Jul 4, 2022 | Legislation & Regulations, Other News
04 Jul 2022 Landlords typically spend hundreds of pounds repairing properties damaged by pets, but unable to recoup their costs. That’s the claim from industry supplier The Lettings Hub which says more than three in four landlords reported damage by pets but...
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 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...
Feb 14, 2022 | Other News
14 Feb 2022 It’s suggested that almost a third of pet-owning tenants have been hiding their animals from agents or landlords for more than three years. Research from Build To Rent operator Quintain Living, based a survey of over 1,000 private tenants across the whole...
Jul 12, 2021 | Legislation & Regulations, Other News
12 Jul 2021 A pet referencing service is courting controversy by suggesting more animals should be allowed in rental properties – and that landlords, not tenants, should pay for references. PetsScore is launching in August and says its service will be the...
Jun 18, 2021 | Other News
18 Jun 2021 Propertymark has waded into the controversy over whether private rental tenants should be allowed to keep pets in their properties. As reported yesterday on our sister publication Landlord Today, various Conservative and some Labour and cross-bench peers...
Oct 29, 2020 | Other News
29 Oct 2020 Online searches for pet-friendly UK rental property have jumped to the highest level since available records began in 2004, according to HomeViews’ 2020 Build to Rent (BTR) Report. Search queries for ‘pet-friendly rentals’, ‘pet-friendly apartments’ and...
Oct 21, 2020 | Other News
21 Oct 2020 Conservative MP Andrew Rosindale has cross-party backing for his proposed legislation, which would severely curtail agents’ ability to refuse tenant applicants with pets. A Tory MP has launched a Bill in parliament that would ban letting agents and...
