Tag: Housing Association

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Homes ‘Crisis’ Will See Soaring Rents and House Prices

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

30th August 2011, 15 years ago | 1

Home ownership is set to tumble back to levels last seen 30 years ago as house prices and rents are...

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Topsy-turvy House Prices Rise and Fall at the Same Time

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

26th August 2011, 15 years ago | 0

The topsy-turvy housing market has produced another crop of confusing statistics this month. The latest house price data from the...

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Buy to Let Clubs Blamed for Ripping Off Landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

23rd August 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Buy to let property clubs that rip off landlords are blamed for rising rental home repossessions. The clubs ran relentless...

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Ministers Rule Out Regulation for Letting Agents

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

19th August 2011, 15 years ago | 2

Calls for regulating letting agents have met with a clear message from the government that it’s up to the businesses...

Tenants Trashed Home as Landlord Waited for Eviction

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

18th August 2011, 15 years ago | 0

The plight of a landlord who had a buy to let home trashed by tenants who faced eviction for failing...

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Private Landlords Wary of Rate Rises

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

5th August 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Official bank rates will stay at 0.5% after the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee voted for no change for...

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Peace in the war between landlords and tenants

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

2nd August 2011, 15 years ago | 2

Forget the odd moans and gripes between those traditional enemies landlords and tenants – the majority get on just fine....

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Council wants to invest taxpayer cash in buy to let

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

22nd July 2011, 15 years ago | 2

Councillors want to dabble in property investment by spending millions on purchasing ‘substandard’ buy to let homes. The plan is...

Amnesty For Tenancy Cheats

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

7th July 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Illegal sub-letters have been given until July by A2Dominion Housing Group to hand over their keys in an amnesty announced...

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Broadland Housing win eco-home money

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st June 2011, 15 years ago | 1

The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors believes more should follow Broadland Housing’s lead and look to the EU for funds...

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New tenancy deposit protection laws on the way

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st June 2011, 15 years ago | 6

Discussions to change tenant deposit protection rules for landlords are going on behind closed doors, according to information leaked by...

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Landlords forced out of housing benefit market

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th June 2011, 15 years ago | 5

As MPs debated the Welfare Reform Bill at report stage on Monday, 13 June, a survey by the National Landlords...

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Housing Association in talks to trade

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th June 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Knightstone, the south and west housing association, is looking to downsize its roster of properties they manage by trading with...

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Nationwide confirms lifeless housing market

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

31st May 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Property prices are unlikely to bounce back strongly regardless of how the economy improves over the rest of the year,...

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Sluggish housing market flatlines for another month

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

26th May 2011, 15 years ago | 0

The property market looks to have settled as house sales and mortgage lending seem to follow trends set over the...

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Landlords can have say over housing benefit changes

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

18th May 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith has launched a short consultation period asking for views on planned change from landlords, organisations...

Landlords launch legal challenges over HMO licensing

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

12th May 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Hundreds of landlords are mounting two legal challenges against council policies over planning and licensing for shared houses. Landlords in...

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Property ‘cash machines’ are out of money, warns banker

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

5th May 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Drawing money from a property ‘cash machine’ is over and home owners will have to live within their means, a...

Homes are still too expensive, even with falling prices

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

28th April 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Many believe property is still priced too high – but only one in four believe prices will fall much in...

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More sellers but same old housing market problems hit sales

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

20th April 2011, 15 years ago | 1

Estate agents have more houses to sell than they have had available for more than eight months. Firms across the...