University cities offer the best return for BTL investing
University cities continue to offer some of the highest buy-to-let yields for landlords, according to research. TotallyMoney, a credit report company surveyed over 580,000 properties across England, [...]
Interior design is a question of taste for tenants — rather than landlords
The accidental landlord has given up trying to guess what style of furnishings her metro-millennial tenants would call cool. They get a bed, a sofa - and [...]
Cross-party calls for rogue landlords to lose properties
MPs have called on the government to confiscate properties from the country’s worst landlords after a series of revelations about tenants being exploited by rogue sections of [...]
Research reveals worrying lack of landlord awareness
The private rented sector is a challenging landscape to negotiate, with tax changes and ever-changing regulation meaning that landlords now, more than ever, need greater support to [...]
Rogue landlords: 90% of local authorities fail to issue fines
FoI responses from 293 English councils reveal string of weaknesses in private rented market law. Almost 90% of local authorities failed to use new powers to fine [...]
When is a landlord not a landlord?
You would think that by now there would be a clear and simple definition of a landlord, given the job has been around for time immemorial and in [...]