Midlands council owed £3m in unpaid rent and more than £1m written off

Dudley Council was owed nearly £3m in unpaid rent at the end of the last financial year, according to its latest accounts. Arrears from current tenants amounted to £1.9m while unpaid rents from former tenants added another 917,000 to the £2.8m total. …

Getting Married? These 6 Places Let You Rent Stunning Wedding Gowns in Nigeria

Realistically, not everyone can afford to buy a wedding dress with the high cost of planning a wedding in Nigeria and the current state of the economy. While some people pass down wedding gowns from generation to generation like an heirloom, some prefer to …

Landlords who allow pets rent their homes faster, Zillow says

You see that rental listing that welcomes pets? If you blink, you might miss it. Nationwide, pet-friendly rental listings draw more attention and lease faster than ones that aren’t, according to Zillow’s analysis of more than 11 million rental listings on …

Build-to-rent trend spreads to coastal North Carolina

Inside the hidden London heliport where a 6 minute journey costs more than most pay in rent

Holidays are supposed to be relaxing. But sometimes just getting to the airport feels like a feat of endurance - gridlocked traffic, missing the last Piccadilly line train, or dealing with slow people in the line for security. It’s hardly the soothing …

10 key points of Egypt’s new ‘Old Rent Law’ amendments

Egypt’s House of Representatives, during its general session on Wednesday chaired by Counselor Hanafi al-Gebaly, approved the government’s draft law concerning certain provisions related to rental laws. This legislation aims to restructure the relationship …

Average monthly rent for private Dumfries and Galloway properties soars in two years

The average monthly rent for private properties in Dumfries and Galloway has soared in the last two years. But the region also has the lowest rent in the whole of the UK. The figures were revealed by the Office of National Statistics in their latest update …

You Will Rent and You Will be Happy

I taught in an urban planning program (at the University of New South Wales) for many years. When you mix with planners for even the shortest time, you come face to face with one of those post-modern hybrid ideological oddities.  In this case, it is called …

MVR 300k in rent from FAM warehouses, tenants unknown

The Normalization Committee of Football Association of Maldives (FAM) has said on Wednesday that the association had been receiving regular payments from rented warehouses. The warehouses are located on the ground floor of the new building of the …

Mobile home residents underwhelmed by new bill meant to squash rent hikes

In the four years since a large company bought the mobile home park where Heath Goodale lives, his monthly rent has more than doubled. Goodale’s rent was $280 when he moved into Penney Lane Estates in Bradley in 2012. His first rent bump came in September …