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Change to Repossession Law Announced

Margaret Beckett, UK Housing Minister, has finally announced the long-awaited change to the law that guarantees that all UK tenants will receive a notice to leave the home in case the landlord has defaulted on his or her mortgage payments... (Continue reading)

Landlords Prefer Renting Out to Benefit Claimants

Latest Landlords Panel report, presented by the BDRC research agency suggests that more UK landlords, operating in the residential property sector, are renting their properties out to housing benefit claimants. As landlords suffer an increase in the cost of buy to... (Continue reading)

UK Tenants Are Deeply Indebted

Latest BBC report suggests that tenants in the United Kingdom find themselves as indebted as they were in 1980’s. The news is especially bad for residential landlords, who already face problems when collecting rent payments and managing rental arrears. Statistics demonstrates... (Continue reading)

Problems with Tenants Must Be Solved Quickly and Firmly

Susan Prince, an expert in the in property litigation, says that in the near future a large number of private sector landlords will go bankrupt , because they are too slow in acting when a tenant falls into arrears or... (Continue reading)

Landlords Are Encouraged to Check Tenant’s Legal Status

UK’s major estate agency, Young’s, has published a list of 10 tips for landlords who are new to the buy to let sector and for experienced landlords who fear that the level of rental arrears might increase. Young’s suggests that... (Continue reading)

The Number of Unemployed Tenants Increases Sharply

UK national statistics reveal that the amount of tenants renting a flat or a house from private residential landlords has sharply increased in the last year. At the moment, 7.8% of all UK tenants are unemployed, which represents a significant... (Continue reading)

Housing Associations Increase Rents and Service Charges

Most housing associations across Great Britain have increased rents in April by at least 5%, which caused fierce opposition by tenants. The rents were calculated on the basis of the retail prices index (RPI) measure of inflation as of last September. However, the... (Continue reading)

Property Repossession Should Be Deferred

Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) recently said that more and more tenants face homelessness as their rented homes are being repossessed because landlords fail to comply with their loan commitments. The property industry is broadly joining the campaign aimed at protecting... (Continue reading)

The DPS Scheme Is Proved to Make Tenants Feel More Secure

Tenancy deposit, which was introduced two years ago in April 2007, has proved to be an effective tool of delivering a secure system of tenant protection. The idea of the DPS scheme is to protect the deposit and to reduce the... (Continue reading)

Tenants Better Served with GHA

86% of tenants believe that they are being better served under the Glasgow Housing Association (GHA) rather than with the Scottish Government and Glasgow City Council. That is why housing associations around the city voted to stay within GHA and ignored... (Continue reading)

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