Industry News

Tessa Shepperson has just published a blog on selling a property with lodgers. You can see it here.

A website called Daze is giving instructions on how to sue their landlord. It can be seen here, and has backing from Acorn, the tenant association. The answer is very simple, don’t fall into the small minority of landlords who do things wrong, and lay themselves open...

Welsh Shadow Housing Minister Janet Finch-Saunders has described measures put in place by the Welsh Government to control the proliferation of second homes as “a tsunami driving landlords to sell up”. The Welsh Conservative Senedd Member for Aberconwy also claims that...

Spare Room have published the following blog: How Section 24 caused rental chaos We’ve been running flatshare sites since 1999 and we’ve NEVER seen the rental market like it is today. There are more people looking for rooms than ever before, fewer rooms available than...

A coalition of landlords is seeking legal advice over an Emergency Bill introduced by the Scottish Government that has frozen rents and banned evictions until at least April next year. More details can be seen in an recent article in the Evening Standard

"Storm clouds are visible" in the UK housing market, according to surveyors, with surging mortgage rates expected to push house prices downwards in the year ahead. The market lost momentum in September, with new buyer inquiries falling for the fifth month in a row,...

The Times is reporting that ‘Ministers are also discussing shelving legislation drawn up by Michael Gove, Clarke’s predecessor, to ban no-fault evictions. One government source said it was not considered a priority by the new administration and would be delayed....

A council has issued formal cautions to two local landlords who illegally evicted their tenants. Both landlords gave their tenants incorrect paperwork instructing them to leave their homes which the tenants believed was correct and therefore proceeded to leave....

Unite Group said it has sold more beds than expected for the current academic year, and it cautioned on rent hikes due to inflationary pressure. The student accommodation developer has sold 99% of its beds for the 2022-23 academic year, up from 94.1% in 2020-21. It...

A Leamington Spa letting agent has been thrown under the spotlight after one of its rogue landlords was fined £31,000 by Warwick District Council. Grzegorz Surminski had rented a 6-bedroom property in St Brides Close, Sydenham, Leamington Spa through Golden Key...