Retail, hospitality and leisure businesses have not been paying any rates during the pandemic, as part of a 15 month-long relief which runs to the end of June this year. Many of those ineligible for reliefs have been appealing for discounts on their rates bills,...
Hackney Town Hall is working to “bring on side” landlords who are yet to join its licensing scheme, designed to drive up standards for the borough’s private renters. Around 45 per cent of eligible properties are still not signed up as the project enters its third...
Letting agents are to face a wave of re-possessions and abandoned tenancies when the evictions ban ends on 31st May, landlords have warned. Some 840,000 tenants are now behind with their rent, many of whom are so hopelessly in debt that there is little chance of them...
Mortgage Strategy have published an article on what April 1st holds for landlords. It can be seen here, and says:- Nobody knows why we celebrate April Fools on 1 April or why, for one morning each year, it’s acceptable for us to play pranks on each other. It’s just...
UK house prices UK house prices increased by 7.5% in the year to January 2021, down from 8.0% in December 2020. On a non-seasonally adjusted basis, average house prices in the UK decreased by 0.5% between December 2020 and January 2021, compared with an increase of...
Property Notify has published an article by Alpa Bhakta, the CEO of Butterfield Mortgages Limited on the likelihood of a Summer Buying spree. It can be seen here.
A landlord has been fined £5,000 for letting his tenants live in ‘disgraceful conditions’. Dharminder Singh Dale forced a young family renting a house in Walsall, West Midlands, to go without heating, hot water or a working toilet, Birmingham Live reports. Eventually,...
After the Government’s ‘Tax Day’ on Tuesday 23rd March, Landlords have been warned that there may be a surprising change buried in the announcements relating to the Making Tax Digital programme. For the most part, the announcements made on ‘Tax Day’ had little impact...
Leading safety charity, Electrical Safety First, is reminding England’s private landlords of their new obligations around electrical safety in their properties. The Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector (England) Regulations 2020, require private...
The Government have updated their guidance for landlords; tenants and local authorities stating:- Non-statutory guidance for landlords, tenants and local authorities in the private and social rented sectors in the context of Coronavirus (COVID-19). It can be seen...
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