Popular property website Rightmove has added disclaimers to all home rental adverts after letting agents were carpeted by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).
Footballer sets up “Buy-to-let School”
Robbie Fowler, the football striker best remembered for his playing days at Liverpool and Manchester City, is setting up a “property academy” for would-be investors. The so-called buy-to-let school plans to teach the secrets of buy-to-let investing and is offering free two-hour workshops on property investing when it opens its […]
Landlord mortgage fraud jumps 40% in a year
Landlords secretly letting out their former homes without telling their mortgage lender the property is a buy-to-let are fraudsters, alleges a new report.
Student landlords voice concerns over planning moves
Landlords are concerned that a change in shared house licensing will limit the number of homes available for students at Worcester University.
Lettings Agents Criticised by Ministers
A debate in Westminster this week saw lettings agents come under fire for their confusing, inconsistent fees and charges regime. Labour has called on the Government to take real action to protect renters, including the more than one million families and rising that live in the sector. They have called […]
130,000 homes sell at loss despite rising price claims
Despite property price surveys reporting rising home prices, a depressing fact behind the figures is 130,000 homes have sold at a loss over the past five years.
Landlord risks prison over CO danger
A private landlord in Hull has narrowly escaped a prison sentence after exposing tenants to a risk of carbon monoxide poisoning. The judge at the trial of landlord Colin Hanson said he had “blatantly and deliberately disregarded” a law protecting tenants from the potentially fatal consequences of defective gas work. […]
London landlords spend £5,000 a year on repairs
Maintenance is the biggest buy to let expense for landlords – with a quarter spending more than £5,000 a year on repairs on central London homes.
Hundreds of Buy to Lets Unsafe To Live In
Nearly 600 homes were upgraded last year after complaints about poor standards from tenants to Westminster City Council.
100 buy to let homes raided by council hit squads
Enforcement squads and police have blitzed 100 rogue landlords in a week in a tough crackdown on an ambitious licensing scheme for 35,000 buy to lets.
