Was anyone else surprised/not surprised to read that tenant application fraud has rocketed by 140%? For those working at the sharp end of the private rented sector, I doubt it.
My first reaction was why something like this isn’t being highlighted…
News that the Government is tweaking the Renters (Reform) Bill has been welcomed by landlords everywhere, not so much by the usual suspects, but this awful legislation really needs sinking.
The proposed changes, including the abolition of section 21 &#…
This week’s Budget brought significant changes for landlords, with implications for capital gains tax (CGT), furnished holiday lets relief, and multiple dwellings relief.
As the dust is still settling, let’s consider their impact on our in…
Well, well, well, if it isn’t my old friend, the Ashton-under-Lyne foghorn Angela Rayner making headlines this week and turning uncharacteristically shy about her antics.
Angela is the deputy leader of the Labour Party and the shadow housing secr…
It’s not often that politicians offer an opinion and get it right, and it’s probably even rarer when it is the Edwardian throwback Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg talking sense.
Of course, he hits so many nails on the head in his GB News monologue abou…
Who knew that weasel words could leave tenants homeless? Who knew that weasel words can mean the opposite of what they do mean?
I’m talking about Section 21 ‘no-fault’ evictions that are in the news, thanks to Michael Gove announcing …
News this week that councils around the country are flagging up the prospect of going bankrupt because of the ever-growing homelessness bill they have to meet. Oh please, cry me a river. Not once will councils and the government accept that their short…
This week saw a cornucopia of stories that illustrate the current wrong thinking on the private rented sector – and that landlords are the fault for everything.
First up is Andy Burnham’s political nonsense, the ‘groundbreaking’ Good Landlo…
One of the big issues for the ‘housing crisis’ is that so many groups, commentators and tenants welcome the abolition of Section 21 as a panacea.
But I have yet to meet a landlord who actually believes that removing section 21 would make t…
Will landlords bail out in 2024 as the Renters (Reform) Bill gets closer or will we stick it out for our tenants?
I only ask because this is the time of year to come up with resolutions.
I’ve explained at length that the Bill effectively transfer…
Are you sitting comfortably? I’m about to be critical of politicians, the media and tenants.
Because it has been another week and another negative story about landlords.
This time it is the Labour Party saying it will end tenant bidding wars and …
News this week that the rent cap in Scotland has led to higher rents will be a story ignored by the likes of Shelter, Generation Rent and Acorn.
But my first thought was, who’d have thunk it?
Capping rents at a time when landlords are seeing their over…
Oh, dear, oh, dear, I can’t believe that the intellectual colossus known as Angela Rayner has declared that section 21 ‘no-fault’ evictions will be made illegal on day one of a Labour government.
Leaving aside my prediction that Labou…
The Renters’ Reform Coalition (RRC) is a group of organisations that claim to fight for tenants’ rights, but in reality, they are harming both landlords and tenants in the private rented sector (PRS). They are pushing for radical changes th…
I thought it was too good to be true that the Renters (Reform) Bill would not make it through this Parliament.
And, sure enough, Dishy Rishi didn’t let me down.
At the last minute, as he was no doubt deciding which laws would make it into the Kin…
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