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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 Steve Rose at 13/05/2026 - 16:15
Reply to the comment left by Steve Rose at 13/05/2026 - 16:15I think that if your standard tenancy agreement makes it CLEAR that keys will only be handed over at the START of the tenancy and that the START DATE...
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Reply to the comment left by Steve Rose at 13/05/2026 - 15:15If we're only talking about the pre-tenancy period then as far as I can see the protection of eviction act 1977 does not apply. So if your standard rental...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Steve Rose at 13/05/2026 - 14:54
Reply to the comment left by Steve Rose at 13/05/2026 - 14:54And where does it say anywhere in the Renters Rights Act that the Protection from Eviction Act 1977 applies in the pre-tenancy period?
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Reply to the comment left by Steve Rose at 13/05/2026 - 14:15I could be looking in the wrong place. I didn't remember the wording that you were obliged to include the amount of the rent in an advertisement in the...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Steve Rose at 13/05/2026 - 11:39
Reply to the comment left by Steve Rose at 11:39 Where does it say that in either the legislation or the guidance? The guidance says: Before the tenancy starts (the pre-tenancy period) The period of time after the tenancy agreement...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Ian Narbeth at 13/05/2026 - 10:30
Reply to the comment left by Ian Narbeth at 13/05/2026 - 10:30There's a link about this here: https://www.gov.uk/assured-tenancy-agreements-a-guide-for-landlords/rent-in-advance-and-deposits The gov.uk guidance says: Rent in advance and deposits You or your letting agent must not accept, ask for or encourage tenants...
Read More →Reply to comment left by [email protected] at 12/05/2026 - 16:20
Reply to the comment left by Richard Dean at 12/05/2026 - 16:20It is a fine line because some of the legislation as drafted was ambiguous. For example, the last time I read it (on this site) I do remember the...
Read More →Reply to comment left by [email protected] at 12/05/2026 - 13:26
PS: The guidance on gov.uk says: Rental bidding has been banned: you must include a specific price on any written property advertisement you aren’t allowed to ask for, encourage, or accept an offer that’s higher So what that means is...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Markella Mikkelsen at 12/05/2026 - 12:19
Reply to the comment left by Markella Mikkelsen at 12:19 There is a new web page on this on gov.uk and it says that a landlord cannot ACCEPT more than one months payment of rent in advance: https://housinghub.campaign.gov.uk/renting-is-changing/ I..e even...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Ian Narbeth at 12/05/2026 - 11:01
Reply to the comment left by Ian Narbeth at 12/05/2026 - 11:01I'm struggling a bit with reconciling banning rent in advance with this bit in the article: The guidance says: “During a tenancy, the tenant OFFERS to pay the landlord...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Paul Smith at 12/05/2026 - 10:45
If the landlord doesn't accept the offer of rent up front, even if the tenant has offered it, the landlord won't have breached the rules. However, older retired renters sometimes fail credit referencing, even though they have cash. One way...
Read More →Reply to comment left by [email protected] at 11/05/2026 - 11:30
This is correct: Unincorporated small portfolio landlords have been used as a scapegoat for society's ills by the main parties (both conservative and labour)....they have been singled-out, targeted. Any other business can offset it's finance costs against revenues. If you...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Mark Gora at 09/05/2026 - 10:34
Reply to the comment left by Mark Gora at 09/05/2026 - 10:34Yes, that's an important point. If the tenant doesn't pay the rent then as I understand the situation that's mandatory grounds for repossession and where the problem arises is...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Billy Gunn at 07/05/2026 - 18:13
Reply to the comment left by Billy Gunn at 07/05/2026 - 18:13It's not law yet so I suspect that if I wanted to get a BTL mortgage on a band D property this year a lender would still lend. Ed...
Read More →Reply to comment left by [email protected] at 06/05/2026 - 10:52
The iPaper just carried an article with a story about a retired policeman who gets more from his holiday let than he gets from his police pension: https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/money/property-and-mortgages/get-holiday-let-police-pension-4393070 So that's not some ghetto landlord or the Duke of Westminster with...
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Reply to the comment left by Billy Gunn at 06/05/2026 - 22:40I rearranged a BTL mortgage on a band D property last year, the mortgage company didn't ask either about the EPC rating or any plans to improve it. We've...
Read More →Reply to comment left by [email protected] at 06/05/2026 - 10:46
You've all heard of inflation. And it doesn't matter where you are, an imbalance of supply and demand will cause market rents to rise....it's the same for example in America as it is here: https://home.treasury.gov/news/featured-stories/rent-house-prices-and-demographics Elements of the Renters Rights...
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So this article says: "The data [reveal] the North of England now sees the highest rental premium, with an A or B-rated property commanding a 13.3% higher monthly rent....An A or B rated property currently attracts an 8.1% rental premium...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Susan Barclay at 01/05/2026 - 13:08
Reply to the comment left by Clara Skye at 13:08 For anybody who has missed it the link to the RRA Information sheet is here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69bc04b8f7b1c24d8e23ce60/The_Renters__Rights_Act_Information_Sheet_2026.pdf What that says is: Increasing the rent Your tenancy agreement may contain rent review...
Read More →Reply to comment left by [email protected] at 05/05/2026 - 12:51
PS: An AI bot tells me that the Automated Valuation Model provided by Hometrack is what powers Zoopla. This is what it says: "Automated Valuation Model (AVM)...How are the Zoopla rental prices calculated?...Zoopla's rental prices are calculated using the Automated...
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