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A mum-of-three has won £2,500 after she successfully sued her landlord, Eastbourne council, over the mould which plagued her home for three years. Sara-Jae Gumbley, 36, was forced to endure a “living nightmare” during which she would buy as many as 20 air fresheners a...

In a recent article, James Keable, Mortgage Services Director, Capital Private Finance posed the question - Buy-to-Let – is it still a smart investment? The article appeared on the Hamptons Blog, and can be seen here and gives Buy to Let a firm thumbs up, commenting...

Shelter has revealed that the freeze in Local Housing Allowance (LHA) since 2020 has left “a vanishingly small number of private rentals that are actually covered by LHA rates – and therefore affordable for the 1.8 million renters and their families who rely on...

The House of Commons Library has published a paper covering trends in housing supply and barriers and potential solutions to delivering more homes in England. For the paper, click here. Which in summary is: Government ambitions for new housing supply In their 2019...

DLUHC has published statistics which provide an estimate of the number of leasehold dwellings in England, by tenure, dwelling type and region, and the proportion of the overall number of dwellings in England that are leasehold. They show: In 2021-22, there were an...

The Ministry of Justice has published statistics for the volume of civil and judicial review cases dealt with by the courts between 1 January to 31 March 2023. The overall trend in mortgage and landlord possession claims has been decreasing since a peak of 60,000 in...

On 23 May 2023 the DLUHC published estimates of the number of dwellings in England on 31 March 2022. According to the estimate: There were 25.2 million dwellings as of 31 March 2022, an increase of 232,820 dwellings or 0.93 per cent on the previous year. 1 million...

The Regulator of Social Housing has published an updated Rent Standard which registered providers of social housing must comply with, together with guidance on how to apply for an exemption to the Standard. For the documents, click here.  

On of the biggest concerns in the Renters Reform Bill is the proposal to stop Fixed Term tenancies, and for all tenancies to be periodic only - i.e. the Assured Shorthold Tenancy (AST) would become an Assured Tenancy. In Scotland, where they have lost the Section 21...

A fresh survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) showed the UK housing market rebounding in demand and finalised sales in May. The index monitoring new buyer interest, while remaining below zero at -18, showed a notable improvement from April’s...