by peter littlewood | Mar 9, 2023 | Tax & Other Financial
The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) UK residential market survey has been published, and can be seen here. They report that new buyer enquiries is reduced on a seasonally-adjusted basis, but has shown improvement on last month. As they put it ‘it is...
by peter littlewood | Mar 8, 2023 | Green issues
iHowz have been urging Government to sort out the mess of MEES – see our campaign section. This has now been echoed by Roger Morris, large-scale landlord and director of sales and distribution for the mortgage division of Tandem Bank, whilst speaking at the The...
by peter littlewood | Mar 7, 2023 | Industry News
A private landlord has been prosecuted after a family – including a baby and two older children - were left without water or adequate heating in their rented property. Anthony Wardrop, 79, on behalf of Sedgedene Estates, was fined £1,000 and ordered to pay £580 in...
by peter littlewood | Mar 7, 2023 | Tax & Other Financial
Mark Alexander – Founder of Property118, has published an article asking why a landlords business is not treated the same as any other business. It can be seen here, and says: property rental businesses, especially privately owned ones, have a much tougher deal...
by peter littlewood | Mar 7, 2023 | Tax & Other Financial
UK Halifax house prices grew by 1.1% in February month-on-month, outpacing expectations for a drop of 0.3% and accelerating from January and December at 0.2% and -1.3% respectively. Year-on-year, house prices grew by 2.1%, also ahead of forecasts and unchanged for the...