Increasingly worried landlords are demanding that their tenants offer a guarantor in the face of looming rent arrears, research reveals. According to referencing firm Goodlord, the region with the largest proportion of new tenancies being offered with a guarantor is...
A new study by CaCHE seeking to understand the behaviour of landlords in the private rented sector in the UK has been published. The data was collected through 1,002 online questionnaires and 68 in-depth interviews with landlords, letting agents, and experts in the...
Michael Gove has promised to 'name and shame' bad landlords in the wake of toddler Awaab Ishak's death from a mouldy flat. The Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Secretary told MPs he hoped to end the 'scandal' of residents living in 'shoddy, substandard homes'...
Analysis released by the British Property Federation on 20 October states that the sector could be worth £170bn by 2032 as a result of the number of Build to Rent units in the UK rising from 76,800 to more than 380,000. The difficulty that individual landlords face is...
A council has issued a formal caution to a landlord for harassing his female tenant on social media.The landlord posted details of his tenant’s rent arrears onto Facebook and then shared that with her friends and family in a bid to humiliate her, he also shared her...
Patrick Marples, the chief executive of the South West London Law Centres, has urged the government to take action to end the misery of thousands of social housing tenants, living in council homes, housing association properties or paying rent to private landlords,...
Residential landlord Grainger reported a "very successful year" in which it delivered record net rental income growth and record occupancy. In the year that ended September 30, Grainger said pretax profit nearly doubled to GBP298.6 million from GBP152.1 million. It...
This is Money has published an article claiming the recent changes to Capital Gains Tax (CGT) will cost an average of £2,600 more to landlords. The article can be seen here, and in summary says: Landlords will be hit by a capital gains tax raid from next year that...
House price growth slowed sharply in September also according to official data, adding to the deepening economic gloom. The ONS said UK average house prices increased 9.5% over the year to September, down from 13.1% in August and a high of 15.2% in July. Between...
Letting agents and landlords should adopt a rigorous, professional inventory policy to ease fears over the Renters’ Reform Bill, property management services company No Letting Go says. The Renters’ Reform Bill proposes a shift in tenant rights that includes a ban on...
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