Keith Wellburn
Keith Wellburn
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Registered with Property118.com
9th March 2024
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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, 3 days 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, 5 days 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, 3 weeks 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, 3 weeks 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, 4 weeks 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, 4 weeks 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, 4 weeks 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...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Ana at 24/07/2026 - 19:06
Reply to the comment left by Ana at 19:06 Mayors and councils can only bring in controls if primary legislation is passed by government to allow them to do so. No government will just allow devolved powers to act completely...
Read More →24th July 2026, 1 month ago
Still scratching my head over how Rayner was able to be registered to vote at all three homes she had use of last year. I had previously tried to get a registration at my second home so I could vote...
Read More →21st July 2026, 1 month ago
HMRC have obviously seen examples from such as Osborne with his nonsense about the tax system being unfair to owner occupiers hence bringing in S24, and Reeves idiocy claiming equal tax rates on rent and earnings were unfair to workers...
Read More →16th July 2026, 1 month ago
All in all, not too dissimilar incompetence to the inspection done by City of York council on one of my HMOs when they brought in additional licensing.
Read More →14th July 2026, 1 month ago
I have owned a couple of trading businesses and was a portfolio landlord for many years. Polanski is simply beyond hope if, egged on by this clown show of a think tank, he can’t see the problem with the ludicrous...
Read More →7th July 2026, 2 months ago
The outcome of the 5% SDLT premium is obviously not first time buyers having an advantage over LANDLORDS. A bright junior school pupil could work out it is TENANTS who suffer by treating landlords buying homes for tenants in just...
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