Councils to be Given New Powers to Fine Landlords up to £30k
Councils will soon be given new powers to fine private landlords up to £30,000 for housing offences. Under the new…
Index of Private Housing Rental Prices for Great Britain: February 2018
The Index of Private Housing Rental Prices (IPHRP) is an experimental price index tracking the prices paid for renting property…
BoE Changes to Buy-to-Let Making it Harder to get a Mortgage
Six months after the Bank of England’s (BoE’s) latest attempt to cool the buy-to-let market, almost two thirds of landlords…
First Official House Price Index of 2018 Released
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) and Land Registry have released their first official house price index of 2018, for…
Scottish Rental Market Continues Struggle Due to Tax Changes
Tax changes continue to cause pressure on the Scottish rental market, causing buy-to-let landlords to cut down on properties in…
Tenants More Concerned with Price and Location than Gyms and Cinemas
Communal gyms and cinema rooms may be the fashionable extras being used to entice renters to developments these days, but…
Council Tax Should be Abolished, Insists the Resolution Foundation
Council Tax is outdated, regressive, and, despite being notionally based on the value of homes, functions in many ways like…
Rental Tax Hikes Harming Levels of Housebuilding
A major house-builder has blamed, in part, the recent tax increases on private landlords as a reason for not increasing…
Final Chance for Landlords to Make Urgent Changes to EPC Ratings
New changes to the Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) will come into effect in two weeks time, giving private rental…
CMP Could be Mandatory for Letting Agents in just 2 Weeks
Key provisions relating to mandatory Client Money Protection (CMP) for letting agents, as published by the Government in February, come…