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One piece of good news to come out of the small print documents accompanying the Budget concerns capital appreciation. The Office for...
07 March 2024
From: Breaking News
Rental sector and property industry views are split over the controversial idea of allowing first time buyers to put down a...
26 February 2024
From: Breaking News
The government is considering allowing renters to buy their first homes with just one per cent deposits, according to press reports...
22 January 2024
From: Breaking News
Any hope of a near-term drop in interest rates appears to have been wiped out by a statement by Bank of...
29 November 2023
From: Breaking News
A third year law student has successfully challenged her landlord over a repair bill. Obioma Ibe, whose landlord unlawfully tried to claim...
06 July 2023
From: Breaking News
A newspaper which often carries leaks of new Labour policies has produced an interesting theory on the fate of the Renters...
30 June 2023
From: Breaking News
A Conservative-leaning think tank and campaigning charity Shelter have released a book of essays on renting and housing. A statement from Bright...
04 April 2023
From: Breaking News
The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health has written to Housing Secretary Michael Gove urging him to make it easier for councils...
30 November 2022
From: Breaking News
There’s been a dramatic short-term improvement in the number of mortgage products available for buy to let landlords. The independent mortgage market...
30 November 2022
From: Breaking News
Buy to let broker Mortgages for Business is seeking to reassure landlords worries that the values of their properties will crash. The...
30 September 2022
From: Breaking News
The independent expert advisers to government on tax simplification, the OTS, says there has been a strong response to its consultation...
13 May 2022
From: Breaking News
The independent Office for Tax Simplification wants to know how it can make landlords’ tax issues simpler - and it’s started...
17 March 2022
From: Breaking News
The choice of buy to let mortgage deals for first time landlords has soared according to the independent market monitor Moneyfacts. “Our...
04 February 2022
From: Breaking News
The sleaze allegations engulfing the government have moved to those MPs letting out their London homes while claiming money from taxpayers...
15 November 2021
From: Breaking News
This week’s Budget saw the Chancellor loosen the Treasury’s purse strings in a number of areas. Yet this was a quiet Autumn...
30 October 2021
From: The Big Issues
It now appears that landlords had a narrow escape with this week’s Budget. The Daily Telegraph has discovered that a report by...
29 October 2021
From: Breaking News
It’s a controversial view but a respected buy to let mortgage monitor suggests that landlords may be more successful if they...
27 July 2021
From: Breaking News
There has been a sharp rise in illegal evictions by rogue landlords, it has been claimed. According to The Independent, illegal evictions...
22 September 2020
From: Breaking News
More needs to be done to help support tenants, especially those facing financial hardship as a consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic,...
04 September 2020
From: Breaking News
Mortgage approvals slumped to the lowest on record in April as the UK spent the month in the coronavirus lockdown, the...
03 June 2020
From: Breaking News
A new landlord organistaion has become the largest ever trade body in the letting sector after officially launching this morning. The National...
02 April 2020
From: Breaking News
When deciding on whether or not to let a property furnished or unfurnished, landlords need to consider their personal circumstances as...
25 September 2019
From: Breaking News
A quarter - 25% - of homes rented from private landlords fail to meet the national Decent Homes Standard when taking...
30 August 2019
From: Breaking News
As a general election surely looms, Benham and Reeves has undertaken some research that could potentially help you decide who to...
30 August 2019
From: Breaking News
Evicting an unscrupulous tenant could potentially cost landlords thousands, even hundreds of thousands of pounds, new research shows. Benham and Reeves has...
15 August 2019
From: Breaking News
There has been a sharp rise in the number of people living in private rental homes, owed in part to a...
04 July 2019
From: Breaking News
Retired homeowners have gained £1,165 each on average in property wealth over the last year despite uncertainty in the property market,...
02 July 2019
From: Breaking News
It is estimated that buildings produce nearly half of this country’s carbon emissions - almost double that of cars and planes. The...
06 March 2019
From: Breaking News
When it comes to saving for retirement, many of us are split on whether property or a pension is the best...
22 February 2019
From: Breaking News
There has been increased demand for buy-to-let property in prime central London in recent months and this trend looks set to continue...
11 January 2019
From: Breaking News
The Tenancy Deposit Scheme (TDS), one of three government-backed tenancy deposit protection (TDP) schemes, has appointed a new external independent complaints...
10 January 2019
From: Breaking News
Retired homeowners have gained £9,744 each on average in property wealth over the past 12 month despite uncertainty in the property market,...
07 September 2018
From: Breaking News
The government’s review into building and fire safety regulations is ‘missing the opportunity’ to assess fire safety regulations across all types...
09 April 2018
From: Breaking News
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has accused the Tory government of intentionally not fixing the housing crisis after revelations that thousands of...
30 January 2018
From: Breaking News
Rental arrears – or the potential for rent arrears – are the bane of every landlord’s life, to the degree that...
22 January 2018
From: Breaking News
Rogue landlords receive in the region of £2.5bn a year for renting out ‘non-decent’ properties, which includes homes that are unsafe,...
04 September 2017
From: Breaking News
Flat fees for buy-to-let mortgages have dropped to their lowest level for 12 months after falling by more than 5% in...
19 July 2017
From: Breaking News
Fears about potential eviction, blacklisting, and rent increases are stopping four in ten private tenants from making complaints about or requesting...
14 July 2017
From: Breaking News
The fire that engulfed a 24-storey tower block in west London yesterday, tragically killing several people when flames tore through the...
15 June 2017
From: Breaking News
With record high rents in London outstripping wages in every borough and a chronic shortage of new affordable homes being developed,...
18 July 2016
From: Breaking News
The independent Institute for Fiscal Studies has today warned that the Treasury’s budget analysis on the rental market is “plain wrong”. Speaking...