David Fox
David Fox
Registered with Property118.com
26th October 2023
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Registered with Property118.com
26th October 2023
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206
28th April 2026, 2 days ago
Because they are politicians, they are too stupid to realise a lot of new build properties are funded by landlords, buying properties off-plan. Introduce rent controls, and that source of new properties will be dead. Who wants to take out...
Read More →21st April 2026, 1 week ago
Where's the popcorn, this will be fun to watch. How long before they reach full enlightenment?
Read More →14th April 2026, 2 weeks ago
I've been a Belfast landlord for 30 years, and I've never seen this level of anti landlord regulation. Every year, new (often ill thought out) rules. Its a triple whammy, Westminster, Stormont and Belfast city council are all taking tuns...
Read More →14th April 2026, 2 weeks ago
Its even worse than it first appears......as private landlords leave the sector, the government loses tax revenue on our income. So less money in, and well as more money out, its a lose/lose situation. Our "leaders" are either ideologues, or...
Read More →13th April 2026, 2 weeks ago
I am retiring, and have offered to sell to the tenants at well BELOW market rate. But they declined, they want to rent. This delay cost me two years while they hmm'd and haa'd saying they were looking into mortgages...
Read More →30th March 2026, 1 month ago
MLA's should be made to pass O level economics before being allowed to comment on this stuff You don't stop demand by restricting supply. And that is already happening. I have sold one, one is in the process, and one...
Read More →16th March 2026, 1 month ago
Another factor that is not even mentioned, is the loss of tax revenue along with the reduction in the PRS. People often say "well the houses didn't go away, they were transferred into owner occupier" Yes its true, the properties...
Read More →7th March 2026, 2 months ago
What exactly do they mean by "proportionate" there is absolutely nothing proportionate about it. ALL landlords on a database, and yet we cant even get the rogue tenants to be put on one.
Read More →3rd March 2026, 2 months ago
The registration system is a joke right now. Landlords pay to register, and the sum total of what that money is used for, is to manage a database. A database that is not used by anybody. For example, there have...
Read More →26th February 2026, 2 months ago
If "73% said they faced big challenges when searching for a property" then maybe the Scottish government and councils should knock off the anti landlord regulation! Or buy landlords out, and show us how great they are at renting.
Read More →Reply to comment left by Ian Narbeth at 25/02/2026 - 12:01
Reply to the comment left by Ian Narbeth at 25/02/2026 - 12:01You say for "obvious reasons" there will not be a database of rogue tenants.........what are those reasons? After all, there is a database for rogue landlords. Why is it...
Read More →25th February 2026, 2 months ago
If you actually want to improve the PRS, have a database for bad tenants, so they can be excluded from wasting everyone's (including good tenants) time and money.
Read More →Reply to comment left by Paul Bond at 24/02/2026 - 11:46
Reply to the comment left by Paul Essex at 24/02/2026 - 11:46Nailed it!
Read More →24th February 2026, 2 months ago
Young people are about 10 times more likely to wreck your property, and fail to pay rent. That might put some landlords off. Maybe something to do with it.
Read More →21st February 2026, 2 months ago
"Imbalance of power" !!!! Do you think that might be because one party is risking their asset, which cost a cost a couple of hundred thousand quid, and the other ........isn't? I'd like to think there would be a power...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Jonathan Clarke at 13/02/2026 - 08:15
Reply to the comment left by Jonathan Clarke at 13/02/2026 - 08:15I had a house, that the council decided to compulsory purchase to knock it down, to make an additional entrance into a park. They decided they did not have...
Read More →12th February 2026, 3 months ago
As a wild left socialist, I'm surprised he did not quote Pierre-Joseph Proudhon directly "All property is theft" So the council gets to decide which property doesn't meet the standard, AND the council gets to determine the "market value" that...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Bill O'Dell at 12/02/2026 - 10:03
Reply to the comment left by Bill O'Dell at 12/02/2026 - 10:03Here's the problem, Bill.........I have a house, that I have rented to 8 sets of tenants over the years. 7 of them, no problems ever with mould. 1 of...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Paul Bond at 05/01/2026 - 17:13
Reply to the comment left by Paul Essex at 05/01/2026 - 17:13Same boat as yourself, but with two down and two to go. Stressful process.
Read More →7th February 2026, 3 months ago
The government must never have heard the story of "The goose that lays the golden egg" PRS landlords pay BILLIONS into HMRC in tax, and house MILLIONS of people. And yet the government seems to be trying very hard to...
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