The Better Renting programme will develop tools and a website to improve landlord compliance in Greater Manchester, where almost 250,000 households rent privately.

The intermediary-only lender is cutting buy-to-let rates from Thursday, led by a two-year fix at 6.02%.

Ceta's panel now has four insurers, with three more products due in the coming weeks.

The new partnership puts a deposit alternative and a guarantor product inside COHO's shared-living application.

Tide puts the lost time at £1,778 per business, or around £1.5bn across 864,000 qualifying businesses.

BTL remortgage searches rose 34% month on month and are 4% higher than a year ago.

Under the new rules, landlords must have a competent person investigate damp and mould reports within 10 working days.

Four factors are behind the caution: wariness, rising costs, new regulations and the wish to keep good tenants.

Average annual rental yields in England and Wales rose from 7.5% in Q3 2025 to 7.9% in Q3 2026.

Hiten Ganatra, managing director, Visionary Finance, argues that landlord protection insurance can stop a death or serious illness from forcing a hurried sale of rental properties.