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Self-managing landlords are the least prepared
Many self-managing landlords not fully compliant with Right to Rent. A new Government report can be seen here, and found that self-managing landlords are the least prepared when dealing with the legal requirements of the official Right to Rent...
Tenants are becoming more aware of energy efficiency improvements
Just over a fifth – 21% – of tenants have spoken to their landlords about making energy efficiency improvements to their property, according to Shawbrook’s latest research. In response to this, a quarter of landlords (26%) have already made energy...
Survey shows nearly half of landlords will expand their portfolios
Survey shows nearly half of landlords will expand their portfolios A quarterly survey by specialist finance firm Landbay shows that 42% of landlords say they will purchase additional property in the next 12 months, and 79% state they will not sell...
The Supported Housing (Regulated Oversight) Bill 2022-23: progress of the Bill
The House of Commons has released a report on Supported accommodation, and the private members bill. It can be seen here, and says: What is exempt supported accommodation? Supported accommodation is a broad term which describes a range of housing...
EWS1 (or equivalent) lender data on mortgage valuations for flats
Information on the number of EWS1 forms (or equivalent) that have been required, as reported by 7 major lenders in the United Kingdom, can be seen here.
Tenant Expenses to Rise by £200 a Month
Your tenants may be looking forward to the joys of longer, warmer, spring days, but April could see them face significant financial challenges as household bills are expected to rise by up to £200 a month. In the coming weeks, we will all see how...
Russian London landlords fined £6k rent repayment order
Two Russian landlords unable to travel to the UK have been fined over £6,000 plus costs for renting out a property without the correct paperwork within a selective licensing area in the London Borough of Brent. Tribunal Judge, heard how the Housing...
Health inequalities: cold or damp homes
The House of Commons has just published a report on Health inequalities: cold or damp homes. It can be seen here, and says: How do cold or damp conditions affect health? Housing quality has a significant and material impact on health and wellbeing....
Live tables on rents, lettings and tenancies
The Government has just realeaed the following data: Table 600: numbers of households on local authorities' housing waiting lists, by district, England, from 1987 Table 602: local authority owned dwellings let by local authorities, England, from...
Social Housing Rent Standard – April 2023
The Government has said it will impose a 7% rent ceiling to social housing rent increases in the 2023-24 financial year as a temporary measure amid the cost of living crisis. Detailing the plans in a response to a consultation it conducted on the...
National non-domestic rates collected by councils in England: forecast for 2023 to 2024
The Governemnt have released data on the forecast of non-domestic rating income due to local authorities in 2023-24, including data relating to the amount of business rates reliefs forecast to be given to businesses. One authority has not yet...
Tenants may be sick of their greedy landlords, but without them rent will be even more expensive
The i has run an opinion piece with the sub title - 'We love to hate landlords – but when they go, we will be surprised by how much we miss them' It can be seen here, and says: Marcus Rashford: defender of free school meals for hungry kids across...
Housing Market: Key Economic Indicators
The House of Commons has just published its regular report data regarding key indicators in the PRS. It can be seen here, and says: House prices, as measured by the UK House Price Index, increased by 9.8% between December 2021 and December 2022. On...
Supreme Court clarifies law on leasehold service charges
Landlords of a block of 38 flats in Southsea, Hampshire, are entitled to vary service charges levied on leaseholders, five Supreme Court justices ruled today in a clarification of part of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985. The dismissal of the...
Government have made bad housing decisions over the years
John Muellbauer, economics professor at the University of Oxford and a former government adviser has written a report for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on the case for overhauling the property tax system and...
Why a mass buy-to-let sell off won’t fix the housing crisis
The Telegraph has written an opinion piece on why a mass buy-to-let sell off could make the housing crisis even worse. It can be seen here (subscription may be necessary), it starts off by stating that the ‘rise of buy-to-let has overhauled the...
Landlord selling off rental properties
The Telegraph have reported on a buy-to-let landlord who is selling properties when the tenant gives notice. It’s the tenants who suffer when good quality rental stock is taken out of the sector The article has the sub head ‘It’s the tenants who...
Over half of tenants reported struggling with their housing costs.
A recent report by the Resolution Foundation used data from a new YouGov survey of 10,470 UK adults to examine how the cost-of-living crisis is affecting people’s ability to meet their housing costs, how it varies across tenure, and the...
Buy-to-let bust sees 66 rental homes disappear each day
The Telegraph has run an article on the diminishing numbers of properties from the PRS (Private Rented Sector). It can be seen here (subscription may be necessary) and gives the statistic that according to Hamptons analysis of data from...
RICS latest survey shows prices continue to soften
RICS said in its latest survey that the net balance for house prices softened to -47 from -42 in December. A balance measures the difference between the percentage of surveyors seeing rises and those reporting falls. New buyer enquiries also fell,...
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Net loss of social housing stresses the PRS
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