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Concern that profitable buy-to-lets may turn negative
- By Northwood UK
- General
- September 30, 2015
Research carried out by the Residential Landlords Association (RLA) shows that planned tax changes for buy-to-lets by the Chancellor in his Summer Budget, far from being restricted to tax hikes for the wealthier landlords, could push small-scale operators with just one property into making losses.
Read MoreThe future of the rental market according to Corbyn
- By Northwood UK
- General
- September 29, 2015
Jeremy Corbyn sees housing as a priority and it's an issue that he is quite vocal on. IN his recently released document Tackling the Housing Crisis" he sets out his plans for the future of housing in Britain."
Read MoreWhat about tenants working from home?
- By Northwood UK
- General
- September 29, 2015
Tenants working from home the number of people working from home has increased to almost one-in-seven over the past decade, with the self-employed running home businesses and employees spending more time being home based, its inevitable that many of these people are tenants.
Read MoreIndustry response to Immigration Bill 2015
- By Northwood UK
- General
- September 28, 2015
With the ink hardly dry on the 2014 Immigration Act, which is meant to limit access to services, facilities, citizenship, housing and employment by reference to immigration status, the Immigration Bill 2015 amendment, tabled following the Conservative Governments successful election result
Read MoreRight to Rent checks could reduce Tenant trust
- By Northwood UK
- General
- September 24, 2015
Despite reports of the success of the right-to-rent pilot running in the West Midlands, one landlord organisation thinks lawful tenants could be refused housing due to the Governments plans to turn landlords into border police and others think it could damage landlord-tenant relations.
Read MoreNatwest in bid to attract professional landlords
- By Northwood UK
- General
- September 24, 2015
In a change of policy at Natwest Intermediary Solutions, the bank will introduce changes to its buy-to-let criteria from 11th September which will enable its brokers to target professional landlords, widening its appeal in the buy-to-let market.
Read MoreUK 4th in the world to invest in property
- By Northwood UK
- General
- September 23, 2015
The UK investment property market comes out fourth best in the world to invest in residential property, due mainly to a huge housing shortage, a growing population and the countrys continuing economic growth, thats according to recent research by Savills. The performance of prime-city and second-home markets relative to their country and key demand variables
Read MoreCouncil benefit payment delays affect half of tenants
- By Northwood UK
- General
- September 21, 2015
Delays by local councils in paying housing benefits to tenants is causing hardship to tenants as well as landlords and is one of the principle reasons why some landlords hesitate to take on tenants claiming the benefit. More than half (52 per
Read MoreMedia attacks on landlords continue...
- By Northwood UK
- General
- September 8, 2015
Campaigning groups which ran a concerted media campaigns before the May general election, have resumed their campaigns focussing on the private rented sector (PRS), pushing for rent controls and now claiming in the press that 125,000 tenants have suffered abusive behaviour from landlords in the past year.
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