Tag: Private Rented Sector

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HMO landlord fined £5,500 for letting filthy home

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

31st May 2012, 14 years ago | 5

The landlord of a filthy and overcrowded shared house was fined £5,500 after admitting 23 licensing and management offences to...

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Letting agents slammed as fees go through the roof

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

28th May 2012, 14 years ago | 3

Letting agents are charging fees of up to £600 to tenants who want to privately rent a home in Wales,...

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Letting agents may go bust as illegal fees campaign takes off

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

24th May 2012, 14 years ago | 10

Landlords are warned to check out that their letting agents protect their money as a new scheme helping tenants reclaim...

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Will Greeks mass migrate to the UK?

Author: Mark Alexander

18th May 2012, 14 years ago | 8

Having thought through the economic problems in Greece I have to ask the question, will Greeks mass migrate to the...

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London council wants to licence 35,000 buy to lets

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

18th May 2012, 14 years ago | 2

Newham Council has completed stage one of a grandiose plan to licence 35,000 buy to let tenancies. The Labour-led council...

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MPs urge ministers to open pensions to buy to let

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th May 2012, 14 years ago | 1

Calls to boost buy to let by upgrading pensions to include residential property are gathering momentum in Parliament. An influential...

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Impact of Human Rights on Evictions

Author: Jim Bauld

8th May 2012, 14 years ago | 6

Regular readers of the Daily mail will no doubt have a healthy disregard for “human rights” or “yuman rites” as...

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Landlords ready to sink more cash in to buy to let

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

1st May 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Landlords are still purchasing more buy to let homes, according to research by a mortgage lender. Property investors piled cash...

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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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Buy to let rents keep rising as tenants get poorer

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

18th April 2012, 14 years ago | 0

The average UK rent increased by 2.6% in March to £764 a month, according to the latest survey by specialist...

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Meet Mark Alexander at the Property Business Show

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

13th April 2012, 14 years ago | 1

Mark Alexander has been campaigning to make it compulsory for letting agents to have professional indemnity insurance and bonding for...

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HMO Landlords in Norwich Celebrate ELA Victory on Licencing Fees

Author: Mark Alexander

13th April 2012, 14 years ago | 8

Norwich based HMO Landlords are today celebrating a victory of the Eastern Landlords Association “ELA” in terms of persuading Norwich...

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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...

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ARLA guide for reluctant landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

3rd April 2012, 14 years ago | 1

Letting agents reporting a rising number of homeowners renting out their properties because they cannot sell has more than doubled...

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Interest Free Buy to Let Mortgages 0% APR

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

1st April 2012, 14 years ago | 5

We have seen interest free credit cards and financing for TV’s, sofa’s and even cars but we never expected to...

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First drop in buy to let lending for two years

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

30th March 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Demand for buy to let lending has dropped for the first time in two years, according to the latest Bank...

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Open Letter to Grant Shapps from Farah Damji

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27th March 2012, 15 years ago | 7

*Property118 is not in any way aligned with Kazuri nor Farah Damji, but we believe questions should be raised about...

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Landlord Legal Update – for the real Northerners (…Scotland)

Author: Jim Bauld

22nd March 2012, 15 years ago | 0

Are you looking for a legal update in relation to landlord matters north of the border, in particular the tenancy...

Property118 Landlord Newsletter – Issue 105

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st March 2012, 15 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, 15 years ago | 9

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