We urge government and the media to show more respect to private landlords and the vital role they serve in respect of UK housing provision and the economy generally.  Sympathisers and supporters of Generation Rent have been systematically brainwashed into blaming private landlords for decades of under supply of new housing. We are also urging these people […]

I live in a property in Hove, East Sussex of 6 flats as part of Victorian building. I am very stressed with the problems of the flat and need some external advice on the matter. Here are some of the facts 5 of the flats are share of freehold , 1 is just a leaseholder. […]

There is a disagreement regarding the shared cost of decorating a ‘communal hallway’. We are four flats, all four flats have an equal 25% share of the freehold which we purchased some years ago. Our names are registered on the Land Registry. We split cost of works to the exterior of the building, building insurance […]

My husband, who passed away in December, had 3 buy to let properties with mortgages on his name. Two interest only with Mortgage Express (ME) and a repayment one with The Mortgage Works (TMW). All properties are tenanted and there haven’t been any arrears on any of them. In April both mortgage companies informed me […]

The House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee has today released a report titled “Building more homes.” The report strongly recommends that the housing crisis must be tackled and that the Government should increase its home building target by 50% to 300,000 new homes each year. Local authorities and housing associations must also be freed to […]

The Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee voted 8 to 1 to keep Base Rate at 0.5%. This was as suggested that they would wait until the August economic figures come through before making a decision. Monetary stimulus (Quantitative Easing) was also voted to remain the same. Any decision needs to balance the pressure to […]

I have a difficult tenant where the AST has ended approximately 6 months ago. I would now like to issue a S21 to terminate the agreement. The problem I have is I have recently moved house and I have somehow lost my file on the property including the AST paperwork. I am not sure when […]

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Our tenants notice expired last week and they have said the council has advised them to stay until they can be housed. Their rent has always included bills. They have offered to pay some rent, but we are not sure if, by accepting it, we are legitimising their continued occupation of the property. However, we […]

I recently posted within a Facebook forum about a great student house we’d just completed, which we converted a three bed ex local authority property into a five bed five en-suite house. We’ve looked at the market and of course it is obvious that people want a their own bathroom and are thus prepared to […]

I am a MSc student studying real estate, and would be forever grateful if you could complete my dissertation survey. I am lacking respondents at the moment, so any help either by completing the survey, or further distribution would be amazing and I will share my results with Property118 readers (see link below). https://hw.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/slas The […]

I have come across a HMO property in Milton Keynes that is licensed however, doing checks with the council it does not seem to have any planning permission (article 4) for HMO use. Speaking to the council they have advised me that an already running and establised HMO will not need this permission.(has been running […]

We moved into our current rental home in March 2014, but prior to that there were tenants in it for at least 2 years (possibly more). Our estate agent has not given us the exact age of the home, but we do remember her telling us during our preview that it was built around 2010 […]

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My tenant has been renting my house for just over two months and today I have found out she has fraudulently used my bank details, which I gave her to pay her rent into, to set up a direct debit to pay her phone and broadband provider. I have been in contact with my local […]

My ex purchased a property by way of a mortgage.  He lived there alone for several years, before meeting me. He asked me to move in with him, I agreed. We decided that we should make the house ‘our’ space, by re-decorating it from top to bottom.   I did all of the painting at the […]

I am a landlord in Scotland, I’ve been exploring transferring my portfolio or least half of it into a limited company. One of the main problems I’ve been experiencing is finding the right people to steer my through the process and don’t charge astronomical fees. I’ve spoke with a few brokers and commercial lenders and […]

Hi all, let me first thank you for giving me your attention! I’ve got three multi-occupancy properties in Doncaster that I’m letting through an agency that specialises in this kind of thing. They’ve been ticking over fairly well for the last few months, with me taking up to £500 net profit (after mortgage, insurance etc.) […]

OPEN LETTER TO ANDREA LEADSOM MP RE PRIVATE LANDLORDS @andrealeadsom – https://t.co/KpkYxASvsH pic.twitter.com/aO7ljphHB8 — Property118.com (@Property118) July 11, 2016 Dear Mrs Leadsom Please pledge to stop the government’s attack on private landlords! As a conservative party member and former local councillor, I was sorry to hear of your decision to withdraw from the leadership race, […]

My husband and I are in the process of an amicable divorce, he has a number of properties and wishes to gift two to me one to live in and the other to make sure I am financially ok, he has plans to move on with another woman. I’m not confident I can take on […]

I’m looking for advice from my fellow Housing Benefit accepting landlords. As more tenants are beginning to migrate to Universal Credit (UC) I am finding that I am being asked by the tenant (after being told by DWP) for an up to date/new tenancy agreement in order for their UC claim to be processed. Previously […]