Private Rented Sector Buy to Let Consultants
Just to make things extra difficult for people who are on housing benefit, there are still some mortgage lenders and insurance companies who actually do not allow private landlords to let to tenants who are dependent on housing benefit. So, if their landlord has a mortgage on the property, (and it is more than probable he has), he may not be allowed […]
Read moreDavid Lawrenson of private rent consultants, LettingFocus.com explains how mortgage lenders have now set up get out clauses within their tracker mortgage deals which are so wide that the industry could eventually be forced to stop marketing them as tracker deals. He also predicts that the Bank of Ireland “rate hike” case will result in a victory for those landlords […]
Read moreDavid Lawrenson of www.LettingFocus.com says the move to hike rates on some Bristol and West Tracker Mortgages looks wrong – and destroys confidence in all lenders. When I speak to people who want to sell services to private landlords (which includes organisations like local authorities and housing associations that desperately need private rented sector landlords to make their houses available […]
Read moreDavid Lawrenson of www.LettingFocus.com observes the latest mortgage lender U turn on allowing landlords to let to housing benefit tenants, but says that rather than a “blanket” approach of either allowing or not allowing landlords to do this, a better way would be if lenders “selectively” allowed it – with the decision linked to other variables such as landlord experience […]
Read moreDavid Lawrenson of Private Rented Sector Consultants LettingFocus.com looks at why some mortgage lenders don’t want to allow landlords to let to tenants who are dependent on housing benefit to pay their rent. Last week, at this blog, I looked at Nationwide’s new policy (for the Mortgage Works) to not allow landlords taking out mortgages or remortgages with them to […]
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