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The latest Nationwide House Price Index for March with prices down 0.2% month–on–month, after taking account of seasonal factors.
Commenting on the figures, Robert Gardner, Nationwide’s Chief Economist, said: “Annual house price growt…
Many people have spent more time than ever before at home over the last year. Some have been trying to work from home with children, dogs and cats to look after. And what of the neighbours? Perhaps your tenant has only just realised how noisy or disrup…
I’d appreciate any thoughts and experiences on this matter, but I think it might take a binding court case to settle the question, and then some! I’m hearing of landlords who gave their tenants rent discounts during the first lockdown
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Responding to a report published today by MPs on the Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the private rented sector, Ben Beadle, Chief Executive of the National Residential Landlords Assoc…
In 2020, as part of government restrictions to protect tenants during the pandemic, the number of residential evictions fell by an estimated 20,000 (74%). County Courts are facing an ‘eviction avalanche’ when the ban on bailiff-led evictions comes to a…
Simon Zutshi, CEO at property investors network (pin), would like to invite you to join us on Friday 2nd April for a day of live online property training and UK property market update with some of the top property experts in the UK.
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Confused.com has conducted Freedom of Information requests to the 100 biggest cities in the UK to find out the number of noise complaints over the last 12 months, to find out who has the loudest neighbours. The research also includes a survey of over 2…
My company owns the freehold of a block of 18 flats and also owns one of the flats. An RTM Company took over the management of the block about 12 years ago, just after we had served s.20 notices about forthcoming works.
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Moneyfacts.co.uk highlights a growth in choice of Buy-to-Let (BTL) product options, but warns that interest rates are on the rise.
For the fifth consecutive month, BTL availability has continued to improve; with 2,333 products available, the sector has…
As students look to secure a place to live ahead of the new academic year UniHomes researches which areas are showing the highest level of tenant demand. The Student Rental Hotspots Index looks at the UK’s top 100 universities
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Colleagues, any ideas? I have a very difficult tenant who has refused access for my builders last year and now won’t allow access for an EICR on Monday.
It’s 2 days left before the deadline, and I’ve been trying to do repairs on the house along w…
I am a member (director) of an RTM in a small block of 7 leasehold flats. 3 of the leaseholders are also Directors and 3 are non Directors leaving one leaseholder yet to join the RTM.
We mostly agree on necessary maintenance works and split the costs b…
We need to revalue our properties as we are planning to change our business structure. So we are trying to plan ahead before a final decision is made on what to do next.
Should the properties be valued as vacant possession
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And so the EPC witch-hunt begins: Threatening fines of up to £5,000 for any rental property with an EPC lower than Band E, councils are now using artificial intelligence to pull together all manner of records and information to cross-correlate properti…
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