A possible backlog of Right To Rent checks created by new Home Office rules could be alleviated by inventory clerks. Since March, a temporary system has been in place allowing landlords and agents to conduct Right [...]
The number of buy to let mortgages for landlords has dropped to 1,792 - and in comparison to last year that’s a significant 819 fewer deals available. This data comes from independent financial service Moneyfacts [...]
An online quiz with 4,000 landlord participants suggests that landlords are well informed - they scored an average 70 per cent in the test of their knowledge of key deposit dispute terms and issues. The [...]
Tenant software supplier Bunk says the media’s writing off of the student accommodation rental market is misplaced - and it claims the sector remains strong despite Coronavirus. Bunk conducted a survey of students last month; [...]
A tenant hardship loan fund is to open next week in Scotland - and many rental bodies in England and Wales want something similar. Applications for the £10m fund are allowed from next Monday although [...]
Private landlords are setting out a manifesto of radical changes for the rental sector, starting with more repossession rights. The demands are made by the National Residential Landlords Association in its proposals for the Renters’ [...]
A leading figure in the short lets sector is advising tenants to “take the pub home” this Christmas. Merilee Karr, chair of the UK Short Term Accommodation Association says demand for short let accommodation is [...]
London Mayor Sadiq Khan says landlords in the capital could discriminate against EU citizens living in the UK capital if those individuals do not apply for the EU Settlement Scheme this month. European citizens living [...]
A new league table from comparison website Rentround shows how the lockdown has impacted yields around the country. The site has analysed yields both before the major spring lockdown and thereafter. Top of the table [...]
Councils in North Wales want to find out how the Coronavirus pandemic is affecting private tenants. Nearly one in five households in the region rent privately and the survey is thought to be the first [...]