It might come as a surprise to many landlords, but the National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) has announced a new partnership with Crisis, the national charity for homeless people that has, in recent months, criticised landlords in the private rental sector. The move will see Crisis being able to work ‘more easily’ with landlords to […]

Hello, this is the scenario: Landlord owns and rents a property to students. Landlord is the registered payer for energy bills (gas & electric). Landlord receives Government ‘handout’ for household energy bills but payment is facilitated and paid out via the electric bill as a discount. Tenant agreement is that they pay for gas bills […]

News that the Bank of England has pushed up the base interest rate by 50 basis points to a 14-year high of 3.5% has left many property experts wondering whether property buyers will get more help and whether another rise will be forthcoming. This is the ninth rise in a year as the bank bids […]

The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) today voted by 6 – 3 members to mirror the Fed by increasing the Base Rate by 0.5% to a total 3.5% interest rate. Two MPC members voted to keep the Base Rate at 3% and one member voted to increase it by 0.75%. Overall the majority […]

Hello, a tenant has disappeared after a possession order was granted owing thousands in rent. I have requested the deposit at DPS to be paid to me. I have no contact number or forwarding address for the tenant. Does anyone know if DPS will try and find her? Thank you, Dawn

Tenants have seen rents rise yet again with the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reporting that rent prices grew by 4% in the year to November. The latest Private Housing Rental Prices index highlights that rents were slightly higher in last month than October’s 3.8%. However, the annual percentage change is the largest recorded by […]

A Government cash pot of £500,000 will help to train and support social housing tenants to have their ‘voices heard’, it has been announced. The aim is to help tenants in England raise issues with their landlord. The scheme will launch in the Spring as part of other reforms that see social housing tenants getting […]

The Government is being urged to implement a ban on evictions over Christmas in the private rented sector by the Liberal Democrats. The party’s leader, Sir Ed Davey says that thousands of families face ‘a nightmare before Christmas’. In addition to the eviction ban for renters, Sir Ed is also calling for the government to […]

Is there anything you can do when it’s the neighbours who are being antisocial and affecting YOUR tenants? I HAD lovely tenants with 2 autistic children living in a property. All was well, until the lovely old man next door died, and the neighbours from hell moved in! Next door is a HA property, and […]

Hello, How about rather than LL’s setting up a charity [see ‘Landlords for homelessness charity to compete with Shelter and Crisis?‘] we instead set up a not for profit home building company for the low paid and homeless? We all know the route of the problem is the supply of housing. Do the job the […]

Property 118 is offering readers a free landlord insurance consultancy through The Home Insurer to make sure you are not paying too much and have the proper cover in place. Let property insurance is a minefield that can catch out landlords if you are not careful. What happens when your property is unoccupied? What if […]

The number of home repossessions by finance lenders after mortgage rates went up has decreased significantly – defying the expected trend that more people would lose their homes. The findings come from the House Buyer Bureau which points out that since the Bank of England started raising interest rates at the end of 2021, the […]

One reason why the Scottish Government imposed its controversial rent freeze and ban on evictions was a belief that rent rises during the cost-of-living crisis were too high. But one proptech firm says its own figures show that rent rises were actually ‘moderate’ despite other surveys showing that tenants were facing hefty increases. And the […]

If you are a landlord who has had issues with rent guarantee insurance, then Alexa Phillips would like to speak with you. She would like to know: The name of the insurer The nature of the problem When it happened. You can contact Alexa directly via email.

Tenants who want to buy a home are having to rely on the Private Rented Sector (PRS) for longer, but this will put pressure on the supply of homes and push up rents, one bank says. Paragon has surveyed more than 2,000 would-be homebuyers and found that the cost-of-living crisis is hampering their efforts to […]

A grim prediction from the Bank of England is forecasting that rents will rocket by 20% because landlords could be paying up to £4,000 more for their buy to let mortgage in 2023. The warning comes from the bank’s Financial Policy Committee which says that the monthly repayment facing landlords will rise by £175 – […]

Alphaletz will be repeating a free webinar with Mark Alexander (Founder of Property118) on Wednesday the 14th of December at 7:00pm to outline the benefits of a company structure and see if it’s right for you. Richard Jackson, the founder of Alphaletz, the award-winning Property Management Software solution, is a long-time portfolio landlord who first […]

For mitigation against the worst implications of the (expected) Renters’ Reform Bill for my Student HMOs, I am mulling a business model change to…. Leasing individual rooms on a fixed-term basis to the PARENTS rather than the occupying students….Will this work? Here’s my thinking so far… Lease terms would allow the room to be licenced […]

The Daily Telegraph’s property correspondent, Melissa Lawford, is writing an article about the buy-to-let remortgage crunch and would like to talk to landlords who have recently come to the end of their fixed-rate mortgage deals, or are expecting to in the year ahead. How much did/will your mortgage rate change? What does this mean for […]

Are you thinking about selling some of your rental properties, perhaps to pay down mortgages or become mortgage free? There may well be Capital Gains Tax consequences associated with this, HOWEVER, there may also be ways to mitigate this tax, which I have explained in the video below. Good News, Property118 TV is back. This […]

Plans by the Government to introduce a registration scheme for short-term holiday lets have been welcomed by the Short Term Accommodation Association (STAA). The trade association represents thousands of owners and businesses in the UK operating short term lets and they have been pushing for a national registration scheme. That would make it easier to […]