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East Midlands Property Owners Expo – Date for your Diary...
East Midlands Property Owners is a professional residential landlords association but also a not-for-profit organisation. Its members own somewhere in the region of 15,000 rented properties across the...
Milton Keynes abandon Selective Licensing...
Milton Keynes City Council has abandoned plans to introduce a proposed city-wide Selective Licensing scheme under pressure from the National Landlords Association NLA.
The NLA have been leading the fight...
London Housing Solutions Rips off Landlords and LHA...
This report from Channel 4 investigates London Housing Solutions, a Rent to Rent company which is believed to have ripped off over 100 landlords for more than £400,000.
Advice from Property118 is that...
Landlords Blog Goes Viral...
Outraged by the fact that his mortgage lender changed the terms on his tracker rate mortgage, buy to let landlord Mark Alexander posted a blog on the Property118 website in September last year. Since...
Deposit dispute handling courses available for Letting Agents...
Mydeposits is hosting introductory courses for letting agents in order to help them better deal with their tenant’s deposit disputes.
The informative, hands-on seminars will provide letting agent professionals...
DCLG review of property conditions in the PRS...
This Department for Communities and Local Government DCLG discussion document considers what more can be done and how best to tackle rogue landlords, without negatively impacting on the good ones.
This...
Ipswich Council refunding landlord licensing fees after Westminster...
The RLA has recently received an email from Ipswich Borough Council confirming it has started to refund Landlord Licensing fees after the Westminster Court of Appeal sex shop case.
The Court of Appeal...
Immigration Minister resigns for employing an illegal immigrant...
Mark Harper the Immigration Minister who took the Immigration Bill through Parliament in autumn 2013 has resigned for continuing to employ his cleaner when she no longer had a right to reside in the country.
Nationwide scraps remortgages for Buy to Let !!!
In an announcement that seems to make no sense, the Nationwide who own their own Buy to Let arm “The Mortgage Works”, have said they will no longer accept remortgage applications from Nationwide...
Property118 Sponsor wins PTFS Buy to Let Mortgage firm of the...
Personal Touch Financial Services Ltd (PTFS), one of the UK’s largest financial services network, has singled out Property118 sponsor H D Consultants to be the winner of the coveted ‘Buy To Let Mortgage...
Good feedback for Landlords from Tenants reported by NLA...
The majority of tenants say their rent provides good value for money, according to the National Landlords Association’s NLA latest research findings*.
More than seven in 10 tenants (73 per cent) rated...
Letting agent workshops on the sharp end by Paul Shamplina...
Agents are being educated on making the most of the ‘sharp end’ of the industry in Letting agent workshops.
When a landlord has a problem tenant, it can be a stressful time and many don’t know what...
Cannibal Lodger Eats His Landlord...
The big story in the Irish Newspapers this week is of a lodger who stabbed his landlord and then went on to devour his heart and lungs!
In a story reminisce of Dr Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter...
200 Housing benefits tenants are served section 21 notice by...
Kent based Landlord Mr Fergus Wilson reported to the press that he has served section 21 notices to more than 200 tenants on housing benefits asking them to leave after six months.
Mr Wilson has a portfolio...
New years resolution to save money on your Landlords Insurance...
We can now GUARANTEE to beat any like for like landlords insurance renewal quote!
January is a massive renewal date for many Landlords insurance policies. Do you know when your Landlords Insurance is due...
Universal Credit is not a debacle Parliament told by IDS!
Mr Iain Duncan Smith the Work and Pensions Secretary, admitted to Parliament yesterday that the Universal credit system was not yet ready for couples who make a claim.
This was after a storm on Sky News...
Daniel Burton from Unida Place Resurfaces...
Channel 4 TV have tracked down Daniel Burton of Unida Place in Scunthorpe. The self proclaimed “Rent to Rent Guru” vanished from London back in August this year leaving both landlords and tenants...
RBS accused of putting viable businesses into default to make...
Vince Cable, the Business Secretary, has sent a report to City regulators concerning RBS deliberately putting “good viable” businesses into default so it could make more profit.
This is nothing...
The Property Ombudsman launches code of practice for Buying Agents...
The Property Ombudsman (TPO) is launching the Uk’s first Code of Practice specifically for the growing number of Buying Agents acting for consumers buying property in the UK.
The Property Ombudsman...
Paying rent late will hit credit score...
Of interest, I think, to fellow landlords; Experian expects to include 600,000 rental records by year-end of tenants who pay late, starting with social housing and expanding to all private rentals. Lenders...
Capita TDP to be taken over by MyDeposits...
The Capita TDP (Tenancy Deposit Protection scheme) has been closed to accepting new deposits since the 14th of September this year.
Capita a corporate giant and FTSE 100 company was only awarded the contract...