This month there have been many stories in the press about the positivity of the private rented sector. At the beginning of the month it was reported that tenants have rebuilt their financial position, with...
In England and Wales monthly rents increased just 1.5% on average in the past year, where as in Scotland average residential rents are up 2.2% compared to a year ago, the latest index shows. With...
An analysis by Kate Faulkner, Property Market Analyst and Commentator, concludes that there has not been significant rent rises on 2014. The analysis reviews indices published by Homelet, LSL and Belvoir. As is generally...
The Residential Landlords Association is calling on Landlords to lobby MPs to tell them about nightmare tenants. This is part of a plan to debunk what it calls the myth of revenge evictions. Liberal...
A report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation paints a stark picture as to what the housing market will look like in 2040. It predicts that one in five people will live in private rented...
The government has launched a new service enabling landlords to use the Section 21 accelerated possession procedure online. With many landlords often making mistakes in court applications the online process is designed to ask...
According to data released today from CML, there were 18,100 buy-to-let loans recorded in September, which was an increase in the number of loans by 15% compared to August. Within the overall total of buy-to-let...
A forecast from Savills predicts that there will be an additional 1.2 million households in England & Wales in the private rented sector by 2019, of which over two million private rented households will be in the 35-49...
According to the latest quarterly survey, intermediaries’ are positive about their future levels of mortgage business over the next year, with many advisers expecting to see a 3% average increase over the next 12 months....
From September 2013 to September this year, private rental prices grew just 0.2% across Wales according to the Index of Private Housing Rental Prices from the Office of National Statistics. The figures however contrast...
