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Record Rent Rises in the PRS

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 […]

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ARLA Launches Gas Safety Messaging Service

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.

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German Student Gives Up Rental Flat and Moves on to a Train

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.

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Buy To Let Mortgage Deals Thin on the Ground

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.

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Landlord Campaign Groups

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.

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47% of Landlords Affected by Removal of Wear and Tear Allowance

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 […]

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Landlords Expected to Evict Illegal Tenants

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 […]

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Buy To Let: An Unconventional Route on to the Housing Ladder

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.

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Cambridge Cracks Down on Rogue Landlords

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.

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Tenant Damage is Increasing Says Agent

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.

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Will Tenants Be Forced to Pay for Budget Tax Cuts?

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.

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Will Post-Budget Rents Rise?

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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Boris Badge Branded a “Flop”

With his distinctive blonde hair, Boris Johnson, mayor of London, is instantly recognisable on the streets of the capital. Unfortunately for him, his flagship scheme, the London Rental Standard, has failed to grab public attention in quite the same way.

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Rent a Room Boost

Landlords making extra money from taking in lodgers or renting out a spare room to tourists enjoyed a big boost in last week’s budget. The tax-free “Rent-A-Room” allowance was increased from £4,250 to £7,500 – the first increase since the allowance was introduced 18 years ago.

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