Whiteskifreak Surrey

By beong ideologically vocal.... Read More

We are certainly planning to sell a flat in London and one student house. Still plan to stay with a studio and another student house and see how the market goes.... Read More

Well spotted... Read More

Only 67% believe that PRS is worse?
Who are 33% who think they will thrive? Or they have no idea what is coming in?... Read More

Cracking down on the minority of unsrupulous landlords- by destroying a reasonably well functioning PRS.
Well,there is a news for you, Raynor.
Those landlords will still exist and thrive.
The decent ones - not so much.... Read More

Excellent summary!
Pity that they will never listen and admit any wrongdoing...... Read More

Landlords do not feel "unfairly treated". They feel hated, villified and trateated as a public enemy No. 1 by the government and almost everyone else.
The Cons started the war against private Landlords, and even "Boris the landlords friend" (as he was called here ???) did nothing to mitigate. Liebour is fighting landlords with a full force of ideological hatred.... Read More

Red Rayner - a Hypocrite of the Year!
Or maybe even of 10 years.... Read More

Same here.
The complete disregard for students (the current cycle of securing next year property around March and have no worries in Spring exam time worked very well) is going to disappear.
More worries for students and their landlords.
All that to shift them to huge student rentals blocks, and pay more.
NRLA tried to bring that to Government attention, at no avail, of course.
Time to sell everything and emigrate.... Read More

Totally agree. It does not look good at all.... Read More

Agree, that appears to be Ben's stance on LinkedIn.
However it does not seem to be any NRLA's significant lobbying for a considerable improvement regarding Section 8. Neither is the government even remotely interested in courts' improvement in that respect.
That effectively means that a tenant can stay for 18 months - 2 years rent free, often devastatiing a property in revenge, and have zero consequences for their action.... Read More

Following BB on LinkedIn IMHO he and NRLA are of the opinion that protesting against abolition of S21 is totally pointless and not worth fighting for. The tactics is to minimise the losses.
The previous and this governments had exactly the same goal - to kill off the PRS. NRLA are pretty much resigned to whatever the government's RRB proposes and they do not expect any concessions - hence not too much motivation.
What is interesting - the LLs on LinkedIn have a very high opinion about BB and NRLA.
I only saw ONE voice of criticism.... Read More

The increase in stamp duty is actually 40%, not 2%.
Raising rent for that figure might be problematic.... Read More

What acreditation scheme is mentioned here?
Thank you.... Read More

Thank you!... Read More

Hi Stella,
I would be grateful for some links - sorry I have not come across anything like that.
Thank you.... Read More

The little snowlakes would do well in a system where everything is provided on a plate.
I suppose North Korea should be considered by them.
???... Read More

What makes you think Nige is pro-landlord?
I remember distinctly when commentators here were 100% sure that our dear BlowJo was 100% behind the landlords. ha ha ha
I was heavily criticised by predicting something rather different then...... Read More

I had high hopes when Ben took over as a chairman.
But his recent public statements, particularly on LinkedIn are - at least - thought provoking (not to say ignorant).
I do not think he actually realises how damaging this RRB is going to be for the PRS.
He tries to rehabilitate himself a bit by publishing articles about CGT in the Daily Telegraph and The Times - but it is too little and too late.... Read More

The best tenants we ever had were from the EU. Kept the property spotless, reported issues, paid always on time and in full.
brexitters - wait for the Kent beaches tenants, this is what you voted for.
You had been warned but chose not to listen and call the warnings Project Fear.
Enjoy.... Read More