I have a very difficult and combative tenant who is quibbling over my proposed rental increase of just over 3%, at the lower end of current increases. After verbally abusing me, he is now trying to negotiate. I met him halfway in the negotiations and have suggested an increase of just under 3%. He has […]

What do you do if an Article 4 is announced before you have built your HMO? A popular HMO Article 4 question we get asked a lot is while your HMO is under construction, we are regularly asked “How does an Article 4 affect my proposed HMO.” We are back again with Linda Wright, who […]

When you convert a commercial building to residential use under permitted development rights (PDR), how much will that residential property be worth? £100,000? 500,000? perhaps a £1,000,000? Yes, a pie shop to resi conversion is actually worth a million pounds. Today I’m joined by Andrew Roberts to discuss whether this may be a conversion too […]

Shelter warns in their latest press release that more renters are likely to get into financial difficulty in the coming months as living costs continue to rise. New government figures show that 14,123 landlords in England started court proceedings to evict tenants from their properties between October and December 2021, up by 43% on the previous quarter. Shelter […]

Hi, I have a young member of staff who purchased a flat in a housing association block of flats. He did not realise that when purchased, he could not sublet. Has tried to sell his flat and the purchaser wants the right to sublet! The other flats are all the housing association’s tenants! It seems […]

Got a strange situ here – I have 2 licensees who originally rented 2 rooms in a shared house. Then they got together. The other 2 licensees moved out before Christmas and these remaining 2 asked if they could rent the whole house. I agreed reluctantly as they’ve been a pain with late payments and […]

Hi everyone, I may be in a bit of a situation. I have an agent who I have used for one of my properties who it looks like took a 3k deposit from tenants, didn’t protect it, and are now about to go into liquidation… The AST contract signed with the tenants is between them […]

Demand from tenants in the rental market continued to rise, according to a net balance of +64% of respondents, representing the strongest on record since 1999, whilst landlord instructions remained in decline according to -15%. Given this ongoing mismatch between tenant demand and property supply, a net balance of +59% respondents said they expect rents […]

OK so in October every house using electricity will get a £200 rebate (loan by stealth) then it has to be paid back over 5 years. The information says that if someone shares and moves to a new property they don’t take a share of the £200 loan, they take all of it. In a […]

Dear All, I am trying to re-mortgage a leasehold flat as my current deal has moved onto an SVR. The flat is jointly owned with my wife (as a Tenancy in Common with the intention of my share being 99% and my wife 1% – however, we never did create a Deed of Trust to that […]

I hope someone can help me after I issued a section 8 about 3 weeks ago. I have had no reply from the tenant, who is also 3 months in arrears with their rent. I visited the room in the HMO property today, but no one seems to have seen him in over a month. His […]

New research published by the National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) reveals that a majority of local authorities in England do not accurately record the number of private rented sector tenure complaints that they receive. These NRLA findings, based on Freedom of Information Act requests, indicate that, in all, 56% of councils do not accurately record […]

Belvoir’s rental statistics reveal the highest rental increases since records began in 2008. Belvoir CEO Dorian Gonsalves warns of further challenges to come, as years of flawed government policies continue to impact the market, resulting in stock shortages and high tenant demand. “Taking into account that most of our offices are outside the London area, […]

Using the most recently published data by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Admiral Home Insurance analysed which parts of England have seen the most and the fewest new homes being built. With a shortage of housing for many years in England, and unaffordability continuing to be a neglected issue, Admiral’s analysis reveals […]

Specialist Buy to Let and commercial bank Shawbrook has released a report concerned about the threat to the rental market posed by a future C rating EPC target. Click here The headlines of the report indicate that 23% of landlords surveyed say the EPC ratings of their properties are currently D or below and that […]

In a very minor Cabinet re-shuffle, Chris Pincher was replaced by Stuart Andrew MP for Pudsey as Minister of State (Minister for Housing) in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. Stuart is what could be termed as an accidental landlord with a house in Leeds let for over £10,000 a year recorded in […]

Lendlord is an online platform that helps landlords (with and without letting agents) to optimise their property investments with the following features: Document Management Securely store all your property details and documents in the cloud, set up custom views, filter your portfolio by ownership type (company/private) and different owners and export the relevant data for […]

Our Hon. Legal Counsel, Mark Smith, Head of Chambers at Cotswold Barristers, will be presenting an overview of several landlords tax strategies at the pin Nottingham meeting Tuesday 15th February. The Nottingham pin Meeting is now returning to its physical venue De Vere Orchard Hotel, Beeston Lane, Nottingham, NG7 2RJ Hosted by Spike Reddington on […]

It is now the anniversary of the UK government New Model Tenancy Agreement  to give pet owners more freedom to rent, and Quintain Living has released a new study focusing on renting with pets in the UK. The study, based on 1,000 respondents who own pets, provides insights on the secret life of pet owners, […]

Dear all, We have an electric boiler in a central London property. The boiler is over 4 years old and keeps tripping off the central heating circuit in the residual current device (RCD). The property has been without hot water and heating for the past week. Our usual heating engineer has run some checks but […]

We bought and renovated a little house many years ago that was on its knees. It is grade listed. Our plan was to eventually live in it but to have it as a holiday let for a number of years. We have had an issue with our neighbours for some time. They have bullied everyone […]