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Rogue landlord ordered to pay almost £65,000 for illegal HMO
Tuesday 25th January 2022
Marc Da Silva
A rogue landlord from north London has been ordered to pay more than £64,000 for breaking housing regulations on a property in Barking, east London. On the 20 July, last year,…
ANOTHER ENERGY SUPPLIER GOES BUST – ADVICE FOR LANDLORDS TENANTS & HOMEOWNERS
Saturday 22nd January 2022
Houseladder
Together Energy, which has 176,000 households on its books, has become the latest supplier to collapse in the wake of the…
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 since we last…
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…
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 landlords making…
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…
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…
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…
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…