Oxford City Council is hailing its UK-first whole-city selective licensing scheme a likely success after it received more than 10,000 early applications – thousands more than expected. The only scheme…
Nearly two-thirds of private rental properties won’t reach proposed minimum EPC levels, according to new research. Data compiled for property data platform LandTech shows that 64% of private rental properties…
Analysis by portfolio landlord Open Property Group has revealed that it pays out 32% of its gross rent each month in rental property expenses. Using Hammock software, the company studied…
Renters groups have blamed letting agents for encouraging private landlords to raise rents to unacceptable levels to help boost their revenues. In a Generation Rent survey of more than 1,000…
The Bank of England has raised interest rates by 0.5%, taking the base rate to 3.5% and heralding a rise in many landlords’ buy-to-let mortgage repayments. Following the latest meeting of…
The government has announced its new registration scheme for short lets will launch next autumn, scotching opposition MPs’ repeated calls for a licensing scheme. During the latest Commons debate about…
A record 525 landlord licensing schemes are expected to be live in England and Wales by next summer, with about 20 more active schemes compared to this month. Licensing compliance…
The Government appears to have confirmed that it will get rid of both Assured Periodic Tenancies and fixed-term tenancies in favour of a single, universal ‘periodic tenancy’. This was originally…
Landlords’ increasing power and a dearth of rental homes is likely to give rogue operators free rein, according to a snap poll by GetGround. Half of those quizzed have seen…
A couple of weeks ago I was invited by the owners of a build-to-rent development in Wembley to see at first-hand what this emerging kind of rental property looks like…
