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Banning Section 21:
Following
Labour’s example, the Liberal Democrats have passed a motion at
their conference which would result in the scrapping of the Section
21, the “no fault, no blame” eviction process, if they ever came
to...
Buy-to-Let
Mortgages:
LONDON, 18 SEPTEMBER
2019: Habito, the pioneering mortgage broker and lender, today
launches its first suite of Company buy-to-let mortgages adding to
its BTL offering just two months after it entered the lending space
with a...
Build-to-Rent:
Redrow has teamed up with property investment company Realstar to
provide two major build-to-rent schemes costing more than £180m, in
London.
Redrow is to start with planning for 513 new rental homes...
Rent Increases:
Tenants higher facing higher rents because the demand for private rented housing is outstripping supply in most areas, that’s according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) research.
Commercial Rents:
High street
landlords are feeling the pain as retailers become more assertive
about the rents they are paying. An increasing trend is for retailers
to ask landlords for their rents to be linked to...
Student Lettings:
Student housing
provider Unite is set to acquire rival Liberty Living Group in a £1.4
billion cash and shares deal. It will see Canada’s Pension Plan
Investment Board take a 20 percent stake in...
BTL Mortgages:
Research out today
(Thursday, September 12th) from online mortgage broker, Property
Master, has revealed another across the board fall in fixed rate
buy-to-let mortgage rates. The fall comes just as the Bank of
England...
HMOs:
Given
the squeeze on buy-to-let landlords’ profits, landlords are looking
for ways to off-set this. As well as investing through limited
companies, which don’t have the same tax regime as individuals,
landlords are looking to HMOs...
Build to Rent:
In the Manchester and Salford area there are over 5,500
Build-to-Rent (BTR) apartments currently under construction, that’s according
to a report by the British Property Federation and Savills. Travel into
Manchester by car or...
Renting Policy:
Perhaps not surprising with all that’s going on in Government that they're eye is being taken off the ball with the rental market, but as it’s a crucial housing and election issue...