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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

Aldermore Specialist Bank, has launched a new 5 year fixed remortgage product for individual and company landlords with single residential investment properties. The move is to help landlords looking for long-term stability when managing their portfolios. The product is now available: 75% loan-to-value (LTV), 5 year fixed initial rate 3.68%, with a product fee of £1,999. No valuation or fund transfer fees, and assisted legal fees are available No background portfolio lim

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...

Email to Dash accreditation list: Licensing is forcing tenants into homelessness. Linda, Tell Licensing I’d like full refunds please, I don’t want the houses any more. Tell em I’m in Mexico for a month. All houses running fine....