Peter Merrick
Peter Merrick
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29th October 2022
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Registered with Property118.com
29th October 2022
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Reply to comment left by Ian Narbeth at 24/06/2026 - 16:21
Reply to the comment left by Ian Narbeth at 24/06/2026 - 16:21Exactly, only the best and most decent tenants will have a chance of getting somewhere to call home in future. The fact that any tenant that goes rogue will...
Read More →21st June 2026, 5 days ago
Only yesterday, I acquired a large fridge freezer for a property via Facebook from a woman who was moving home and had no room for the appliance in the new place. When I got chatting with her, she told me...
Read More →17th June 2026, 1 week ago
If all else fails, decide you've had enough and are selling up. It's what they want you to do anyway, and leave it to the "professionals".
Read More →17th June 2026, 1 week ago
This is the cost of doing business where all risk is placed on the provider and people are desperate for somewhere to live. Be very upfront to prospective tenants that you will be very thorough, require a copy of their...
Read More →Reply to comment left by David Lawrenson at 15/06/2026 - 16:43
Reply to the comment left by David Lawrenson at 15/06/2026 - 16:43Yes David, they have made it quite clear that they want to “professionalise” the sector, i.e. they want to see the end of the “amateur” landlord and for everybody...
Read More →15th June 2026, 2 weeks ago
They know that EPC C will decimate the PRS. It's what they are counting on, otherwise they would be making it a level playing field. They want to tip the balance away from the landlord to the owner occupier and...
Read More →13th June 2026, 2 weeks ago
Section 8 cases will also gradually decline because landlords will become ever more careful about who they rent to, making sure that they filter out anybody who has any chance of being a future liability. The days of rent first,...
Read More →30th May 2026, 4 weeks ago
I remember a great saying from The Karate Kid, where the old master says: "The best way to block is not to be there" (when the opponent strikes). The best way to deal with a problems like ASB is not...
Read More →27th May 2026, 1 month ago
Really, the RRA should only apply to corporate and social housing as in its current form it flagrantly denies landlords the right to reclaim their own privately owned property when they want it back. Essentially it forces a private individual...
Read More →25th May 2026, 1 month ago
"The NRLA and TLIC are long-standing supporters of greater professionalisation across the private rented sector". Is that not just doublespeak for: "We agree with government efforts to get rid of small landlords (unprofessional) and have fewer, larger (professional) landlords"?
Read More →22nd May 2026, 1 month ago
I think the time for moaning is well and truly over. There's only so long we can be like the legendary Cnut and try to preach to the tide. It's clear to anyone with a milligramme of intelligence and interest...
Read More →19th May 2026, 1 month ago
The plan to get rid of private landlords is slowly but surely working.
Read More →14th May 2026, 1 month ago
Given the shortage of rentals on the market, renting will simply become the preserve of the best placed tenants that can afford it, i.e. two incomes or higher rate PIP claimants and clean credit record. All others will be sofa...
Read More →14th May 2026, 1 month ago
What problem did the RRA fix? It wasn't meant to fix anything, apart from the prevalence of private landlords compared to corporate, and the property rights that direct landlord ownership implies. Corporations failed to take over as intended after the...
Read More →9th May 2026, 2 months ago
So roughly 4% of all UK rental stock has been lost in a single year. Assuming very little replacement, e.g. 1% per year due to punitive SDLT and other taxes, supply would shrink by about 50% in little more than...
Read More →6th May 2026, 2 months ago
Obviously as the great physicist Sir Isaac Newton said so many years ago, for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. And as the chemist le Chatelier said, if you unbalance an equilibrium, it will move in such...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Simon Gear at 05/05/2026 - 17:14
Reply to the comment left by Cider Drinker at 17:14 Hear, hear, they are going to have such a shock when they discover that the much-vaunted ban on no-fault evictions was a complete and utter lie and a shameless exercise...
Read More →6th May 2026, 2 months ago
Many of the small, self-managed private landlords who are the most likely to sell up do not advertise on the large portals like Rightmove, Zoopla or OTM. They are more likely to use private platforms like Spareroom and Openrent, which...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Billy Gunn at 27/04/2026 - 04:09
Reply to the comment left by Billy Gunn at 04:09 It's true that if your net income before deduction of mortgage costs is less than the higher rate threshold, or you don't have a mortgage, then section 24 won't make...
Read More →25th April 2026, 2 months ago
Sadly, with their ideological hatred of private landlords, I suspect that they would rather die on their swords than do anything to reverse their attacks on the PRS. It would help if they realised that landlords are actually human beings...
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