Tag: Private Rented Sector
Buy to let market doubled in a decade
The number of private renters is increasing while home ownership is in decline, according to the latest housing survey for England...
Britain’s property wealth belongs to the over 45s
Most of Britain’s £4 trillion of housing wealth is locked in homes belonging to the over 45’s while young adults face...
BBC has a cheap bash at landlords yet again!
The BBC has launched another story about substandard buy to let homes and ‘rogue landlords’ – but just who is covered...
Minister pledges to help with housing benefit rent arrears
Welfare Minister Lord Freud has pledged to look at the problems caused by tenants who refuse to pay their landlords and “play the...
Landlords refuse to cut rents for benefit tenants
Buy to let landlords are on a collision course with the government as most are determined to defy pleas to reduce their rents in line...
City landlords face first HMO selective licensing blitz
Thousands of shared house landlords in Oxford are the first in England to meet strict new selective licensing guidelines as the city...
More councils take on selective licensing for HMOs
Two more councils have joined the queue to crackdown on property investors letting shared houses.
