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Scrapping stamp duty penalty would make economic sense

Scrapping stamp duty penalty would make economic sense

Scrapping the stamp duty penalty on buying rental properties would actually make the Government more money, the National Residential Landlords Association has concluded. According to...

Reminder of help available for hard-pushed tenants

Reminder of help available for hard-pushed tenants

Sheffield Council has reminded landlords that it may be able to offer financial support for tenants struggling to pay their rent. The council has been...

‘Homes for Ukraine’ scheme launched

‘Homes for Ukraine’ scheme launched

Records numbers have come forward to record their support for a scheme to house Ukrainian nationals displaced by the war now raging in their country....

Landlords targeting smaller towns

Landlords targeting smaller towns

Private landlords are increasingly targeting smaller, secondary towns and cities, analysis from Paragon Bank has suggested. Its own lending activity has revealed a strong increase...

Right to rent landlords’ code updated

Right to rent landlords’ code updated

Landlords have been reminded that when renting to European Economic Area nationals, they are now required to make immigration status checks under the Right to...

Continued house price buoyancy ‘surprising’

Continued house price buoyancy ‘surprising’

Despite war, rocketing fuel prices, and rising interest rates, house prices rose in February at an annual rate of 10.8 per cent, the fastest since...

Scottish landlords hit out against hostile environment

Scottish landlords hit out against hostile environment

There could soon be 36,000 fewer homes available to rent in Scotland, the Scottish Association of Landlords has warned. Damaging rhetoric from the Scottish Government...

Possession advice updated

Possession advice updated

Updated Government guidance has reminded landlords that court rules currently in force require them to provide additional information when making possession claims. Guidance for landlords...

Accommodation needed for fleeing Ukrainians

Accommodation needed for fleeing Ukrainians

With thousands of Ukrainians expected to seek refuge from war in the UK, the National Residential Landlords Association has called for Government guidance for landlords...

Backlash against Gove’s cladding cost exclusion for landlords

Backlash against Gove’s cladding cost exclusion for landlords

Government plans to end the unsafe cladding scandal are based on lazy and false assumptions that individual landlords are property tycoons. So says the National...

Temporary ‘right to rent’ regime extended to September

Temporary ‘right to rent’ regime extended to September

Current ‘temporary’ right to rent check requirements are to remain in place until 30 September 2022, the Home Office has announced. Temporary adjustments to the...

PRS unlikely to fill homes shortfall

PRS unlikely to fill homes shortfall

Almost 230,000 new private rented homes are needed each year if the UK is to meet government housing targets across the UK, claims a new...

Landlords urged to help meet displaced Afghans’ housing needs

Landlords urged to help meet displaced Afghans’ housing needs

With more properties ‘urgently needed’ to house families evacuated from Afghanistan, the Government has turned to private landlords for help. It is inviting those with...

Ground rents banned under new ‘peppercorn’ leasehold law

Ground rents banned under new ‘peppercorn’ leasehold law

Freeholders face fines of up to £30,000 if they try to charge leaseholders illegal ground rents. The deterrent will apply to ground rents banned under...

Home Office consults on landlord code

Home Office consults on landlord code

Landlords should ensure that no prospective tenants are discouraged or excluded from renting, either directly or indirectly, because of their race including skin colour, nationality...

Slough and Camden take action against landlords

Slough and Camden take action against landlords

A Wembley landlord has been fined more than £57,000 after having been found to have run an unlicensed and unfit HMO in Arborfield Close, Slough....

Landlords suffering fewer void periods

Landlords suffering fewer void periods

Void periods in which rental properties are left untenanted are now approaching their lowest level of incidence in five years. After peaking in the third quarter...

Government to boldly go on ten-year PRS mission

Government to boldly go on ten-year PRS mission

‘Levelling up’, as envisaged by the Government, requires abolition of Section 21 grounds for possession and cracking down on ‘rogue landlords’. This became clear in...

Law requires only ‘properly authorised’ signatory

Law requires only ‘properly authorised’ signatory

A corporate landlord has won an appeal that had things gone otherwise, might had led to an avalanche of claims. Northwood Solihull v Fearn &...

Race for space shows no sign of flagging

Race for space shows no sign of flagging

UK appetite for home moving has continued into the New Year with January demand up by close to 50 per cent on recent new year...
















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