On 24 October 2022 the Housing Ombudsman published a report, Spotlight on noise complaints: Time to be heard, bringing together learning from a review of more than 800 noise related cases dealt with over three years together with insight from 374 responses to the...
On 20 October 2022 the House of Commons held a Westminster Hall debate on the role of homes and buildings in levelling up health and wellbeing. The debate was opened by Jim Shannon MP. For the Hansard record of the debate, click here. For an information pack prepared...
On 18 October 2022 the Social Housing Regulation Bill completed Report Stage in the House of Lords. The Bill has been amended by enhancing the powers of the Regulator of Social Housing to enforce standards. The Regulator will also have a legal duty to publish a plan...
On 17 October 2022 the Ministry of Justice announced reforms to the former Housing Possession Court Duty Scheme by which an extra £10 million per year will be invested in housing legal aid in order to enable people to access legal advice if they should face the risk...
The anonymous dad-of-four, who needs to pay £1,090 to register his home in Leicester with a new council scheme, said he is already subsidising for rocketing energy prices A landlord says he will have to either hike his tenants' rent or sell his property because he...
A number of buy-to-let landlords will be forced to raise their rents to prevent their properties from being un-mortgageable amid rising interest rates, new research shows. Nine in ten respondents to a new survey of landlords 600 have either already increased rents, or...
The total number of companies set up to hold buy-to-let property has doubled since 2017 and now stands at over 300,000, according to analysis. The increase is down to existing landlords moving properties into company names for tax benefits, Hamptons found. Around 40...
Cities have driven house price growth in the UK this year, leaving the suburbs lagging behind, according to research. Since the start of the year, as people have gradually returned to the office, property prices across Britain's cities have typically grown by 9.2%,...
The Sunday Times have published an article wondering if the days of the small landlords are numbered. The article can be seen here (subscription might be required) and states “To keep up with the rising cost of buying, maintaining and letting a property, he faces a...
The House of Commons Library has just released it's regular report on economic indicators in the housing market It can be seen here, and says: Housing Market House prices, as measured by the UK House Price Index, increased by 13.6% between August 2021 and August...
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