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Small business owner, family man and small portfolio landlord with more than 20 years' experience and fewer than 3 properties held outside a limited company.
"Working very hard to provide essential family accommodation."
Reply to comment left by Barry Fitzpatrick at 24/06/2026 - 18:45
The only fair and objective way to allocate council tax would be on the basis of living space. But reforming council tax doesn't always work out for politicians. The poll tax didn't work out for Margaret Thatcher. Where I live...
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The proposal is that they'd all pay 0.48% based on 'property value' but 'second home' owners would pay 0.96%. It's not clear what that would mean though....would a 'second home' owner be somebody with a holiday home in a seaside...
Read More →Reply to comment left by TheBiggerPicture at 24/06/2026 - 17:40
Reply to the comment left by Downsize Government at 24/06/2026 - 17:40I don't know whether anybody watched David Attenborough's secret garden programme, but it's worth watching on catch up. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002sthz What the programme highlights is that some UK gardens are...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Ian Cognito at 24/06/2026 - 17:08
Reply to the comment left by Ian Cognito at 24/06/2026 - 17:08The principle of allocating local taxes based on square metreage of living space below 2 metres would at least be objective, i.e. not wrong per se, and it would...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Ian Cognito at 24/06/2026 - 16:47
Reply to the comment left by Ian Cognito at 24/06/2026 - 16:47And that's one of the reasons why it would be environmentally damaging and cause a lot of problems with sustainability. If anybody wanted to start a debate about a...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Keith Wellburn at 24/06/2026 - 16:13
Reply to the comment left by Keith Wellburn at 24/06/2026 - 16:13The Burnham proposal is reported as a new proposal based on PROPERTY VALUES but paid for by the landowner, i.e. by the owner of the principle private residence or...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Ian Cognito at 24/06/2026 - 15:46
Reply to the comment left by Ian Cognito at 24/06/2026 - 15:46I think I see what you mean. If it was a land tax payable by the landlord this would increase rents. If this was in effect a property tax...
Read More →Reply to comment left by [email protected] at 24/06/2026 - 15:13
The biggest problem you now have is being unable to get rid of a tenant since the abolition of no fault evictions. So the bottom line now since the introduction of the Labour Renters Rights Act is apply rigorous screening...
Read More →Reply to comment left by [email protected] at 24/06/2026 - 14:33
PS: In the past with one of my properties (mortgaged on an unregulated buy-to-let mortgage) I have been faced with an extended void period in order to do significant renovation works that were beyond the normal repainting and decoration. I...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Ian Narbeth at 24/06/2026 - 14:27
Reply to the comment left by Ian Narbeth at 24/06/2026 - 14:27I'm a small portfolio landlord, not a big landlord. Faced with the prospect of losing my property I would do whatever I had to do to get my property...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Ian Cognito at 24/06/2026 - 13:13
Reply to the comment left by Ian Cognito at 24/06/2026 - 13:13As I understand Andy Burnham's proposal it is based on property value: https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/andy-burnham-property-tax-stamp-duty-b3001061.html Apparently, this has triggered fears of escalating council tax: Understandably, because when you look at your...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Ian Narbeth at 24/06/2026 - 11:28
Reply to the comment left by Ian Narbeth at 24/06/2026 - 11:28Everything always seems so simple to the far left, doesn't it? So the idea of this ongoing tax is based on 'property value' but nobody really knows what the...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Ian Narbeth at 22/06/2026 - 12:42
Reply to the comment left by Ian Narbeth at 22/06/2026 - 12:42This might be true depending upon the circumstances although it is potentially possible to move family members back in to a property even if it is mortgaged under a...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Steve Roberts at 15/06/2026 - 08:18
Reply to the comment left by Suspicious Steve at 15/06/2026 - 08:18The Mortgage Works produces a private sector rental report on energy efficiency, the latest version of which is here: https://www.themortgageworks.co.uk/-/media/tmw-direct/documents/private-rental-sector-report-spring-2026.pdf?rev=5452ffdffed74fa8bc46fd421333717c&hash=0D0D63E8F349C2E9F57B7E341F48C949 Page 4 suggests that a band A or B...
Read More →Reply to comment left by [email protected] at 05/06/2026 - 17:04
If I remember correctly, during Covid the conservative party were trying to hold back on spending but SNP and labour were trying to get the conservatives to spend more. And yet they deny any responsibility for the deficit. Then when...
Read More →Reply to comment left by John Roberts at 05/06/2026 - 14:35
Reply to the comment left by Stockport Landlord at 05/06/2026 - 14:35The last time I got in involved in a discussion on this site about this the bottom line appeared to be that if you got a new EPC under...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Keith Stead at 05/06/2026 - 14:23
Reply to the comment left by Keith Stead at 05/06/2026 - 14:23You can legally end the tenancy if you need to move family members in, need to sell the property, or need to develop the property. It looks as though...
Read More →Reply to comment left by David Matz at 05/06/2026 - 10:43
Labour has already been told that landlords can raise rents to pay for EPC upgrades: https://www.property118.com/landlords-can-raise-rents-to-pay-for-epc-upgrades-labour/ The government has already had its fingers burned by pressurising people to fit cavity wall insulation: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cxwwr7vyrj0o And if external cavity wall insulation is...
Read More →5th June 2026, 3 weeks ago
Sympathies….it is the environment that were are presently in. Pat McFadden has apparently recently said that all labour backbenchers do is ask who can we tax to pay benefits: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/06/01/pat-mcfadden-all-labour-does-is-ask-who-can-we-tax/?msockid=0b8a4155c7db6ba1058955b1c6196a07 Landlords are an easy target because they are perceived to...
Read More →Reply to comment left by JB at 04/06/2026 - 17:25
The Labour Renters Rights Act prevents you from discriminating and also prevents you from withholding information on availability of a property....in theory. In practice, in order to be able to have a go at you, somebody would have to prove...
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