Government to hand landlords £5,000 heat pump incentive
Grants will be made through the £450m boiler upgrade scheme spanning three years
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EPC rating push could cut value of older homes
Mortgage lenders will be required to have a typical of EPC rating of C across their portfolio by 2030.
Tenant demand hits all-time high
69% of landlords reported increasing levels of demand from tenants
Rogue landlord fined for dumping rubbish while tenants had no bins
Environmental enforcement officers found the bags in November 2019 and traced them back to the landlord’s property.
Cambridge Building Society reintroduces ‘top slicing’
Landlords can take out loans between £20,000 and £750,000, while top slicing is available on rental homes up to 75% loan-to-to-value.
Landlords rally against HMO council tax ‘disaggregation’ rules
If councils charge per individual unit rather than the whole building – in what’s known as ‘disaggregation’ – the total cost of the tax can skyrocket.
Council using cameras to catch landlords fly-tipping
This follows some incidents in the Darlington area where previous tenants’ furniture and other items were dumped in the lane at the back of properties or dumped elsewhere.
Tenant frustration – landlords usually take 41 days to make repairs
22% of tenants waited for more than six months to get the issue fixed
Michael Gove: Housing policy to shift from the South East to the North
Gove has been talking up the disparity between the cost of renting and buying between the South and the North of England.
Rogue landlord told to pay £275,000 for illegal outbuilding
Anja Bawa was issued with a planning enforcement notice in February 2016 after officers from Ealing Council’s Planning Enforcement team inspected the outbuilding.
