PropTech firm Rentals United aims to disrupt the short-let market with a property damage protection service paid for by a small nightly fee.
Short-term let landlords in Edinburgh have won a third successful challenge against the council’s licensing scheme.
MPs are pushing the government to introduce a licensing scheme for short-term lets in England.
The government is considering a further crackdown on short-term lets in a bid to free up more homes for local people.
Holiday let owners are facing a significant dip in bookings this year as the sector feels the effects of the cost-of-living crisis, poor weather and an increasingly saturated market.
Hackney Council has promised landlords financial support to stay in the PRS while beefing up licensing and getting tough on short-term lets.
Generation Rent has called for even stronger action to be taken against holiday lets which it says have been “making life a misery” for renters in the UK’s most popular tourist destinations.
Former Lib Dems leader Tim Farron has slammed Airbnb and other holiday lets platforms for creating a ‘clearance’ of long-term rental homes from his Lakeland constituency.
