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Government announces abolish Landlords ability

The government has decided to take action and abolish Landlords ability to serve a section 21 notice. This has come in light of many claims from various tenant support groups, suggesting that 46% of tenants received a notice to leave the property within 6 months.Remo...

Read    16/04/2019

Could a tax tribunal ruling mean BTL investors avoid 3% stamp duty surcharge?

Buy-to-let investors could soon fill the HMRC with stamp duty surcharge refund requests. This is following on from a potential precedent set at a recent tax tribunal that saw a couple acquire a neglected building and were able to refute the additional 3% stamp duty c...

Read    27/03/2019

Stay put - when is it safe to leave?

Stay put policies have really come under scrutiny in recent months. In a high-rise block the concept is sound - but only if all the many aspects that add up to successful compartmentalisation are in place. This means sub-dividing buildings into a number of compartmen...

Read    06/03/2019

Know your onions - and your tomatoes!

One Scottish letting agent was caught out recently when she found a tenant growing what she thought was cannabis in the bedroom of a rented property in West Lothian. In fact, the letting agent was left red-faced when the plants turned out to be tomatoes! However, the...

Read    05/03/2019

Don't forget the smoke alarm!

Landlords and letting agents are the target of a new smoke alarm awareness campaign launched this week. West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service is promoting ‘Let it, don’t forget it’ in a new video urging private sector landlords and letting agents to make sure smoke ...

Read    04/03/2019

High Court: Right to Rent does breach human rights

The High Court has ruled today that the government’s controversial Right to Rent scheme breaches human rights law. Right to Rent was introduced by Theresa May when she was Home Secretary, as a key strand of the Government’s increasingly discredited ‘hostile environme...

Read    01/03/2019

Is noise getting you down?

Noise levels in blocks of flats around the country may have been higher than normal last week as thousands of children let off steam during half term. But for most people living in flats, noise that reaches nuisance levels is an unwelcome but rare occurrence. The rig...

Read    28/02/2019

Take-aways from National Residential Investment Conference

Today I have been talking about the rental market at this year’s sold out National Residential Investment Conference, held each year in London. Among other topics, in the spotlight during the course of the day was JLL’s recent research on the institutional (non-Housi...

Read    30/11/2018

Landlords beware - Don't believe everything you read!

A property management company that promised a guaranteed rental income to landlords, even if tenants failed to pay, has come under scrutiny from the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).An advertisement running on the company website has been judged to be misleading...

Read    21/11/2018

Wages and rents go up. Is that the whole picture?

Figures released today by the Office for National Statistics reveal that after almost a decade in the doldrums, wages are finally on an upward trend. Compared with a year earlier, says the BBC, wages excluding bonuses rose by 3.2%. This is the biggest rise since the ...

Read    13/11/2018

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