Lettings & Management

Housing market will be hit by strike action at Registers of Scotland

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

12th January 2023, 4 years ago | 0

Scotland’s housing market will slow down at a time when it is already facing delays after the Public and Commercial...

Propertymark says banks are still misinterpreting AML rules

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

12th January 2023, 4 years ago | 0

Propertymark says that letting agents still face difficulties maintaining their pooled client accounts from high street banks that are still...

Rocketing rent is ‘number one concern’ for tenants

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

12th January 2023, 4 years ago | 9

The rocketing cost of rent is the number one concern for renters as they look to the year ahead, a...

House price crash ‘looks increasingly unlikely’

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

12th January 2023, 4 years ago | 3

After several real estate firms, lenders and property platforms predicted that house prices would fall in 2023 by up to...

Petition calling for landlord tax relief to be reinstated hits 20,200 signatures

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

11th January 2023, 4 years ago | 3

A petition that was launched to reinstate tax relief allowing a landlord’s mortgage interest to be set against rental income...

Shelter says 271,000 people were homeless in 2022

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

11th January 2023, 4 years ago | 14

The homeless charity Shelter says there were ‘at least’ 271,000 people who were homeless on any given night last year...

New rental scheme for landlords approved to tackle homelessness

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

11th January 2023, 4 years ago | 7

Private landlords are being offered an initiative to rent out their properties to people who are homeless and get a...

Renters’ Reform Bill will dominate the PRS in 2023, says safeagent

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

11th January 2023, 4 years ago | 0

Landlords and agents will see the private rented sector (PRS) being dominated by the proposals and progress of the Renters’...

Exodus of private landlords ‘exaggerated’ – claim

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

10th January 2023, 4 years ago | 32

A survey has revealed that landlord confidence is ‘robust’, though many worry about the government’s meddling in the private rented...

Rents are growing at fastest rate in seven years

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

10th January 2023, 4 years ago | 1

Tenants are seeing rents growing at their fastest rate since 2016 when records began, says the Office for National Statistics...

Freeholder administration charges for permission to let?

Author: Readers Question

10th January 2023, 4 years ago | 15

Hello, I own a leasehold flat with 900 years lease, no service charges and peppercorn ground rent. My lease states I...

Landlords warn that energy efficiency plans are ‘dead in the water’

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

10th January 2023, 4 years ago | 55

Landlords are warning that plans to improve the energy efficiency of homes in the private rented sector (PRS) are ‘dead...

Landlord Accreditation Scheme closing?

Author: Readers Question

10th January 2023, 4 years ago | 4

Hello, I’m interested in what your opinions are about this. I’ve received an email from my local Accreditation Scheme, advising...

Why not pay Housing Benefit directly to Landlords?

Author: Readers Question

9th January 2023, 4 years ago | 22

Housing Benefit is paid to tenants to cover their housing costs (sorry for stating the obvious). There would be numerous...

Homecare maintenance contracts – alternatives to British Gas?

Author: Readers Question

9th January 2023, 4 years ago | 4

Hello, I’ve had BG boiler plumbing and drains homecare contract cover for some 20 years now for a modest portfolio...

Will student tenants leave the utility bill?

Author: Readers Question

9th January 2023, 4 years ago | 6

Hello, my question is, I have a buy to let property, and have noticed my tenants’ gas and electric bill...

Claiming back building insurance excess?

Author: Readers Question

9th January 2023, 4 years ago | 4

Hello, I had someone break into my commercial property (let to a tenant). The Police were called as a passer-by...

Lodger or not a lodger?

Author: Readers Question

9th January 2023, 4 years ago | 7

Hi everyone, In 2010 my mother gave me the family home (transfer of equity) the solicitor at the time suggested...