrats have vowed to make three-year tenancies the default and to require landlords to achieve an EPC C or above by 2028.

Reasons for the target being difficult to achieve include a lack of confirmed upgrade funding for landlords, and the plan to raise the ‘minimum spend’ to £15,000 before properties can be exempted, ...

News - LandlordZONE - A legal expert has warned that ditching the 20/20 rule around selective licensing will prompt more councils to launch or expand schemes.

News - Nigel Lewis - Croydon has announced plans to bring back its selective licensing scheme after a five-year break.

News - Nigel Lewis - The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) has backed calls for better funding of councils’ housing enforcement and stronger selective licensing.

Great uncertainty surrounds the abolition of the furnished holiday let tax relief Landlords who operate furnished holiday lets (FHL) have been anxiously awaiting further guidance on the proposals put ...

Edinburgh Council has responded to accusations of double standards when housing homeless people in 30 unlicensed HMOs by moving tenants out of the properties. The authority came under fire when it was ...

News - Tom Entwistle - EPCs to be upgraded with a new method of assessment, the new "Home Energy Model", later this year ...

News - Nigel Lewis - A big South East counciil hopes to introduce a big selective licencing scheme for private landlords which would cover all PRS homes. Medway, which is a unitary authority covering ...

Explore General discussions space in LandlordZONELandlords could be forced to sell up without support to meet ambitious energy efficiency targets, decimating the pool of available properties and ...