According to the BBC, City Hall claims that the London Rental Standard scheme, which was set up last year, is not working. Only 14,350 landlords have signed up to the scheme, which is far less than the 100,000 landlords expected to join.

Landlord licenses are a contentious issue for many, but love them or loath them, licensing schemes remain a very popular way for Local Authorities to improve standards in the private rental sector. So which areas are currently affected?

Her Majesty the Queen made the first Conservative majority speech since 1996 yesterday and it included plenty of items that are relevant to landlords and the private rental sector.

Regional rents are finally catching up to those in London, according to the latest Home Let Rental Index. The figures also show that the average rent in the UK is growing at the fastest rate since 2008, which is very encouraging for landlords and those considering buying investment properties.

The Daily Mirror reported today that families are being evicted from rental homes in record numbers. It backed up the alarming claim with figures released from the Ministry of Justice, which revealed that the number of evictions in the first quarter of 2015 was the highest for seven years; beating even the record of 2014. […]

Construction Design and Management (CDM) regulations already affect large building contractors, but as of April 6th this year, smaller renovations on residential and commercial properties will also fall under the remit of CDM legislation. What is CDM?

Even as late as yesterday evening it was uncertain whether David Cameron and the Conservatives would manage to win enough seats to secure a majority government. Overnight, however, things changed.

The Residential Landlord’s Association (RLA) is not happy with the BBC’s flagship current affairs programme, Panorama. The show recently aired an episode dealing with the issue of housing benefit payments to landlords and according to RLA chairman, Alan Ward, it once again portrayed landlords in a highly unfavourable light.

There are only two days before polling day, so if you haven’t already decided which of the parties is getting your vote, the National Landlords Association has decided to make it a bit easier for the ‘floating voters’ by compiling a helpful table of where each party stands on key landlord related policies.

Labour has unveiled a number of plans in its manifesto that will affect landlords, including rent caps, tax relief restrictions for landlords who don’t look after their buy to let properties, and making it a legal requirement for landlords to tell new tenants how much rent previous tenants paid.

Buy to let landlords have until June 23 to place deposits into a government approved deposit scheme or face having to pay a costly £3,600 fine. Government Amnesty for Landlords There is currently a 90-day amnesty in place for buy to let property investors who haven’t protected tenants’ deposits.

The National Landlords Association (NLA) has just launched a new initiative to help tenants check whether their landlord is a member of the National Register of Accredited Landlords. Good Landlords Welcome The new register will be open to all landlord accreditation schemes and any landlord who is a member of such schemes, can join.

With a general election looming just around the corner, it is time to start thinking about which party gets your vote (if you haven’t already decided). But which party has the best interests of UK landlords at heart? Rentify Landlords Survey A new survey by Rentify has revealed

A leading lettings expert has spoken out against the growing trend for investing in residential property via crowdfunding schemes. Instead he urges would-be investors to stick to the traditional sources of funding and become proper landlords.