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The Residential landlord RSS news feed delivers essential and up to date news on all matters relating to investment property, and the UK buy to let market. This feed is aimed at UK based landlords and property investors alike.

Libelled buy to let landlord calls for enquiry over police action

Colin Port, Chief Constable of Avon and Somerset Police, has denied claims made in a recent statement by buy to let landlord Chris Jefferies that officers leaked information to the press about him following his arrest on suspicion of the murder of Joanna Yeates.

PRS landlords’ activity in property market may slow down in 2012

Buy to let landlords in the Private Rented Sector (PRS) have been reshaping their portfolios during the past year with more of them buying than selling properties. But although research from the Association of...

Property investment mortgage intermediaries expect to do more buy to let business this year

A survey of intermediaries carried out by Paragon Mortgages has revealed that more than half of those questioned (53 percent) expect to do more buy to let mortgage business in 2012 than they did last...

Landlord’s tenants visit hospital after carbon monoxide scare

A landlord has been fined £8,500 and ordered to pay costs of £1,500 for failing to maintain a gas fire safely at one of his properties. David Ian Douglas-Law of Penally, Tenby, received the fine at Haverfordwest Magistrates’ Court after being prosecuted by the...

NLA sees double over landlords signing up

The number of landlords accredited through the National Landlords Association (NLA) Accreditation Scheme has more than doubled over the past year. The scheme has now accredited more than one thousand landlords since its initial launch in 2010.