January figures from the Nationwide indicate annual house price growth has edged up to 1.9% and there has been a month-on-month rise of 0.5%, after taking account of seasonal factors. Commenting on the figures, Robert Gardner, Nationwide’s Chief Economist, said: “January saw a further modest pick-up in annual UK house price growth to 1.9%, from […]

My daughter and her flatmate are my tenants. Not that my daughter pays any rent lol. The flatmate has now demanded, after living there 16 months, that I give her 24 hours notice of visiting my daughter as her mum/guest/visitor. I agree that I have to give 24 hours notice for an inspection or non-emergency […]

It took the average home seller 256 days to sell in 2019. The latest research by estate agent comparison website, GetAgent.co.uk, has looked at the time it took to sell a home in 2019 and where was home to the longest home selling process in the midst of Brexit induced market uncertainty. GetAgent pulls data […]

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has released its latest quarterly statistics for new build dwellings in England as a leading indicator of overall housing supply. Click here for the full report. Seasonally adjusted new build dwelling starts are estimated at 39,510 in the September quarter 2019, a 2% increase compared to the […]

Hello all, I’m new to this business and working on setting up my first HMO and have another post running elsewhere on the forum about legal aspect and would also appreciate some advice about bridging finance, in short my thirty plus years pristine credit history was shot to pieces when my marriage went into disarray […]

I’ve searched and failed to find guidance for room sizes for properties that are let as short/holiday lets. I have a pretty good relationship with my private lettings man at the local council, but he has not responded on this one so wondering if there is/are guidelines/regulations. Anyone know anything on this? Many thanks Harlequin […]

Monday 3rd February at 20:30 BBC1 Panorama is broadcasting an episode titled ‘Cashing in on the Housing Crisis.’ For the landlords interested in the Government and Councils slating us for maybe a bedroom 2cm too small, yet the program below will probably show Councils putting families in old office blocks converted  for temporary accommodation. Some […]

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At the start of the year, Housing Secretary, Robert Jenrick MP, announced an overhaul of model tenancy contracts to put more pressure on landlords to allow ‘responsible tenants to have well-behaved pets’ in their rental property. However, leading lettings and estate agent, Benham and Reeves, believe this is the latest in a long line of […]

The government plans to help more rough sleepers off the streets and into safe accommodation after an extra £112 million funding for councils has been announced by Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick. The funding is a 30% increase this year and will be used by local authorities, charities and other organisations to fund up to 6,000 […]

Leading tradespeople comparison site, HaMuch.com, has looked at the biggest gripes of trade professionals when it comes to working in your home and the things you might be doing that really get on their nerves. They provides a platform for listing DIY jobs to thousands of tradespeople across the UK and has compiled a list […]

We have a couple only 6 weeks into a 6 months tenancy who have split up after a domestic incident involving the police, but no charges made. The alleged attacker is believed to have had similar issues before, but I have no proof.Also that person is known to smoke weed etc but again I have […]

A tenant of mine recently died leaving behind her 18 year old son. Naturally I was very understanding and tried to help him and the family out as much as possible; offered him an AST in his own name, plenty of support, regular contact. He said he wanted to stay in the property and sign […]

Hot off the press from a SAL Mailing to their members: Scottish Association of Landlords (SAL) has been advised by The Scottish Government that it intends to postpone the introduction of the minimum EPC requirement until 1 October 2020 due to delays in finalising the regulations. The government now intends to lay final regulations before […]

We have the bailiffs going to take possession of our property next week. I know the tenant is not going to have removed all his belongings, but we need to clear the property as soon as possible. My question is when can I skip any belongings left over or do I have to store them […]

I am a first time potential landlord intending to convert our family home for HMO use and have carried out due diligence and am satisfied that the project is feasible other than concern re a restrictive covenant. The property was built by Shepherd Homes in 2007 who have since been taken over by another business […]

We are seeking advice on how to manage a two bedroom property which we will be looking to rent out in the next 6 months and, being relatively new to this website, we hope to get some helpful tips to or tricks in making the most of our rental income. We are currently living in […]

Dear All, Firstly thank you to the website and its members for all the informative content which has been of enormous help to us throughout the years! We currently own a ground floor flat on a very long lease. The freeholder of the building has begun excavation and underpinning for the development of a basement […]

We managed to evict our tenant after she was many months in arrears. We got a CCJ for eviction and a money demand for about £20,000. She did a moonlight flip but we traced her through a tracing agency. The CCJ was not registered with the Registry-Trust but by continuously chasing the Court we got […]

A friend has been in touch. She rents in London and signed a new 12 months fixed term AST wef from 1st September 2019. The paperwork was signed on the 16th July 2019. Her Landlord has served her 2 months notice on the basis that they have a new buyer for the property who wants […]

We currently let 3 properties, all of the tenants have been our tenants since we purchased them in early 2017. We haven’t increased the rent since, however we would like to do so this year. All of the tenants are on a periodic tenancy agreement and the AST has provision for a rent increase – […]