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Hi All, I have a tenant who is subletting (I don’t know any details of their agreement except that the person is living in the room and causing a lot of issues with the other flatmates) and now has stopped paying rent in response to me serving a …

If you want to be a successful property investor, it’s really important to keep up to date with changes in the property industry such as finance, legislation and market trends etc.
There is a lot happening right now

The government has unveiled a consultation to impose a rent cap on social housing next year – at below the rate of inflation.
The move is aimed at helping tenants with the cost-of-living crisis.
However, with PRS rents rising quickly and tenants&…

Hello everyone, I have just renewed my HMO licence with no conditions.
However, the council still demands trivial and unnecessary work which the Inspector ‘discovered’ during his visit, ie removing door draught strips so smoke would set off…

Hello everyone, If I were a criminal I would run a protection racket as a source of funds. It produces a steady income stream with little risk of being caught and requires less actual violence than, for example, robbery or drug dealing.

Hello everyone, I understand that a S21 is invalid if a gas cert is not in date and/or has not been issued to the tenant, but is this the only qualification?
What if the gas check has been undertaken and cert issued to the tenant

Hi, I have completed a statutory declaration to retrieve a deposit from the DPS.
It has to be signed by a solicitor/commissioner of oaths/magistrate.
Does anyone know approx how much a solicitor will charge for this?

Hello everyone, Does raising the rent either just before or just after issuing a Section 21 notice have any bearing on it?
I am about to issue one, and wondered what the effect will be.
It has also occurred to me that raising the rent to a rather high …

Institutional and individual investors are moving away from buy to let and into multi-use buildings and because of the punitive tax regime against landlords, according to one firm of estate agents. 
That’s the verdict of Winkworth who say that i…

The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks (AIIC) says that the number of deposit disputes can be reduced through better knowledge of what counts as ‘fair wear and tear’.
They say that landlords who cannot distinguish between fair wear and tear an…

Propertymark has revealed that it has warned the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee that England’s private rental sector (PRS) will shrink further if current plans for reform are carried out.
The organisation has submitted written ev…

There is a ‘worrying lack of succession planning’ among older landlords, with half of those aged 45 or above lacking any long-term management plans, a survey reveals.
The research also reveals that most professional landlords in the UK with…

The Deposit Protection Service (The DPS) has issued guidance on student property check-ins in anticipation of significant demand for rental properties this autumn.
The UK’s largest protector of deposits said that 425,830 students are due to start…

Hello everyone, What are peoples thoughts re a landlord’s requirement to provide heating in an all-electric leasehold flat, please, and what can be used should there be power cuts?
There is no open fireplace.
For emergency hot drinks