Lettings & Management

Landlords urged to join the fight against cannabis farms

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

19th July 2023, 3 years ago | 1

Police and Crime Commissioners (PCC) across the South West have united to lobby landlords and letting agents to identify and...

Landlords will ‘need inventories’ if tenants can legally keep pets

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

19th July 2023, 3 years ago | 13

Worried landlords should consider inventories as a defence should the Renters (Reform) Bill become law and tenants get a legal...

Tenants challenging rent rises face HIGHER rents as a result

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

19th July 2023, 3 years ago | 1

Renters attempting to challenge rent increases are discovering that tribunals often grant landlords even higher rents, one newspaper reveals. One...

More than 1 million tenants will be over 65

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th July 2023, 3 years ago | 1

The private rented sector (PRS) needs to prepare for more than one million tenants being over the age of 65...

Most landlords will not be selling their BTL properties

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th July 2023, 3 years ago | 12

Most buy to let landlords (64%) say they are not planning to sell any properties in the next year, a...

Landlord exodus sees homes for rent hit a 14-year low

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th July 2023, 3 years ago | 3

As landlords are squeezed by rising mortgage costs and reduced income, the number of homes to rent in the UK...

Landlords increasingly seek guarantors for well-paid tenants

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th July 2023, 3 years ago | 14

Landlords and letting agents are increasingly asking for guarantors from renters who earn between £25,000 and £75,000, research reveals. RentTech...

Properties Urgently Required – Exclusive P118 members deal

Author: Chris Sheldon

14th July 2023, 3 years ago | 0

Lettingsupermarket.com™ urgently require stock having let 80 properties in the last 4 weeks.  We have huge tenant demand and a...

Tenants warned over capital’s ‘competitive market’

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th July 2023, 3 years ago | 0

Renters are being warned that if they start looking for somewhere to rent this summer in London, they should be...

Where the best yielding HMO properties are

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th July 2023, 3 years ago | 0

Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) in Wales have emerged as the highest yielding properties in Britain, a survey reveals. According...

Rent prices set to soar as demand outstrips supply – RICS

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th July 2023, 3 years ago | 1

The rental market is facing a serious imbalance as more tenants are looking for properties than landlords are offering. According...

Welsh Government faces backlash over holiday accommodation licence plan

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

11th July 2023, 3 years ago | 0

The Welsh Government’s plan to introduce a statutory licence for tourist accommodation providers has met with strong resistance from the...

How the Renters’ (Reform) Bill could backfire on tenants: Higher rents and fewer homes

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

11th July 2023, 3 years ago | 11

The Government’s plan to reform the rental sector may have unintended consequences for tenants, the Daily Telegraph reports. The Renters...

Social housing landlords slammed for ‘creating harm to tenants’

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

7th July 2023, 3 years ago | 1

The Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) has revealed that 13 social landlords have breached current consumer standards over the past...

Rent guarantee firms ‘are pushing out tenants’

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

7th July 2023, 3 years ago | 1

Some rent guarantee companies are allegedly encouraging landlords to evict tenants who are not deemed profitable enough, even if they...

Labour blasts government for breaking Section 21 promise

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

6th July 2023, 3 years ago | 10

The government has been criticised by Labour for failing to deliver on its pledge to end section 21 ‘no-fault’ evictions....

Has anyone used a Zero Deposit scheme?

Author: Readers Question

6th July 2023, 3 years ago | 16

Hello, has anyone used a Zero Deposit (ZD) scheme? I’m coming into the ZD scheme from fresh having always taken...

Fast-rising rents are creating an ‘unstable market’

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

6th July 2023, 3 years ago | 1

Both tenants and landlords are facing an ‘unstable market’ as rent prices reached record highs in June 2023, one expert...