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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...

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Londoners earning less than £52,000 can’t afford to rent

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

28th March 2012, 14 years ago | 0

Renters in London need to earn around £52,000 to let a buy to let home, according to figures from homeless...

Property118 Landlord Newsletter – Issue 107

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

28th March 2012, 14 years ago | 0

The latest round up of news features the reaction to the National Planning Policy Framework from around the buy to...

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Open Letter to Grant Shapps from Farah Damji

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27th March 2012, 14 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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Don’t allow LANDLORDS to be SCAPEGOATS of housing policy failures

Author: Mark Alexander

20th March 2012, 14 years ago | 9

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

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Finding reliable LHA tenants

Author: John Paul

14th March 2012, 15 years ago | 4

LHA Top Tips for landlords. Article 3 in a series of 8 The longer you keep a tenant the less...

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Rogue Landlords II – A Definitive List

Author: Ben Reeve-Lewis

7th March 2012, 15 years ago | 14

Before I got sucked into housing I trained in Cognitive Linguistics, the study of how language can be used to...

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Sorting the Rogues from the Ridiculous

Author: Ben Reeve-Lewis

5th March 2012, 15 years ago | 12

I’m an amiable kinda guy, the office joker in the roman helmet, more predisposed towards seeing the good in people...

Property118 Landlords Newsletter – Issue 94

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

13th February 2012, 15 years ago | 0

Great news for our readers this week, Property118 has been appointed as a source of Google News which means your...

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Why landlords won’t take LHA tenants – this brave tenant has gone public.

Author: Mary Latham

11th February 2012, 15 years ago | 51

Government need to take note because this illness has reached epidemic proportions and, in my opinion, is the reason many...

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RLA Counter Shelter’s Five Point Plan

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

10th February 2012, 15 years ago | 0

– News Sourced by Property118 News Team – Following Shelter’s five point plan to step up its fight against rogue...

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Buy to Let Arrears up – But ‘Experts’ Disagree on Why

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

23rd January 2012, 15 years ago | 0

Buy to let experts are transmitting mixed messages about the state of the market in two new surveys. The latest...

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Landlords Ready for Massive Rise in Rent Arrears

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

19th January 2012, 15 years ago | 10

Landlords are bracing for a flood of rent arrears cases as renters struggle with their bills over the festive period....

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Fears for Arrears as Tenants Borrow to Pay Rents

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

4th January 2012, 15 years ago | 1

Landlords should brace themselves for a massive jump in rent arrears with the news that millions are seeking payday loans...

Property118 Landlords Newsletter – Issue 81

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

19th December 2011, 15 years ago | 0

The latest news and views from the property market and private rented sector. Ben Reeve-Lewis looks back to his sobering...

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A True Christmas Story

Author: Ben Reeve-Lewis

16th December 2011, 15 years ago | 15

I’ve been a bit quiet of late. Knocked out by a killer dose of what Frazzy calls ‘Man Flu’ and...