I am the leaseholder of a first floor flat where the freeholder owns and lives in the ground floor flat. I recently carried out a refurbishment of my flat and whilst doing it, some urgent problems with the exterior of the building were noted and remedied by my builder. The lease says that such costs […]

Property118 are looking to appoint self-employed Marketeers throughout England. Unlimited income potential No fixed hours No setup costs Training and support provided The opportunity and role of the Marketeers is to appoint Estate Agents and Mortgage Brokers as Introducers of new business to the Property118 Tax Team. Successful applicants will have a background in at […]

Benefit tenants, you cannot get accommodation, because the DWP Pensions Minister Will Quince has not got a clue how Universal Credit works and the biggest UC Landlord in Nottingham here can no longer take you. https://t.co/AuoqDsQ2ct MP Will Quince, please wake up, there could theoretically be no arrears, thousands of fewer evictions if you just […]

As a live event, 2020 has presented us with exceptional challenges. Our response is to lead the market by delivering the first-ever online show dedicated solely to the UK buy-to-let market. Partnering with an established digital events platform, the National Landlord Investment Show will be delivering 3 online events throughout October and November. Click Here […]

Hi, first-time landlady here, hoping for advice. When my tenants moved in 3 years ago there was a gas cooker, fire and central heating. The cooker was old and so when they complained it wasn’t working, I replaced with an electric one. They weren’t happy but agreed. This cooker needed replacing before the end of […]

I served a S21 on my tenant. Since then, he has been on a mission to hurt me! He has now got a no win no fee solicitor who has sent me a letter of claim for disrepair. The tenant has refused access to the flat for many months. Workmen have been turned away. I […]

To cut (an inevitably long story short!) I had a tenant who declared a change of address away from my property completely unknown to me. As a result, the Managed Payment to Landlord (MPTL) arrangement that existed for my property was cancelled on the date he reported the address change. I only found out after […]

Any firm or solicitors offering a specialist eviction service can operate under a Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) licence. However, if they operate without an SRA licence they will not have the legal authority to complete many parts of the process. This has created a grey area into which many unlicensed firms, many calling themselves ‘lawyers’ […]

The risks associated with illegal eviction missed rent payments and possible damage to your property if tenant eviction is badly handled are significantly reduced by paying for professional advice or services. Accuracy is critical. Landlords won’t find a more accurate service. Generally using Section-21 or Section-8, both follow a three-step procedure. About half of all […]

New golden rules to sustain tenancies in the rental housing market have been published ahead of the courts beginning to hear possession cases from the 21st September: Click Here The rules, drafted by the National Residential Landlords Association, form a central part of measures announced by the Government to ensure courts can start to process […]

Amy Hughes, Housing Expert at Citizens Advice, shares the top five ‘need-to-knows’ for renters in England worried about staying in their home. Find out where you are in the process: “If your landlord wants to evict you from your privately rented home there are three stages they’ll have to go through. First, they’ll need to […]

The Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted unanimously to maintain the Bank Base Rate at 0.1% and for the quantitative easing stock to remain unchanged. Economic outlook is particularly uncertain, but the bank’s central growth projections still assume the direct impact of Covid-19 on the economy will dissipate gradually and assume an immediate, […]

The latest market research from Rightmove may suggest that if you want to sell a property quickly you should set a realistic asking price and stick to it. Rightmove reported on over 300,000 properties listed for sale between 13th May and 31st July looking to see if the price was reduced or if they were […]

Businesses will be protected from the threat of eviction until the end of year, providing commercial tenants with greater security, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick has announced. The government will also extend the restriction on landlords using Commercial Rents Arrears Recovery to enforce unpaid rent on commercial leases, until the end of the year. The government […]

I have a flat to rent and had an enquiry from a single lady (with son aged 13) who will be working, but whose rent will be topped up by the DWP. All of my tenants to date in the area have never worked at all, so I have a few questions I hope my […]

Proposals by the Mayor of London for rent controls in the capital would be a disaster for tenants. As Sadiq Khan once again seeks the powers to introduce them, the National Residential Landlords Association is pointing to a report published by The Treasury in 2010 under the last Labour Government, of which the Mayor was […]

We have a tenant who has just been raided for the third time in six months and who is noisy, deals drugs, leaves crap everywhere, and we need them gone. In the current circumstances what are our best options? Section 8 Ground 14? Any advice gratefully received. Jon Editors Note: Housing Act 1988 >> https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/50/schedule/2 […]

A survey of 1200 landlords carried out by Hamilton Fraser has revealed that since March 2020, when COVID-19 lockdown rules were introduced, 43% of landlords have been contacted by their tenants to say they will struggle to pay rent and only 49% of landlords have received full rent payments. More than a quarter of landlords […]

The current ban on repossessions in the residential rental market in England and Wales is due to end on Sunday 20th This follows a U-turn on the 21st August which saw the Government extend the ban by a further month in chaotic, last-minute circumstances.  At the time the Master of the Rolls described the nature […]

When Robert Jenrick made his shock announcement on the 21st of August of a new 6-month notice period in England (copying ‘socialist’ Wales) he further abrogated the state’s responsibility. How could it be right that private citizens are now made to house non-paying tenants whom they ordinarily would have been able to evict after ‘only’ […]

This story concerns two slum-like death trap HMOs which had both been granted recent HMO Licences by Lincoln City Council and condemned as unsafe for habitation by an independent expert. One such HMO Licence was granted as recently as January 2020 and even after inspection by one of Lincoln City Council’s supposedly expert Housing Officers, […]