Creeping bureaucracy is creating a massive financial risk for landlords and agents who are managing HMOs, says Nigel Lewis.

With home working looking like it’s here to stay, Frances Burkinshaw points out that in some cases, this new norm could be breaking a tenancy agreement.

The Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018, says Jane Dockeray, PSL Counsel at Hogan Lovells, provides a real and achievable direct route of redress for tenants living in substandard conditions.

Referral fees fall under Government scrutiny but maybe offering the opportunity to improve the practice of charging referral fees by increasing transparency.

Belvoir says its partnership with Let Alliance is paying dividends as its franchisees sell more rent guarantee insurance to plug looming tenant fees ban.

A letting agent who has been jailed for a year after failing to fit smoke alarms to a property at which a house fire later killed two boys.

The looming demise of tenant fees is not your only problem, says Adam Walker, it’s time to look at the effect of long term tenancies and landlord fees.

"Councils are contributing to homelessness. Unfair? Sadly not, says Adam Walker, as they only take responsibility for a tenant once he’s out on the street."