Tenants in private rented housing are bearing the brunt of the Government’s focus on boosting home ownership at the expense of the rental market, according to a landlord organisation. The Residential Landlords Association points out that the latest figures from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) show that there has been a fall in the supply of private ...

A survey by the Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has found that private landlords were five times more likely to use Section 21 than Section 8, despite the latter intended to be used where the tenant is unreliable or disruptive. Where they have been forced to use Section 21, poor tenant behaviour is usually the catalyst; 83 per cent of those who used Section 21 ...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) and the National Landlords Association (NLA) have announced their intention to unite to create a single organisation for landlords after more than 20 years of friendly competition. The new Association will have a membership of more than 80,000 landlords making it by far the largest organisation in the private rented sector (PRS). ...