Tag: Landlords

Landlords – what are your suggestions to better the current chaos in the PRS?

Author: Readers Question

28th November 2022, 4 years ago | 35

Hello, Every landlord, big or small, must by now have felt the effects of repeated changes to legislation and taxation...

EPCs in 2028 to include existing tenancies?

Author: Readers Question

28th November 2022, 4 years ago | 24

Hello, The govt propose that existing tenancies must have a rating of C or above from April 2028. It will...

50,000 landlords have left the PRS since 2019

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

25th November 2022, 4 years ago | 17

It has been revealed that the UK has 2.74 million unincorporated landlords and in 2020-21 they earned £41bn from rents,...

Lender offers landlords £50m to help enhance energy efficiency

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

25th November 2022, 4 years ago | 0

Buy-to-let landlords who want to improve the sustainability of their investment properties can access a lending fund with lower mortgage...

Commercial agents and landlords warned of energy efficiency regulation changes

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

24th November 2022, 4 years ago | 19

Propertymark is warning commercial letting agents and landlords about a change in energy efficiency regulations for business buildings. They say...

Funding help is needed to make homes more energy efficient

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

23rd November 2022, 4 years ago | 1

Only cash help to make homes and businesses energy efficient will enable the government to meet a pledge set out...

UK house prices set to fall for the next two years

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

22nd November 2022, 4 years ago | 1

House prices in the UK are predicted to fall for the next two years before they will increase again, the...

Majority of property investors looking to invest next year

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st November 2022, 4 years ago | 0

More than 50% of property investors are looking to further expand their portfolio in 2023 – despite the uncertainty of...

Landlords! We have lost the moral high ground and it’s not coming back

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

18th November 2022, 4 years ago | 22

While landlords have never been flavour of the month, we have lost the moral high ground over standards in private...

The Autumn Statement – property sector reacts

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th November 2022, 4 years ago | 2

The much-anticipated Autumn Statement has seen the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, delivering a mixed bag of tax rises...

Property damage and cleaning top tenancy deposit disputes

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th November 2022, 4 years ago | 4

More than half of tenancy deposit disputes during the last year concerned property damage and cleaning, The Deposit Protection Service...

1 in 5 landlords are looking to reduce portfolios

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

16th November 2022, 4 years ago | 2

Landlords are making big adjustments to their portfolios to meet the cost-of-living crisis, research reveals. According to Handelsbanken, nearly three...

£82.7bn worth of rental properties occupied by fraudsters

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

16th November 2022, 4 years ago | 1

The rental sector has long been a leading target for fraudsters, criminals and money launderers with previous research estimating that...

Propertymark slams extension to no-fault notice periods in Wales

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th November 2022, 4 years ago | 0

All new tenancies in Wales from 1 December will have a statutory six-month no-fault notice period, while existing tenancies that...

Mayor of London calls for emergency private renting summit

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th November 2022, 4 years ago | 21

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has called for an emergency private renting summit – but landlords aren’t invited. He...

Why do we value Asylum Seekers more than British homeless?

Author: Readers Question

14th November 2022, 4 years ago | 29

Hello, This is another of those strange anomalies/priorities which make little sense. We pick up thousands of asylum seekers in...

HMRC is targeting residential landlords with ‘nudge letters’

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th November 2022, 4 years ago | 20

HMRC is targeting residential landlords in its latest ‘nudge campaign’ that it suspects are not declaring their full rental income,...

FAO Shelter – This is not a love note from The Landlord Crusader

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

11th November 2022, 4 years ago | 56

It’s a good job I was sitting down when I read a striking story on Property118 this week because it...

Legislation is destroying our business and we might as well sell up. My question is – How??

Author: Readers Question

8th November 2022, 4 years ago | 14

Hello, No landlord can be immune to the ever increasing attacks, not only on the buy to let business in...

More than a quarter of landlords want to sell – claim

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th November 2022, 4 years ago | 1

More than a quarter of landlords are planning to sell their rental properties because of the current buy to let...

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Landlords selling up account for 16% of property sales

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th November 2022, 4 years ago | 6

As fed-up landlords brace for further tax rises and soaring mortgage rates, it has been revealed that the number of...