The Government has just realeaed the following data: Table 600: numbers of households on local authorities' housing waiting lists, by district, England, from 1987 Table 602: local authority owned dwellings let by local authorities, England, from 2000 Table 702: local...
The Government has said it will impose a 7% rent ceiling to social housing rent increases in the 2023-24 financial year as a temporary measure amid the cost of living crisis. Detailing the plans in a response to a consultation it conducted on the policy, the...
The Governemnt have released data on the forecast of non-domestic rating income due to local authorities in 2023-24, including data relating to the amount of business rates reliefs forecast to be given to businesses. One authority has not yet returned the NNDR1 form,...
The i has run an opinion piece with the sub title - 'We love to hate landlords – but when they go, we will be surprised by how much we miss them' It can be seen here, and says: Marcus Rashford: defender of free school meals for hungry kids across the country, writer...
The House of Commons has just published its regular report data regarding key indicators in the PRS. It can be seen here, and says: House prices, as measured by the UK House Price Index, increased by 9.8% between December 2021 and December 2022. On a seasonally...
Landlords of a block of 38 flats in Southsea, Hampshire, are entitled to vary service charges levied on leaseholders, five Supreme Court justices ruled today in a clarification of part of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985. The dismissal of the tenants' appeal was the...
John Muellbauer, economics professor at the University of Oxford and a former government adviser has written a report for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on the case for overhauling the property tax system and replacing stamp duty and...
The Telegraph has written an opinion piece on why a mass buy-to-let sell off could make the housing crisis even worse. It can be seen here (subscription may be necessary), it starts off by stating that the ‘rise of buy-to-let has overhauled the dynamics of Britain’s...
The Telegraph have reported on a buy-to-let landlord who is selling properties when the tenant gives notice. It’s the tenants who suffer when good quality rental stock is taken out of the sector The article has the sub head ‘It’s the tenants who suffer when good...
A recent report by the Resolution Foundation used data from a new YouGov survey of 10,470 UK adults to examine how the cost-of-living crisis is affecting people’s ability to meet their housing costs, how it varies across tenure, and the implications for households’...
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