Tag: Shelter

Scottish Association of Landlords – dismayed by Shelter Cowboys Slur

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

10th May 2013, 13 years ago | 8

Scottish Conservative Housing Spokesman Alex Johnstone and the Scottish Association of Landlords have slammed the language employed by housing charity...

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Is rent hiking a good business model?

Author: Ben Reeve-Lewis

21st January 2013, 13 years ago | 24

It’s been a while since I wrote anything in my ‘Don’t shoot the messenger’ series. Mainly because I kept getting...

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5 years of tenancy deposit protection

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

6th November 2012, 13 years ago | 0

The Dispute Service “TDS” has released an excellent PDF document summarising the first 5 years of tenancy deposit protection in...

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Charities plea for support to help former squatters

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

30th October 2012, 13 years ago | 2

Criminalising squatting has had severe consequences for the homeless, leaving them with no where to go during winter causes mortality...

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RLA welcomes government U-turn on direct payments in Northern Ireland

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

25th October 2012, 14 years ago | 2

RLA welcomes news that the Department for Work and Pensions will allow direct payments of housing benefits to be made...

Net Rental Yields and how to increase them

Author: Mark Alexander

17th October 2012, 14 years ago | 8

There are two obvious ways to increase net rental yield; 1) reduce outgoings 2) increase income – but how? In...

Shelter agrees to focus on solutions as well as problems

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

28th September 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Housing Charity Shelter appear to want to build bridges with the PRS by “looking for solutions as well as problems”....

Why the Shelter 5 year rental contract proposals will not work

Author: Mark Alexander

21st September 2012, 14 years ago | 6

Housing Charity Shelter is proposing 5 year rental agreements but this is not viable as most landlords would be in...

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Squatters Rights – what’s not changed

Author: Mark Alexander

1st September 2012, 14 years ago | 27

In this blog I intend to dispel a few urban myths which appear to be forming, both amongst landlords and squatters themselves...

How GOOD landlords can be even better!

Author: Mark Alexander

20th July 2012, 14 years ago | 0

I have often wondered how GOOD landlords can be even better and gain positive PR as a result and I...

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Buy to let here to stay and will only grow, says Shelter

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

12th June 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Buy to let is here to stay and even more families will have to rent if the economy does not...

The quiet revolution among letting agents

Author: Ben Reeve-Lewis

5th June 2012, 14 years ago | 21

I have a suit but I hardly ever wear it. It’s only a cheap one, £100 from Zara’s a couple...

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Landlords face compulsory nationwide deposit protection

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

1st June 2012, 14 years ago | 1

The countdown to nationwide tenant deposit protection is on as Scotland joins the scheme already running in England and Wales...

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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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Build to let is answer to UK housing problems, says industry

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

18th May 2012, 14 years ago | 1

The government is failing low income householders as buy to let rents rise, despite cutting housing benefits to try to...

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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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Don’t Shoot the Messenger #10

Author: Ben Reeve-Lewis

30th April 2012, 14 years ago | 0

I recently had a long online discussion with Mary Latham, in which we both tried to get to the bottom...

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Ben Reeve Lewis at 2012 The Property Investor Show

Author: Ben Reeve-Lewis

20th April 2012, 14 years ago | 9

A Connecticut Yankee in the Court of King Arthur – or if you prefer, A Tenancy Relations Officer at a...

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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...