Tag: Private Rented Sector

Why Shelter’s ‘rogue landlord’ complaints are misleading

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

5th April 2011, 15 years ago | 0

The media and do-gooders are quick to jump on the ‘rogue landlord’ bandwagon to answer the clarion call of rough...

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Third of buy to let landlords have hiked rents this year

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st March 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Buy to let landlords are enjoying more income from the investment property portfolios, according to new figures from a leading...

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MPs urged to let benefit tenants choose how to pay their rents

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

10th March 2011, 15 years ago | 7

Tenants picking up housing allowances to pay their rents should have the choice to pay their landlords direct, says the...

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Buy to let tenants expect rents to keep on rising

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th March 2011, 15 years ago | 2

>Private renters expect to hand over more money every month to their buy to let landlords as they continue to...

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Buy to let to surge for months, predict letting agents

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

2nd March 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Letting agents predict that the demand for buy to let rental homes will surge well in to 2012 as desperate...

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Buy to let market doubled in a decade

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

25th February 2011, 15 years ago | 0

The number of private renters is increasing while home ownership is in decline, according to the latest housing survey for...

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Britain’s property wealth belongs to the over 45s

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

21st February 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Most of Britain’s £4 trillion of housing wealth is locked in homes belonging to the over 45’s while young adults...

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BBC has a cheap bash at landlords yet again!

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

7th February 2011, 15 years ago | 0

The BBC has launched another story about substandard buy to let homes and ‘rogue landlords’ – but just who is...

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Landlords refuse to cut rents for benefit tenants

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

2nd February 2011, 16 years ago | 0

Buy to let landlords are on a collision course with the government as most are determined to defy pleas to...

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City landlords face first HMO selective licensing blitz

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

24th January 2011, 16 years ago | 0

Thousands of shared house landlords in Oxford are the first in England to meet strict new selective licensing guidelines as...

More councils take on selective licensing for HMOs

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

17th December 2010, 16 years ago | 1

Two more councils have joined the queue to crackdown on property investors letting shared houses.

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One in three landlords want to buy more homes to let

Author: Mark Alexander

24th November 2010, 16 years ago | 0

Almost a third of buy to let landlords would like to add more letting homes to their portfolios to expand...

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Professional landlords snap up more homes to let. Buy to let accounted for nearly 10% of all mortgage broker business in the three months ending September 30

Author: Mark Alexander

1st November 2010, 16 years ago | 0

Experienced landlords are still expanding their buy to let portfolios and accounted for nearly 10% of all mortgage broker business...

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Paragon opens books for more buy to let mortgages

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

27th October 2010, 16 years ago | 0

Buy to let lender Paragon is jumping back into the landlord mortgage market to fill the hole left by Lloyds...

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NLA urges landlords to improve standards

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

27th October 2010, 16 years ago | 0

Private landlords have no room for complacency and need to improve standards as the private rented sector changes, urges the...

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Minister scraps HMO planning rules.

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

27th October 2010, 16 years ago | 0

Housing minister Grant Shapps has scrapped complicated blanket planning rules for houses in multiple occupation (HMO). He has announced new...

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Don’t regulate landlords any more, urges Residential Landlords Association (RLA).

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

27th October 2010, 16 years ago | 2

A landlord group has responded to the government’s challenge to identify changes to the law that would make running a...

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Millions face a lifetime of renting a home

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

25th October 2010, 16 years ago | 0

Buying a home is a dream beyond the reach of millions trapped in financial limbo, says the Chartered Institute of...