- Written by: Graham Norwood
Salford council has launched a consultation on whether private housing landlords in parts of Broughton and Kersal should require a selective licence. ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
Rent prices tend to rise in the 12 months immediately after a General Election, by an average of 1.96%, according to a new analysis of elections over he past 20 years. ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
A housing industry group wants the energy efficiency of a social rented property to be factored into the rent the tenant pays. ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
A major council has declared a Housing Emergency for its city, attributing part of the problem to rising private rents. ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
The cost of rent rose in seven of the eight regions monitored by Goodlord during June. ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
Unsurprisingly an overwhelming 81 per cent of landlords in a survey feel they are badly portrayed by the media ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
The latest edition of a housing market measure has suggested that one borough of London has seen rent rises of 33 per cent in the past 12 months. ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
Over 5,000 leaseholders – some of them private landlords – could get refunds on their ground rent after the Competition and Markets Authority won new pledges from nine firms that bought freeholds from housebuilder Taylor Wimpey. ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
Government plans to ban Section 21 evictions could push up rents and reduce rental stock, a property dispute expert is warning. ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
An online rental platform suggests almost a third of rental homes may be deemed unaffordable. ...
- Written by: Ann Ebberson
For many years now developers, freeholders and landlords have been engaged in the practice of utilising ground rents as lucrative investments that could be packaged and sold as a means of continued income after a residential property had been built ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
Fifteen businesses which had bought freeholds from housing developer Countryside have now given formal undertakings to remove terms that cause ground rents to double in price. ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
A protest by Welsh nationalists has called for a new Property Act to be passed by the Welsh Parliament, which would stop rents being set by the free market. ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
The popular belief that homes in close proximity to shops inevitably pushes up the rent is being challenged by new research. ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
Shelter and tenants’ group in a major city have mobilised to set up a campaign called Fair Renting. ...
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