A Scottish landlord is taking Dundee Council to court over a row about rates on his properties. He says the council owes him more than £100k after they repeatedly billed him for rates that were not due. The landlord has described the council as “incompetent”. Graham Bradley told the local press that he has been […]
There is a lot of interest in landlords right now. The government seems determined to make it harder to be a profitable landlord. A new BBC TV documentary series is interested in exploring the life of a professional landlord. Producers are looking for experienced landlords and property investors with 10 or more properties. You need […]
Lord Flight, the former Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury has criticised George Osborne’s private rental sector policies.
The majority of landlords live out of their rental property, but sometimes a live-in arrangement can suit both parties. However, in the following cases, the arrangement went badly wrong.
A major London landlord has decided to scrap deposits. Get Living, a company that lets out flats in the former Olympic Athletes’ Village, says new tenants will not be required to hand over a deposit from June 14. However, there is a catch.
A lot of professional landlords have had their fair share of outrageous tenant complaints and requests. Some complaints, however, are downright odd.
New research carried out by Kent Reliance has found that landlords are spending a third of their rental income on costs relating to their buy to let properties. The survey data showed that landlords spend, on average, £3,632 per year on costs, excluding mortgage payments. The highest costs are in London, but Welsh landlords spend […]
The Tory manifesto has been published and in the raft of measures designed to tempt the voters, Theresa May has vowed to end unfair leaseholds and help ordinary families who are struggling with the high cost of living.
Rental accommodation is very expensive in the most popular university cities and only the wealthiest students can afford luxury student rentals.
Freedom of information requests submitted by a local campaigner reveals that 6,000 landlords have been the subject of a complaint to Tyne and Wear authorities in the last three years. 6,297 complaints were received by five separate councils, yet only one landlord was prosecuted. Newcastle council received the highest number of complaints, starting with 1007 […]
A Scottish landlord has the dubious honour of being the first landlord to be disqualified from acting as a landlord for breaching the Housing (Scotland) Act 2006.
Letting agents charge tenants and landlords fees for drawing up tenancy agreements to carrying out credit checks and taking payments. Most people agree that some fees are appropriate, given that a letting agent does perform some duties, but a recent survey carried out by the Citizens Advice Bureau has found that the general public as […]
Labour has announced, in its manifesto, plans to shake up the private rental sector by handing out fines to rogue landlords via a landlord licensing scheme. Under the new proposals put forward by Jeremy Corbyn and his shadow housing minister, John Healey, all private landlords would have to pay for a landlord licence. Landlords who […]
There was a time when landlords were mostly men. Today, however, the situation is very different. Research carried out by a leading landlord insurer shows that 40% of all landlords are female. This is in stark contrast to the number of female business owners, with only 17% of SMEs owned by women. So are women […]
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