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Assuring Rent to Combat Homelessness
Assuring rent can combat homelessness – and one city council intends to prove it. The coming of the Homelessness Reduction Bill is forcing local authorities…
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Universal Credit – A Shock for Lord Freud
Lord Freud, when Welfare Minister, was the mastermind behind the planning and introduction of Universal Credit, despite opposition from many quarters, not least private sector…
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Landlord Tax – section 24 and more
The founders of Property118 and The Landlords Union have been prolific campaigners against the restrictions on finance cost relief for individual landlords which are being…
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The Risk for Landlords of Being Under-Insured
Costs of insuring properties are increasing, but the cost of being under-insured can be even higher. In these difficult financial times, nobody wants to spend…
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Are Your Agents Earning Their Keep
It is impossible to work with private sector landlords without hearing complaints being made about agents. Though to be fair, this is often due to…
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The Housing White Paper 2017
The Housing White Paper was finally launched on 6th February, under the ambitious (possibly optimistic?) title of ‘Fixing our Broken Housing Market’. The document is…
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Social Landlords Cut Repair Budgets
A recent survey of 100 social landlord associations by Inside Housing, the trade magazine of the housing profession, has found that social landlords are cutting…
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Landlords and Self-assessment Tax
Over 200 years ago, Benjamin Franklin said words to the effect that ‘the only certain things in life are Death and Taxes’, rather fatalistic but…
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Private Rental Investment Growing – Despite The Government
Despite what is a clear favouring of home ownership as the Governments’ tenure of choice, buy to let investment and the private sector is growing…
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Illegal Immigrants And The Right To Rent
Right to Rent was introduced by the government from 1st February 2016, in an attempt to address the issue of illegal immigrants obtaining property to…
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Deposit Disputes Rising
The Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) have revealed that in the year between March 2015 and March 2016, the three deposit protection schemes,…
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The New Housing and Planning Act 2016
The New Housing and Planning Act 2016 has introduced yet more legislation for landlords to wrestle with as they manage their portfolios. With the buzz-words…
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A Seasonal Story
All over the country, seasonal lights are festooned along our high streets, supposedly in memory of a birth 2000 years ago. Whether it is believed…
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The Immigration Act 2016
It was the Immigration Act 2014 which introduced the Right to Rent scheme, to try and stop illegal immigrants obtaining a privately rented property. There…
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Another Pointless Section 8 Notice Change
It is difficult for landlords to believe that there is not a positive intention to ‘wrong foot’ them when they need to evict a tenant…
