I am writing this at the end of March and the committee stage of the Renters Rights Bill in the Lords is due to begin on 22nd April 2025. Lets look at  some of the changes which could impact the private rented sector as a consequence of the likely new legislation which are not the main aim […]

Just when we thought that everything had been said and expected Royal Assent by early summer THIS happened

As the  Renters Rights Bill enters the House of Lords (next at committee stage) its fairly safe to assume that no major changes will be made and therefore for us all to plan for the near future when there will be so many changes.

Article 4 The latest reading of the Renters Rights bill in the Commons took place on 14th January

Before I begin the update I would like us to Remember a young lady who died tragically doing something most of us do without thinking.

This is my second article on The Renters Rights Bill. Last month I covered The Renters’ Rights Bill and How It Can Change Private Renting Forever you will find it here:

Let’s begin by getting the name right. The Renters Reform Bill did not complete its passage through parliament before the general election and therefore it no longer exists. The Labour government immediately introduced its version and called it the Renters Rights Bill which is on its way and will have the second reading in the […]

Now that we have a new government it’s time to reassess where this might leave landlords. I’m saying “might” because often election promises don’t come to fruition, and some do but in a different form than we had expected. The important thing for us at this moment is to prepare for the worst and hope […]

We now know that the Renters Reform Bill did not make it through parliament before close down for the General Election and therefore the future of the Bill very much depends on who wins the Election. 

A landlord friend asked me a question last week and it has given me food for thought. “I you could change just one thing in the private lettings business what would it be – excluding finance and taxation – something realistic.”

At the moment, there are thousands of landlords who are on the brink of selling up, I don’t intend to talk about the reasons for this, most of us know only too well.  What I do want to do is explore options where we can make some savings to help to get through this difficult […]

Way back in the late 90’s when the Housing Act 2004 was on the cards I was a member of the Executive of the National Federation of Residential Landlords, representing 52 landlord associations across the UK, long before NRLA or even NLA. Each member of the Executive was assigned a part of the proposed Bill […]

I was sent a link to a video. The person who sent the link is not a landlord, but he knows that I am and that I also do Airbnb. He couldn’t understand why I didn’t find it amusing and having watched it again I realised that often there is a complete mismatch between the […]

Official Statistics Leasehold dwellings, 2020 to 2021 Published 7 July 2022 According to the government’s official statistics, there were an estimated 4.86 million leasehold dwellings in England in 2020-21.