Keith Wellburn
Keith Wellburn
Registered with Property118.com
9th March 2024
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Registered with Property118.com
9th March 2024
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320
15th September 2026, 5 hours ago
Here we go with Labour whining about what Harold MacMillan called “Events, dear boy, events” when seeking an excuse. As far as I’m concerned the Tories are a busted flush and will never get my support again but what the...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Keith Wellburn at 11/09/2026 - 12:28
Reply to the comment left by Keith Wellburn at 11/09/2026 - 12:28In other words if you have an agent registered and vetted as professional and compliant managing properties that should be sufficient for the oversight that is supposedly needed. If...
Read More →11th September 2026, 4 days ago
Ironic that you can get, say, electrical work done in a rental property under Part P or new windows done under FENSA with the contractor being judged as competent to be responsible and sign off the work they have done....
Read More →Reply to comment left by Fergus Wilson at 02/09/2026 - 10:15
Reply to the comment left by Fergus Wilson at 02/09/2026 - 10:15Exactly, it just won’t work like that when one party has invested hundreds of thousands of pounds and the the other is paying a tiny fraction of this and...
Read More →1st September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Watch these hand wringing lefties start screaming from the roof tops if they actually get what they asked for - full details on the register of previous tenants who had to be evicted for rent arrears or anti social behaviour.....
Read More →27th August 2026, 3 weeks ago
How on earth does applying NI to rental profit even work? State pensioners don’t pay it on earned income -are they proposing applying it regardless of age. If that’s the case it’s not really NI is it, rather a brand...
Read More →Reply to comment left by joe bloggs at 23/08/2026 - 10:54
Reply to the comment left by Joe Bloggs at 10:54 NB – when you break it down, £2 a week per room on a 3 bed HMO over 5 years covers the license cost. There is a lot less inertia...
Read More →Reply to comment left by joe bloggs at 23/08/2026 - 10:52
Reply to the comment left by Joe Bloggs at 10:52 But the market rents will be heavily influenced by the attitude of landlords setting new rents as I have described. Rent increases for existing tenants follow in the next twelve...
Read More →Reply to comment left by joe bloggs at 23/08/2026 - 10:15
Reply to the comment left by Joe Bloggs at 10:15 We perhaps have different views of mid to long term, but anything in the next twelve months is short term to me so I don’t see how the only once...
Read More →Reply to comment left by joe bloggs at 23/08/2026 - 04:41
Reply to the comment left by Joe Bloggs at 04:41 What do you think creates market rents? Costs of doing business for all landlords operating in that market. And there isn’t a landlord on here not aware that rent can...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Keith Wellburn at 21/08/2026 - 10:25
Reply to the comment left by Keith Wellburn at 10:25 Not forgetting the licence fees are exempt from VAT where VAT registered trades must add on 20% for any work including mandatory inspections to give the invoice total for the...
Read More →21st August 2026, 4 weeks ago
“According to Bolton council, in the past three years they have received more than 1,000 complaints about disrepair in rented homes, typically relating to fire safety, cold and damp and overcrowding.” That statement says absolutely nothing about whether the homes...
Read More →19th August 2026, 4 weeks ago
The article mentions “imputed rent” - the value of living in a home you own whether outright or mortgaged. Apparently the figure is included in the country’s national statistics and is obviously very easily understood by economists. Yet along came...
Read More →Reply to comment left by [email protected] at 13/08/2026 - 10:12
If we get CGT tax rates aligned with income tax rates I just can’t see it working for anyone (sellers of assets or the Treasury) without some form of indexation or taper (like we have had in the past). This...
Read More →6th August 2026, 1 month ago
Fairer for tenants. One example of this is the ability for a tenant to give two months notice on day one and leave after just two months. Enough time for sufficient damage to the property, particularly if a pet has...
Read More →3rd August 2026, 1 month ago
I had numerous tenants on benefits in the period 1990 to relatively recently. My remaining property will be let to no one when the current tenants leave. Obviously no overt discrimination there. But the property has never appealed (since I...
Read More →30th July 2026, 2 months ago
FYI Baroness Taylor, the 2p in the £ rise will be negligible for me because I added a sufficient sum on to the rent increase I was intending to implement to compensate. Not so for the tenants. Presumably your role...
Read More →Reply to comment left by PAUL BARTLETT at 29/07/2026 - 15:10
Reply to the comment left by PAUL BARTLETT at 29/07/2026 - 15:10It made me laugh when the police investigated her for possible council tax evasion on her previous housing anrrangements and brought no charges. Charges can only be brought within...
Read More →29th July 2026, 2 months ago
I bought a property at auction in 1990 with a sitting tenant under a protected statutory tenancy. It cost £11,000 and the rent was set at £12.50 a week. There was no stamp duty to pay. There was also NO...
Read More →28th July 2026, 2 months ago
I had five student HMOs operating for the best part of twenty years. The rents and occupation of the properties were based on 51 weeks, this was the general principle of the entire student HMO market in the area. (Longer...
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