Heating ducts and pipes can be prime spots for cockroaches as the heating goes on in the autumn the British Pest Control Association (BPCA) has warned and issued a guide with advice on preventing the warmth-loving insects getting into premises to help private landlords prevent an infestation. The pests can also be found near stoves […]

My wife and I are both higher rate taxpayers and currently hold a portfolio of 9 BTL properties in joint names. We are familiar with the four structures that we could use to hold & manage the portfolio: 1. In own names (with declarations of trust/ tenants in common to optimally allocate income etc.) 2. […]

The Property Investor Show is the largest, longest-running and most respected property investment expo presented in the UK and after a Covid-enforced absence is delighted to return to ExCeL London on 15 & 16 October. For over 20 years, this exhibition has been firmly established as a “MUST ATTEND” event for the serious property investor […]

Landlord Action, one of the UK’s best-known eviction and housing law specialists, has seen a 43% rise in instructions from landlords and letting agents between 1 June 2021, when the eviction ban ended, and 1 September 2021, versus the same period in 2019, before the pandemic. The company has also seen a 17% rise in […]

Hi All, My wife and I have a small property portfolio held in an LLP. We are in the process of purchasing a property for our 37-year-old son using the equity from our main home. As he’s autistic and unable to handle his finances prudently, hence on completion we intend to put this new property […]

In her Labour Party Conference Speech, Lucy Powell, Shadow Secretary of State for Housing, said that she sees housing as very much a public health issue. Lucy wants to tackle what she perceives as issues of quality, affordability and security in private rentals and end No-Fault Evictions. When it comes to the cladding issue Lucy says […]

New planning reforms set in motion by Robert Jenrick, Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings are to be scrapped. Boris Johnson draws property industry’s ire over watered-down planning reforms. Plans aimed to curb councils’ power to oppose developments and speed up delivery of new homes in England scrapped. Property developers have criticised the government for watering […]

There are now more Buy-to-let (BTL) products available today than on offer in March 2020, before the impact of the pandemic was felt across the sector, according to the latest data from Moneyfacts.co.uk. – September started with 2,968 products on offer in the BTL sector, the highest number seen on our records since October 2007 […]

Bringing court proceedings to evict a tenant is generally the very last thing a landlord wants to do. The aim of most landlords is to have long term tenants living in the property for many years.  However, sometimes the grim necessity to evict a tenant will occur: – You may need to recover vacant possession […]

I have a three-bedroom flat and the single room does not meet the council’s new imposed minimum room size of 7.1 square meters and so does not meet the licensing criteria. I have 3 students from China who want to rent the flat who say they are related (cousins) so they meet the single household […]

Before the Labour Party conference, Lucy Powell, Shadow housing secretary said: “Labour is the party of homeownership, the Tories are the party of speculators and developers. They treat housing as a commodity, not the bedrock of stable lives and life chances.” Labour has announced plans to: Give councils powers to force landowners to sell vacant […]

Hi everyone, My local council is offering to lease my flats on an interim lease agreement, whereby they would use the properties as temporary accommodation for households owed a duty under S188 or S193 of the Homelessness Reduction Act. Can I ask if anyone has done this with their properties and let them out on […]

The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted unanimously to maintain Bank Rate at 0.1% and by a majority of 7-2 to continue with its existing programme of Quantitative Easing. CPI inflation was projected to rise temporarily in the near term, to 4% in 2021 Q4, owing largely to developments in energy and goods […]

Planners Error Lands Them in COURT! What steps you can take if you have a planning refusal Linda and I discuss a bizarre mix-up ‘Your proposal is whack’: Chaos as ‘junior worker’ who thought he was testing a dummy council website rejects and approves REAL planning applications with BONKERS reasons such as an approval with […]

The Property Investors Bureau is pleased to have hosted its first physical event for the Property Educators Accreditation Scheme’s members and key stakeholders. It was a launch event held at the prestigious Hamilton Fraser offices on 22nd of September and was attended by influential figureheads from within the property investment industry. The launch event signifies […]

The Minister for Climate Change has confirmed the regulations under paragraphs 1(2) and 14(1) of Schedule 29 to the 2020 Act have been extended until 31 December 2021. Six months’ notice is required for notices served in respect of all protected tenancies; statutory tenancies; secure tenancies; assured tenancies; assured shorthold tenancies; introductory tenancies; and demoted […]

The Collective, the world’s LARGEST HMO, is going into administration despite a rent roll of £550,000 per month and Energy costs are likely to quadruple! Join Andrew Roberts and me, as we have some solutions for savvy property investors to help mitigate the increase in energy prices. Please click on the video below:

Hello, my name’s Melissa Lawford, I’m the property correspondent at The Telegraph. I’m writing an article about how the pandemic has reshaped the market and has created new investment opportunities in different places. I’m keen to talk to landlords who have recently invested or are planning to invest, in buy-to-let in new areas, because of […]

Following Michael Gove‘s appointment as Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities the property industry is still considering how warmly to receive the new postholder. A new survey from LettingaProperty.com has revealed precisely what those in the property sector think of the new appointment, along with their top concerns. Calls for landlords to […]

Lloyds Banking Group has launched a new brand, Citra Living, through which to pursue its aim of becoming the UK’s largest private landlord. The banking giant plans to purchase 50,000 properties over the coming decade. What can we tell from this? According to the team of financial and property experts at Fabrik Invest, Lloyds’ designs […]

The latest research by Barrows and Forrester examines the true impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on landlords due to rent arrears among private rental tenants in England, revealing that the total amount of arrears during the initial wave of the pandemic was dwarfed by arrears during the second. There are 4.8 million private rented households in […]