Harvey Glenn, Author at Property118

Landlords urged to ignore social media ‘experts’ and sign up to selective licensing scheme

31st August 2023, 3 years ago

Usual threatening tone from a council employee.

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Tenant groups help rewrite Met Police eviction procedures

29th August 2023, 3 years ago

So the Met were only interested in one side of the story then.

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Council that threatened PRS landlords to pay £5,400 compensation to tenant

23rd August 2023, 3 years ago

Just wondering how much the fine would have been if it had been a PRS landlord acting in such a manner

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Half of tenants are ‘one pay cheque away’ from homelessness – Shelter claims

22nd August 2023, 3 years ago

If private rented sector tenants are one month's rent away from homelessness then so too are social housing tenants, rent differences are not that wide apart. No mention of that though from the high priestess of homelessness

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Council threatens to take control of landlord properties

21st August 2023, 3 years ago

So if I'm reading the stats correctly there were approx 500 breaches of the selective licensing each year over the 5 years. Based on 42000 properties that is about 1.2% of private rented properties per annum whilst 98.8% conformed. Which...

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Did anyone see the BBC programme on heat pumps?

2nd August 2023, 3 years ago

Like all government sound bite policies it hasn't been thought through. We will not have enough electrickery to support the conversion from gas to electric heating for many years after the deadline set by government ministers who no doubt will...

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Co-Op Bank gets in bed with Shelter to make wild claims

19th July 2023, 3 years ago

Nick Slape CEO of Coop Bank was paid £2.4m in 2021. The bank also offers btl mortgages but I doubt they are at low interest rates to help landlords keep their rental properties available to PRS tenants rather than having...

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