The House of Commons Library have released a paper on housing conditions. It can be seen here, and states:- In recent years the extent and role of the private rented sector (PRS) has seen significant changes. The sector has grown; 4.4 million households rented their...
iHowz are pleased to be able to respond to Acorns recent demands to improve the ‘poor conditions’ in the city as reported in the Brighton Argus. Acorn claim there is more legislation to sell cheese than to be a landlord. We are aware of over 160 pieces of legislation...
Under the title - Will the new UK legislation to manage COVID rent arrears help landlords and tenants and avoid an insolvency cliff edge? an article has just appeared in LexBlog looking at the consequences. The original can be seen here - and says:- There is a faint...
Landlords and letting agents are being made ‘scapegoats’ by Chancellor Rishi Sunak as the government continues to rebuff calls for tenants to be given more financial support to clear rent arrears, it is claimed. A new report by the National Residential Landlords...
The MK Citizen has run an article on a couple wanting their property back had served a Section 21 on their tenants, where the council insists the tenants stay until a Bailiffs arrive - this is contrary to advice given to all councils by the Housing Minister many years...
A Slough landlord has been fined thousands of pounds fly-tipping the contents of a flat so another tenant could move in. Navdeep Sira hired a van and an employee to help with the flat clearance. Whilst he took some of the rubbish to Chalvey Household Waste and...
The Chancellor is making landlords the scapegoats for the COVID rent debt crisis as he turns his back on the support the sector needs, says the body representing private sector landlords. A new report published by the National Residential Landlords Association...
A recent article in Estate Agents Today is of the opinion that things are improving for landlords. See their article to see why they think this - https://www.estateagenttoday.co.uk/features/2021/6/buy-to-let-is-the-outlook-improving-for-landlords
Property prices in the UK continued to rise in May as the gap between rising new buyer inquiries and falling new instructions by sellers became the widest seen since November 2013, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) data has shown. RICS said prices had...
The government has extended a ban on commercial evictions until March 2022, in a move that marks a blow for retail landlords but welcome news for high street tenants. Existing measures in place will run to March 25. The government said this “is to ensure that the...
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The House of Commons Library has just published its Key Economic Indicators for the Housing Market. It can be seen...