New figures showing that landlords face a growing amount of time in getting judgement on repossession cases from the courts are boosting calls for the urgent need for dedicated housing courts to be established.
Aldermore Specialist Bank, has launched a new 5 year fixed remortgage product for individual and company landlords with single residential investment properties. The move is to help landlords looking for...
The Belvoir Q3 2019 rental index reveals interesting new rental trends, confirming a cultural shift towards more families renting, an increase in lengths of tenancies and continued stock shortages that...
Proposals by the Mayor of London to introduce rent controls have been dealt a critical blow as figures show rents across the capital falling in real terms.
According to Office for National Statistics data...
Marks Out Of Tenancy is a new landlord and property review website for tenants that can also be used as a resource for local authorities to clamp down on unlicensed properties, undeclared HMOs, properties...
Despite offering opportunities for letting agencies and landlords, the fast-growing short-term lettings market could benefit from regulation, according to PayProp. The professionalisation of short lets,
Safeagent, a not for profit accreditation scheme for lettings and management agents, has released it’s own manifesto of policies for political parties to consider promising the Private Rental Sector...
The proportion of homes in Great Britain let by overseas based landlords rose to 11% during the first 10 months of 2019, up from 7% (a record low) during the same period last year. This is the first year-on-year...
Our Hon. Legal Counsel, Mark Smith, Head of Chambers at Cotswold Barristers will be presenting an overview of several landlords tax strategies at the pin Berkshire Meeting property networking event Monday...
Paragon’s latest Financial Adviser Confidence Tracking (FACT) Index , based on interviews with 201 mortgage intermediaries, has revealed:
– Buy-to-let increases from 15% to 17% of business in Q3...
The latest Halifax Price Index has just been released showing house prices in October were 0.9% higher than in the same month a year earlier.
However, on a monthly basis, house prices fell by 0.1%.
In...
Housing Minister Esther McVey MP has announced a new Champion for Modern Methods of Construction as part of the government’s drive to make the UK the global leader in housing standards.
Mark Farmer brings...
Recent years have seen a sustained attack on private landlords by the Government and other groups. The relationship between landlords and tenants has also been painted as adversarial by organisations which...
The Private Rented Sector is one of the fast-growing markets in housing, and now accounts for over 4.5 million households in the UK, an increase of 63% (1.6 million) from 2007. In times of rising house...
ARLA and NAEA propertymark have released their manifesto “Election 2019: Regulate and reform the housing sector.” Click here to download the full document.
The number one call on the wish list...
New funding announced by the Government to tackle criminal landlords is welcome, but is nowhere near enough says the country’s leading landlords’ organisation.
Ministers have announced that local authorities...
With an impending General Election and none of the established political parties vying for the Landlord vote, will it be a case of holding your nose and supporting the least worst option?
As a snap shot...
Councils across the country will be able to access almost £4 million in new funding, as part of a crackdown on criminal landlords, Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has announced. This will support councils...
A collection of campaign groups and think tanks have come together to create a Manifesto for renters in the hope of influencing political parties in the coming General Election. The Group Includes Generation...
Prominent leasehold reform campaigner Louie Burns has published a 10-point manifesto to drive forward leasehold reform, following the delay to the publication of the Law Commission’s report on improving...
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