Tag: Housing benefit
BBC has a cheap bash at landlords yet again!
The BBC has launched another story about substandard buy to let homes and ‘rogue landlords’ – but just who is covered...
Minister pledges to help with housing benefit rent arrears
Welfare Minister Lord Freud has pledged to look at the problems caused by tenants who refuse to pay their landlords and “play the...
Landlords refuse to cut rents for benefit tenants
Buy to let landlords are on a collision course with the government as most are determined to defy pleas to reduce their rents in line...
Have your say when MPs debate housing benefit reform
Landlords can have a say about government reforms on local housing benefit for private tenants by taking up an invitation from the...
Buy to let rent arrears up 20%, say advice watchdogs
Tenants struggling to pay rent arrears to buy to let landlords have rocketed by 20% in a year, according to the Citizen’s Advice...
CML reports that buy to let mortgage lending is up 12%
Buy to let lending has risen by 12% supported by ongoing demand for rental property fuelled by potential homeowners who have to rent...
Will landlords benefit from universal credit?
The new universal credit for housing costs may still leave private landlords out on a limb over rent payments.
The proposed new rules...
