Private Rented Sector Buy to Let Consultants
At LettingFocus we take a look at marketing to the private rented sector and to landlords. We look at which sectors of business are good at it – and which are not As part of our business consultancy at LettingFocus.com we advise organisations – both public and private – about how to connect with, market to and sell products and […]
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 moreKey Point: We are concerned that whilst local authorities will, in theory, be able to discharge the homelessness duty into the private rented sector, the reality is that many councils may not have done enough to convince private landlords to make their property available to this end of the lettings market. On Monday, I featured with a clutch of housing […]
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 […]
Read moreLandlord readers of this column will know that LettingFocus’s stance these days is now very much built around consulting with organisations who sell products and services to the private rented sector. Basically we tell them how to do it better! Our two biggest client groups are banks / financial institutions who sell mortgage loans to landlords (commonly known as “buy […]
Read moreDoes the media “get” the private rented sector? Do they understand the market? I’m afraid the answer to this is often “No” On Sundays we always buy a “chunky” Sunday paper for the main reason my son wants to read the Sports pages and my partner wants a TV guide and to tut about the stick thin models in the […]
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