Private Rented Sector Buy to Let Consultants
David Lawrenson of LettingFocus recalls Boris Johnson’s failure, as Mayor of London, to deliver on the London Rental Standard. It showed how he likes big targets and how he failed to reach them , very similar to his failure on Covid virus. Do you remember Boris Johnson’s “London Rental Standard “? If you are in London you might. This was […]
Read moreAt LettingFocus, we say the job of being successful as residential landlords lies in the stuff we do each day. It is about the boring detail and it is about our competence in doing the mundane stuff well. Landlords will now have to think about proving their competence via accreditation. And to this end I have offered my help to […]
Read moreCouncils’ failure to engage with private landlords means families could be needlessly placed in emergency temporary accommodation or out of their local borough. Back in July, the Guardian newspaper published a piece of research I had just completed which showed how councils and housing associations are failing to engage private landlords with their various schemes. I thought it worthwhile to […]
Read moreLettingFocus has been pretty active on external blog and forums this week. Here are some snippets of what we have been saying…. At the Guardian Housing Live Debate on Homelessness Prevention…. ” …… there is no good reason why London boroughs should move people out of their home cities because of changes to housing benefits and there is also no […]
Read morePrivate landlords should comply with the rules or accept that worse could be yet to come says David Lawrenson of www.LettingFocus.com. On many occasions I have said that now the private rented sector has grown so big and become so important, landlords must expect there to be no let up in the raft of legislation effecting what they do and […]
Read moreI was quoted extensively at the Guardian Housing Network blog last week and I think it is worth highlighting the key points I made. Why the PRS is in the News 1. The private rented sector (PRS) is increasingly in the news and will remain so, partly because of its growing size and partly because of rising rent levels, which […]
Read moreDavid Lawrenson of LettingFocus worries about Ken Livingston’s idea of rent controls and says that that accreditation and registration schemes for landlords are not needed because the vast majority of landlord and tenants enjoy good relations and the minority of rogue landlords will never register anyway. Oh dear, oh dear, I spend a nice day at a CIH Conference telling […]
Read moreSynopsis: David Lawrenson of www.LettingFocus.com points out how recent experiences of “rogue landlords” letting out “sheds with beds” goes to show why more regulation would probably be a waste of resources. As if any more sign was needed that there is a huge shortage of accommodation it must be the emergence of the “sheds with beds” story. It now seems […]
Read more