Shelter is claiming that 17,000 tenants called its helpline during 2014, to report abuse at the hands of their private landlord. The housing charity says tenants alleged they had been harassed, threatened and assaulted, had their utilities cut off, and seen their possessions burned.
HMO landlords end up in the news more than most, usually as a result of failing to meet their obligations to tenants.
The Association of Residential Letting Agent (ARLA) has just published its latest Private Rented Sector Report and the results are interesting. ARLA Report The data has been gathered from 363 ARLA member letting agents in July this year and more than a third of those surveyed reported that property rents have risen in May and […]
The Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA) is joining forces with the Gas Safe Register to send out gas safety messages to landlords and tenants in the residential letting sector.
A young woman from Stuttgart became so despondent with life in rental accommodation that she swapped her rented flat for a monthly rail season ticket. So when other people disembark and head home to their rental property, Leonie Müller stays on board and settles down for the evening.
Buy to let finance has exploded in recent years, with a large number of high street lenders waking up to the fact that the private rental industry is booming. Consequently the number of buy to let mortgage products has increased considerably in the last five years.
Budget proposals to limit tax breaks for landlords has not gone down well with landlords and property investors. Many are up in arms about the planned changes and as you might expect, some are ready to fight back.
According to the National Landlords Association (NLA), 47 per cent of landlords will be affected by the government’s removal of the annual wear and tear allowance. They are welcoming the changes as they say the new system will be fairer to landlords, but they are warning that some new landlords could be disadvantaged if they […]
The government has announced new measures that give landlords the right to evict illegal tenants without the need for a court order. This follows on from previous announcements that landlords will be expected to check tenants’ immigration status before agreeing a lease; landlords who repeatedly fail to check their tenants’ status could end facing fines […]
It’s not easy getting on to the housing ladder these days. Unless you have a large deposit and a decent income, most lenders will not give you a mortgage. As a result, Generation Rent has largely been priced out of the property market in many areas of the country, particularly London.
Many local authorities struggle with the problem of rogue landlords, but Cambridge City Council is no longer willing to turn a blind eye. A Level Playing Field Councillors responsible for housing in the city are determined to crack down on rogue landlords.
Some landlords will be familiar with the scenario of a filthy property at check-out and while the majority of tenants do look after their rental home, there are some who never lift a finger to clean the whole time they are in residence.
A landlord survey carried out by the website Rentify has revealed that more than half of landlords polled say they intend on raising rents to help cover their costs in the wake of George Osborne’s reduced tax breaks for private rental properties.
The budget delivered many surprises, but the biggest for landlords was the restriction of mortgage interest rate relief and the removal of the wear and tear allowance for anything other than provable expenditure.
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