All posts by Dr Rosalind Beck
Spain has abandoned any pretence of respecting private...
Recently I have been getting to know some landlords in Spain. I think it’s good for us to network with others – to support each other if nothing else.
The Spanish landlords have been...
Landlord case study required for The Telegraph...
Dear Property118 readers, I received the follow request for assistance today from a Daily Telegraph journalist.
I’m writing an article today looking at the mounting problems landlords face in...
Let’s create more first-time buyers by making private...
The recent policy announced by Boris Johnson that he will turn ‘generation rent’ into ‘generation buy’ by under-writing mortgage deposits for first-time buyers (FTBs) is outrageous and a...
We are now in a completely different operating environment...
In the past, if someone was in a reasonable job, I was willing to risk taking them on without a guarantor. In fact, it seemed rude to ask a professional in their 30s or 40s for one. The worst thing...
JUSTICE FOR LANDLORDS!
The sustained attack on private landlords has intensified during the Covid-19 epidemic and is now off the scale in terms of the injustice being perpetuated against landlords.
Some of the key...
Government forcing landlords to house non-paying tenants for...
When Robert Jenrick made his shock announcement on the 21st of August of a new 6-month notice period in England (copying ‘socialist’ Wales) he further abrogated the state’s responsibility. How...
Tiny government concessions including domestic violence...
The Government announced a tiny concession amongst its horrendous anti-landlord policies on Friday, when it stated that in cases of domestic violence, the landlord only has to give 2 weeks’ notice...
Tenants should be assisted but still responsible for rental...
The Welsh Government last week announced their Tenancy Saver Loans scheme – adopting an idea I first put forward on conservativehome in June, namely that tenants should be ‘the ones expected to...
Thank heavens for landlords...
This is one of the best pieces I have seen valuing the work of us as private landlords. If only we could get this message across to combat all the anti-landlord rhetoric that is so polluting...
Are courts going to turn vehemently anti-landlord?
Some tenants left a landlord’s property a year ago with nearly £2,000 in arrears. The court awarded the £2,000 to the landlord, but the landlord was then asked to go to mediation to come to...