Category: Property News

Over the last 15 years, the HMO market has been transformed and there has been a boom. The reason for the boom was, quite simply, that HMOs could generate far…

Landlords in Wales have called for the country’s government to make more effort to encourage private investment in the sector during a face-to-face meeting with housing minister Julie James. The…

Fewer than one in five private rental properties in England were within the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates last year, according to new joint research by the Chartered Institute of…

A large County Court in London has written to its legal clients to warn them that some of their scheduled evictions face being cancelled or rescheduled. The announcement has been…

Buy-to-let landlords will influence house prices if a large number choose to sell up, according to rating agency Moody’s. The firm is predicting that prices will fall by 10% in…

With increasing costs, inflation hovering around the 10 per cent mark and mortgage rates approaching 6 per cent there’s lots of talk about increasing rents. Many landlords are unable to…

Persistent home working is affecting office occupancy rates and is leading commercial tenants to fail to renew their office leases. Ghost city streets have emerged post pandemic as occupancy rates…

Prospective tenants flooding into London this summer – along with the continued shrinkage in property numbers – is set to create one of the most competitive rental markets ever seen.…

Across the UK nations there’s been a rolling programme of rental reform, one new tenancy regime after another, but has any of this really worked for the benefit of tenants…

Landlords face even longer waits than normal to evict tenants in London after two big landlords were told that bailiff operations are to be suspended for the ‘foreseeable future’. This…