Tag: news

Landlord fined for ignoring gas safety rules

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

5th March 2024, 2 years ago | 3

A court has fined a landlord almost £1,500 for neglecting her gas safety obligations and ignoring council warnings. Tracey Robinson,...

Council urges landlords to join its Safer Renting scheme

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st February 2024, 2 years ago | 11

A scheme that aims to improve the quality and safety of rented properties in Weymouth and Portland has been launched...

NRLA urges MPs to support amendments to Renters (Reform) Bill

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

19th January 2024, 2 years ago | 9

The National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) is calling on MPs to support ‘pragmatic changes’ to the Renters (Reform) Bill. The...

Flatshare rents begin to fall as market stabilises

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

10th January 2024, 2 years ago | 0

Flatsharing Londoners have seen their rents drop for the second month in a row, after reaching an all-time high in...

Landlords urged to undertake regular inspections as tenants break rules

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

9th January 2024, 2 years ago | 9

A survey has revealed that 83% of landlords in the UK have experienced breaches of their tenancy agreements by their...

Landlords and tenants warned over fake energy efficiency schemes

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

4th January 2024, 2 years ago | 0

Letting agents must inform their landlord clients and tenants about the dangers of fake energy efficiency schemes, Propertymark is warning....

Royal Greenwich introduces new licence for smaller HMOs

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

3rd January 2024, 2 years ago | 1

A licence for houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) is now required by most landlords in Royal Greenwich after a new...

Shelter: Single parents face eviction threat as housing crisis worsens

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

3rd January 2024, 2 years ago | 12

Around 74,000 single-parent households and their children could be evicted and made homeless in England this winter, according to a...

Private rents in Scotland soar by 14.3% in a year

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

29th November 2023, 2 years ago | 16

Despite a rent cap, there has been a sharp increase in average rents across all property sizes in Scotland, with...

MP urges court reform to protect landlords before S21 is abolished

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

9th November 2023, 2 years ago | 4

Theresa Villiers MP has spoken in favour of the Renters (Reform) Bill and warned the government needs to address the...

Dehumidifiers may reduce energy costs as well as solve damp issues

Author: Mark Alexander

8th November 2013, 12 years ago | 15

For landlords with tenants who do all the wrong things and cause condensation and damp problems this can be a...

Contra proferentem mortgage conditions

Author: Mark Alexander

9th October 2013, 13 years ago | 49

Unless you are a qualified contracts lawyer who has also studied Latin you will probably not have a clue as...

Marketing Fund for our Class Actions against tracker mortgage margin increases

Author: Mark Alexander

3rd October 2013, 13 years ago | 0

Several people have left comments on our forums or emailed me personally to say that they are not affected by...

Tracker Mortgage Class Action Update

Author: Mark Alexander

30th September 2013, 13 years ago | 30

630 people have completed our Tracker Rate Class Action Registration Form as I type this update.  Of those, 300 had...

Will Mortgage Express copy BoI and West Brom and raise their rates?

Author: Ed Atkinson

25th September 2013, 13 years ago | 23

Is there a trend? First the Bank of Ireland raised their Tracker rates and now West Bromwich Building Society have...

ACT NOW to protect the margin on your YOUR tracker mortgage

Author: Mark Alexander

24th September 2013, 13 years ago | 123

If you have a tracker mortgage you may be forgiven for thinking that your mortgage payments will only change when...

Bank of Ireland Tracker Mortgage Class Action Update

Author: Justin Selig

9th July 2013, 13 years ago | 1

Yesterday the Treasury Committee published a letter sent to Andrew Tyrie MP from Martin Wheatley, Chairman of the Financial Conduct...

The latest on the BOI Tracker rate scandal

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st May 2013, 13 years ago | 0

Bank of Ireland issued the following press release and wrote to 1,200 borrowers today:- “In February this year Bank of...

Justin Selig – Legal advice to affected BOI tracker borrowers

Author: Mark Alexander

1st May 2013, 13 years ago | 1

We appointed Justin Selig to advise thousands of landlords and residential mortgage borrowers across the UK on the day that news broke...