Category: Latest News

September 30th 2014

Generation Rent staging pre-election lobby

Generation Rent, the pressure group funded indirectly by the Nationwide, is threatening to lobby candidates standing for

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September 25th 2014

Letting is becoming “increasingly stressful” say Landlords

A quarter of landlords say letting property is more stressful than they had anticipated – made worse

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September 25th 2014

Agents warn that supply in rental properties is set to contract

Tenants will face fierce competition for privately rented stock as demand increases and supply contracts, according to

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September 23rd 2014

Labour demands “tough regulation” on agents

Labour has set out yet more details for its reform of the private rented sector should it

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September 16th 2014

Landlords enjoying “record income from letting”

Landlords in England are witnessing a booming rental market, with earnings from rental payments in excess of

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September 16th 2014

Long tenancies “may force mass BTL sell-off”

Proposals by Labour to move towards longer tenancies of two or possibly three years may lead to

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July 17th 2014

Warning over BTL mortgage restrictions

Imposing lending restrictions on the buy to let mortgage market could have damaging consequences for landlords and

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July 17th 2014

New housing minister is a private landlord

You do not have to be a private landlord to be a good housing minister, but it

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July 17th 2014

Government pours scorn on national landlord licensing

In almost his last act as housing minister, Kris Hopkins poured scorn on the idea of a

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July 10th 2014

Tiny proportion of tenancies end in deposit dispute

Figures produced by one of the country’s three rental deposit schemes shows that only a tiny number

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