Furnished or Unfurnished? What’s the rental difference?

"It says that on average, landlords with rentals in London receive £2,189 a month in rent. However, if they furnish their property, they could get £9,120 per month"

What a load of rubbish

Did a human proof read this article? This is the sort of blunder I would expect from the Daily Mail!. If furnishing an ordinary flat pushes the rent up to over £9000 pm I'll eat my hat!. And the Plymouth data looks equally wrong. Where is the common sense?

£9,000 for short-let high-end corporate properties which happen to be furnished, maybe. Throwing £2,000-worth of furniture in my London 2-bed is not going to gross me another £90k per year :D
Brainless PR by a company I will remember never to use.

What load of crap!!

Always unfurnished , too much hassle with all the daft red tape regs

Risen 19 percent to 2 percent 😂

A seven grand improvement by adding some crap from ikea

seems legit

The fact is you get less for furnished lettings I had done a blog but it disappeared for whatever reason, don’t mention so called specialist Insurer’s to me, increased premiums every year more terms, conditions & exclusions added and this purports to be their Survey .

I had to turn people away because they wanted it unfurnished the money wasn’t the issue at all they expected me to remove the furniture, where would I store it ? So I would have the same rent, what about the £3k+ I had just spent furnishing the place, try it and see £1500. 3 piece suite, dining table & chairs £1200. Beds £250. each x 3 £750, plus loads of other bits & pieces, that’s equates to substantially less income than unfurnished. I have always done furnished but now not worth it with Corona virus mattresses throw virtually every time Tenants change. I didn’t mind replacing in the past before they took away the 10% wear & tare but too many of unfurnished LL’s were falsely claiming the allowance so we have to suffer. Then we have all furniture compliance regulation’s. HMO disaster I went to Excel property show there was Seminars there telling people how to make money by making bedroom out of sitting rooms, I kid you not and they talk about forced in HMO’s to drive up standards.

Turning the sitting room into the bedroom is the nasty thing that the "rent to rent" guys do. I wouldn't deal with them in a million years - they make life worse for tenants in order to make money for themselves. It is as simple as that.

Incidentally, if anyone is thinking of converting to serviced flats then you will need to provide everything (as I personally do already for shorthold assured tenancies). These are the requirements for serviced apartments in Scotland:

One per unit: General:-
Breadbin Broom
Sieve Cloths
Bread Board and a Bucket
Chopping Board Cleaning Agents
Automatic Electric Kettle 12 Clothes Pegs
OvenCloth/Mitt Duster
Table Cloth (or one placemat Dustpan and Brush
per person) Floor Cloth
Tray Spare Light Bulbs
Washing Up Bowl with Door Mat
Brush or Sponge Washing Up Liquid
Biscuit/Cake Tin Dish cloths
Butter Dish Ice Tray
Condiment Set, (two pieces) Cafetiere/Coffee maker
Mixing Bowl Sugar Basin
Milk Jug
Measuring Jug
Teapot
Toast Rack
Water Jug
Cutlery Box or Drawer Divider
Breadknife
Carving Knife, Fork and Dish
Corkscrew and Bottle Opener
Fish Slice
Grater
Kitchen Scissors
Ladle
Potato Peeler
Potato Masher
Sharp Vegetable Knife
Tea Strainer
Whisk
Wooden Spoon
Baking Tin/Tray
Casserole Dish and Lid, adequate size
Colander
Frying Pan
Saucepans (large, medium, small)
One Additional Large Saucepan
(if six or more people accommodated)
Oven Roasting Tray
Pie Dish
Slotted Draining Spoon
KNIFES SHOULD BE SHARP ENOUGH FOR THEIR INTENDED USE
Two per unit:-
Vegetable dishes
Ashtrays (if smoking permitted

Also, of course, you need to provide bed linen which in Scotland you need to arrange to have changed twice a week.

• Andrew townshend
• 26 June 2022 10:15 AM

'' Knifes should be sharp enough for their intended use'', stabbing drug dealers ?

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Ellie. What a list while some un-furnished don’t even give them a washing machine or extra white goods like freezers & fridge’s, ironing board or the Henry like we do. The 3 bed Semi generally has 2 receptions rooms but I have seen some HMO’s with all 5 rooms let, once they have the room sizes that is acceptable for driving up standards not. So everything they didn’t supply they are not responsible for unlike furnished accommodation, un-furnished wins hands down for better returns and not Pat testing every year either. Tell CIA that.

I can see the advantages of unfurnished accommodation, Michael, particularly if the tenants want long term accommodation. However, I may well not be in this business for the long haul because of the impending changes in the law. Therefore I prefer to have tenants who only want to stay for a shortish length of time.