Rental market
News covering the Private Rented Sector with relevance to letting agents and landlords and the wider residential property industry.
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Will Government’s leasehold reforms get flats selling again?
Leading expert reveals his views on which parts of the existing and looming leasehold reforms will make a difference for estate agents.
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More landlords remortgage amid ‘cautious’ BTL market
New research shows regulatory and tax pressures on landlords are making many keen to lock-down best mortgage rates rather than buy more properties.
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Taxing landlords harder will critically damage growth warns NRLA
Ben Beadle at the NRLA says the Government must use this month's Budget to encourage property investment instead of short term tax grabs.
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High rents ‘lock’ tenants in their homes and slow market
Despite wanting to move, soaring rents and tight supply are forcing tenants to stay put, says director of SpareRoom.
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Big private landlord backs abolishing the private rented sector
Midlands BTL investor says Green Party's contentious plan to end private letting ‘has merits’ but would take many parliaments.
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Rents drop significantly as void periods lengthen, reports leading lettings platform
Goodlord says these changes, which are not uncommon at this time of year, are more dramatic than normal, although year-on-year rent increases remain 'hot'.
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Sound familiar? Weird items tenants leave behind revealed
Landlords report finding everything from glass slippers to bubonic plague memorials and live fish at the end of tenancies.
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Rightmove reports rental supply crisis as reforms loom
One in three landlords considering exit as new rental listings hit their lowest level so far this year.
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Estate agents and landlords warned over mortgage lender ‘blacklist’
The smallest payments mistakes can result in landlords being unable to refinance their rental properties, it is claimed.
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45% of landlords to sell ALL properties if forced to pay NI on rent
Poll by BTL lender finds brokers reporting many of their landlords unprepared to carry on renting properties if extra levy is revealed in next month's Autumn budget.
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