- Written by: Graham Norwood
The Chartered Institute of Housing says it’s concerned about the rapidly rising gas and home heating oil prices and the impact on tenants and homeowners. ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
Capital appreciation for landlords is running at an average double-digit strength in seven regions of the UK according to the Halifax. ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
Annual house price growth accelerated to 12.6 per cent in February, up from 11.2 per cent in January and the strongest pace since June last year, according to the Nationwide. ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
Birmingham’s Labour controlled council is writing to Housing Secretary Michael Gove for consent to apply a new licensing scheme over 25 wards of the city. ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
A Labour activist has written to the government urging a ban on what she calls ‘heartless’ Section 21 evictions. ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
The connection between rising volumes of red tape in the private rental sector and landlords quitting as a consequence appears to have been proven in one part of the UK. ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
Private landlords in a major UK city must now provide an emergency out-of-hours contact number for dealing with anti-social behaviour, the High Court has ruled. ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
A prominent Conservative has branded the rush towards rent controls by some politicians as “heavy-handed and economically illiterate”. ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
A property described as London’s smallest flat allegedly has a rental yield of 10 per cent - yet it cannot be mortgaged. ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
A prominent property website, which monitors the lettings market, suggests that rent controls would drive a proportion of rental stock to short let platforms such as Airbnb. ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
A prominent Welsh politician says rent controls should be introduced across that country to “make landlordism less financially attractive.” ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
A landlord has been fined for failing to ensure that gas fittings, appliances and associated flues were checked for safety. ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
The Halifax is suggesting that while capital values are still high - in fact running at a record - growth is diminishing and will be hit later this year by the cost of living crisis. ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
A local authority in Scotland is calling on private landlords to get in touch if they have suffered hardship as a result of Coronavirus. ...
- Written by: Graham Norwood
A new PropTech platform that claims to make buy to let investment simpler, faster and more accessible than ever before, is expanding its footprint to cover all of Britain. ...
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