Barbara Gwyer
Barbara Gwyer
Registered with Property118.com
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Registered with Property118.com
2nd January 2015
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6th January 2026, 3 months ago
The Wandsworth form is seriously difficult to follow and there is no official help desk available to answer queries although I have been told off the record by someone from the council that room sizes are taken extremely seriously, so...
Read More →19th December 2025, 4 months ago
One of the bedrooms in my 3-bed 2 bathroom flat in Clapham South is 20cm2 too small to meet Wandsworth's minimum standard, irrespective that it is carefully designed and big enough to hold a bed, wardrobe, desk and wall-mounted cupboards....
Read More →17th December 2025, 4 months ago
Do their figures include the big financial institutions who are buying up and/or building property to rent out on a massive scale? Are these the faceless landlords being referred to? Renters should be very fearful as there is little personal...
Read More →16th September 2025, 7 months ago
Welcome to the world we are all living in now - owner occupiers just as much as tenants
Read More →Reply to comment left by Keith Wellburn at 04/09/2025 - 09:56
Reply to the comment left by Keith Wellburn at 04/09/2025 - 09:56Totally agree Keith
Read More →18th June 2025, 10 months ago
I've always felt that there are two rental markets: London and the metropolitan areas where tenants are most often young people in their first or second jobs after uni and by their nature transient, and the rest of the UK...
Read More →14th May 2025, 11 months ago
What a bonkers world we live in where, thanks to Labour if the Renters Reform Bill goes through, if I put a property up for sale then change my mind I will not be allowed to rent it for the...
Read More →12th February 2025, 1 year ago
I have just sold my top floor flat in a social housing block of 60 flats. All the flats are C rated apart from the top floor which are all D on account of the flat roof. I approached the...
Read More →1st November 2024, 1 year ago
Can't any of these idiots see that forcing out private landlords to make way for massive build to rent companies is not helping tenants. Is the future of renting really going to be glorified student accommodation which is considerably more...
Read More →15th October 2024, 1 year ago
I'm based in south-west London and several of my properties are old housing stock which will be incredibly expensive to bring up to a C rating. After I've paid tax on the rent, the mortgages out of what is left...
Read More →19th September 2024, 2 years ago
There does seem to be a mission to get rid of private landlords and replace them with conglomerates building blocks of flats purely to rent out. We're all demonised from all directions yet flak is not directed towards those city...
Read More →8th July 2024, 2 years ago
It's a tricky one this. My cat is a much cherished member of my family, but I can't lie he has damaged the carpets and sofas with his scratching. My choice and me to make good but I've had one...
Read More →4th January 2024, 2 years ago
If purchasing a flat, being leasehold isn't necessary a bad thing. Amongst my London portfolio the two that give me the most headaches by far are a Victorian house divided into three where I have share of freehold and the...
Read More →9th December 2023, 2 years ago
This is London. Most of the housing stock comprises older property which is almost invariably D or lower. I notice he doesn't give a comparison figure for owner occupied properties because that won't fit with his narrative. Ulez, destroying the...
Read More →30th November 2023, 2 years ago
I suppose it's too much to expect that this would apply to social housing as well?
Read More →30th October 2023, 2 years ago
Welcome though this news is on HMOs, I cynically wonder how much the Government's decision is being influenced by those big developers who are chucking up blocks of flats purely for renting? Fair few of these developments springing up now...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Whiteskifreak Surrey at 20/07/2023 - 10:16
Reply to the comment left by Whiteskifreak Surrey at 20/07/2023 - 10:16I have an issue with a top floor flat in a social housing block of 60 flats. In common with all the other flats on the top floor, it...
Read More →18th April 2023, 3 years ago
Dear Monica Most of my portfolio is in Balham, Tooting and Streatham and I have never had a problem getting agents to provide a tenant find only service without rent collection or renewal fees. There is such a shortage of...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Richard Phillips at 03/04/2023 - 13:20
Reply to the comment left by Richard Phillips at 03/04/2023 - 13:20Absolutely no idea. Most of the block is owned by Wandsworth Council and they're not going to do anything unless the government forces them
Read More →3rd April 2023, 3 years ago
I own an ex-local top floor flat in a block of 60, the majority of which are still owned by the council. I have just had an EPC done which has dropped its rating from a mid-D to a poor...
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