Landlords across the UK have been advised once again that the ever changing face of the rental market means they need to keep tabs on how they deal with tenants and their contracts. It is not uncommon for people to stay in a landlord’s home for a number of years, which can cause issues when…

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From this week onwards, local authorities will have the discretion to charge full Council Tax on empty properties. This change includes properties that have previously been exempt or had discounted rates, including furnished and unfurnished properties for rent. Properties that are empty due to building work will also lose the automatic right to Council Tax…

There are a number of letting agents available online now, such as The Online Letting Agents, each offering a similar service for a similar price, so which one do you choose? Customer service – Clearly this is a very important factor when appointing an agent.  The best way to gauge the level of customer service…

A landlord has been fined £17,000 after admitting endangering the lives of a family in one of her properties. Sima Yaqub, of Crescent Road, Sheffield, pleaded guilty at Sheffield Magistrates Court to five offences under the Gas Safety Regulations 1998. When the family moved into the property in City Road last July, Yaqub did not…

I have recently stumbled upon a great blog which features lots of great tips and advice for landlords and general musings on the buy to let industry. It’s fun, friendly, and written by a columnist in the Evening Standard, who is, herself, an accidental landlord, so why not take a look next time you have…

Tenants in private rented housing want to go green – but are LEAST likely to be benefitting from energy efficient, money saving upgrades, new research from the Energy Saving Trust has found. The exclusive survey of more than 2,000 UK adults found of those living in privately rented housing: 39 per cent were interested in…

Britain’s biggest property listings website today said investors were piling into buy-to-let for “blindingly good returns” after the government’s efforts to bolster lending had created an “arbitrage of immediate return”. Rightmove said its research showed that rents are delivering average gross yields of “5.9 per cent”. Its monthly house price report stated: “With some remortgage…

According to figures released by the Department of Energy and Climate Change, more than 1,800 property assessments have been carried out in the first month of the government’s Green Deal scheme. The Green Deal, which was launched in England and Wales on January 28th, is a government scheme that allows homeowners to make improvements that will increase…

A social landlord has issued a stark warning to tenants who sub-let their properties or obtain their home through deception, telling them that they could be made homeless and given a criminal record. Whitefriars Housing, Coventry’s largest affordable housing provider with 18,000 homes, has teamed up with the city council to catch fraudsters. Pauline White…