Tag: Landlord Regulation

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Buy to Let Mortgage Row Takes Another Turn in Europe

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

6th October 2011, 15 years ago | 1

Rows over the future of buy to let lending are raging on as the European Union debates ways to safeguard...

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Growth of the Private Rented Sector. Landlords Log part 3.

Author: Mark Alexander

30th September 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Focus on weeding out rogue landlords is not the way forward for the PRS. Regulation increases costs and fails to...

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Put Down Your Particulars – Don’t Shoot the Messenger! #3

Author: Ben Reeve-Lewis

28th September 2011, 15 years ago | 2

When a tenant has a beef with their landlord, I’m the guy they go to. My job is to either...

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Introducing LandlordSOS

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

22nd September 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Raising finance for property investment/development, dealing with the council and how to make money from buy to let are some...

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Crooks Have Plagued us for Years, Says Leading Letting Agent

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

20th September 2011, 15 years ago | 1

Theft and fraud by letting agents has always been a problem in the industry, claims the managing director of the...

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The New Kids on the Block

Author: Ben Reeve-Lewis

12th September 2011, 15 years ago | 7

What do you think of the way councils operate in relation to housing in your area? Do you think they...

HMO Landlords Warned to Put Their House in Order

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

9th September 2011, 15 years ago | 1

Councillors have warned HMO landlords to put their house in order or face prosecution. The warning was triggered as magistrates...

Government Undermines Our Work, Claims ARLA

Author: Neil Patterson

6th September 2011, 15 years ago | 2

Letting agents have turned up the heat on the government to regulate the private rental sector another notch. The spat...

Property118 Landlords eNewsletter – Issue 59

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

24th August 2011, 15 years ago | 0

We are continuing to work on improving our Directory speed and ease of use prior to uploading over 200,000 businesses...

Human Rights Warning Over Satellite TV for Tenants

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

16th August 2011, 15 years ago | 4

Landlords who say no to tenants who want to install satellite TV or broadband could infringe their human rights. Following...

Landlord pays £40,000 for letting death trap flats

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

22nd July 2011, 15 years ago | 0

A landlord who lived a lavish millionaire lifestyle and drove a Mercedes, has to pay £40,000 for renting out death...

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Has the credit crunch been good or bad for buy to let landlords?

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

15th July 2011, 15 years ago | 12

I'd very much like to get your views on what's been good about the credit crunch and what's not been...

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Shared house was firebomb waiting to explode

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th July 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Electrical wiring in a shared house was so dangerous the property was a firebomb waiting to go off, a court...

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Major accolade for Property118.com (Press Release)

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

13th July 2011, 15 years ago | 0

NewsNow to feature Property118 News Not only is Property118.com one of the fastest growing Property web-sites in the UK this...

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How To Furnish Student Let

Author: Ally Interiors

12th July 2011, 15 years ago | 0

It’s that time of the year when thoughts turn to student accommodation. Whilst most campuses offer a range of self...

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Lenders Turn Up Buy to Let Heat on the EU

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

4th July 2011, 15 years ago | 1

One of Britain’s largest landlord mortgage lenders has stepped up the pressure on Brussels not to regulate buy to let....

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Gang-of-five challenges EU buy to let regulation

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

30th June 2011, 15 years ago | 1

A gang-of-five of mortgage industry trade bodies has joined forces to challenge European Union proposals for mortgages that include tougher...

Report highlights increased demand for rented properties

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

27th June 2011, 15 years ago | 0

The Smith Institute has recently published a report by housing policy expert Andrew Heywood entitled “The End of the Affair:...

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New EPC laws postponed after legal time-out

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

23rd June 2011, 15 years ago | 1

Upcoming changes to energy performance certificate rules for landlords have been put on hold because they have failed to clear...

3 Dangerous Types of Tenant – Part 2: Illegal Subletting

Author: Paul Shamplina

22nd June 2011, 15 years ago | 1

Over the last couple of years, the problem of unauthorised subletting has been growing. From last year alone, our instructions...