2024 Outlook – Looking Towards a Labour Government and Some More Reasons to be Cheerful

2024 Outlook, Looking Towards a Labour Government and Some More Reasons to be Cheerful Further to my recent blog, I thought of a few more reasons to be optimistic for 2024. First, landlord exiting means falling supply which means rising rents. (Not great for tenants, obviously). Nimble landlords, especially those who are not over-leveraged, either with debt or someone else’s […]

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Why My Website Is Simple, Why I don’t Advise On Tax And Why I Am Pleased to Have It That Way

A long time ago I decided that, whilst my buy to let book was very successful and was often in the top one thousand books by rank of sales on Amazon (no mean feat when there are about 5 million books you could buy on Amazon) and whilst I did have a strong presence as a speaker at property shows […]

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Temporary Accommodation, Homelessness and Private Landlords, End of the Affair

Temporary Accommodation, Homelessness and Private Landlords, End of the Affair Here are some staggering figures for you. There are around 170,000 people in London who are homeless and in temporary accommodation – which is about one in 50 Londoners and one in 23 kids, (around 84,000 children). The number of households who are entitled to homelessness support from a London […]

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The Government Has Promised Court Reform Before Section 21 Goes

Some more sense from the government. They have pledged that section 21 ‘no fault’ repossessions will not be scrapped until improvements have been made to the way courts handle legitimate possession cases. At present it takes an average of over half a year for the courts to process possession claims where landlords have good cause, such as tenant rent arrears […]

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EPC Deadlines Binned

It has been a great week for landlords. The ludicrous and nonsensical deadlines for landlords to get to energy performance certificates (EPC) grade C have been binned. It is a shame for all the landlords for whom this was all too much and who have already sold their properties. But is it still a great result for those remaining in […]

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