Buy-to-let Property News
Cannabis tenant farmer reaps jail sentence
An Exeter tenant who paid six month’s rent in advance plus a deposit has been jailed for 18 months after being convicted of turning his…
letting agents
Buy-to-let Property News
Right to rent coronavirus concessions extended
Less onerous Right to Rent checks, introduced because of the Coronavirus pandemic, will now be acceptable until 31 August 2021, the Home Office has announced….
Buy-to-let Property News
Failed letting agent under investigation
When Walsall letting agent Homepoint Estate Agents Limited went into voluntary liquidation last month it owed almost £460,000 in rent it had collected but not…
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
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…
Buy-to-let Property News
Rental market in good health
There was little sign of the Coronavirus Crisis dampening the rental market in August, according to ARLA Propertymark’s latest survey of its letting agent members….
Buy-to-let Property News
Welsh Housing Market opens for Business
Wales has re-opened of its housing market for business. ‘The threat of coronavirus hasn’t gone away but thanks to the efforts we have all made…
Buy-to-let Property News
Landlords free to conduct viewings
From today (13 May 2020) private landlords and letting agents may conduct viewings of empty rental properties, and of properties from which tenants are moving…
Buy-to-let Property News
TPO in flurry of agent expulsions
Failure to pass on rent to a landlord client, failure to undertake promised work prior to letting, failure to evict a tenant as instructed and…
Landlord Articles
More Research and More Legislation for Letting Agents
I really enjoy the research I do to enable me to come up with items for Landlord Knowledge. The reading, the google searches, the conversations…
Landlord Articles
Tis the Season for the Party Conference
Autumn is the season of the political party conference, and rarely is there anything to be jolly about. The Conservatives are in disarray with contenders…
Landlord Articles
Deposits versus Reposits: what’s the current deposit system and why does it need changing?
With the tenant fee ban approaching, letting agents across the UK are looking for ways to reduce costs. Yesterday in Property Industry Eye, The Deposit…
