Tag: Housing Association

Stubborn sellers let luxury homes rather than drop prices

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

13th April 2011, 15 years ago | 0

More stubborn sellers with luxury homes who refuse to drop their house prices are becoming reluctant landlords, according to letting...

Housing minister backs rent-to-buy lease options web site

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

4th April 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Housing minister Grant Shapps has publically backed a web site advertising rent-to-buy homes. The scheme seems to promote lease option...

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Singles forced to share as benefit rules change

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

1st April 2011, 15 years ago | 1

Shared house landlords can expect a surge in inquiries from tenants as the government changes the rules on paying housing...

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Spotlight on Robin Pilley, HMO investor – Part four of a four part story

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

30th March 2011, 15 years ago | 2

Robin Pilley invests into HMO’s (Houses in multiple occupation) in the Haverhill area and regularly achieves up to 16% yields,...

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Building societies ratchet lending up a notch

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

29th March 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Building societies approved £1.7 billion in home loans last month – around 23% higher than the £1.4 billion approved a...

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Landlord lobby kicks off online HMO protest

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

19th March 2011, 15 years ago | 2

Landlord lobbyists have launched an online toolkit to help property investors protest against councils proposing to take on extra powers...

Housing market is picking up, say estate agents

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th March 2011, 15 years ago | 0

The housing market has perked up as estate agents report more homes for sale and a jump in the number...

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Consumer champion urges crackdown on rogue letting agents

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

16th March 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Rogue letting agents that swindle landlords and tenants out of hundreds of thousands of pounds a year have come under...

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Buy to let to surge for months, predict letting agents

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

2nd March 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Letting agents predict that the demand for buy to let rental homes will surge well in to 2012 as desperate...

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Revealed – the councils taking on extra HMO powers

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

24th February 2011, 15 years ago | 5

Student landlords looking to expand their portfolios need to move quickly in many towns and cities to avoid new rules...

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Revealed – how property was crippled by the recession

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

11th February 2011, 15 years ago | 0

New figures from the government show how the banking crisis and recession crippled the housing market. In 2008/09 – the...

Minister pledges to help with housing benefit rent arrears

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

3rd February 2011, 15 years ago | 1

Welfare Minister Lord Freud has pledged to look at the problems caused by tenants who refuse to pay their landlords...

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Hit-and-run fraudsters prey on empty buy-to-lets

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

30th January 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Empty buy to let properties are increasingly targets for hit-and-run fraudsters cheating firms and benefit agencies. Crooks often set up...

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Bank mortgage lending plunges to 1999 levels

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

26th January 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Bank  mortgage lending slumped to the lowest for more than a decade  during December as the housing market stalled.

Landlords take HMO protest online

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

20th January 2011, 15 years ago | 1

Landlords have  launched an online campaign against a council’s proposals to micromanage shared houses by introducing planning controls and extra...

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House sales slump to an 8-year low

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th January 2011, 15 years ago | 3

The big freeze sent a chill through the housing market as sales slumped to an eight-year low in December. Estate...

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Have your say when MPs debate housing benefit reform

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

12th January 2011, 15 years ago | 1

Landlords can have a say about government reforms on local housing benefit for private tenants by taking up an invitation...

More councils take on selective licensing for HMOs

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th December 2010, 15 years ago | 1

Two more councils have joined the queue to crackdown on property investors letting shared houses.

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Stubborn mortgage lenders hold property market hostage for profit

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

13th December 2010, 15 years ago | 6

Estate agents have slammed stubborn and self-serving mortgage lenders for holding homeowners and homebuyers hostage for the sake of their...

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I’m a landlord – get my problem tenant out of here!

Author: Mark Alexander

26th November 2010, 15 years ago | 4

A 5,000-signature petition demanding changes in the law to speed up the eviction of problem tenants from buy to let...