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Minister stonewalls on landlord support
A Government minister has batted back a question about landlord support during the Coronavirus pandemic with what appear to be out of date statistics. When…
A Government minister has batted back a question about landlord support during the Coronavirus pandemic with what appear to be out of date statistics. When…
The current ban on bailiff evictions for all but the worst cases of tenant abuse has been extended for ‘at least 6 weeks’, communities secretary…
Scotland’s £10m Tenant Hardship Loan Fund offering interest-free loans to tenants struggling with Covid-induced rent arrears has opened for applications, the Scottish Government has announced….
House prices continued to beat expectations in August, Halifax has reported. Its latest house price index put the month-on-month rate of increase at 1.6 per…
A new survey has confirmed previous findings that relatively few private rental tenants have been unable to meet their rental commitments during the Coronavirus crisis….
Claims that 2.6m private renters have missed a rent payment or expect to do so because of the coronavirus lockdown, have been called into question…
It seems odd that for years I have been saying that legislation to give tenants better security in the private rental sector is not needed,…
We’ve had a ‘new Government’ for 6 or 7 weeks and not sure what has changed. We officially leave the EU on 31st January, but…
I am very aware when I write these little pieces that there can be no generalisation in the average landlord (or landlady). The readers of…
Buy to let property investors need to make fire hazard checks during the regular property inspections that I am sure they all do during their…
With the suggestion that lifetime rental deposits could be an option in the future, could it be that a political party has finally come up…
An interesting case concerning bedrooms caught my eye and I initially had some sympathy for the tenants. A couple and their 2 young children, both…
Both being ‘townies’ born and bred, it was a source of great delight to find that we had squirrels in the trees at the end…
Mention bed bugs and it feels like a step into the past; Families living in over-crowded accommodation, children crowded into one, possibly urine stained and…
It was a typical August afternoon – rain coming down in sheets and a dark and dull day. What to do? You guessed it –…