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Flat shares on rise17th May 2012
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Social cleansing row17th May 2012
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Buy to let still active17th May 2012
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Renting now the norm ?17th May 2012
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Cannabis target rental sector7th March 2012
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Condensation and mould7th March 2012
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Landlords warned over deposits7th March 2012
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Tenancy evications up7th March 2012
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New national tenant scheme7th February 2012
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Landlord fraud warning7th February 2012
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High LTV buy to let mortgages7th February 2012
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LHA landlords experience problems7th February 2012
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Landlord sentenced for gas safety7th February 2012
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Rent rises slowing down ?11th January 2012
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Deposit scheme changes11th January 2012
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Welfare payments caps11th January 2012
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Reliance on credit grows11th January 2012
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The number of people choosing to flatshare rose by over 2,000 in the first three months of this year and, perhaps surprisingly, the majority are professionals, not students. It seems flatsharing is seen as a an attractive option by those in their late twenties who ...
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A London council has been accused of conducting social cleansing as it apparently attempts to ship out hundreds of tenants whom it would normally place in private rented accommodation to places as far afield as Stoke-on-Trent and Cornwall. The news emerged after t...
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Independent research commissioned by specialist buy-to-let lender Paragon Mortgages has revealed that in the first quarter of this year, landlords increased their portfolio size from an average of nine to 10.8 properties. In addition, auctioneers are reporting increasin...
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According to the chief executive of the UK’s largest estate agency, Countrywide, we could soon become a nation of renters if 18-34 year olds continue to be priced out of the market. Grenville Turner has called on the government to do more to assist the recovery of...
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When was the last time you carried out an inspection of your rental property? In Wolverhampton, a landlord who had let his property to an illegal immigrant was recently shocked to discover that the humming noise he was checking out in the property was coming from ...
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The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks (AIIC) has recommended that landlords and agents warn tenants of the risk of losing their deposit should condensation and mould damage be found in their rented property. Bathrooms and kitchens in older properties a...
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If you’re a landlord with properties in popular student towns and cities, it’s likely that you’re asking prospective tenants to sign up to an agreement and hand over their deposit and holding fees well in advance of the proposed move-in date. In ...
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According to legal information specialist Sweet & Maxwell, county court possession order claims, whereby private landlords evict their tenants and regain possession of their property, have shown a 17% increase in the past three years. Statistics reveal that almost 1...
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A nationwide tenant accreditation scheme – backed by the UK Landlord Accreditation Scheme – is set to launch on 1 March 2012 with the objective of giving agents and landlords an additional measure for iden...
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Landlords and agents are being urged to be on the alert for anything unusual as news spreads of a widespread scam in which fake tenants are stealing the identities and credit/debit cards of other tenants sharing communal areas for the delivery of post. The seemingly law...
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It’s good news for landlords and investors as lenders finally begin to relax their criteria for buy-to-let mortgages. There are now more than twenty buy-to-let mortgages available on the market that offer loan to value rates of up to 80%, which makes it a good tim...
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A survey of over 1000 UK landlords, carried out by house share website Spareroom, reveals that almost nine out of ten landlords who accept tenants on housing benefit have had problems with rent not being paid on time. One in ten said that they had had to deal with tenan...
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If Landlords are in any doubt as to their legal obligations with regard to gas safety, they’d do well to take notice of a recent case in Tenby, Wales, where a landlord has just been fined £8,500 and£1,500 costs following a prosecution brought by ...
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According to recent research by LSL Property Services, October saw the lowest rental market increase for several months, although there are inevitably big variations depending on which region you live in. Whilst the South-East and East of England continue to see r...
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The number of days that agents and landlords will have in which to protect a tenant’s deposit is set to rise from the current fourteen days, to thirty days from next year. Tenancy deposit protection schemes guarantee that tenants will get their deposits back...
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Caps to welfare payments make rent unaffordable In a report commissioned for The Guardian newspaper, the Chartered Institute of Housing has estimated that caps to welfare payments that come into force this week will make 810,000 homes unaffordable for tenants on housin...
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Increasing reliance on credit to pay housing costs A recent survey carried out by YouGov for Shelter last month has revealed that somewhere in the region of seven million mortgagees and tenants are relying on credit to pay their monthly housing costs, with many resorti...
