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HOMELET’s Rental Index figures for October 2019 have been released. The headlines from this month’s report are: The average rent in the UK is now £953, up by 2.7% on the same time last year When London is excluded, the average rent in the UK is now £788, this is up by 2.6% on last year Average rents in London are now £1,665, up by 2.8% on last year Nationwide’s House Price Index for October reported that annual house price growth remains subdued for another mo

Shelter press release: The government has released new figures on the amount being spent by local councils on temporary accommodation for homeless households in England in 2018/19. They show: - Councils spent £1.1 billion on temporary accommodation for homeless households between April 2018 and March 2019. This has increased by 9% in the last year and 78% in the last five years. - Shockingly, more than 30% of the total was spent on emergency B&Bs, £344 million, some of th

New figures showing that landlords face a growing amount of time in getting judgement on repossession cases from the courts are boosting calls for the urgent need for dedicated housing courts to be established. Government statistics published today show that it now takes private landlords an average of 22.6 weeks from making a claim to the courts for a property to be repossessed to it actually happening, up from 22.5 weeks in the second quarter of the year. This is the third quart

I have 3 flats in the West Midlands area which are managed for me under “full management” by “Shoddy Ltd”. I would like to appoint a new managing agent and hence would like to terminate Shoddy Ltd’s services. When I informed Shoddy Ltd, they advised me that they had changed their terms and conditions the previous year. The result, they explained, was that although I could change agents, Shoddy Ltd would still be entitled to the full management fee as long as the tenant r

The Belvoir Q3 2019 rental index reveals interesting new rental trends, confirming a cultural shift towards more families renting, an increase in lengths of tenancies and continued stock shortages that may be further impacted by proposals to abolish Section 21....

Proposals by the Mayor of London to introduce rent controls have been dealt a critical blow as figures show rents across the capital falling in real terms. According to Office for National Statistics data published today, in the 12 months to October 2019 private sector rents in the capital increased by an average of 0.9%....

The nightmare scenario caused by the gas safety certificate scandal, and not ever being able to serve a section 21 if it was not given to the tenant at the outset of the tenancy, is already here people and it’s gonna come for a lot of older tenancies....

Marks Out Of Tenancy is a new landlord and property review website for tenants that can also be used as a resource for local authorities to clamp down on unlicensed properties, undeclared HMOs, properties in disrepair and criminal landlords. Nottingham City Council’s safer housing service’s strategic housing manager...