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House Prices Take a Dramatic Plunge, Offering Hope for Generation Stuck
Recent data has signalled the most dramatic fall in house prices for over a decade. With a 4.7% dip between September 2022 and 2023, as…
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Advice updates on moving and tenant changes
While house moves have been permitted during the Covid Crisis, the Government has continued to advise all parties involved to be as flexible as possible…
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Guidance promotes pilot mediation scheme
Backing its pilot scheme aimed at helping to ease the backlog in possession cases, the Government has published new guidance promoting its Housing possession mediation…
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Importance of renting highlighted by figures
Almost one in five residential properties in England are now privately rented according to latest Government figures. Updated Live tables on dwelling stock, just published,…
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New guidance on renting possession and moving
With a few exceptions notices to tenants in England given from 29 August 2020 to at least 31 March 2021 must be at least six…
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Buy to Let Property Renting is a Business
Many landlords are employed in business or professions; private renting is an additional income, perhaps to provide an income in older age, so I am…
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Another Judgement from Judge Rinder
I know this is the second item in recent times which has been prompted by Judge Rinder and I can almost hear the comments about…
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Does the Government Ever Think Properly About Tenants?
There’s been a lot in the media about the benefits to tenants of a longer, standard tenancy and 3 years seems to be the favoured…
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Letting to a Relative
It is said that everything is relative, but one of the hardest things I used to find to explain was why, where a property has…
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The English Housing Survey Report
The English Housing Survey Report covering the year 2016/2017 was published on 12th July 2018. The report outlines the characteristics and circumstances of social renters…
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Tenant Fee Charges Abolished in Wales
It seems a very long time since I was warning that Shelter had adopted the issue of the tenant fee charges tenants had to pay…
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General Election in June – Talk to your Candidates
Having repeatedly said that an early election was not envisaged, the Prime Minister, Teresa May, shocked everyone by announcing that there would be a general…
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Landlords On The Cheap
The majority of landlords work hard to provide a decent standard of accommodation for their tenants. This involves the expense of annual gas safety checks,…
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Fewer buy homes in favour of renting
The rental market in the UK has been strong for investors for some time now, with the sector providing them with a perennially high level…
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Buy to let rents continue to rise
For investors in the rental market in the UK, one of the country’s hottest asset classes, the delicate balance between spending big in London for…
