NRLA says twice the number of landlords are planning to sell up compared to those hoping to expand their portfolios.

The NRLA says both sides need more financial help, but Generation Rent claims 55,000 face losing their homes as possession hearings restart, albeit in a limited way.

Report by Lewis Shand Smith and a major housing policy think tank proposes several radical changes for agents and landlords within the private rented sector.

Changes to government's Covid legislation give several concessions to agents and landlords looking to evict tenants, but still require a six-month notice period until March next year.

Usually opposed organisations have come together to highlight how thousands of tenants are 'falling through gaps' and that system of grants and loans is needed urgently.

Landlords and tenants are squaring off this week as the end to the evictions ban looms just a week away - and many wonder if the government will extend it.

David Smith has made the controversial remarks in a blog written for JMW Solicitors, who he works for after leaving Anthony Gold earlier this year.

High profile industry players offer guidance to landlords and tenants in an attempt to slow the rent arrears train coming down the track.