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Agreements with tenants
Record numbers of tenants have fallen into rent arrears during the Coronavirus pandemic. Many have no record of arrears but they have had to survive…
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The Landlord Knowledge editorial team covers UK buy-to-let and property investment news, policy, regulation, and finance. Our reporting focuses on the issues that matter most to private landlords and property investors across the UK.
Headed by Leon Hopkins, author of The Landlord's Handbook.
Buy-to-let Property News
New advice online
Notice periods given to tenants in England from 29 August 2020 (to at least 31 March 2021) must be at least six months for most…
Buy-to-let Property News
NRLA makes call for green tax breaks
There is ‘urgent need’ for reform to support energy improvements to rented housing, the National Residential Landlords Association has told the Chancellor of the Exchequer…
Buy-to-let Property News
Connells Group reports ‘good performance’
Connells, the estate agency group that is in the process of buying the Countrywide group, saw total house sale exchanges down by 16 per cent…
Buy-to-let Property News
Longer tenancies for renters in Wales
From spring 2022, new Welsh tenancy agreements will be for a minimum 12 months. This is among a raft of changes included in the Renting…
Buy-to-let Property News
Walsall landlords lose out as letting agent folds
Walsall letting agent Homepoint Estate Agents Limited has gone into voluntary liquidation with debts of just under £1m. Of the £977,000 deficit, about £700,000 is…
Buy-to-let Property News
Barnsley landlord admitted tenant unlawfully evicted
A Barnsley landlord has been ordered to undertake 200 hours of unpaid community work, to participate in 15 days of ‘rehabilitation’ training, and to pay…
Buy-to-let Property News
Dire eviction warnings proved to be wrong
Warnings of a surge of evictions following the partial lifting of the repossessions ban in September last year proved to be unfounded, The National Residential…
Buy-to-let Property News
Compensation claim goes up in smoke
An uninsured landlord’s claim that his letting agents should compensate him for more than £220,000 in losses has been largely turned down by a Scottish…
Buy-to-let Property News
£6,000 HMO fine was ‘too lenient’
A Portsmouth letting agent that challenged a fine imposed by the council for letting a property without an HMO licence has had its penalty doubled…
Buy-to-let Property News
Government acts on blighted leaseholds
Hundreds of thousands of leaseholders will be protected from the cost of replacing unsafe cladding on their homes, claimed Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick when unveiling…
Buy-to-let Property News
Agents report rent and house prices rises
London letting agents are predicting a fall in rents over the next three months. the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has reported. Its latest Residential…
Landlord Articles
Making Tax Digital (MTD) for Landlords – are you ready?
As a landlord, you’ll need to start thinking about how you will transition to HMRC’s new Making Tax Digital (MTD) for Income Tax regulations. As…
Buy-to-let Property News
City centre rentals suffer covid effect
Houses for rent are letting 30 per cent faster than a year ago, pushing rents higher, property portal Zoopla has reported. But this does not…
Buy-to-let Property News
Mortgage lenders show confidence
There are now more mortgage deals available than since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic began impacting the UK economy last March, MoneyFacts has reported….
