40 UK property experts every landlord should follow in 2026

Written by the August editorial team. Last reviewed: June 2026.

The UK property sector produces an enormous volume of commentary, and not all of it is worth your time. This guide identifies forty people whose work genuinely shapes how landlords, investors, agents, journalists, and policymakers think about property in Britain, grouped into eight disciplines: policy, law, data and market analysis, finance, podcasts and education, agency, journalism, and mainstream media. We have given particular weight to voices whose output matters to self-managing residential landlords navigating the largest period of regulatory change in a generation. The Renters’ Rights Act came into force on 1 May 2026, and Making Tax Digital for Income Tax began in April 2026 for landlords earning above £50,000. These are the people worth following as that landscape settles.

How we chose this list

We selected for substance rather than follower count. Each person here produces work that informs decisions a self-managing landlord actually has to make, whether on possession, tax, financing, compliance, or market timing, and several are practising landlords themselves. The list spans eight disciplines so that a landlord can find the right voice for a specific question rather than a single general feed. Entries are grouped by discipline and ordered alphabetically by surname within each group. We have aimed for accuracy as at the date below, so if you spot an error, or a voice we have missed, please get in touch.

Policy and landlord representation

The people setting out the landlord position to government and translating legislation into what it means in practice. For the underlying reforms, see our Renters’ Rights Act guide and our overview of the best landlord associations for UK landlords.

Ben Beadle

Ben Beadle is chief executive of the National Residential Landlords Association, the UK’s largest trade body for private landlords, representing over 110,000 members across England and Wales. He is the most prominent lobbying voice for the sector, regularly giving evidence to parliamentary committees, appearing in broadcast media, and publishing detailed responses to government consultations. His work on the Renters’ Rights Act, scrutinising the legislation clause by clause and pushing for workable implementation, has been the most substantive engagement with the reforms from the landlord side. Beadle is also a practising landlord, which gives his commentary a credibility that purely professional advocates sometimes lack. Any self-managing landlord who wants to understand what is happening in policy terms should follow the NRLA’s output and Beadle’s public statements closely.

Landlord law and possession

With Section 21 abolished, possession now runs through Section 8 grounds, which makes accurate legal guidance more valuable than ever. Our guide to Section 8 notices in 2026 sets out the new framework these specialists explain in depth.

Paul Shamplina

Paul Shamplina is the founder of Landlord Action, the UK’s leading tenant eviction and housing legal service, and one of the most widely recognised faces of landlord legal support in the country. He has appeared in television documentaries, written extensively on possession proceedings, and trained thousands of landlords on their legal rights and obligations. His knowledge of the eviction process, including Section 8 grounds, court timelines, bailiff procedures, and the practical realities of recovering a property from a non-paying or problem tenant, is unmatched for public accessibility. With the abolition of Section 21 from 1 May 2026, his expertise in Section 8 possession has become more immediately relevant than ever. For any landlord facing a tenancy that is going wrong, his work at Landlord Action is a first port of call.

Tessa Shepperson

Tessa Shepperson is a solicitor and the founder of Landlord Law, one of the UK’s leading specialist resources for landlord and tenant legal matters. She has written about landlord law for over two decades and is widely regarded as one of the clearest and most accessible legal voices on the technical detail of tenancy law. Her Landlord Law blog and membership platform provide detailed, regularly updated guidance on everything from tenancy agreements and deposit protection to the procedural requirements for Section 8 possession claims. In a sector where legal missteps are expensive and compliance obligations are multiplying, her ability to translate complex housing law into practical guidance that non-lawyers can use makes her one of the most genuinely useful resources available. Her work tracking the Renters’ Rights Act through Parliament and explaining its implications has been exemplary.

David Smith

David Smith is a solicitor and one of the UK’s leading specialists in residential landlord and tenant law and HMO regulation. He has worked in this area for nearly two decades, writing extensively on housing law, providing specialist training to landlords and letting agents, and contributing to The Times and other publications. His knowledge of the Housing Act, selective and additional licensing, HMO standards, and the detail of possession law is among the deepest available from any practitioner who also communicates publicly. For landlords managing HMOs, properties in licensing areas, or facing complex tenancy disputes, his published guidance represents some of the most technically reliable material available outside a formal legal engagement. The passage of the Renters’ Rights Act has made his work more relevant than ever.

Data and market analysis

The people who ground property decisions in evidence rather than anecdote. To turn their market reads into figures for your own portfolio, our rental yield calculator is a useful companion, and for the sentiment they track, see why some private landlords are leaving the sector.

Richard Donnell

Richard Donnell is Executive Director of Research at Zoopla, a role he has held since the acquisition of Hometrack by ZPG in 2017. With twenty-five years of experience advising boards and government on residential and mortgage markets, he is one of the most frequently cited housing market analysts in the UK media. His regular research on rental trends, house price movements, and the supply and demand dynamics of the private rented sector is among the most data-rich freely available output in the sector. Donnell has been particularly clear-eyed on the Renters’ Rights Act, arguing that long-term landlords have less to fear from the reforms than the media narrative often suggests, while acknowledging the genuine operational challenges they create. For landlords who want to ground decisions in data, his Zoopla research is essential.

Kate Faulkner OBE

Kate Faulkner OBE is managing director of Propertychecklists.co.uk and one of the UK’s most independent and rigorous property market analysts. She received her OBE for services to the housing industry and is one of a small number of commentators who engage systematically with all the major house price indices, including Halifax, Nationwide, Land Registry, Rightmove, and Zoopla, rather than selectively citing whichever supports a predetermined conclusion. Her analysis of what the indices actually mean, how they differ methodologically, and what they do and do not tell us about local conditions is some of the most useful free commentary available. For landlords trying to understand whether their local market is moving in their favour, her work and her media appearances are a reliable starting point.

Gráinne Gilmore

Gráinne Gilmore is Director of Research and Insight at Cluttons, having previously served as head of research at Zoopla and, before that, as head of UK residential research at Knight Frank for eight years. She began her career as an award-winning financial and economics journalist at The Times, spending eleven years there before moving into market analysis. That background gives her an unusual ability to communicate complex housing data in a way that stays accessible without losing analytical rigour. Her work at Cluttons covers residential, commercial, and infrastructure assets, but her commentary on the residential market and the private rented sector remains among the most credible in the sector. For landlords who follow housing data closely, her research is worth tracking.

Neal Hudson

Neal Hudson is the founder of BuiltPlace, an independent research consultancy focused on the UK housing market. Many property journalists and analysts regard him as one of the most rigorous and independent data sources in the sector, combining granular analysis of housebuilding, planning, and housing finance with clear, accessible commentary on what the numbers mean. His charts are widely shared across property media, and he contributes regularly to broadcast and print journalism on housing questions. Because he does not work for a developer, portal, or estate agency with a commercial interest in any particular market narrative, his analysis carries particular weight at a time when much housing commentary is produced by parties with an interest in its conclusions.

Henry Pryor

Henry Pryor is a buying agent and one of the UK’s most recognisable independent property market commentators, frequently quoted in national newspapers and appearing on BBC radio and television. His commentary is notable for taking contrarian positions and for challenging the narrative promoted by estate agencies and property portals, whose interests he regards, correctly, as not always aligned with those of buyers, sellers, or investors. Pryor has no institutional interest in any particular market direction, which makes his analysis more honest than much of the commentary produced by parties commercially exposed to transaction volumes. For landlords trying to read the direction of the sales and rental markets without the noise, he is one of the most useful voices to follow.

Jonathan Rolande

Jonathan Rolande is a property buyer and National Association of Property Buyers spokesman who has become one of the more prominent and accessible commentators on the UK housing market in mainstream broadcast media. He appears regularly on the BBC, Sky, and ITV, giving plain-English commentary on house prices, market activity, and regulatory change, often in slots where the audience is general rather than specialist. His commentary is grounded in operational experience as a buyer and investor rather than purely analytical observation, which gives it a practical dimension that research-based commentary sometimes lacks. For landlords looking for a clear, unspun read on market conditions from someone actively transacting, Rolande is a useful voice.

Finance, mortgage, and insurance

The people who explain the financing and risk environment that shapes landlord returns. For practical guidance alongside their commentary, see our guide to choosing a buy-to-let mortgage broker.

Mark Harris

Mark Harris is chief executive of SPF Private Clients, one of the UK’s leading mortgage brokers, and one of the most frequently quoted mortgage market commentators in the national press. He provides regular commentary on interest rate movements, buy-to-let mortgage availability, and the implications of lender policy changes for landlords and investors. His analysis is particularly useful when the mortgage market is moving quickly, because he combines a high-level view of market direction with specific knowledge of what lenders are actually offering. For landlords with mortgaged properties, understanding the financing environment matters as much as understanding the regulatory one, and Harris is one of the clearest voices on it.

David Hollingworth

David Hollingworth is associate director of communications at L&C Mortgages and one of the UK’s best-known mortgage commentators. He appears regularly on television and radio and contributes to a wide range of national publications, making him one of the most recognisable names in mortgage journalism. His particular strength is explaining the implications of base rate changes and lender decisions for homeowners and buy-to-let investors in accessible language, which is more valuable than it sounds given how much poorly understood commentary on interest rates circulates. For landlords reassessing their financing, or deciding what product to fix into and for how long, Hollingworth is consistently one of the more reliable guides available.

Eddie Hooker

Eddie Hooker is chief executive of Hamilton Fraser, the parent company of Total Landlord Insurance and mydeposits, one of the UK’s government-approved tenancy deposit schemes. His dual role at the intersection of landlord insurance and deposit compliance makes him one of the most practically relevant voices for self-managing landlords. Total Landlord Insurance has won the Smart Money People Insurance Choice Award for Best Landlord Insurance Provider six consecutive times, a record that reflects genuine customer satisfaction rather than marketing spend. His commentary on what the Renters’ Rights Act means for insurance, particularly around rent guarantee cover, malicious damage, and the extended exposure created by the abolition of Section 21, is some of the most operationally useful available. For landlords reviewing their cover, his work at Hamilton Fraser is a direct resource.

Andrew Montlake

Andrew Montlake is chief executive of Coreco, one of London’s best-known mortgage brokers, and one of the most media-visible mortgage advisers in the country. He appears regularly on broadcast and digital media commenting on interest rates, lending criteria, and the buy-to-let mortgage market. His commentary is particularly useful for landlords thinking about refinancing or restructuring portfolio finance, because he combines market-wide analysis with a broker’s practical understanding of what lenders will actually do. Montlake has been outspoken on the structural challenges facing buy-to-let landlords, including rising mortgage costs, stricter stress tests, and the withdrawal of some lenders from the sector, and his work helps landlords judge whether the financing environment is moving in their favour.

Podcasts, education, and community

The people producing the deepest freely available education and the busiest peer communities. If self-management is your aim, our roundup of the best property management software for landlords pairs well with their output.

Raj Beri

Raj Beri brings an unusual background to UK property, having worked as a pharmaceutical scientist before moving into full-time property investment more than fifteen years ago. He is co-editor of Your Property Network magazine, one of the UK’s most respected publications for active investors, and a mentor who has worked with over 120 investors on their strategies. His particular expertise is buy-to-let yield maximisation, including the Local Housing Allowance strategy, which he has championed as a credible and frequently overlooked route to cash flow. Beri’s data-driven, scientifically rigorous approach distinguishes him from the motivational end of the property education market. For landlords interested in building genuine returns rather than simply collecting properties, his work is worth seeking out.

Rob Bence

Rob Bence is co-founder of Property Hub and co-host of The Property Podcast alongside Rob Dix. The podcast has consistently ranked in the top five of the Apple UK business charts and has accumulated over 300,000 monthly downloads and more than 1,000 five-star reviews, making it the most listened-to property podcast in the country by a considerable margin. Bence’s contribution extends beyond the podcast, since he runs the investment consultancy arm of the business, managing hundreds of transactions each year, which keeps the analysis on the show grounded in live market activity rather than theory. His particular strength is translating complex investment decisions, including where to buy, how to structure a portfolio, and when to refinance, into accessible, practical language for investors at every level.

Ranjan Bhattacharya

Ranjan Bhattacharya is the founder of the Baker Street Property Meet, a long-running monthly London event that has become one of the most respected networking and education forums in the UK property investment community. He also runs a YouTube channel with a substantial following, hosting interviews with accountants, letting specialists, mortgage brokers, and experienced investors that function as some of the most detailed free education available on topics such as HMO strategy, limited company structures, and capital gains tax planning. He is particularly valued for engaging with the mechanics of investment, the tax implications, the financing structures, and the exit strategies, rather than the lifestyle narrative that characterises much property content. For landlords thinking seriously about how to structure or grow a portfolio, his output is some of the most substantive freely available material in the sector.

Rob Dix

Rob Dix is co-founder of Property Hub, co-host of The Property Podcast, and the author of four books on property investment, including The Price of Money and Seven Myths About Money. He describes himself as a property geek, and his analysis is methodical, evidence-based, and sceptical of the promotional thinking that runs through parts of the education market. The Property Podcast, which he presents with Rob Bence, has published over 500 episodes covering everything from the basics of buy-to-let finance to the 18-year property cycle and the implications of the Renters’ Rights Act. His strength is examining contested questions, such as whether a region is overvalued or whether a strategy suits a particular investor, without retreating into vague encouragement. For landlords who want to think carefully rather than react to noise, his books and the podcast back catalogue are among the most useful resources available.

Mike Stenhouse

Mike Stenhouse founded the Inside Property Investing podcast in 2015 and built it into one of the most substantial independent property investment resources in the UK, producing over 420 episodes across a decade before stepping back from regular publishing in 2025. At its peak the show provided weekly interviews with experienced investors, developers, and specialists, covering strategies from HMO management and serviced accommodation to commercial conversion and portfolio scaling. The back catalogue remains one of the most comprehensive freely available resources for investors, covering nearly every aspect of UK residential investment strategy in substantial depth. For landlords working through a specific strategic question, whether to incorporate, how to manage multiple tenancies, or what the move from buy-to-let to HMO involves, there is almost certainly a relevant episode in the archive.

Vanessa Warwick

Vanessa Warwick is the co-founder of Property Tribes, one of the UK’s most active online communities for landlords and property investors. She launched the forum in 2009 and built it into a platform where tens of thousands of landlords exchange practical advice, share regulatory updates, and support each other through the challenges of self-management. Warwick is also a practising landlord, which gives her commentary an operational grounding that purely analytical voices lack. Property Tribes has become an important informal barometer of landlord sentiment, reflecting what the community is worried about, which strategies are gaining traction, and which questions are being asked, to the point that policymakers and journalists treat it as a meaningful data source in its own right. For self-managing landlords, the forum is one of the most useful peer resources available.

Agency and lettings

Senior practitioners whose view from inside the lettings industry helps self-managing landlords benchmark good practice.

Maxine Fothergill

Maxine Fothergill is managing director of Amax Estates and a former president of ARLA Propertymark, the professional body for letting agents in the UK. As one of the most senior practitioner voices in the sector, she has been closely involved in shaping the professional standards and regulatory frameworks that govern agents and, by extension, the service they provide to landlords and tenants. Her commentary on the Renters’ Rights Act, landlord licensing, and the professionalisation of lettings is grounded in decades of day-to-day operational experience. For self-managing landlords, her work is a useful window into what good agent practice looks like, relevant both for those who occasionally use agents and for those benchmarking their own standards.

Nick Leeming

Nick Leeming is chairman of Jackson-Stops, one of the UK’s leading estate agency networks, with a particular focus on the prime and country house market. He is a regular commentator on market conditions, buyer and seller sentiment, and the regional dynamics of the UK housing market. His commentary on how legislative and economic changes ripple through different segments, from prime London to rural England, provides a useful perspective for landlords whose portfolios extend beyond urban residential. Leeming’s experience over several decades gives his analysis a longer-term frame of reference than is common in day-to-day property journalism.

Iain McKenzie

Iain McKenzie is chief executive of The Guild of Property Professionals, a network of over 800 independent estate and letting agents across the UK. As one of the most senior figures in the independent agency sector, his commentary on the lettings market, agent standards, and the practical implications of regulatory change for the landlord-agent relationship is grounded in the day-to-day experience of hundreds of firms. His position at the intersection of agency practice and policy gives him a useful perspective on what the Renters’ Rights Act means for landlords who use agents, and what they should be asking those agents to do differently. For self-managing landlords, his work offers a benchmark of the professional standards the best agents apply.

Peter Rollings

Peter Rollings is chief executive of Chestertons, one of London’s oldest and most respected estate and letting agencies, with particular strength in the prime central and wider London residential market. His commentary on the London lettings market, including rental demand, supply constraints, the behaviour of international tenants and investors, and the implications of policy change for central London property, is among the most authoritative available from an agency perspective. Rollings has been a consistent voice on the regulatory pressures facing landlords, and his insight into the higher end of the rental market is a useful signal for landlords invested in London residential. His long presence in London agency gives his observations a depth of historical context that more recently established commentators cannot match.

Christopher Watkin

Christopher Watkin is one of the most prolific content creators in the UK estate and letting agency sector, producing an exceptional volume of commentary, analysis, and education aimed at helping agents build their businesses. His YouTube channel has over 7,000 subscribers and his written output on agency growth, valuation strategy, and market positioning runs to thousands of articles. While his primary audience is agents rather than landlords, his detailed knowledge of what is happening at the sharp end of the lettings market, what agents are doing, what is working, and what the data shows about stock levels and demand, is highly relevant to landlords who want to understand the market from the agent’s perspective. His description as the arch statman of UK estate agency reflects a genuinely data-driven approach to analysis.

Journalism and trade media

The reporters and editors who set the agenda and hold the sector to account, from national newspapers to the daily landlord trade press. For one recurring theme in their landlord coverage, see our guide to how rental income is taxed in the UK.

Jules Birch

Jules Birch is one of the most respected housing policy journalists in the UK, writing for Inside Housing and contributing commentary that bridges academic research, lived experience, and political analysis on housing supply, tenure, affordability, and the private rented sector. His work is notable for its intellectual rigour and its refusal to treat housing as a purely financial question. He engages seriously with the social implications of the private rented sector’s growth and the regulatory frameworks designed to govern it, including detailed analysis of the Renters’ Rights Act and its likely effects on both landlords and tenants. For self-managing landlords who want to understand the political and policy context in which they operate, rather than only the operational implications of each new law, Birch is an essential read.

Nat Daniels

Nat Daniels is chief executive of Angels Media, the publisher behind Landlord Today, Letting Agent Today, Estate Agent Today, and Property Investor Today. With a career spanning thirty-five years in the industry, he is one of the most experienced operators in UK property media and a consistent advocate for technology’s role in raising standards. Through ValPal and the Today publications, Daniels has shaped how a large segment of the lettings industry receives its news, commentary, and education. For landlords, Landlord Today in particular is a daily source of regulatory updates, market commentary, and practical guidance. Daniels himself is a vocal voice on PropTech adoption and the professionalisation of lettings, themes that have become increasingly relevant as the regulatory burden on landlords has grown.

Tom Entwistle

Tom Entwistle is the founder of LandlordZONE, which has provided free information and guidance to landlords and letting agents since 1999, making it one of the longest-running resources for the private rented sector in the country. His writing for the site reflects decades of practical knowledge of landlord and tenant law, property management, and investment strategy, covering topics from commercial-to-residential conversion to the finer points of HMO licensing. His contribution is less about headline commentary and more about the accumulated depth of practical, legally grounded guidance that helps a landlord understand exactly what they are required to do and why. LandlordZONE’s forum and news archive remain one of the most comprehensive free resources available to UK landlords.

Isabelle Fraser

Isabelle Fraser is property editor at The Daily Telegraph, where she has covered the housing market since 2018. Her output spans buyer and seller guides, landlord and tenant issues, and in-depth features on the structural forces shaping the UK housing market. The Telegraph’s property section reaches a large readership of homeowners and landlords, and Fraser’s work shapes the mainstream narrative around questions such as stamp duty, rental reform, and buy-to-let economics for that audience. She has written extensively on the implications of the Renters’ Rights Act and the tax changes affecting landlords, bringing national newspaper reach to subjects often covered in detail only by specialist trade publications. For landlords interested in how the mainstream press frames their sector, Fraser’s work is a key data point.

Zoe Dare Hall

Zoe Dare Hall is an award-winning freelance journalist with twenty-five years of experience covering property for national newspapers. She contributes to the Financial Times, The Times, The Sunday Times, and The Daily Telegraph, and writes on buy-to-let issues for the NRLA’s Property magazine. Her coverage spans both the UK and international markets, giving her a broader perspective on the forces driving British housing than many more domestically focused commentators. Her writing for the NRLA is particularly relevant to landlords, engaging directly with the regulatory and financial pressures facing the sector for a landlord rather than a general audience. For landlords who want to understand how their situation is reported across the quality press, her byline is one of the most consistent and credible they will encounter.

Felicity Hannah

Felicity Hannah is a personal finance and consumer journalist whose work spans Which?, The Guardian, and the i newspaper, among others. She covers property from the consumer perspective, focusing on what housing decisions mean for people’s financial security, their rights as renters or buyers, and their ability to navigate a market that is often opaque and adversarial. Her work on tenant rights, landlord obligations, and the human cost of the housing crisis is a valuable counterpoint to the more investor-focused commentary that dominates much of the property media. For landlords who want to understand how their tenants experience the market, and how consumer journalism frames landlord behaviour, Hannah’s output is an important reference point.

Carol Lewis

Carol Lewis is a senior writer and former property columnist at The Times and The Sunday Times, where she won the Property Press Award for Property Columnist of the Year. Her work covers the full range of property topics, from buyer guides and market analysis to in-depth features on the rental sector and the experience of landlords navigating regulatory change. The Times and Sunday Times property sections, Bricks & Mortar and Home, are among the most read and most influential property publications in the UK, and Lewis’s output within them has shaped the mainstream conversation around housing for a large readership of owners and investors. For landlords who want to understand how their position is represented to a wide, engaged audience, her work is a consistent reference.

Martina Lees

Martina Lees won the Property Press Award for Sustainability Journalist of the Year and has become one of the most widely respected investigative voices in UK property journalism. Her reporting on unsafe buildings following the Grenfell Tower fire, including her piece “Unsafe flats paralyse property market”, which won the Scoop of the Year award, demonstrated an ability to break stories of genuine public significance rather than simply reporting market movements. Her work for The Times and The Sunday Times covers sustainability, housing standards, and the regulatory landscape affecting landlords and leaseholders. For landlords with properties in blocks or mixed-tenure buildings, and for those navigating the energy efficiency requirements that continue to tighten, her reporting is particularly relevant.

Nigel Lewis

Nigel Lewis is a property journalist and editor with more than twenty-five years of experience across national newspapers, magazines, and digital media. From December 2019 to January 2026 he served as editor-in-chief of LandlordZONE, the UK’s most visited landlord news website, where he led coverage of the most turbulent period in private rented sector history, encompassing the pandemic eviction ban, the phased introduction of Section 24 mortgage interest changes, and the passage of the Renters’ Rights Act. Before LandlordZONE he held head of content positions at PrimeLocation and Zoopla, and he has worked for the Daily Mail, the BBC, and LBC. His reporting on landlord-tenant law, licensing, and enforcement is grounded in detailed knowledge accumulated over a long career. For landlords looking for accurate, well-sourced trade journalism on the issues that affect them, his work represents some of the best the sector has produced.

Graham Norwood

Graham Norwood is editor of Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today, the daily trade publications of Angels Media, and one of the most prolific and experienced residential property journalists in the UK. He has written for The Sunday Times, the Daily Mail, and the Financial Times, has authored five books on property, and won the Property Press Award for Property Journalist of the Year in 2019. Before specialising in property he was a business journalist at the BBC. His particular value for landlords is his deep knowledge of the regulatory and legislative landscape, since he has covered every major piece of landlord-tenant legislation for more than two decades, combined with a willingness to write about aspects of the market that other journalists avoid. The volume and consistency of his output makes him one of the most reliable daily sources of news and analysis for anyone investing in the private rented sector.

Marc Shoffman

Marc Shoffman is an award-winning freelance journalist specialising in personal finance and property, whose work has appeared in the Financial Times, The Times, the Mail on Sunday, and MoneyWeek, among others. He also co-presents the In For A Penny financial planning podcast. His coverage of the private rented sector sits at the intersection of property and personal finance, which means he brings a tax, investment, and cost-of-ownership perspective to landlord stories that pure property journalists sometimes miss. His writing on the Renters’ Rights Act, buy-to-let tax changes, and the economics of self-managing versus using an agent is aimed at a financially literate readership that includes a large proportion of private landlords. For landlords who think about their property primarily as a financial asset, Shoffman’s work is particularly relevant.

Melissa York

Melissa York is assistant property editor at The Times and The Sunday Times, working across both titles’ award-winning Bricks & Mortar and Home property sections. Her work covers the full range of property topics for a readership of informed buyers, sellers, landlords, and renters. The Times and Sunday Times property sections are among the most influential mainstream property publications in the UK, reaching a large audience of owners and investors who make significant financial decisions partly on the basis of what they read there. York’s output, on everything from market conditions and mortgage rates to landlord obligations and tenant rights, helps set the mainstream narrative around property in Britain. For landlords who want to understand how their situation is represented to that broad, property-interested readership, her work is a direct window into the conversation.

TV and mainstream media

The presenters who shape how millions of people, including a large cohort of landlords, understand property.

Kirstie Allsopp

Kirstie Allsopp has co-presented Channel 4’s Location, Location, Location alongside Phil Spencer since 2000, making the programme one of the longest-running and most watched property shows in British television history. Her influence on how ordinary buyers and renters think about property, its value, its emotional weight, and its role in family life, is difficult to overstate. Beyond television she is a prolific commentator on housing policy and homeownership, frequently engaging with affordability, supply, and the conditions facing first-time buyers. She is outspoken and willing to take positions that attract criticism, which makes her one of the more interesting mainstream voices on the shape of the market. For landlords she matters less as a technical source and more as a barometer of public sentiment about the private rented sector.

Martin Roberts

Martin Roberts has presented BBC One’s Homes Under the Hammer since 2003, building one of the longest-running and most distinctive careers in British property television. The programme, which follows property auction purchases through renovation and into the rental or resale market, has introduced millions of viewers to the practical realities of buy-to-let investment, renovation economics, and the auction market. Roberts is also an author and has presented a property programme for TalkRadio. His influence on how the general public understands the economics of property investment is substantial, particularly for the cohort of landlords who entered the sector after watching the programme. He has spoken publicly about his experience of serious illness following heart surgery in 2022, which added a personal dimension to his public profile.

Phil Spencer

Phil Spencer has co-presented Location, Location, Location with Kirstie Allsopp since 2000 and is the founder of Move iQ, a property advice platform aimed at buyers, sellers, and renters. He is recognised by ARLA Propertymark, the letting agents’ professional body, and is a consistent voice on the responsible use of property professionals and the importance of informed decision-making. Spencer has also been recognised for his charitable work with housing charities. Beyond the television profile, his Move iQ platform provides practical, impartial guidance on property transactions, and his stance on professional standards in agency is relevant to landlords trying to distinguish good agent practice from poor. He is a more substantive figure in the policy and standards space than his television profile alone might suggest.

How to use this list

You do not need to follow all forty. Pick the disciplines that match the decisions in front of you. If possession or compliance is your immediate concern, start with the law section. If you are reviewing financing, the finance voices will be more useful than the market commentators. If you simply want to stay current, one policy voice, one data analyst, and one trade-press editor will keep you better informed than a feed full of follower-chasing content. The point of the grouping is to let you build a short, high-signal reading list rather than a long, noisy one.

Frequently asked questions

Who are the best UK property experts to follow?

It depends on what you need. For policy, Ben Beadle of the NRLA. For landlord law and possession, Paul Shamplina, Tessa Shepperson, and David Smith. For market data, Richard Donnell, Kate Faulkner, Neal Hudson, and Henry Pryor. For mortgages, Mark Harris, David Hollingworth, and Andrew Montlake. The full list groups forty voices across eight disciplines so you can match the expert to the question.

What are the best UK property podcasts for landlords?

The Property Podcast, co-hosted by Rob Bence and Rob Dix of Property Hub, is the most listened-to property podcast in the country and runs to over 500 episodes. The Inside Property Investing back catalogue, built by Mike Stenhouse across more than 420 episodes, remains one of the most comprehensive free strategy resources for investors even though regular publishing has paused.

Who are the best property journalists in the UK to read?

For trade journalism, Graham Norwood and Nigel Lewis cover landlord-tenant law and regulation in depth, and Tom Entwistle’s LandlordZONE remains a long-standing resource. For national press, Isabelle Fraser at The Telegraph, Carol Lewis, Martina Lees, and Melissa York at The Times and Sunday Times, and Marc Shoffman across the FT and MoneyWeek consistently cover the issues that affect landlords.

A note on what August does

The regulatory environment facing UK landlords is the most complex it has been in a generation. Making Tax Digital for Income Tax began in April 2026 for landlords with qualifying income above £50,000, with the threshold falling to £30,000 from April 2027 and £20,000 from April 2028, according to HMRC’s guidance on who needs to use it. The Renters’ Rights Act came into force on 1 May 2026, abolishing Section 21, converting tenancies to a periodic structure, and requiring Section 8 grounds-based possession for every eviction. Following the voices on this list is one way to stay informed.

August is another. It is a platform for self-managing UK landlords that tracks rent automatically through open banking, keeps compliance documents organised, and is built with Making Tax Digital in mind. You can read our guides on the Renters’ Rights Act and Making Tax Digital for landlords, compare cover in our landlord insurance guide, or start with August for free.

Published April 2026. Last reviewed June 2026 by the August editorial team. All roles and affiliations are stated to the best of our knowledge as at the date of review. If you believe an entry contains an error, or there is a voice we should add, please contact us.