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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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….
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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…
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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…
