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Pre Election Blog
Labour Party’s U-turn on the £3.2bn grab on Bristol landlord’s wallets Well, with the General Election just over the horizon and having been asked by a number of Bristol homeowners and Bristol buy to let landlords what the different main parties would do to the local property market, in this week’s article we focus on […]
Labour Party’s U-turn on the £1.1bn grab on Portsmouth landlord’s wallets
Labour Party’s U-turn on the £1.1bn grab on Portsmouth landlord’s wallets Well, with the General Election just over the horizon and having been asked by a number of Portsmouth homeowners and Portsmouth buy to let landlords what the different main parties would do to the local property market, in this week’s article we focus on […]
Are the Tory’s Selling Off the Final Part of the Family Silver? 14,766 Bristol Housing Association Households & the Right to Buy Their Homes
Are the Tory’s Selling Off the Final Part of the Family Silver? 14,766 Bristol Housing Association Households & the Right to Buy Their Homes In 1979, Margaret Thatcher was voted in on a Tory landslide with the ‘right to buy your own council house’ being a mainstay of Conservative policy. She encouraged people to buy […]
72.3% of Portsmouth OAP’s own their own home … and they are worth £3,859.3m
72.3% of Portsmouth OAP’s own their own home… and they are worth £3,859.3m Yes, that number is staggering isn’t it …. Of the 23,430 households in Portsmouth where the head of the household is 65 years or older, an astounding 16,934 (or 72.3%) of those are owned, which is just below the national average of […]
HOW’S THE MARKET? – August 2019
Welcome to the August edition of ‘How’s the Market?’, the monthly article designed to answer the question I’m most frequently asked. The events of last month have provided a new question and the platform for a blog that many people will want answers to – what effect will the new Prime Minister of the United […]
HOMES FIT FOR HUMAN HABITATION – ACT 2018
The Home (fit for human habitation) Act 2018 On 20 March 2019 a new law came into force to make sure that rented houses and flats are ‘fit for human habitation’, which means that they are safe, healthy and free from things that could cause serious harm. Most landlords make sure that the houses and […]