Plans to make it illegal for rental properties that do not have loft and cavity insulation to come on the market have been dismissed as blatant electioneering.
Estate Agent Today – 8th March 2010
The ban suggested by the Government could come in as early as 2015. At the same time, EPCs would have to be shown [...]
Sneaky rental contracts cream £200,000 from unsuspecting Lincoln landlords.
And with news last week of a national letting agent being taken to court for scamming landlords with unclear contracts and high management costs, a local property management company is taking a stand.
Base Lettings & Management, based on the High Street in Lincoln, supports the High Court [...]
The first in a series of seminars on the Local Housing Allowance system given by Landlord Action, a company who specialise in tenant eviction, has proved a great success with a considerable number of delegates attending the event held at The Holiday Inn, London Kensington Forum on Friday 26th February.
The seminar, held in response to [...]
For many buyers contemplating a move and seeking reassurance, the tabloid headlines and conflicting research reports issued in February will have done nothing to steady nerves and provide a clear and concise view of the property market, according to the latest Monthly Market Review from property search specialists Garrington.
PropertyTalkLive.co.uk – Thursday 4 March 2010
Garrington said [...]
Nine out of 10 endowments could fail to earn enough money to pay off homes
Claire McNeilly, BelfastTelegraph.co.uk – Thursday, 4 March 2010
Thousands of home owners in Northern Ireland are facing massive mortgage payment shortfalls, financial experts have warned. Some householders who took out endowment policies when they bought their properties could even be forced to [...]
An ageing population will have a significant impact on UK residential property market, report shows
UK retirement property sector.
PropertyWire.co.uk, Thursday, 04 March 2010
An explosion of grey hair has significant implications for the future of retirement properties in the UK and the wider residential real estate market, it is claimed.
Retired people form the country’s fastest growing demographic [...]
The Residential Landlords Association has challenged government figures that suggest the private rented sector accounts for nearly all household growth over the past decade.
According to the “English Housing Survey: Headline Report 2008-09” (*), just published by Communities and Local Government, the number of rental properties have risen by one million since 2001 to 3.1 [...]
House prices are still too high and will eventually fall back to more appropriate levels, says economist Roger Bootle.
Deborah Hyde, CityWire.co.uk – 28 February 2010
Bootle, the managing director of Capital Economics and economic adviser to Deloitte, points out every other country that had experienced a bubble in house prices has seen prices drop.
‘Every other country [...]
The Parliamentary Ombudsman is to be asked to rule on whether the thousands of Home Inspectors who paid for training should be given compensation.
EstateAgentToday.co.uk – Monday 1st March 2010
They would want compensation for the costs of their training and loss of earnings which had been promised, but failed to materialise after the Government’s U-turn on [...]
From the Blog of David Lawrenson
I have to admit, I’m the original landlord who preferred my tenants NOT to be on Local Housing Allowance (the now not so new version of Housing Benefit.)
Many years ago I had a tenant hailing from Guadeloupe who was getting housing benefit. (Guadeloupe as a department of France, presumably qualified [...]
