Private landlords across Europe are taking governments to task about the amount of subsidies they are providing to social landlords, and are criticising the money as providing an unfair advantage. Everyone agrees that the need for new, affordable housing is crucial if we are to kick-start the economy; what is […]
Read full articleCampaign to upgrade 1m buy to let homes
A new venture aims to upgrade around a million buy to let homes that offer tenants allegedly poor living standards over the next five years.
Read full articleLondon Assembly to Investigate Private Landlords
London Assembly’s housing and regeneration committee is conducting a wide-ranging investigation into London’s private rented sector. In particular they are looking at what the mayor of London and individual boroughs should be doing to raise standards and improve quality across the private rented sector. London boroughs are the most expensive […]
Read full articleLandlords urged to grass up cannabis farms
Police want to recruit help from landlords and letting agents to crack down on the growing number of cannabis farms in rented homes.
Read full article£6m letting empire lost to little-known law
Private landlord Charles Lancaster has had a property business once valued at £6 million snatched away by a building society under a little-known clause written in to most buy to let mortgages.
Read full article99,000 buy to let tenants in serious rent arrears
The number of tenants in more than two months arrears to private landlords was up 1.6% to 99,000 in three months ending September.
Read full articlePrivate landlord jailed for unlawfully evicting tenant
A landlord who threw a tenant out on the streets because he could not instantly pay rent arrears was jailed for nine months.
Read full articleBuy to let evictions soar by 33%
Court orders to evict tenants renting from private landlords have soared by a third over the past two years.
Read full articleLandlords looking for more buy to lets
One in six landlords would like to buy more property to let if they could raise the finance from mortgage lenders.
Read full articleSmall New Build Property Swamp Rental Market
The rental market is becoming dominated by new-build flats and maisonettes as property investors boost their portfolios with this new type of build. The phenomenon is due to the excess amount of unsold property of this type that has come on to the market as buy-to-let. 43 per cent of […]
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