Right to Rent immigration checks: increasing pressure on the property rental market 24housing (26/05/2017) One in five landlords to raise rents FTAdviser (26/05/2017) Howard Flight: in defence of the much needed rental market Conservative Home (29/05/2017) Is the day of the tenant’s deposit about to be over? Property Industry Eye (30/05/2017) Private landlords brace themselves for big hike in tax […]
Property Doctors: I’m a landlord -which problems am I responsible for? Daily Telegraph (20/05/2017) MPs receive over 1,500 letters from landlords calling… Landlord Today (22/05/2017) Landlord organisation calls for new court in UK for private rental sector Property Wire (22/05/2017) Blog: Government plans to extend ‘right to rent’ documents checks face legal challenge Scottish Housing News (22/05/2017) Number of […]
Renters of housing benefit barred from buy-to-let homes The Times (01/05/2017) The country’s 11 million private renters need a consumer rights revolution – Labour will give it to them Blog – Huffington Post (01/05/2017) Labour unveils plan to make EVERY landlord licensed by the council but it’s branded a ‘tenant tax’ by the Tories Daily Mail (01/05/2017) […]
The Benefits of Buying a Property with Sitting Tenants Landlord News(13/04/2017) How uneasy will the Brexit rollercoaster make the cyclical construction industry? Place North West (13/04/2017) Tenant charged £835 … to scribble a new name on a contract The Guardian (15/04/2017) Rental yields remain strong in majority of towns and cities Property Reporter (17/04/2017) Seven in every hundred new […]
‘New buy-to-let tax will make it harder, not easier, for first-time buyers to afford a home’ The Telegraph (07/04/2017) Opinion:There have been no less than 145 new pieces of legislation impacting landlords or the lettings market in the last five years City AM (07/04/2017) Letting agents told to scrap sky-high tenant fees as Government reveals plans […]
Advice for Landlords: How NOT to do rent-to-rent Lexology (31/03/2017) Mortgage tax relief cut doesn’t add up for buy-to-let landlords The Guardian (01/04/2017) Homeless families rehoused out of London ‘up five-fold’ BBC (03/04/2017) Council plans crackdown on Airbnb in Edinburgh Edinburgh Evening News (03/04/2017) Landlord and investor confidence remains high Bestadvice.co.uk (03/04/2017) Client money protection scheme to be mandatory for lettings […]
Millions will have to file five tax returns a year The Telegraph (26/03/2017) Are you a BTL mortgage prisoner? Property Reporter (27/03/2017) The Guardian view on house prices: the government lacks the political will to fix the broken market The Guardian (27/03/2017) Rents fall in London and the South West What Mortgage (27/03/2017) Hard Brexit could hit rented sector: Chartered Institute […]
The top 20 best and worst places to sell a property in the UK What Mortgage (17/03/2017) Letting agents and landlords warned on empty homes an… Letting Agent Today (20/03/2017) Can you afford buy-to-let property in the UK’s most lucrative areas? Which? (20/03/2017) Agents beware – failure to show letting fees is resulting in penalties being issued […]
‘New Landlord’ instructions at their weakest for two … Letting Agent Today (10/03/2017) Trade body keeps up pressure over mortgage interest t… Letting Agent Today (10/03/2017) Government looks to raise taxes for Airbnb hosts Travel Mole (13/03/2017) Concerns grow over roll-out and ‘spiralling’ costs of Universal Credit 24Housing (13/03/2017) UK average annual rents fall for first time in six […]
Civil penalties for landlords Landlords can be issued with civil penalty notices for housing beaches as of April 6th, the government has now confirmed.Local authorities can implement fines of up to £30,000 for a range of offences under the Housing Act 2004, including failing to comply with an improvement notice served by the council, and […]