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Renting Out Your Property: A Comprehensive Guide for Modern Landlords

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Renting out your property can be lucrative, offering a steady income and the opportunity to grow your investment portfolio. This guide provides essential insights and practical advice to help new […]

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Letting Agent Fees Guide 2024

Letting Agent Fees 2024: A Comprehensive Guide for UK Landlords

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Navigating the terrain of letting agent fees is crucial for any landlord in the UK aiming to maximise their income. This guide dives into what these fees entail, how they […]

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Chancellor’s Spring Budget 2021 – How Does It Affect The Property Market and PRS?

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Reading Time: 5 minutes [kc_row use_container=”yes” force=”no” column_align=”middle” video_mute=”no” _id=”793269″][kc_column width=”12/12″ video_mute=”no” _id=”768561″][kc_column_text _id=”792493″] On the 3rd March, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced the Spring Budget for 2021. The Budget unveiled the government's tax and […]

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Bailiff Ban Extended Another 6 Weeks

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Reading Time: 3 minutes On Thursday 8th January, the government announced a 6-week extension to the existing ban on bailiff-enforced evictions. The ban – brought in to support renters during the pandemic – continues […]

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Rent Payment Holiday: Download a Rent Payment Plan Agreement Between Landlord and Tenant

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Reading Time: 4 minutes According to our rental data, 9% of tenants have experienced financial difficulties during these uncertain times and are looking to their landlords for either a rent payment holiday, a revised […]

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Coronavirus and Right to Rent Checks: Temporary Changes for Landlords

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Reading Time: 3 minutes On 30th March 2020, the government announced some temporary changes to the rules of Right to Rent checks. These changes aim to make it easier for landlords to carry them […]

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Coronavirus: Landlord & Tenant Information 2020

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Reading Time: 7 minutes Landlords and tenants have a lot of questions about how the current pandemic is impacting the private rental sector and what support is available. To help you as best we […]

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10 New Rental Laws Landlords Must Be Ready For in 2020

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Reading Time: 5 minutes As we’re half way into the first month of 2020, it’s vital that landlords and investors know what this year has in store for the property sector. To keep you […]

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What 2019 has meant for landlords, for the sector – and for LettingaProperty.com!

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Reading Time: 4 minutes The past twelve months have been a whirlwind for the private rental sector. With many new laws making an appearance and 2018’s legislation taking full swing, 2019 has kept landlords […]

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Landlords, which party will you vote for in the 2019 General Election?

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Reading Time: 4 minutes As Thursday 12th December draws closer, we’re keen to find out which parties our landlords are backing in the General Election. If you’re unsure on who to vote for, we’ve […]

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Contractual Tenancy or AST – What’s the Difference?

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Reading Time: 5 minutes In our previous article ‘Tenancy or Licence’, we saw in the case of Street v Mountford 1985 that a court will look at the facts to establish what type of […]

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Tenancy or Licence?

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Tenancy or Licence? There is so much legislation with which both landlords and agents find that they now need to comply. It would be unusual if we did not see […]

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Homelessness Reduction Act 2017

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Reading Time: 5 minutes The problem At the point a Section 21 is served, there is a potential for a tenant to find themselves homeless. People in employment or not in receipt of benefits […]

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Welsh Tenant Fee Ban 2019 – What Landlords Should Know

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Reading Time: 5 minutes The Autumn Budget Statement in 2016 said that Westminster intended to ban tenant fees. This ban came into effect in England from 1 June 2019. Wales, with its devolved housing […]

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Mandatory Electrical Safety Checks For Rental Properties

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Mandatory electrical safety checks for all landlords have been on the horizon for a long while. Currently, though there is a legal requirement for landlords to carry out fixed electrical […]

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The Problem with Noisy Neighbours

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Usually complaints about noisy neighbours are limited to one off or occasional events and are ordinarily related to teenage parties whilst parents or guardians are away or over enthusiastic house […]

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LettingaProperty.com ascend to new heights in support of Welsh coastline

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Here at Lettingaproperty.com, we’re putting a spring into our step as we head closer to the summer months…and with some exciting new announcements – like entering the Welsh rental market. […]

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Tenant Fee Ban 2019: Everything You Need To Know

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Reading Time: 16 minutes The new Tenant Fee Ban legislation, over two years in the gestation, has finally received Royal Assent with the majority coming into force on the 1 June 2019. Although the […]

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The Dangers of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in Rented Properties

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Reading Time: 3 minutes According to the Office for National Statistics, around 60 people are killed every year in Great Britain as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning. Landlords legal obligations when it comes […]

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What will happen to the Section 21 notice? (April 2019)

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Reading Time: 5 minutes What is a Section 21 notice? Serving a Section 21 notice is currently the only way for a landlord to seek possession where the tenant is either not in breach of […]

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Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation Act) 2019

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Reading Time: 5 minutes It is unusual for a Private Members’ bill to become law, but this is what has happened in 2019 to MP Karen Buck’s bill, the Fitness for Human Habitation Act […]

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No DSS! Closing the Door on Tenant Discrimination

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Across the UK today, approximately 889,000 tenants in England receive housing benefit to help pay their rent and get by. And whilst the vast majority of these ‘housing-benefit’ tenants are […]

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Hotel Records Order 1972 For Landlords

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Reading Time: 5 minutes You have completed your Right to Rent checks, all the adults in the property have passed the checks and moved into the property, however, you receive a fine from The […]

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