by news | Mar 15, 2021 | Industry News, News
Research by Hamptons suggests that the increased house prices caused by the stamp duty holiday sales surge has indirectly obliged more tenants to stay renting - because they cannot afford larger deposits. That’s the analysis by Hamptons in the agency’s latest rental...
by news | Mar 15, 2021 | Industry News, News, Political, Tax & Other Financial
The House of Commons Library has just released a report summarising the help available for landlords and tenants, and can be seen here. It concentrates mostly on establishing security of tenure for tenants, without mentioning the increasing problem of tenants able to...
by news | Mar 15, 2021 | News, Political
Heather Powell, a partner at the firm Blick Rothenberg has published an article crtiticising the tax breaks announced by the Chancellor. It can be seen here, and is reproduced below:- Heather Powell, a partner at the firm and head of property and construction, said:...
by news | Mar 12, 2021 | Industry News, News
Landlords have benefitted from tax breaks, subsidies and a weak eviction ban according to the National Union of Students. Larissa Kennedy, the organisation’s president, has written to Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick to claim landlords have been treated far more...
by news | Mar 11, 2021 | Industry News, News
A lead tenant who posed as a landlord has been ordered to pay £9,047.50 in fines and costs and handed a criminal record for breaching housing laws. Brent Council in London originally issued Sonia Nascimento with a £5,000 Civil Penalty Notice but after she refused to...
