Jun 23, 2022 | Market Forecasts, Other News
23 Jun 2022 Although this is a story from the “other side of the pond” that wouldn’t normally make it into these pages, they are making a global prediction that we have at least 5 more years of partial working from home. This affects not only commercial landlords but...
Jun 22, 2022 | Market Forecasts
22 Jun 2022 As out-of-touch councils continue to insist that living spaces should be larger, tenants are finding they cannot afford them (who could have guessed….). Proof again that the lunatics are in charge of the asylum. Ed. Down-sizing, once the preserve of...
Jun 22, 2022 | Court Fine, Eviction, Other News
22 Jun 2022 A lettings agency used violence, vandalism and power black outs to extort and illegally evict tenants, a court has heard. One tenant was doused in petrol and had his teeth smashed by a gang of 10 while another was booted out after landlords pinned a bag of...
Jun 22, 2022 | Other News, Regulation
21 Jun 2022 A new survey has painted a daunting picture of how much it may cost a landlord to remedy damage from pets. Amidst the covid pet boom, as many as 3.2m people are estimated to have bought a pet. Home furnishings and fashion company Next has surveyed...
Jun 20, 2022 | Other News, Regulation
20 Jun 2022 Possibly the biggest threat to the small Private Sector Landlord, Build-toRent companies – aided and abetted by the Government’s many attacks including s24 tax, the removal of s21 possessions, and the relentless assist stripping by over-zealously...
Jun 19, 2022 | Other News
18 Jun 2022 A prominent energy industry organisation has just issued a new guide for landlords to improve their properties. The Energy Saving Trust – which describes itself as an independent organisation ”working to address the climate emergency” –...
Jun 17, 2022 | Legislation & Regulations, Other News
17 Jan 2022 Housing secretary says Treasury has agreed to find funding package but not finalised deal Michael Gove has said the Treasury has agreed to develop a funding package for the proposed roll out of a ‘rationed’ Right to Buy to housing association tenants, but...
Jun 17, 2022 | Other News
17 Jun 2022 The pressure of the constant surge in the cost of living for UK rental households are prevalent, and the effects are starting to show. With recent research done by London rental platform, Rentd, it has been disclosed that rental cost increases have...
Jun 17, 2022 | Legislation & Regulations, Other News
17 Jun 2022 Under-performing social landlords could face ‘Ofsted-style’ inspections under a raft of new laws brought in under the much-anticipated Social Housing Regulation Bill. Under the new bill, which will be published today, the Regulator of Social Housing (RSH)...
Jun 16, 2022 | Legislation & Regulations, Other News
16 Jun 2022 The Deposit Protection Service claims the single largest reason why private tenants move is to find properties accepting pets. Around a thousand tenants who moved between October 2021 and March 2022 took part in the DPS survey, with 30 per cent saying they...
Jun 16, 2022 | Market Forecasts
16 Jun 2022 Fewer sellers have cut prices over the past months but agency instructions have dropped, figures suggest. Analysis by property data and estate agent prospecting platform Homesearch reveals only 5% of sellers reduced the price of their home last month, a 3%...
Jun 16, 2022 | Legislation & Regulations, Other News
16 Jun 2022 The head of the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team (NTSELAT) has suggested the material listings rules should be self-regulated by the portals. The comments by James Munro were revealed in a discussion published with The Guild of...
Jun 15, 2022 | Court Fine, Eviction
15 Jun 2022 A rogue landlord who harassed and illegally kicked out his tenant has been jailed for 12 months. Mirza Tariq Mahmud Jaral, of Burmer Road, Peterborough, denied the charges but was found guilty after a trial at Peterborough Crown Court and ordered to pay...
Jun 13, 2022 | Market Forecasts, Other News
13 Jun 2022 A selection of property industry figures have spoken out against the government’s latest proposals to extend Right To Buy to housing associations. Council tenants in England have been able to buy their homes at a discount since October 1980, when the...
Jun 13, 2022 | Court Fine
13 Jun 2022 The sole director of a lettings agency, who was recently made the subject of an anti-social behaviour injunction and banning order, has been found guilty and sentenced for controlling an unlicensed HMO and providing unsafe housing for its tenants. Mohammed...
Jun 10, 2022 | Market Forecasts, Other News
10 Jun 2022 The John Lewis Partnership has revealed the first three locations where it will build new rental homes. The properties “would offer the trust, quality and service that people expect from John Lewis” according to a statement from the store. John Lewis will...
Jun 10, 2022 | Other News
10 Jun 2022 Property maintenance remains a vital part of the rental sector as providing legal homes that are comfortable for tenants to live in is the top priority. On average the cost of maintaining a property each year should cost 1% of the property’s value. The...
Jun 10, 2022 | Market Forecasts, Other News
10 Jun 2022 I’ve written this headline consistently for more years than I can remember. Makes no difference if the government is blue or red. Plus ca change! Ed Throughout the years the government has pledged to deliver new homes to make more affordable...
Jun 9, 2022 | Market Forecasts, Other News
09 Jun 2022 Some 820,000 private rented households in Britain are routinely hit by a shortfall between their housing benefit and their monthly rents according to official data. That’s 57 per cent of private rented households in receipt of the Local Housing Allowance....
Jun 9, 2022 | Court Fine, Eviction
09 Jun 2022 A landlord has been sentenced to 12 months imprisonment for the illegal eviction and harassment of a tenant, and has been ordered to pay over £8,000 in compensation. Mirza Tariq Mahmud Jaral, of Peterborough, pleaded not guilty to offences of illegal...
