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Renter’s Rights Bill: A disaster for tenants?

Renter’s Rights Bill: A disaster for tenants?

Have you recovered yet? As a landlord, the Renters’ Rights Bill is NOT designed to help renters – it is clearly designed to damage the private rented sector. Potentially, fatally. If you are...

12:29 PM, 13th September 2024, About 6 days ago |  20

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Why we need an uncomfortable conversation about homelessness

Why we need an uncomfortable conversation about homelessness...

It’s hard to believe that the homeless charity Crisis and the TDS are putting together strategies to get more PRS landlords to rent to the homeless. But, I fear, the result may not be what they want.

9:42 AM, 6th September 2024, About 2 weeks ago |  9

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Why councils can’t run private rented homes – after another failed landlord fiasco

Why councils can’t run private rented homes – after...

Every private landlord in the country must know that their local council is hopeless and doesn’t understand the private rented sector – but did you know that they couldn’t run a bath?

9:37 AM, 23rd August 2024, About 4 weeks ago |  19

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Hardships tests, EPC ratings and a Section 21 ban – is this the death knell of the PRS?

Hardships tests, EPC ratings and a Section 21 ban – is...

Apologies in advance if this article appears to be ‘whiny’ but I feel that the Renters’ Rights Bill is about to turn a landlord’s world upside down. There’s obviously no appreciation...

9:23 AM, 16th August 2024, About a month ago |  15

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EPCs for the PRS: Ed Miliband fires the starter gun for a landlord exodus

EPCs for the PRS: Ed Miliband fires the starter gun for a landlord...

Here we go again with energy performance certificate (EPC) ratings needing to be a minimum of C for the private rented sector but not homeowners, social housing or government buildings. Ed Miliband was...

9:36 AM, 2nd August 2024, About 2 months ago |  91

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Renters’ Rights Bill = Rent controls by the back door. Thank you, Labour!

Renters’ Rights Bill = Rent controls by the back door.

So, where do we begin? The Renters (Reform) Bill is dead, long live the Renters’ Rights Bill! But is it better or worse than what the Tories had planned for the private rented sector? Well, I think...

9:06 AM, 19th July 2024, About 2 months ago |  22

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Landlords now facing the ‘grown-ups’: Don’t give up!

Landlords now facing the ‘grown-ups’: Don’t give up!

What can landlords in the private rented sector expect from the new Labour government? Remember, the party’s fans are bandying about the term ‘the grown-ups are back in the room’ without...

10:08 AM, 12th July 2024, About 2 months ago |  6

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Twist or bust? The dilemma facing UK landlords after Labour win

Twist or bust? The dilemma facing UK landlords after Labour win...

Hi Angela Rayner, well done on beating a limping, exhausted, beaten Conservative party in the election. I imagine the rise of Reform was a last-minute scare, eh? And many of those famous Red Wall voters...

9:53 AM, 5th July 2024, About 3 months ago |  23

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Anti-landlord nonsense steps up a gear – thank you Labour and Generation Rent

Anti-landlord nonsense steps up a gear – thank you Labour...

I’ve tried to ignore the manifestos and was doing well but then up pops my old friend Angela Rayner with some more nonsense about landlords in the private rented sector (PRS). Labour doesn’t...

9:20 AM, 21st June 2024, About 3 months ago |  12

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Labour manifesto: Will the last landlord to leave the PRS, please switch off the lights?

Labour manifesto: Will the last landlord to leave the PRS, please...

Well, what do landlords make of the political party manifestos this week? The big one is Labour which is promising to ban Section 21 ‘no-fault’ evictions on day one. There’s still no indication...

10:06 AM, 14th June 2024, About 3 months ago |  39

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Goodbye Renters (Reform) Bill: Unloved and unwanted but the fight goes on

Goodbye Renters (Reform) Bill: Unloved and unwanted but the fight...

Other than Ben Beadle, are there any landlords who will be mourning the demise of the Renters (Reform) Bill? It was unwanted by landlords and agents; it would have brought destruction and the big issue...

9:47 AM, 31st May 2024, About 4 months ago |  32

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Landlords and the General Election: Who should we vote for?

Landlords and the General Election: Who should we vote for?

Rishi Sunak’s surprise announcement to call a General Election might turn out to be one of the best political gambles of modern times but where will landlords stand? None of the parties have been...

9:46 AM, 24th May 2024, About 4 months ago |  66

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The landlord exodus explained – what our critics don’t want to hear

The landlord exodus explained – what our critics don’t...

So, another week in landlord land and another slew of stories highlighting how bad landlords are for selling up – but there’s no perspective of WHY landlords are choosing to sell. And there’s...

10:00 AM, 17th May 2024, About 4 months ago |  35

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How many Lords will be ‘a leaping’ for the Renters (Reform) Bill?

How many Lords will be ‘a leaping’ for the Renters...

Now that the Renters (Reform) Bill is heading to the Lords, I’m struck by the lack of celebration by landlords everywhere. Not even our critics are happy – Shelter says it has ‘disowned’...

18:48 PM, 2nd May 2024, About 5 months ago |  3

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Tenant evictions: It’s time for an uncomfortable conversation

Tenant evictions: It’s time for an uncomfortable conversation...

Dear tenants everywhere, I hope all is well and for the majority of you who don’t know about the Renters (Reform) Bill, that life continues to be sweet. For the few renters who are aware of the upcoming...

10:39 AM, 19th April 2024, About 5 months ago |  37

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Rising tenant application fraud – landlords pay the price

Rising tenant application fraud – landlords pay the price...

Was anyone else surprised/not surprised to read that tenant application fraud has rocketed by 140%? For those working at the sharp end of the private rented sector, I doubt it. My first reaction was why...

9:57 AM, 12th April 2024, About 5 months ago |  5

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The Renters (Reform) Bill doesn’t need tweaking – it needs sinking

The Renters (Reform) Bill doesn’t need tweaking –...

News that the Government is tweaking the Renters (Reform) Bill has been welcomed by landlords everywhere, not so much by the usual suspects, but this awful legislation really needs sinking. The proposed...

10:00 AM, 5th April 2024, About 6 months ago |  22

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Angela Rayner: The hypocrite who needs to come clean

Angela Rayner: The hypocrite who needs to come clean...

Well, well, well, if it isn’t my old friend, the Ashton-under-Lyne foghorn Angela Rayner making headlines this week and turning uncharacteristically shy about her antics. Angela is the deputy leader...

10:08 AM, 1st March 2024, About 7 months ago |  19

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Landlords face a two-pronged attack on our livelihoods – and still we wait for the inevitable

Landlords face a two-pronged attack on our livelihoods – and...

It’s not often that politicians offer an opinion and get it right, and it’s probably even rarer when it is the Edwardian throwback Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg talking sense. Of course, he hits so many...

9:20 AM, 23rd February 2024, About 7 months ago |  11

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When politicians use weasel words, tenants lose their homes

When politicians use weasel words, tenants lose their homes...

Who knew that weasel words could leave tenants homeless? Who knew that weasel words can mean the opposite of what they do mean? I’m talking about Section 21 ‘no-fault’ evictions that...

0:09 AM, 16th February 2024, About 7 months ago |  12

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