The Energy Bills Support Scheme and Energy Price Guarantee Pass-Through Requirement Regulations 2022 (the Regulations) came into force on 1 November 2022 and make clear that a landlord charging rent inclusive of energy bills must pass-on the benefit of the schemes to...
Investment in the Build To Rent sector has almost doubled year-on-year, according to new research. Property consultancy Cushman & Wakefield says that in the third quarter of this year some £1.17 billion was invested in BTR, up from the £600m recorded during the...
A survey on the broker forum showed that 28% of landlords are looking to sell their properties, and only 3% intend to purchase additional properties. Just over a quarter of landlords have no plans to alter their investments, while 39% of BTL investors say they will...
A number of buy-to-let landlords will be forced to either raise their rents to prevent their properties from being un-mortgageable amid rising interest rates, or simply sell up. MPs were told this week that many renters could find that there is soon a major shortage...
As part of the recent Fire Door Safety Week, the following advice was issued for landlords - https://www.firedoorsafetyweek.co.uk/
Landlords are being encouraged to get their accounts in order after an accountant specialising in buy-to-let property warned that HMRC is intensifying its efforts to track down those with undisclosed income. Since the government launched its Let Property Campaign in...
Melissa Lawford is writing in todays Telegraph about some of the horror stories she has heard about rogue tenants. The article can be read here (subscription might be necessary), and says: Landlords with rogue tenants have lost tens of thousands of pounds in damages...
The Telegraph is running an article on the possible outcome of the Autumn statement on landlords. The article can be seen here (subscription might be necessary), and says: Landlords will lose thousands of pounds in sale profits under proposals which would be a fresh...
Kingspan said sales so far in 2022 have surged, and price pressures "appear to have peaked". Reporting sales in the nine months to September 30 jumped 33%, third-quarter sales alone rose 17%. Kingspan added: "A feature of the current environment is the lack of...
UK HALIFAX HOUSE PRICE INDEX UK house prices fell by 0.4% month-on-month in October versus a 0.1% drop in the previous month. Annual house price growth came in at 8.3%, slowing from 9.8% in September. There was a notable slowdown in October’s annual house price...
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