Henry Pryor dismisses landlord concerns over Section 24 as “complete pants”

Prior is part of the problem and has his head right up his arse.

It never ceases to amaze me the arrogance of people who don't know what they're talking about. Why do they insist on discussing things they don't understand? What are these man's credentials, other than liking the sound of his own voice?

Are we going to listen to him or will we listen to:

Paul Johnson of the IFS?
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales?
Professor Philip Booth of the Institute of Economic Affairs?
Professor David Miles, ex-member of the MPC?
Dame Kate Barker, ex-member of the MPC?
The Council of Mortgage Lenders?
The Policy Exchange?
Anyone care to add to the list of expert opinion opposed to this?

I think Henry Pryor has a very big ego to feed and by taking the opposing stance and stirring up trouble we are all feeding that ego to varying degrees.

The man is obviously an attention seeker and doesn't seem to care how he gets that attention.
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I think the correct reaction is to point and laugh at the dimwit.

His clients presumably don't have mortgages - I have never heard of him on the BBC

I've never heard of him either but there again I'm not in the habit of mixing with people who's great friends have four legs and a curly tail. He's obviously so used to trampling around in it that he talks it too!

All I know is that since November 2015, I've started increasing rents annually across my portfolio whilst tenants are in situ. I don't like doing it this way, but rather than wait for tenants to hand in their notice before I put my rents up towards market value I am now having to look after number one. I was in this for the long term as I needed an income in lieu of continuing with the type of work I was doing due to injury and to supplement my retirement pension. I am now about to sell my third property in 10 months to mitigate Section 24 tax changes.

Mr Pryor, if you are reading this, we don't know who you are but get yourself a real job and try mixing with real people in the real world!

Mr Pryor appears to be well-respected on HPC forum - 'nuff said!

So, let me get this straight. He's a buying agent for rich people, mainly in London. So feathering his own nest whilst inflating housing prices for everyone else, yes?? No wonder the goons on HPC like him!

Reply to the comment left by "Mark Alexander" at "05/04/2017 - 10:41":

The word "troll" springs to mind... Unless of course we are under estimating him and he is after all a serious journalist/property expert/writer and the following is correct:

(1) Most landlords do not have mortgages
(2) The Residential Landlords Association is an obscure outfit that knows next to nothing about the PRS and landlords and tenants

I'm a member of the RLA but I work for the NLA and while they uphold the rights of landlords, this is NEVER at the expense of tenants, and while the RLA has slightly different policies and does things differently, in their objectives the two organisations are similar if not identical.

This is a quote taken from an article Henry Pryor wrote for the Guardian in 2011:

'On the subject of buyers, forget the literally "poor" first-time buyers. Let the government worry about building for them (which they won't). No one wants to lend to them and they struggle to save the £35k deposit out of taxed income now that they have to repay their student loans. People downsizing have cash and they don't need to borrow.'

The full article can be read here.

I believe the article (being published in the Guardian) was meant to be taken in an ironic sense, as anyone who invests in or makes a living from property is somewhat immoral of course (not that any Guardian readers or writers would ever invest in property...).