Private landlords from across the UK will be flocking to London’s Olympia Centre over the next 48 hours as they attend the second Property Professional Show. They will find themselves in good company as well because the show will attract professionals from across the spectrum of industries that complement the housing/letting sector. Landlords will be [...]
Landlords with properties in Derby which are covered by rented property insurance were ordered to improve over 250 homes in the last twelve months. The figures which have just been have revealed show Derby Council’s housing enforcement staff paid visits to hundreds of homes which were rented privately to make sure that they were all [...]
The importance of getting good buy to let insurance and checking the credentials of not only your tenant, but the letting agency you employ to find you a tenant, was cruelly highlighted this week for one landlady in the London area. Mrs Finberg, of Barnet, decided to let out her two bedroomed flat in the [...]
The nationwide tenant eviction and rent collection firm, Landlord Assist, have expressed their concern that the increases in tuition fees may have a very damaging effect on all private landlords who own properties in university towns throughout the UK. Following the Coalition’s decision to allow an in increase tuition fees from next year, English universities [...]
A letting agency has come up with a novel and high tech way to help landlords avoid letting their property out to rogue tenants. The worst scenario for any landlord whether he has buy to let insurance or not, is the “tenant from hell”. Every professional landlord is aware of them and new landlords, who [...]
Three Midlands based housing associations are going to apply to HM Revenue and Customs asking to be made exempt from paying VAT on shared services. Midland Heart, Orbit and Bromford all believe that European law allows them to set up a separate company which provides services such as maintenance and repairs for other organisations, without [...]
The size and shape of a room means a homeowner can often be limited in their choice of décor. The glamorous interiors from the pages of a home design magazine will not always be possible due to the measurements and dimensions of the room set for a revamp. The shape of the room dictates everything, [...]
After several similar cases in the West Midlands, a company who specialise in helping landlords who have problems with difficult tenants are warning residential landlords to be wary of entering one of their properties half way through a let period even if it appears that the tenant may have abandoned the tenancy. They could easily [...]
Insurers have seen an increase in claims made by property owners with landlord insurance regarding cannabis farming by their tenants. When this type of claim is made the damage to the property normally includes holes knocked into the ceiling and walls to support all the extra lighting apparatus needed to run a cannabis farm, as [...]
As the biggest private provider of residential care for the elderly in the UK totters on the brink of meltdown, it seems as though landlords may be their last hope of survival. It is thought that Southern Cross, the largest care home provider in Great Britain, is in big trouble. The company which cares for [...]