Published today by ARLA Propertymark, the report predicts that up to half a million rental homes could be taken out of the traditional sector as landlords tire of increasing regulations and taxes.

Figures released by HMRC suggest that over 120 constituencies could lose their incumbent MPs should local landlords vote against the Conservatives.

Jeremy Corbyn has made the unusual step of personally defending two of his party’s most radical housing policies – rent caps and an annual ‘MOT’ for rented properties backed up by a…

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.

Claim is made by Residential Landlords Association after it looked at schemes in US, Italy, Sweden and Germany all of which made renting more difficult.

Judges were particularly impressed by Dixon’s ‘strong and innovative leadership’ of the RLA ahead of its merger with the NLA.

Landlords have backed plans for its two largest representative bodies to merge to provide a stronger voice for the private rented sector.

Professor David Miles says Stamp Duty increases and mortgage relief reductions have not helped first time buyers get onto the property ladder, as the government hoped.