Writings for Landlords

Consumer watchdog Which? this morning issued an eleventh-hour call for the Bank of Ireland to “do the right thing”.

A lettings agent has queried research by HSBC which named Southampton, Slough and Blackpool as the best places for buy-to-let investors.

Rent paid in advance does NOT count as a deposit, the Court of Appeal has ruled.

Housing minister Mark Prisk – who once proposed the full regulation of letting agents – says that a proposal to bring the industry into the scope of the Estate Agents Act would have created problems and not solved them.

The number of new applicants seeking to rent in March was up 21% from February, with demand outstripping supply as the number of available homes to rent rose only 5%.

Rich – and naïve – foreigners are being lured to buy new homes in London in a ‘feeding frenzy’, it has been claimed.

Tenants are now staying in one property for 20 months, according to the latest research from the Association of Residential Letting Agents.

Southampton tops the list of buy-to-let property hotspots with a rental yield of 7.82%, says HSBC.

Massive growth and a sea-change in its structure lie ahead for the private rented sector, said housing minister Mark Prisk in a major speech.

Housing minister Mark Prisk has announced the first successful bidders who will benefit from the £1bn Build to Rent Fund, designed to provide 10,000 new homes in the private rented sector by 2015.