Month: May 2023

The Renters (Reform) Bill has finally had its first reading in Parliament, promising a fair deal to renters, faster redress for landlords and giving more details on how ‘pets with…

It would seem that successive Tory government’s have waged an ongoing and progressively more vicious war on buy-to-let landlords, but this latest layer of legislation goes much further. Yes, this…

Construction activity is continuing to grow in the UK. That’s according to the April S&P Global / CIPS UK Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index® (PMI), as reported by PCBToday, a Construction,…

One of the UK’s big property portals has launched an initiative to enable renters to become ‘rent ready’ as they hunt for homes. OnTheMarket.com, which is a competitor with Rightmove…

The Bank of England has hiked interest rates by 0.25 percentage points, pushing the base rate to 4.5% and raising fears that this could exacerbate rental prices and increase repossessions.…

Shelter has strenuously denied that it is involved in any rent-to-rent schemes after it was claimed that the charity was either acting as a guarantor or had placed tenants in…

A survey of almost 700 landlords, carried out by BVA BDRC for Paragon, reveals that that 67% of landlord respondents had experienced higher than usual tenant demand during the first…