Damp, Condensation and Mould – How to Deal with it!
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December 2009
As we near the year-end and enter the quiet season for landlords, it’s perhaps time to reflect on what’s happened over the last 12 months.
Despite going through the worst recession since the 1930s the lettings market has held up remarkably well.
Rents came [...]
New Legislation
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November 2009
As we are about to enter the second decade of the 21st Century, and with the prospect of a new government half way through next year, perhaps now is a good time to take stock of the planned and likely new legislation which will affect landlords.
Since the current government came [...]
USA Emigration—Investment Visas
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September 2009
Things have been looking up recently, with a record re-bound on the stock market and increased property sales, but can this be sustained?
A lack of availability of mortgage finance at a reasonable price and the prospect of a long, slow recovery, with unemployment likely to go on rising for [...]
Electrical Safety in Rental Property
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July 2009
As we approach the student letting season and the start of the major job hunting period, August, September and October are traditionally busy times in the lettings industry. This year in particular, there are some important issues facing landlords, just over the horizon.
The Foxton’s Case highlights the [...]
Property Investment in a Recession
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Editorial:
The Private Rented Sector (PRS) and buy-to-let has become an important, if not the most important, sector of the UK housing market; certainly as far as tenants, sellers, letting and estate agents are concerned.
The young wait in rented accommodation until they can afford to buy, which suits their [...]
Landlord Action report a significant rise in landlords wanting rid of bad tenants, with non payment of rent causing not only financial hardship but severe health problems.
Landlord Action, the National Landlord Association’s recognised supplier in tenant eviction, has reported a significant rise in the number of instructions they are receiving from landlords wanting rid of [...]
Claims for Hosuing Benefit – help your tenants to pay the rent
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Editorial:
Following one of the UK’s longest periods of sustained economic growth, encouraging too much borrowing, it seems ironic that our government is hell bent on record borrowing (£175 billion this year) to try and get us out of this mess.
Faced with [...]
Selecting Your Tenants – the most important task for landlords and agents?
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Editorial:
Vince Cable in his new book—”The Storm: The world Economic Crisis and What it Means”—quotes an old Arabic saying: “Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right”
He goes on to say [...]
Can Training Make a Difference?
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Despite reports of renewed sales surges and actual rises in property prices, overall prices are still on the decline, rents are coming under pressure and the UK economy is in a pretty dire state.
Way over-optimistic government growth forecasts from last year will need to be revised considerably [...]
Let’s Hear it for the Letting Agent
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As the economic troubles persist, and from all indications this week it will be some time before all this is over, landlords will increasingly have to deal with tenancy problems.
Despite a relatively buoyant lettings market (certainly compared to sales), increasing redundancies, fewer temporary foreign workers and [...]
