Buy-to-let lenders who are members of the Council of Mortgage Lenders are adopting a new statement of practice, designed to provide clarity about how responsible buy-to-let lenders operate. 31 lenders representing an estimated 90%...
The Department for Communities and Local Government’s housing standard review has excluded mandatory electrical safety checks in the private rented sector. This is despite the fact that the department has taken positive action on...
The new deregulation act will have major impacts on landlords, agents and tenants. From October tenants will be able to protect themselves from eviction by making a complaint about a property’s state of repair....
23% of UK landlords do not measure the return on their buy-to-let investments at all according to new research from Platinum Property Partners. This equates to £300bn of investment in BTL left unmonitored, meaning...
Paragon Mortgages has surveyed a panel of landlord customers for 13 years, and the average void period reported in Q1 2015 – 2.4 weeks – is the lowest since the survey began. In the...
‘Hutching up’, whereby several individuals share accommodation has traditionally been a London phenomenon due to the fact that rents in the area are prohibitively high. It appears however that this trend is on the...
According to a poll carried out by Mortgage Solutions, just 16% of respondents believe the industry does not needed compulsory regulation. Simon Ryan, a landlord and managing director of Social Advisers, said greater landlord protection...
All rental properties, both private and social, will soon be required to have smoke and carbon monoxide alarms installed. The move, supported by the British Property Federation was announced yesterday by communities minister, Penny...
In April of this year, new pension rules come into effect in the UK which will allow more flexibility in fund withdrawals. Recent headlines had suggested that these changes could result in a flood...
A survey of over 500 landlords by Urban.co.uk found that almost half of the UK’s private rented sector landlords have halted plans to expand their property empires ahead of the general election. Among the...
