Landlord Crusader, Author at Property118

Knight in crusader armour holding a sword, symbolising landlords battling rising PRS pressures and regulation.

Why stronger tenant rights mean fewer homes to rent

Author: Landlord Crusader

6th November 2026, 2 days ago | 17

What use is a tenant’s stronger right to a home, if they cannot find one? Now that the Renters’ Rights...

Why Labour’s despicable landlord tax raid will punish tenants

Author: Landlord Crusader

30th October 2026, 1 week ago | 26

I know that the country is skint, but we must be impressed with Labour’s remarkable new trick to increase a...

Landlord asks for £50 more and now he’s £2,400 a year worse off!

Author: Landlord Crusader

23rd October 2026, 2 weeks ago | 23

Well, colour me shocked but an extra £50 in rent a month hardly sounds like the opening bid for a...

Will tenants miss the small landlord?

Author: Landlord Crusader

16th October 2026, 3 weeks ago | 16

We all know there’s no ribbon-cutting ceremony when a landlord decides not to put up rent to help a tenant...

Please stop making good landlords’ lives harder

Author: Landlord Crusader

9th October 2026, 1 month ago | 5

Apparently, landlords in Greater Manchester are to get a special programme to help them understand how to be landlords. Somewhere...

Labour wants the keys to YOUR landlord properties

Author: Landlord Crusader

2nd October 2026, 1 month ago | 15

Well, the cat is well and truly out of the bag. Burnham’s tears during his party conference speech should be...

Who will protect landlords when the threats begin?

Author: Landlord Crusader

25th September 2026, 1 month ago | 14

Just when you think you’ve heard it all as a landlord, there comes a flurry of stories that are both...

The PRS landlord crisis isn’t about us selling – it’s about us not buying!

Author: Landlord Crusader

18th September 2026, 2 months ago | 11

Hear me out, but the most important landlord who left the market this year may be the one who never...

Why the nonsense £65 landlord database tax is just the start

Author: Landlord Crusader

11th September 2026, 2 months ago | 23

There is something almost insulting about being told by the government that £65 is not much money. It is apparently...

It’s official: Britain is dismantling its private rented sector

Author: Landlord Crusader

4th September 2026, 2 months ago | 21

Well, who could have predicted that small landlords are leaving the private rented sector? Thirty thousand small landlords in the...

Just as landlords predicted – rents are going up

Author: Landlord Crusader

15th August 2026, 3 months ago | 5

You must hand it to Labour, though they went hard on how great the Renters’ Rights Act would be for...

Why Labour needs a rogue tenant database to protect decent tenants

Author: Landlord Crusader

7th August 2026, 3 months ago | 28

Labour’s Renters’ Rights Act, which was sold as a tool for ‘levelling the playing field’ for tenants, brought into being...

Why is the Labour government gambling with tenants’ homes?

Author: Landlord Crusader

31st July 2026, 3 months ago | 8

Apparently, the Labour government can redesign the private rented sector, raise landlords’ taxes and remove a possession route used for...

Why Angela Rayner’s return should worry landlords

Author: Landlord Crusader

24th July 2026, 4 months ago | 14

The political carousel has spun once again to bring Angela Rayner back into government running England’s housing brief. That’s just...

As private landlords disappear, who will replace us?

Author: Landlord Crusader

17th July 2026, 4 months ago | 13

Two stories this week caught my landlord eye, and they deserve to sit side by side for a closer analysis,...

Nonsense on stilts: The government’s £7,000 death blow for small landlords

Author: Landlord Crusader

22nd June 2026, 5 months ago | 17

Am I reading this right? Am I hallucinating? I can’t be the only small landlord learning about the government’s plan...

How the tenancy pet trap leaves landlords financially exposed

Author: Landlord Crusader

19th June 2026, 5 months ago | 15

If you want to understand exactly how the Renters’ Rights Act is going to restrict private landlords of control over...

Why rent controls are the wrong answer to a housing shortage

Author: Landlord Crusader

12th June 2026, 5 months ago | 17

Oh, dear, another week and another call for rent controls. This time it’s the turn of Generation Rent, which has...

The price of tenant activist politics: When campaigns collide with reality

Author: Landlord Crusader

5th June 2026, 5 months ago | 6

They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but in England’s private rented sector (PRS), it’s currently...

The RRA trap: Why decent landlords are about to get a £7,000 wake-up call

Author: Landlord Crusader

29th May 2026, 5 months ago | 9

Following on from last week’s theory about the purging of small landlords from the private rented sector (PRS), here comes...

Are we witnessing a real-time purge of small landlords from the PRS?

Author: Landlord Crusader

22nd May 2026, 6 months ago | 8

When the Tories’ Renters’ (Reform) Bill was progressing, I was among the very first to sound the alarm about the...