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Garden Communities – A bit like garden cities?
Housing Minister Stuart Andrew announces that from Cornwall to Carlisle, the Garden Communities programme will deliver up to 16,000 homes per year from 2025 with £15 million of government funding,

3,374 BTL products still on offer to landlords but rates...
The Latest Moneyfacts market research indicates that although there was a small month-on-month dip in the number of Buy-to-Let (BTL) products available to landlords, reduced by 61 to 3,374, compared...

Rental affordabilty in England – Average salary of...
Paragon’s Rental Affordability Index takes recently published Government data, and by overlaying gross annual earnings with the average amount spent on rent, reveals an average rental affordability...

Right to Manage (RTM) Formations Platform Looking For Beta...
Do you lack control over your service charge or have difficulty getting your landlord to make urgent repairs? Are you thinking of RTM but keep on putting it off as the process seems laborious and...

Eddie Hughes, Minister for the Private Rented Sector, to...
The Minister for the Private Rented Sector, Eddie Hughes MP, will be the keynote speaker at the inaugural National Landlord Conference on Tuesday 15th November.
Hosted by the National Residential...

Meet Mark Smith (Barrister-At-law) – Premier Property...
Our Hon. Legal Counsel, Mark Smith, Head of Chambers at Cotswold Barristers, will be presenting on the subject of Business and Tax Structures for Property Investors in 2022 at the Premier Property...

Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Act 2022 ends government...
The government recently passed into law the much-anticipated Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Act 2022. This effectively ends government interventions to prevent tenant insolvencies during the pandemic,

Seeking help – Debt owed for repairs?
A former tenant owes me £2,222 for repairs to the house. It’s a bit of a story – they moved out in December 2021. I would definitely like to get a CCJ and if necessary, take steps to go...

It is surprising that conditions have remained so buoyant...
The latest Nationwide House price index for April indicates annual UK price growth slowed a little to 12.1%, down from 14.3% in March with prices up 0.3% month-on-month after taking into account...

No let up on the lack of new rental listings coming to the...
The Housing Market readies itself for the latest economic measures to impact the UK housing market, as forward-looking metrics soften, but current activity is still buoyant and house prices are...