Tag: Housing benefit

Property118 Landlords Newsletter – Issue 115

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

18th May 2012, 14 years ago | 0

This week’s edition features Neil Patterson going through much of the buy to let market changes, and also offers advice...

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Build to let is answer to UK housing problems, says industry

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

18th May 2012, 14 years ago | 1

The government is failing low income householders as buy to let rents rise, despite cutting housing benefits to try to...

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Housing benefit rules breach disabled rights, says court

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

15th May 2012, 14 years ago | 4

The government’s housing benefits policy is in disarray as judges have ruled a crucial test to confirm how big a...

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Buy to let shines as mortgage lending slumps to 40 year low

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

4th May 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Buy to let lending was the only bright point in a year when mortgage lending slumped to the lowest levels...

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HMO landlord pays £13,000 for ignoring repair order

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

3rd May 2012, 14 years ago | 0

A shared house landlord who ignored council orders to upgrade his property was ordered to pay more than £13,000 in...

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Property118 Landlords Newsletter – Issue 112

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

27th April 2012, 14 years ago | 0

This week’s edition features Ben Reeve-Lewis at the Property Investors Show, a challenge from Mark to Tony Robbins, Vanessa Warwick...

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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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UK split into “London” and “the rest” rent divide

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th April 2012, 14 years ago | 0

The great rental divide is splitting the UK as tenants in London pay double the amount for a comparable property...

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Article 8 Evictions – Human Rights?

Author: Mark Reynolds

13th April 2012, 14 years ago | 5

Having read Mary Latham’s article about landlord’s not being able to evict due to human rights law, I have been giving...

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Systems thinking for the PRS

Author: Ben Reeve-Lewis

11th April 2012, 14 years ago | 4

An article written in ire is not usually a good thing generally but my ire this time has been growing...

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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...

Property118 Landlord Newsletter – Issue 105

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st March 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Today’s issue shines the spotlight on the private rented sector providing housing to a diverse range of tenants. Headlines and...

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Don’t allow LANDLORDS to be SCAPEGOATS of housing policy failures

Author: Mark Alexander

20th March 2012, 14 years ago | 9

In a country where we have a housing crisis driven by a complete lack of an innovative and all-encompassing housing...

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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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The LHA Claim procedure for landlords

Author: John Paul

20th March 2012, 14 years ago | 0

LHA Top Tips for landlords. Article 5 in a series of 8 Be thorough, do it once and do it...

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Forms and procedures for LHA Landlords

Author: John Paul

16th March 2012, 14 years ago | 49

LHA Top Tips for landlords. Article 4 in a series of 8 The most important things are that you need...

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A choice of two tenants

Author: Glenn Ackroyd

14th March 2012, 15 years ago | 0

If you had a choice of the two tenants below which would you choose? A middle-aged couple (one working and...

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Finding reliable LHA tenants

Author: John Paul

14th March 2012, 15 years ago | 4

LHA Top Tips for landlords. Article 3 in a series of 8 The longer you keep a tenant the less...

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Vital Contacts for LHA Landlords

Author: John Paul

9th March 2012, 15 years ago | 33

LHA Top Tips for landlords. Article 2 in a series of 8 Inform yourself. If you don’t know all the...

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Introducing The LHA Expert for Landlords – @TheLHAexpert

Author: John Paul

6th March 2012, 15 years ago | 45

-By Guest Columnist John Paul- Part 1 of an 8 part series Welcome to the first in a series of...