Private Rented Sector Buy to Let Consultants
Why do some people dislike private landlords so much and are their complaints valid? Back in the 1970s, in the last days of rent control and tenant lifetime security of tenure, landlords akin to Peter Rachman were still flourishing. These guys didn’t worry about legal niceties to get their property back. They just used threats, sent the tough boys in […]
Read moreIn last weeks’ blog post I quoted figures from The English Housing Survey, which indicated that for the first time since the mid 1960s, the private rented sector (PRS) was larger than the local authority / housing association sector combined. The latest survey available is for 2009/10 and shows there were 3.7 million households in social housing, compared to 3.4 […]
Read moreMany local authorities, housing associations and charities designing strategies to try to get private landlords to let to tenants on Local Housing Allowance are very fond of doing surveys of landlords. (Readers of this blog will know how critical I was of one particular survey of landlords that, last year, was used to make some astonishing claims for the impact […]
Read moreFor a presentation I am doing at a conference next week, I thought I would jot down some interesting features of the private rented residential sector five to ten years ago and compare it with how it looks today. Back then, the private rented sector had the following features. 1. Credit for buy to let mortgages was being advanced too […]
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