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Plan To Prioritise Brownfield Land For New Housing
Councils across England have been invited to bid for a share of a £60m Brownfield Land Release scheme that, said the Government, will deliver 5,800…
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‘Flippant Disregard’ A Disincentive To PRS In Scotland
Unless the Scottish Government reverses its ‘flippant disregard’ for the lot of private landlords, investment in the sector will only decline further, and rents will…
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‘False Identity’ Bristol Landlord Ordered To Pay £37,000
A Bristol landlord has been ordered to pay £37,000 and after admitting that he had unlawfully attempted to hide his identity from tenants. Thomas Flight,…
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Rental Chaos Set To Continue
Current chaos in the UK rental market shows no sign of resolving itself, with rents in fourth quarter of 2022 reaching an all-time high, according…
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Fire Safety Responsibility Warnings
HMO landlords and those whose properties have split commercial and residential use could acquire additional responsibilities under the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022, due to…
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House Prices Predicted To Fall This Year
A ‘modest decline’ in house prices in 2023 has been predicted by the Nationwide in its latest house price report. Prices could go down by…
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Scotland pushes its shared equity house purchase scheme
Scotland is encouraging first-time buyers and others on low to medium incomes take advantage of its Open Market Shared Equity Scheme. The scheme allows people…
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More social landlords raise minister’s ire
Housing Secretary Michael Gove has continued his drive against rented housing failures by ‘naming and shaming’ another three social housing landlords – adding Orbit Housing,…
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Letting agent banned over ‘bounce back’ loan abuse
A London letting agent has been banned from running a company for 11 years after an investigation by the Insolvency Service found that he had…
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Landlords given more time to get ready for tax shake-up
Landlords had been given an extra two years to prepare for a requirement that they maintain their accounting records using a computer system able to…
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Wales launches holiday let licensing consultation
A Welsh Government plan to introduce short-term holiday let licensing is part of ‘radical and immediate action to address housing market failures’, according to one…
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Landlords left on own when it comes to tackling nightmare tenants
Failure of police and local authorities to tackle anti-social behaviour in the private rented sector has been highlighted by National Residential Landlords Association. Its latest…
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Fifth of households rely on private rented housing
One in five households in England lived in private rentals in 2020-21, a total of 4.4m, newly published initial findings from the English Housing Survey…
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Cost of living crisis delays tenants’ home-buying plans
Tenants saving to buy homes and leave the rented sector now say their moves are likely to be delayed because of the cost-of-living crisis, research…
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Liverpool selective licensing is unselectively slow
At current rates, it will take Liverpool Council almost 150 years to process applications for its landlord licensing scheme, it has been claimed. The council…
