Tom McGrath
Tom McGrath
Registered with Property118.com
28th August 2015
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Registered with Property118.com
28th August 2015
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40
30th October 2024, 1 year ago
Prior to the budget statement from Rachel Reeves, Keir Starmer was asked a question about homelessness. "We're abolishing no-fault evictions, preventing many renters ending up homeless." Abolishing Section 21 will cause even more homelessness. The local authority has a duty...
Read More →28th October 2024, 1 year ago
Don't be too hard on Mr Pennycook. Like most politicians, he doesn't know much about the job he's been handed, and when he passes on the torch in a few months time, he will still know less about housing than...
Read More →25th October 2024, 1 year ago
To respond to New Yorkie, the reason why councils did not build houses to replace those they were forced to sell to the tenants was that they were not allowed to, by Margaret Thatcher's and subsequent governments. Hence the housing...
Read More →25th October 2024, 1 year ago
Everybody should have a home, a place to sleep safely, warm and quiet. Landlords provide that for millions of people. We are entrepreneurs, occupying the yawning gap between the desperate need of millions of people and the satisfaction of that...
Read More →15th July 2024, 2 years ago
Someone I know recently took the US citizenship test. There were over a hundred facts she had to learn, about the history and Constitution of the country. She then had to answer 10 questions correctly in order to become a...
Read More →4th July 2024, 2 years ago
The Tories get their comeuppance today, and are consigned to history, but is this an occasion for rejoicing? Well yes, of course, but the new government will have no easy task, and it will be years before there is a...
Read More →8th June 2024, 2 years ago
Shelter, together with the fatuous Michael Gove, is itself responsible for the homelessness crisis. By demonising and alienating landlords, Shelter has driven many landlords from the sector, accelerating the rate of Section 21 notices and reducing the number of homes...
Read More →18th February 2024, 2 years ago
Both political parties have been seduced into trying to bring about a 'property-owning democracy.' Poor people don't want to own property: they just want to live somewhere decent. Like they don't want to own a hospital, they just want treatment...
Read More →13th February 2024, 2 years ago
If any one person is responsible for the current landlord flight, it's Gideon Osborne. He decided that small landlords were snapping up properties and depriving young people of a place to start a family. So he introduced the Section 24...
Read More →29th January 2024, 2 years ago
Replying to Lucy Ball/Louise, my experiences with Manchester City Council have been very positive. My lettings manager works closely with the housing department and any problems are quickly sorted. The bond, of four months' rent, covers any damage or arrears,...
Read More →26th January 2024, 2 years ago
The headline "Council tells landlords..." is actually misleading when the story goes on to say that the council "is appealing for landlords to get in touch." The council has no power to keep non-paying tenants in properties, but seems to...
Read More →24th January 2024, 2 years ago
The fact is that many of our buildings were designed in the nineteenth century, when occupants used to go off to work at the crack of dawn, crawl wearily home after dark, use the outside toilet and go to bed....
Read More →24th January 2024, 2 years ago
The trouble is, nobody has come up with a Big Lie I can get behind, like 'Take Back Control' (=record immigration), 'Oven Ready Deal'(=dog's breakfast) or "Levelling Up" (= dragging down.) I want a party with a snappy slogan, meaningless...
Read More →7th January 2024, 2 years ago
I must say I'm a little disappointed with the quality of this debate. Most people seem to think 'What's in it for me" and seem to have decided, without evidence, that Reform UK will deliver for the PRS. Remember Brexit?...
Read More →6th January 2024, 2 years ago
" The Brexit party's primary focus was to leave the EU.." Well, that went well, didn't it? Record immigration levels, raging inflation, rocketing interest rates, record taxation levels, sluggish economic growth. Brexit has been the biggest self-inflicted disaster in British...
Read More →6th January 2024, 2 years ago
Those of you swooning over a possible dalliance with the'Reform Party" should remember that Reform UK is not a conventional parliamentary party, but a limited company. It is a revamp of the Brexit party, whose main focus was to reduce...
Read More →3rd January 2024, 2 years ago
I'll be voting Labour. The country is sick of the shower of charlatans who have mismanaged the country and ransacked the public treasury for personal profit. They have, of course, mismanaged the PRS. Most landlords, like most sub-postmasters, are decent,...
Read More →18th October 2023, 2 years ago
The housing crisis in the country has completely distorted the economy. Owning a home is now out of the reach of the majority of people. My solution? A new NHS--a National Housing Service. The dream of everyone having a large...
Read More →Reply to comment left by rebecca anelay at 11/08/2023 - 09:50
Reply to the comment left by rebecca anelay at 11/08/2023 - 09:50Nice one, Rebecca!
Read More →10th August 2023, 3 years ago
I fear we are witnessing the death of the Private Rental Sector. The creation of the Assured Shorthold Tenancy started the heyday, and the Renter's Reform Bill will end it. Many retirees, like myself, started new careers and are now...
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