As part of its commitment to drive up safety standards in the private rented sector, the Government has announced tough new regulations relating to electrical...
Buying any property, whether it’s for personal use or as a buy to let investment, is an expensive proposition. Not only is there the cost...
Online estate agents maintained a 7.2% share of all exchanges in the final quarter of 2018, maintaining the share it enjoyed in the third quarter...
The Environment Secretary Michael Gove has announced an ‘ambitious strategy’ to tackle air pollution in the UK, in an attempt to reduce exposure to particulate...
With ever increasing pressure on housing in general, and particularly social housing, a charity has called on the Government to build three million new homes...
It’s good news for those looking to sell their home, as property website Rightmove revealed that 40 million individual property listings were viewed on Boxing...
There’s good news for landlords, as figures show that rents in the UK’s private rental sector rose by 0.97% in the year between November 2017...
A new rental protection scheme designed to ensure that landlords receive the rent due to them, and that is due to come into force in...
November was a month of mixed blessings for homeowners looking to sell their properties, with the average house price rising in terms of inflation, but...
Every landlord knows the difficulties of repossessing a property from a bad tenant, but the situation is worse than originally thought. It’s now taking more...
After years of rising house prices, it seems that the market may be slowing down, as a recent study by Rightmove shows. Research carried out...
While it may seem to tenants that rents are always rising and taking an ever larger portion of their monthly income, the reality is that...
Buying your own home is probably the biggest financial commitment any of us will ever make. Yet many people put in an offer without doing...
When it comes to selling your home, homeowners typically do everything they can to make it as appealing as possible, whether that’s redecorating, weeding the...
More than four million people in the UK are private tenants in the rental sector. With many spending over half their salary on rent, yet...
In an attempt to end the abuse of the leasehold system in the UK, the Government’s Housing Minister, the Rt Hon James Brokenshire MP announced...
