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Selective licensing schemes are becoming increasingly popular. Local Authorities designate certain properties as subject to licencing.
Selective licensing schemes are becoming increasingly popular. Local Authorities designate certain properties as subject to licencing.
Landlords are being invited to brush up on their fire safety skills via a free online voluntary course. The course aims to boost landlords’ knowledge of key fire safety issues and make them fully aware of their legal obligations.
Paragon, a leading buy to let mortgage provider has conducted a survey of financial services intermediaries and discovered that 65% of them believe the sector will stabilise in the next 12 months. This is the first time that confidence levels have stabilised since the 2015 announcement from George Osborne that mortgage interest tax relief would […]
A newly published report by the RICS has highlighted the scale of the problem about to hit the private rental sector. Experts predicted that many landlords would sell up as soon as government tax changes began to bite, but now it seems they are leaving in record numbers.
Following the recent increase in the Bank of England’s base rate from 0.5 percent to 0.75 percent, landlords are being urged to check their current financing arrangements. Experts are warning that…
A Liverpool landlord has been left seriously out of pocket after tenants trashed his rental property. He is now calling for the council to do more to support hard-working landlords…
Councillors in Cheshire East have amended their housing policy to crack down on rogue landlords operating in Crewe and Nantwich. Private landlords have been warned to expect tough penalties if they don’t comply with the revised housing standards. Landlords who continue to supply poor quality housing could face a number of serious penalties.
The majority of UK landlords do not run their portfolios full-time. Around 60% of buy to let investors only own one property, which has made them vulnerable to recent government legislative changes. It’s estimated that 20% of these amateur landlords are planning to sell up and leave the buy to let sector in the next […]
With the August 1st deadline almost here, Nottingham has only received licensing applications from 10% of the city’s properties. There are 32,000 properties in the designated areas covered by the new landlord licensing scheme require a landlord licence. Up until the 28th of July, only 3,140 applications had been received by the council. Landlords who […]
Fergus Wilson, the UK’s most controversial landlord, says he wouldn’t bother entering the buy to let sector. Wilson owns 400 properties across Kent. He used to own around 1,000 properties, but he’s been selling them off since 2016. There was some the talk of him selling his entire portfolio, but so far, he hasn’t done […]
Landlords are scaling back on their property investment purchases. UK Finance figures reveal that buy to let home purchases via a mortgage are 19% down on the same period last year. Experts believe this is because of government tax changes and increased regulation in the sector. The loss of mortgage interest tax relief, a higher […]
Landlord licensing schemes are becoming increasingly common, especially in London where rental housing is very common. Nottingham landlords are faced with a new scheme that starts in August whilst Luton council is one of many looking closely at the idea. Local housing chiefs say that introducing landlord licensing helps them to crack down on rogue […]
The government wants to bring in minimum three-year tenancy contracts for tenants, but landlords are not happy. They say most tenants don’t want this.
The Residential Landlords Association is calling for the government to scrap the 3% stamp duty land tax on second and subsequent homes. It says the 3% SDLT should not apply to properties that add to the overall housing stock.
