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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 from their landlord if circumstances allowed. Amongst the private renter cohort, the proportion wanting to buy is 45 per…
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…
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…
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 government’s so-called Winter Plan to tackle rising cases of Covid-19. The emphasis is on agents and…
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 a misguided assumption that landlords have unlimited sums of money”. The…
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 the sector is consistently fair for renters or that…
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 two-thirds (67%) have confidence in the market 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 mishaps – but who pays the bill if someone is injured or their belongings are damaged because of…
£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 on evictions during the pandemic and other support has made sure vast majority…
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…