Tag: Housing Association

So simple, so obvious, so why is it not this way?

Author: Mark Alexander

10th September 2012, 14 years ago | 28

An open letter to Housing Minister Mark Prisk MP – “Solving the Housing Crisis“ Dear Sir The combined housing provision of Local...

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NAEA Reports Effects of Olympics on the Housing Market

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

5th September 2012, 14 years ago | 0

The housing market experienced an overall decrease in activity in July, according to the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA)....

Shapps has gone, will Mark Prisk make a better Housing Minister?

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

4th September 2012, 14 years ago | 14

Following the recent cabinet reshuffle Mark Prisk MP has been announced as the successor to Grant Schapps. Do readers of Property118.com think...

New laws scrap ‘squatters rights’

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

31st August 2012, 14 years ago | 25

What are your thoughts on the new laws scrapping squatters rights and making squatting a criminal offence? Squatting in residential...

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The essential student guide to renting – 10 Tips from NUS and ARLA

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

24th August 2012, 14 years ago | 2

Renting your first home as a student can be exciting yet daunting at the same time. So the Association of...

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ARLA survey reveals new generation of ‘rooted renters’ in 2012

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

27th July 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Tenants are staying longer and their rental requirements are changing, according to new research from the Association of Residential Letting...

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NAEA want more government help for buyers

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

28th June 2012, 14 years ago | 1

The National Association for Estate Agents is calling for more support for first time buyers as the property market continues...

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Smug landlords win seal of approval from tenants

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

1st June 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Landlords are not the heartless profit seekers exploiting vulnerable tenants in shoddy housing that they are often purported to be,...

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Letting agents may go bust as illegal fees campaign takes off

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

24th May 2012, 14 years ago | 10

Landlords are warned to check out that their letting agents protect their money as a new scheme helping tenants reclaim...

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Landlords urged to only deal with ‘safe’ letting agents

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th May 2012, 14 years ago | 1

Letting agents are urging landlords to make sure they only do business with firms offering a money protection scheme. Firms...

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MPs urge ministers to open pensions to buy to let

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th May 2012, 14 years ago | 1

Calls to boost buy to let by upgrading pensions to include residential property are gathering momentum in Parliament. An influential...

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Landlords ask courts to evict 65 tenants every day

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

11th May 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Buy to let landlords filed nearly 6,000 claims to evict tenants in the first three months of the year, according...

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Impact of Human Rights on Evictions

Author: Jim Bauld

8th May 2012, 14 years ago | 6

Regular readers of the Daily mail will no doubt have a healthy disregard for “human rights” or “yuman rites” as...

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Newham council wants to traffic tenants out of London

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

24th April 2012, 14 years ago | 11

Housing minister Grant Shapps has accused Newham Council, East London, of ‘playing politics with peoples’ lives’ over a radical plan...

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Landlords drop housing benefit tenants as cuts bite

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

23rd April 2012, 14 years ago | 22

Tenants on housing benefits are struggling to rent buy to let homes as landlords withdraw from the market. The market...

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Eastern Landlords Association April 2012 NEWSLETTER

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

5th April 2012, 14 years ago | 2

Deposits As has been outlined in previous communications, the deposit rules change from 6 April 2012. The most important change...

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2,000 student landlords warned over ‘poor’ standards

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

2nd April 2012, 14 years ago | 2

More than 2,000 Oxford landlords have had warning letters from the city council about repairs to carry out under the...

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Landlord Legal Update – for the real Northerners (…Scotland)

Author: Jim Bauld

22nd March 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Are you looking for a legal update in relation to landlord matters north of the border, in particular the tenancy...

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NAEA Unhappy with Budget Announcement

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st March 2012, 14 years ago | 1

Following George Osbourne’s Budget announcement, NAEA have offered a damning response as Wendy Evans-Scott, President of the National Association of...

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Cameron’s housing benefit gaffe exposed by councils

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

20th March 2012, 14 years ago | 13

Prime Minister David Cameron’s claim that buy to let landlords are dropping rents in response to the Government’s welfare reforms...

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Article 4 Directions – Different Perspective

Author: Richard Jones

20th March 2012, 14 years ago | 1

On the 12th January, Councillor Jeremy Moulton set out the Southampton perspective in relation to Article 4 Directions taking away...