Please see attached a letter from the Communities Secretary, regarding some issues Hong Kong BN(O) status holders may be experiencing in accessing the private rented sector. The letter seeks to provide reassurance to landlords and letting agents in considering Hong...
Offices will see an increasing ‘hotelification’ in post-pandemic life, according to the chief executive of a property landlord company. Gerald Kaye, chief executive of landlord Helical, who was speaking on his company's annual results said the office sector was on the...
LANDLORDS are threatening to take the council to the High Court over plans to expand a housing licensing scheme. York Residential Landlords Association claim City of York Council's proposals are "unlawful and irrational". The council's legal team is considering a...
Generation Rent has suggested that landlords should compensate tenants when they sell their properties and ask them to move out. It also believes evictions should be banned where landlords simply want to replace their tenants or avoid responding to a complaint. In...
A number buy-to-let landlords have been working with struggling tenants to help keep them in their homes as far as possible during the pandemic, with plenty prepared to reduce rents, the latest research shows. Most landlords want to see tenancies sustained wherever...
Trowers and Hamlins have published an article entitled: Residential Leasehold Ground Rent Ban – first sight of the draft bill William Bethune and David Zong To read the article, click here
On 24 May 2021 the MHCLG published a policy paper in response to the HCLG Select Committee’s report on Government’s actions to support the homeless and private rented sector during the Covid-19 pandemic. For the response, click here. For the Select Committee’s...
On 19 May 2021 Brent Council launched a survey of private renters in the borough. The council says that one in six households (17 per cent) in Brent lives below the poverty line, doubling (to 33 per cent) after considering housing costs. Such housing costs often leave...
On 19 May 2021 the Office for National Statistics published the Index of Private Housing Rental Prices (IPHRP) for April 2021. It tracks the prices paid for renting property from private landlords in the UK. It shows: Private rental prices paid by tenants rose by 1.2...
On 19 May 2021 the House of Commons Library published a briefing outlining the measures set out in the Social Housing White Paper, stakeholder reaction and the next steps. For the briefing, click here.
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