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Leading tenant eviction company, Landlord Action, says that as many as 50% of Section 21 cases they handle are as a result of tenants wanting to be re-housed by the council. They believe the abolition of Section 21, and subsequent expansion of Section 8, could put thousands of tenants at greater risk of receiving a County Court Judgement (CCJ) and ending up homeless as local councils will not be obliged to re-house those with rent arrears judgements. According to Landlord Action,

A huge number of landlords have never sought professional advice to identify the optimal business structure to meet their goals. In our experience, the most common gaps in landlords business plans relate to considering business continuity, legacy planning, protecting their assets from 'gold-digger spouses' of their children and the optimal tax structure for income tax, capital gains tax and inheritance tax. The lack of planning described above is because most landlords overly r

ONS UK House Price Index: July 2019: Monthly house price inflation in the UK, calculated using data from HM Land Registry, Registers of Scotland, and Land and Property Services Northern Ireland. Average house prices in the UK increased by 0.7% in the year to July 2019, down from 1.4% in June 2019 (Figure 1). This is the lowest annual rate since September 2012, when it was 0.4%. Over the past three years, there has been a general slowdown in UK house price growth, driven mainly by

I am in the process of evicting a tenant with a Section 21. The council told the tenant to stay put after the Section 21 expiry date (typical), so forcing me to pay up £355 to send it all off to court to progress to possession. My question is: Getting the £355 costs from the tenant after the possession is going to be impossible, BUT if the Council have told him to stay and as a result I had to pay to progress the eviction, could the £355 be taken out of the Bond money once he h

There are two flats in a converted terraced property of which I own the ground floor flat. The other first floor flat (FFF) is owned by another leaseholder. I bought the freehold over 10 years ago with the previous leaseholder who then sold up and it was transferred to the current leaseholder and hence we both now own the freehold jointly....

The Fabian Society, a left wing but not Marxist think tank, has released new research claiming private renters support for rent controls is motivated by more than just saving money, but also to tackle insecurity and unfair treatment. However, renters want rent controls that make a difference...

Esther McVey, the Minister of State for Housing, has given a speech at the convention for the residential property sector outlining government policy enacted and futures plans in place to increase the supply of new homes to 300,000 per annum by the mid 2020s and assistance for extending the affordability of home purchases for First Time Buyers....

New analysis shows that the government’s Rough Sleeping Initiative is having a significant impact on reducing the numbers of vulnerable people sleeping rough on the country’s streets. It has provided £76 million to 246 councils across the country to date...