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MANY RENTERS WANT TO BUY OUT THEIR LANDLORD
Friday 21st January 2022
Houseladder
A large scale survey of over 4,000 private and social tenants suggests that a significant proportion would like to buy their home…
Department for Levelling Up Housing and Communities NEWSLETTER
Wednesday 19th January 2022
Government
Dear colleagues, Happy New Year. We are delighted to able to send you the second edition of our private rented sector newsletter. No doubt you will have seen that our department has had some significant changes since we…
What do tenants want in 2022?
Saturday 1st January 2022
Property Investor
Property investment is a landscape that constantly shifts. There are so many moving parts impacting future decisions that it's important to get the fundamentals right early on. While planning and understanding the numbers are…
Omicron - government guidance for tenants this winter
Monday 20th December 2021
Housing minister Chris Pincher has written an open letter to all landlords and agents in England, telling them how to enact the…
Landlord group hits out at government energy improvement plans
Friday 17th December 2021
Ryan Bembridge
The National Residential Landlords Association has called for the government to change its energy improvement plans, saying "they rely on…
National Audit Office Review of the Regulation of Private Renting
Friday 10th December 2021
National Audit Office
A report by the National Audit Office (NAO) has found that the way private renting is regulated is not effective in ensuring…
Landlords are planning to expand portfolios in 2022
Sunday 5th December 2021
Ryan Bambridge
A third (34%) of landlords are planning to buy at least one property within the next 12 months, Shawbrook's Changing Face of Buy-to-Let Report found. Over…
Public Liability Insurance For Landlords Explained
Thursday 4th November 2021
Guild of Residential Landlords
If you rent out a home, you can rely on your landlord buildings and contents insurance to cover the cost of any…
£65 Million Support Package for Vulnerable Renters
Saturday 23rd October 2021
Government
-Low income households to benefit from £65 million support package -Funding comes on top of £500 million helping vulnerable families with essentials over winter -Ban…
BUY TO LET MORTGAGE AVAILABILITY REACHES HIGHEST LEVEL SINCE 2007
Monday 27th September 2021
September started with 2,968 products on offer in the buy-to-let (BTL) sector, making BTL availability the highest on Moneyfacts records since October 2007 (3,305). This is 71 products more than there were on offer pre-pandemic in March 2020 (2,897). The average overall…