Most landlords advertise their properties online, typically using a site like Rightmove or Zoopla. Some also use social media to attract tenants. Either way, a property listing outlining all the properties features and including photos is the best way to attract a suitable tenant. Unless you are lucky enough to live in an area where […]
Landlords are being invited to brush up on their fire safety skills via a free online voluntary course. The course aims to boost landlords’ knowledge of key fire safety issues and make them fully aware of their legal obligations.
A new hashtag has been sweeping Twitter. #ventyourrent is inspired by horror stories from Generation Rent. Twitter users have been sharing their stories of horrible rental accommodation and nightmare landlords. Many have experienced rogue landlords, rip-off letting agents, and all manner of squalor.
A government green paper has pledged that social housing tenants will be given new powers to tackle rogue landlords and work towards property ownership, but critics are already pouring cold water on the proposed strategy.
A housing campaigner has revealed that “highly organised” rogue landlords are exploiting councils desperate to provide accommodation for homeless people. The so-called “lockdown” model is rife in at least 12 London boroughs and there are fears that it is spreading like wildfire across the rest of the UK.
There has been a great deal of debate about Universal Credit since the government announced the way benefits are paid to tenants would be changing. On the face of it, rolling individual payments into one single payment seems like a great idea, but the new system means housing benefit is no longer paid directly to […]
The owner of more than one residence can elect which residence to treat as the main PPR. The property does not need to be the main residence in practice, although the owner must have actually lived in the property as a residence at some time. The nominated property can be in the UK or abroad […]
From next April, anyone owning a second property will see their capital gains tax (CGT) relief reduced from three years down to 18 months.
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