Landlords Hit With Extra ‘Green Tax’

Buy to let landlords are due to be hit with costs of £5,000 from April 2018 to comply with new government energy efficiency legislation introduced on rental properties. Around 330,000 rental properties in the UK, usually older character properties, fall into bands F and G on the energy efficiency rating, and these properties will need […]

Landlords are using social media to filter out bad tenants

It has long been the case that landlords and letting agents require tenants to consent to a credit check before they will agree to sign a residential lease: a tenant with a poor credit score is deemed unlikely to pay their rent on time and may either be refused a tenancy agreement or have a […]