Private Rented Sector Buy to Let Consultants
If you have read my recent posts and seen me quoted on the net, you will know that I recently published a blog highlighting that some lenders, (including a state owned bank), still have in place restrictions, within their buy to let mortgage terms and conditions, which prohibit private landlords letting to tenants who are on housing benefit (or “DWP” […]
Read more“First time buyers cannot get onto the housing ladder. They are priced out of lots of areas where they would like to live”. You hear this kind of thing quite a lot: Young first time buyers are priced out because they are not earning enough or because they cannot raise the necessary deposit to get a mortgage. But is it […]
Read moreNo new blog this week, but we have updated the blog from 2 weeks ago: https://www.lettingfocus.com/blogs/index.php/2012/11/buy-to-let-mortgages-and-tenants-on-benefits/
Read moreLocal authority schemes to attract private landlords to let to people with few housing options often fail. Here at LettingFocus, we explain why. I was invited to speak at the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) Homelessness conference in Nottingham last week. This is a big national event to which around 140 local authority and housing association staff from all around […]
Read moreQ. What have inflation and the tabloid’s nemesis Abu Qatada got in common? A. Well, once you have got them in your system, they are very hard to get rid of. Like the famous Islamic cleric, inflation seems to be endemic to Britain. We seem to have always had it and we can’t seem to get rid of it, unlike […]
Read moreSome mortgage lenders still don’t let landlords who have mortgage loans with them to let their properties to tenants who are on benefits. Many private landlords are reluctant to let to tenants who are dependent on housing benefits, preferring tenants who do not have to rely on the state for any assistance. There are a number of reasons why: 1. […]
Read moreDavid Lawrenson of www.LettingFocus.com suggests that the relentless rise in residential property prices in Prime London could be due a big breather. Prices of what’s sometimes know as Prime Residential Property in London will always go up, right? Well, not necessarily. Sure, Prime London – by which commentators usually mean non-social housing stock in the Central London up market areas […]
Read moreDavid Lawrenson of www.LettingFocus.com prefers tenancy deposit schemes where a landlord does not have to hand over the cash. Since April 2007, landlords letting property in England and Wales and who take a deposit on an assured shorthold tenancy (AST) must protect it in a tenancy deposit scheme, tell the tenants which scheme it is in and give them the […]
Read moreAs London Councils and the London Assembly run another consultation on the private rented sector, LettingFocus’s owner starts to feel like Bill Murray in the film “Groundhog Day” Many readers will be familiar with the film “Groundhog Day” in which a bored TV weatherman played by Bill Murray is forced to relive a freezing winter’s day in a nowheresville northern […]
Read moreIn this blog post, private rented sector expert, David Lawrenson of www.LettingFocus.com looks at how to get the most suitable mortgage deal. I’m often somewhat surprised by the fuss folks make about getting a mortgage and some of the wrong decisions they make too. To us it seems pretty simple. The first question to ask is for how long you […]
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