Landlords looking to increase the size of their property portfolios have been warned to beware of companies offering to help you do this. The Times newspaper warned landlords that although the buy-to-let sector is booming again they should be wary of companies that offer “below market value” property or “get-rich-quick” […]
Growth in Student Lets
September will see the new university and college terms begin and with it increased demand for student rental accommodation. As thousands of students prepare to leave home and begin a new chapter in their lives, the take-up on rental property in August is set to rise. Many professional landlords view […]
UK Property renting costs up by 4.3%
The cost of renting a home in the UK has risen by over 4.3% in the last year, according to the latest Residential Lettings Survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). The increase has been put down to the fact that many would-be buyers are struggling to buy […]
Exclusive audio podcast with the Evening Standard’s …
Increasingly people are turning to becoming landlords. The Evening Standard’s very own accidental landlord, Victoria Whitlock, joined Total Landlord Insurance to talk about her experience of being an accidental landlord.
Rental arrears on the rise
Latest figures from the National Landlords Association (NLA) shows rental arrears are on the rise. The NLA has reported that just under 50 per cent (49%) of landlords have experienced rental arrears in the last 12 months and 37 per cent of landlords are worried about instances of arrears in […]
Landlord insurance is ‘very important’, says expert
Prospective and existing landlords have been reminded of the importance they should place on having adequate insurance. Eddie Hooker, managing director of Total Landlord Insurance, has said that while many would-be landlords believe that getting a mortgage and a standard household policy will solve their problems, they are wrong. The […]
Number of private rented homes rises 1.5m in a decade
Some 1.5 million houses and flats have been added to the stock of privately rented homes since 2001, new government figures reveal. This means that for the first time the private rented sector is now almost equal in size to the social housing sector. Data from the English Housing Survey […]
Positive deposit protection awareness
Almost 70 per cent of tenants in England and Wales say they are aware of Tenancy DepositProtection (TDP) legislation, according to research* from tenancy deposit scheme my|deposits. The research, which looks at the impact of TDP five years after its introduction, also shows that just over half (51 per cent) […]
Greater risk of disputes as 65 % of landlords carrying out …
Research revealed in a live broadcast on LetYourProperty.tv, a live web TV show providing advice and guidance for landlords, has found that 65 percent of landlords carry out their own ‘schedule of condition’ inventories, which experts say is exposing them to greater risk of deposit disputes. The independent survey carried […]
How is the shortage of new properties affecting the buy to let market?
From all the media stories, no-one is quite sure whether the property market is booming or not! The simple answer is that the buy-to-let sector is doing very well but it would be doing even better if there were more new properties to buy. There’s an increasing market in the […]
