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Private rented sector value climbs to £1.4trn, but growth slows as two-speed market emerges

Private rented sector value climbs to £1.4trn, but growth slows...

The seventh edition of the Kent Reliance Buy to Let Britain report has been launched. The report provides an update on the growing size and value of the private rental sector in Great Britain, and details...

Shipping Containers for the Homeless

Shipping Containers for the Homeless...

A shipping container village has will open this week for people registered as homeless with Ealing Council. It is the largest temporary housing project of its kind and will hope to provide shelter for...

ARLA report a increasing number of landlords selling up

ARLA report a increasing number of landlords selling up...

ARLA Propertymark have analysed their sales and lettings data to reveal trends and expectations for 2018. This year the number of Buy to Let landlords selling their properties peaked in March and April...

Banning orders and criminal database to be introduced April 2018

Banning orders and criminal database to be introduced April 2018...

New banning orders, which could see landlords barred from letting or managing a property indefinitely, will be introduced in April 6 next year it has been announced. The Government said the move will go...

Platform to help landlords keep informed of new licensing schemes and consultations

Platform to help landlords keep informed of new licensing schemes...

A new online platform to help landlords keep on top of new licensing schemes and consultations has been launched by the National Landlords Association (NLA) and app developer GetRentr. NLA Licensing 365...

The new Private Residential Tenancy: briefing for Scottish landlords and letting agents

The new Private Residential Tenancy: briefing for Scottish landlords...

The Scottish Association of Landlords (SAL) is pleased to offer you information about the new Scottish Private Residential Tenancy (PRT). The PRT will soon be mandatory for private sector letting in Scotland...

£6,000,000,000,000

£6,000,000,000,000...

Over £6 trillion is the figure from the Halifax that the the total value of UK private residential housing stock has exceeded in its latest report. Since 2007 the UK’s housing stock was estimated by...

5.25% Fixed rate secured bonds!

5.25% Fixed rate secured bonds!

BlueZest Secured Retail Bond PLC (the “Issuer”), an affiliate of BlueZest Mortgages and Loans Limited (“BlueZest”), the specialist mortgage lender, has announced the proposed issue...

Rental payments could be added to credit scores

Rental payments could be added to credit scores...

The Creditworthiness Assessment Bill has had its second reading in the House of Lords with a general debate on all aspects of the Bill on the 24th November. The Bill is now scheduled to go to Committee...

The RLA Campaigns Team is pleased to report the Government listened to us on UC

The RLA Campaigns Team is pleased to report the Government listened...

In a letter to its members the RLA said: “The RLA Campaigns Team is pleased to report that the Government has listened to us on Universal Credit – with Work and Pensions Secretary David Gauke today...

3% Stamp Duty surcharge changes missed in the Budget

3% Stamp Duty surcharge changes missed in the Budget...

International law firm Mishcon de Reya published a summary of budget changes to the 3% surcharge on Stamp Duty that were missed out in Philip Hammond’s budget address to Parliament. With immediate...

Mark Alexander slams Letting Agents Today article as “absolute tosh”

Mark Alexander slams Letting Agents Today article as “absolute...

Mark Alexander, founder of Property118, has reported that Letting Agent Today is scaremongering and the figures are “absolute tosh” in their article ‘Hidden tax hike in Budget small print...

Over 300 Councillors in 40 boroughs are Landlords!

Over 300 Councillors in 40 boroughs are Landlords!

More than 1 in 7 Councillors in the boroughs with the highest levels of privately rented homes are landlords themselves. This is more than ironic considering the attitude local authorities have to the...

Cold snap solutions

Cold snap solutions...

Protect your rental property and ensure tenants are happy and warm this winter with 12 simple steps from the experts at Belvoir. 1) Avoid the big freeze “As we enter the colder months it’s important...

ONS take £70bn of Housing Association debt off Government Balance sheet

ONS take £70bn of Housing Association debt off Government Balance...

In 2015 the Office for National Statistics (ONS) decided that Housing Associations were under such direct levels of control by the government they could no longer be classified as charities or private...

Agent letter evicting UC tenants read out by Corbyn in PMQs

Agent letter evicting UC tenants read out by Corbyn in PMQs...

Jeremy Corbyn used one of his 5 questions to the Prime Minister in the House of Commons PMQs to read out a letter from GAP Property saying it was giving every single one of its Universal Credit (UC) tenants...

NAEA former President chases down answers to SDLT and CGT proposals

NAEA former President chases down answers to SDLT and CGT proposals...

The former President of the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA), Simon Gerrard, has sent another open letter to Housing Minister, Alok Sharma, chasing for a response to his housing market proposals.

All-Party Parliamentary group call for all landlords to fit CO alarms

All-Party Parliamentary group call for all landlords to fit CO...

The All-Party Parliamentary Carbon Monoxide Group (APPCOG) campaign titled Carbon monoxide alarms: Tenants safe and secure in their homes is looking to improving current regulations for rented properties...

Council desperation U-turning Government attacks on Landlords!

Council desperation U-turning Government attacks on Landlords!

Golden Welcome cash payment to landlords Central Government is doing all it can to deter private landlords from providing housing to people on benefits and now Local Councils are desperate enough to do...

Annual house prices increase 4.5% and continue affordability concerns

Annual house prices increase 4.5% and continue affordability...

The Halifax Price Index figures for the last quarter August to October show the price of an average house is now a record high of £225,826. House prices in the last quarter were 4.5% higher than in the...

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