Media

Landlords Must Take Pets – government announcement likely

Written by: Graham Norwood

What looks suspiciously like a government leak to the Daily Mail says the long-awaited Rental Reform White Paper will be unveiled tomorrow. ...

15th June 2022

Tenants take landlord to court and win £15,000

Written by: Graham Norwood

The Guardian newspaper has given an aggrieved tenant the opportunity to explain how he and other renters took a landlord to court - and won. ...

8th June 2022

FT Columnist makes strong case for opposing rent controls

Written by: Graham Norwood

Financial Times columnist and radio presenter James Max has made a strong case for opposing rent controls. ...

8th June 2022

Capital Gains Tax cuts for landlords considered by government – report

Written by: Graham Norwood

A report in a government-supporting newspaper suggests that a proposal to cut Capital Gains Tax for landlords who sell to first time buyers is being considered as a way of increasing the number of owner occupiers. ...

24th May 2022

Landlords on standby for scrapping of Section 21 today

Written by: Graham Norwood

The government is widely expected to announce that Section 21 eviction powers will be scrapped in new legislation coming to Parliament later this year. ...

10th May 2022

Salvation Army slammed as a rogue landlord to its private tenants

Written by: Graham Norwood

A council has served improvement notices on a number of properties owned by the Salvation Army and let to private tenants in the town of Hadleigh, Essex, where the charity was founded in the late 19th century. ...

22nd April 2022

BBC wants to get to bottom of rental stock shortage

Written by: Graham Norwood

Landlords are being invited to let the BBC know what it believes lies behind the current rental market stock shortage. ...

22nd April 2022

Newspaper campaign to scrap Section 21 and clamp down on landlords

Written by: Graham Norwood

The Mirror newspaper has launched a campaign to “make rented homes safer”. ...

21st March 2022

HMRC’s tax revaluation ‘is stealth tax on landlords’ – claim

Written by: Graham Norwood

Landlords of HMOs are being faced with a revaluation of their properties by HMRC which could result in many suffering tax rises of 300 per cent. ...

2nd March 2022

EPCs to be reviewed – so have they been wrong all this time?

Written by: Graham Norwood

A national newspaper says the current ratings of the Energy Performance Certificate are under review by the Department for Business, Energy and Industry Strategy. ...

8th February 2022

Tory complains about “coughing up most of income to landlords”

Written by: Graham Norwood

A prominent Conservative has complained that her party, and others, have failed to do anything about a housing market in which the younger population is “already having to cough up most of its income to landlords.” ...