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| Rising rents reach record high for buy to let landlords |
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Rents have reached an average record high of £689 per month following eight consecutive months of increases.
London rents are up by two percent to reach an all-time high and are seen as a driving force behind UK rental inflation in 2010. MORE |
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| Buy to let landlords not buoyed up by tenant demand |
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Although tenant demand and rent income is currently high, these factors have not boosted landlord confidence in buy to let, according to the October 2010 Upad Landlord Confidence Index.
In fact landlord confidence in the market is decidedly shaky, with only... MORE |
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| Report accuses landlords of making property investments to rip off housing benefit system |
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New figures suggest private landlords will pocket almost £8.5 billion of taxpayer money this year through housing benefit.
This is more than a third of the total £21.5 billion bill, according to figures from the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP). MORE |
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| Scheme aiming for landlord self-regulation |
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The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has launched an initiative striving towards self-regulation for the UK’s private sector residential landlords.
The body’s Accreditation Scheme creates a new partnership between local authorities and responsible...
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| Landlord fined for excessively cold properties |
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| A landlord has been fined £15,000 for failing to ensure that three properties were sufficiently heated.
Relay Arch, a company which owns rental properties in Norwich, was found guilty in its absence at the city’s Magistrates’ Court of three breaches of a section 11 improvement notice. MORE |
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