SpareRoom has called on the Chancellor to lift the £7,500 Rent a Room threshold in this week’s Budget as lodger rooms fell 1.4 percent to 29 percent of flatshare supply.
Sefton Council has secured £22,477 in rent repayment orders against landlord Robert Edwards after the First-tier Tribunal ruled four homes were let without selective licences.
Connells and LRG warn the Renters Rights Act one-month cap on rent in advance is locking nurses, poor-credit renters and international students out of lets.
Gateshead Council has fined a landlord £3,600 for serving a Section 21 notice after the 1 May 2026 ban, cutting the penalty to £3,060 for early payment and warning further cases are under review.
The UK House Price Index shows annual growth slowed to 0.9 percent in August with the average home at £273,000, as London prices fell 2.2 percent and the North East led growth at 3.2 percent.
Houseprice.AI analysis of 21.2m certificates finds 161,000 private lets cannot reach EPC band C even with every recommended improvement, with one in five inner London rentals affected ahead of the 2030 deadline.
Housing minister Matthew Pennycook confirms councils must make landlord licensing registers available for public inspection with certified copies on request, but they are not required to publish them online.
The UK Government has opened an ability to charge consultation for England, giving tenants a clearer route to install EV charge points with a 16 December 2026 deadline.
UK Finance reports 58,051 new buy-to-let loans worth £10.7 billion in Q2 2026, up 21 percent by number on a year earlier, with remortgages leading and arrears down 26 percent.
Spencer West partner Lisa Wilson has urged the Chancellor to cut stamp duty on additional properties in the 28 October Budget to clear a backlog of unsold ex-rental homes left empty after the pre-deadline Section 21 sell-off.
Winkworth says landlords now seek a sale valuation at every void as the Renters Rights Act bars sale evictions in year one; three tenants register per buyer in prime London.
The Cabinet Office has confirmed rogue Hounslow landlord Nirpaul Riat has been stripped of his OBE after a £300,000 court penalty for letting illegally converted homes, closing a three-year council campaign for forfeiture.
