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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 Phil Robinson at 01/10/2026 - 18:27
Reply to the comment left by Landlord Phil at 01/10/2026 - 18:27Angie got a lot of things wrong, so did Kier Starmer and so did Rachel Reeves. There were unprecedented levels of public debt when labour came to power and...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Reluctant Landlord at 02/10/2026 - 10:59
Reply to the comment left by Reluctant Landlord at 02/10/2026 - 10:59There are a few problems with allowing pets: It's not just to do with the average cost of damage reported in this survey. Whenever I have allowed pets it...
Read More →2nd October 2026, 2 days ago
For any landlord who does not know, it is a legal requirement to microchip dogs of 8 weeks and above and cats from age 20 weeks.
Read More →Reply to comment left by Peter Merrick at 19/09/2026 - 20:35
Reply to the comment left by Peter Merrick at 19/09/2026 - 20:35That’s why the labour government should have asked the Competition and Markets Authority to advise them on the effect of the final iteration of the Renters Rights Act.
Read More →Reply to comment left by Mick Roberts at 20/09/2026 - 12:49
Reply to the comment left by Mick Roberts at 20/09/2026 - 12:49Both financial security and personal security are an issue: However, you are correct about tenants not necessarily wanting their details on there either and I suspect that this would...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Judith Wordsworth at 19/09/2026 - 13:22
Reply to the comment left by Judith Wordsworth at 19/09/2026 - 13:22And even IF they were to give billions to councils to build more houses, what evidence is there today that councils are good at building houses? How do you...
Read More →Reply to comment left by [email protected] at 18/09/2026 - 15:07
Coincidentally, just after posting this I got an email from the Federation of Small Businesses highlighting the costs on small businesses and the deteriorating labour market: https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/bulletins/uklabourmarket/september2026?utm_campaign=2356277_Copy%20of%20Weekly%20Brief%2018.09.2026&utm_medium=email&utm_source=National%20Federation%20of%20Self%20Employed%20%26%20Small%20Businesses%20Limited&dm_i=6TOT,1EI45,415MY1,6MEYB,1,0,0,0 You DON'T have a thriving labour market if you punish small business. And...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Mick Roberts at 17/09/2026 - 18:54
Reply to the comment left by Mick Roberts at 17/09/2026 - 18:54You can add to that the new requirements in the Renters Rights Act not to discriminate against tenants on benefits or tenants with children. The provisions in the Act...
Read More →Reply to comment left by [email protected] at 18/09/2026 - 15:02
This is true. We have more than one million young people not in employment, education and training. You don't get more people out of this trap by making it more expensive and risky for employers to employ people, or for...
Read More →18th September 2026, 2 weeks ago
So what JRF found according to their senior analyst was a "broadly flat,....number of rented homes owned by a smaller number of larger landlords." And if their conclusion to that was 'rent controls' then what that tells everyone is that...
Read More →Reply to comment left by [email protected] at 18/09/2026 - 11:02
Reply to the comment left by Paul Essex at 11:02 This is absolutely right: But in addition to the various regulatory and fiscal threats imposed on the smaller, non-incorporated landlords (including both fears of capital gains tax rises and the...
Read More →Reply to comment left by JB at 17/09/2026 - 11:22
The Renters Rights Act does not crack down on rental discrimination; labour's Renters Rights Act actually makes the groups of people labour were trying to avoid discrimination against even higher risk than they were before the Act, and the government...
Read More →Reply to comment left by [email protected] at 16/09/2026 - 16:08
I'm not sure where I heard it now and I'm fairly sure I heard two years but there's a bit of detail here from the BBC on what looks like the same report: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czezy8nel86o The lady who owned the property...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Chris Daniel at 16/09/2026 - 15:17
Reply to the comment left by Chris @ Possession Friend at 16/09/2026 - 15:17There was a case either this week or last week on TV of a (female) landlord who took I think nearly two years to get her property...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Jason English at 15/09/2026 - 17:17
I think what they keep saying is that all these council houses they are going to build are going to solve the problem....it's part of their 1947-1976 labour fairyland myth. Almost 20% of UK households depend upon the private rental...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Keith Wellburn at 15/09/2026 - 11:49
Reply to the comment left by Keith Wellburn at 15/09/2026 - 11:49Quite so...politicians have short memories. The conservative government put far more money into social support during the Covid outbreak than the Scandinavian countries, but labour and John MacDonald urged...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Chris Daniel at 15/09/2026 - 12:30
Reply to the comment left by Chris @ Possession Friend at 15/09/2026 - 12:30Approximately 19% of households in the UK rely on the private rented sector: With mortgage rates probably going up shortly as interest rates rise, fewer people will...
Read More →15th September 2026, 3 weeks ago
So the key quote to me in the article is "Hamptons’ head of research, Aneisha Beveridge, said...rental growth for new lets has been steadily gathering pace for nearly a year now, with much of that increase being driven by markets...
Read More →15th September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Mick Roberts is right. Everything about labour's new Renters Rights Act is inflationary and labour's proposals for its new landlord database just make things even worse. The Act and the proposals for a new database drive competition out of the...
Read More →14th September 2026, 3 weeks ago
So according to this article the Zoopla chief executive says “Growing the number of homes for rent through increased investment is the most sustainable route to boosting choice for renters and ensuring stability in rent levels over the long run.”...
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