A survey released this morning suggests landlords with an interest in buy to let insurance can expect to see a boom in tenant demand as young people in the UK become disenchanted with the housing situation. The survey carried out by the National Centre of Social Research (NCSR) discovered that two out three people questioned [...]
Private investors with an interest in second home insurance will not have been discouraged by the latest house price survey revealed by the Nationwide Building Society this morning. Nationwide is the UK’s largest building society and is regarded as having a finger on the pulse of house prices in Britain. Its latest survey showed that [...]
A leading light at the UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) has predicted a bright future for tenants and landlords when the dust over the “Green Deal” debate settles. John Alker, Director of Policy at the CUKGBC, believes that once landlords with buy to let insurance get accustomed to the thinking behind the Government backed initiative, [...]
Plans have been drawn up that would see over 300 new houses built close to one of the most socially-deprived areas of Canvey in Essex, but worried residents and councillors are opposed to the plan as they fear the housing would only add to the areas problems. Developer Persimmon claim the new properties would be [...]
The revelation that five major banks look set to miss their target of cash lending to small businesses will come as no surprise to property investors with an interest in buy to let insurance. The Bank of England (BoE) yesterday reported that the UK’s five major banks had lent just under £17 billion to small [...]
A Dorset Council is aiming to borrow the largest sum in its history in order to break free of Central Government control and secure more cash for its own inhabitants. Bournemouth County Council is planning to borrow £45 million, with the cash going towards a plan to reduce the housing waiting list which is currently [...]
The prospects for private investors with an interest in buy to let insurance seem better than ever according to a report out today from one of the UK’s largest letting agencies. LSL Property Services reveal that their latest survey of landlords suggests that the average rent paid by tenants in the UK has now risen [...]
A landlord from Harrogate, North Yorkshire was involved in a disturbance over rental arrears this week that resulted in two women wrestling with each other in a hedge, the local Police Force and Fire Brigade called to the home and a group of people man handling furniture over a blockade of vehicles into an adjoining [...]
A landlord with second home insurance who left her 90 year old tenant without ample heating has been ordered by Stoke Council to carry out a number of improvements to the property to make life much happier for the tenant. The council are delighted to have won a landmark tribunal, forcing Mrs Barbara Mountford to [...]
A pilot scheme in a rundown area of a northern town could see private landlords, council officers and the local police force all working together to renovate a street that is beset with problems. Baden Street in Hartlepool, Northumberland is in almost total decline, half the houses, mainly owned by private landlords, are empty and [...]