Keith Wellburn
Keith Wellburn
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9th March 2024
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Registered with Property118.com
9th March 2024
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281
2nd April 2026, 3 weeks ago
A very disingenuous use of ‘windfall’ by Gen Rent. The whole meaning of this term is an unexpected financial gain. Sorry these agitators don’t like it, but when I put money into property to provide a home for others it...
Read More →23rd March 2026, 1 month ago
How many of the Lords attending were claiming the £361 tax free daily allowance just for showing up? When it comes to landlords past retirement age who pay no National Insurance and may well have invested in property as an...
Read More →18th March 2026, 1 month ago
Ben could do with aquainting himself with the reality of upgrading older properties - what happened when the government recently backed the fitting of external wall insulation under one of the schemes? An incredible NINTEY EIGHT percent of properties have...
Read More →18th March 2026, 1 month ago
Spending £30,000 to move a property from where the majority of rental properties sit – EPC D – that aren’t currently C or above (G and F are mostly not legal to let and Es are relatively few and far...
Read More →27th February 2026, 2 months ago
The Greens have already announced their intention to abolish private landlords. Looks like it will be happening first for ‘vulnerable’ tenants in Bristol..
Read More →23rd February 2026, 2 months ago
The Green’s have already adopted a policy to abolish private landlords through legislation and financial penalties - it was announced at their last Conference. Looks like it’s not working in Bristol if there is supposedly no increase in homelessness. ....
Read More →19th February 2026, 2 months ago
Saying Section 21 is the leading cause of homelessness shows the same mentality as saying the MOT test is the leading cause of cars being scrapped. Are there not ANY tenants who can see what ALL landlords can see in...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Jo Westlake at 11/02/2026 - 10:34
Reply to the comment left by Jo Westlake at 11/02/2026 - 10:34I never used them on my family properties, but the specialist student letting agency I used on my student HMOs required guarantors for every UK student (usually parents). To...
Read More →11th February 2026, 2 months ago
And what happens when Pennycook decides that guarantors are a problem (which, given his complete lack of any experience except advocating / government / non-profit is inevitable)? A) Landlords realise how silly they are in mitigating the risk that a...
Read More →4th February 2026, 3 months ago
Unless using leverage over a decent time frame is the objective, becoming a landlord now by buying a physical property with cash to get a return makes as much sense as wanting to make an INVESTMENT return from any other...
Read More →3rd February 2026, 3 months ago
It will need at least a decade of constructive input to counter the damage done by Polly Neate. I had to put a clause in my will instructing my Executors that their power to select an alternative housing charity (if...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Steve Roberts at 31/01/2026 - 09:41
Reply to the comment left by Suspicious Steve at 31/01/2026 - 09:41I understood it to be EPC C by 2030 on part of the metrics with full compliance by 2039. For example insulation of the structure or efficiency of heating...
Read More →30th January 2026, 3 months ago
Nobody is going to be telling me about the age of kitchens and bathrooms in rental property when I choose to retain a lovely 1948 bathroom in my Victorian home and my second home, a 1988 built flat retains its...
Read More →29th January 2026, 3 months ago
Proof if it were needed that Shelter is just an arm of the political left with a bit of work in supporting tenants’ genuine rental housing difficulties as a side line. And Pennycook will be the one to go down...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Derek STOBBS at 20/12/2025 - 16:24
I wonder how far you could push that. I recall reports back in the 1980s when news print unions had publishers over a barrel there was actually a ‘M. Mouse’ that received a pay cheque every month on one newspaper..
Read More →18th December 2025, 4 months ago
Yet in the October 2024 budget Reeves thought she was the bees’ knees in announcing a one penny cut in duty on a pint of beer (It might have been meaningful in 1974). Yet 2p in the pound upward pressure...
Read More →17th December 2025, 4 months ago
How many so called accidental landlords would actually be able to go ahead and let a property in circumstances where previously the 1988 Housing Act and ASTs positively encouraged? Working away for 9 months - that’s a ‘no’ under the...
Read More →Reply to comment left by John MacAlevey at 15/12/2025 - 10:28
Reply to the comment left by John MacAlevey at 15/12/2025 - 10:28It was created for the social housing sector twenty plus years ago. It was a framework for councils and housing associations to plan ongoing works to their stock to...
Read More →15th December 2025, 4 months ago
My understanding is three items in disrepair in a kitchen over twenty years old means the kitchen is classed as non- decent. Good luck arguing against the £7,000 fine issued by the LA where a pragmatic landlord has remedied two...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Derek STOBBS at 07/12/2025 - 07:50
I was astounded to read what the business rates bill for just Heathrow airport will rise to shortly - £300 million pounds annually which is ultimately charged to visitors in their flight costs and is raising significant sums from overseas...
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