A property management company had its £5,000 selective licensing enforcement fine quashed after court found council had not followed process.

The RLA says the regulations that letting agents and landlords must comply with have increased by a third since 2010 and has called for licensing schemes to be scrapped.

GetRentr receives financial backing from London lettings agency, leading City investment firm and several private investors.

Liverpool’s citywide rental property licensing scheme is helping improve standards within the city just seven months after it began, Liverpool City Council has claimed. It says anti-social behaviour in ‘targeted’ streets has dropped…