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What’s happening with the buy-to-let market in Portsmouth?
What’s happening with the buy-to-let market in Portsmouth? …. and should Portsmouth landlords & Portsmouth homeowners be worried? In 2019, the private rented sector accounted for just over four and a half million households or 19.9% of UK households, no change from the year before. Interesting, when compared to the proportion of private rented […]
Covid-19; Policy & Procedures
Social Distancing; the new normal In line with new Government Guidelines as of 13th May 2020, the Housing Market is now open. We are being cautious with our approach to ensure the health and safety of our Staff and of our Customers and have therefore updated our Covid-19; Policy & Procedures below, along with completing […]
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 […]
Bristol Buy to Let – Past, Present and Future
Investing in a Bristol buy to let property has become a very different sport over the last few years. In the glory days of the five years after the turn of the Millennium, where we had double-digit house price growth, mortgage companies (notably Northern Rock, HBOS and their ilk) desperate to get on the buy to let mortgage […]
Is This the End of No-Fault Section 21 Evictions for the 111,292 Bristol Tenants?
Is This the End of No-Fault Section 21 Evictions for the 111,292 Bristol Tenants? In the late spring, the Government announced that they were planning to end no-fault evictions for tenants living in private rented accommodation. I have had a number of Bristol landlords contact me anxious that removing a tenant from their Bristol buy-to-let […]
Is This the End of No-Fault Section 21 Evictions for the 55,608 Portsmouth Tenants?
Is This the End of No-Fault Section 21 Evictions for the 55,608 Portsmouth Tenants? In the late spring, the Government announced that they were planning to end no-fault evictions for tenants living in private rented accommodation. I have had a number of Portsmouth landlords contact me anxious that removing a tenant from their Portsmouth buy-to-let […]
Portsmouth Landlords; HMO and Student Accommodation
The student accommodation market in Portsmouth has seen tremendous growth over the last 3 years, in line with the growing trend across the country, of large purpose-built student apartments. The student accommodation sector itself has become a real powerhouse within the industry becoming the fastest growing and one of the highest performing asset classes. The […]
How long could you finance your BTL if your tenants stopped paying?
With figures coming out over the weekend of the average time it takes to regain possession of property through a court order, is it any wonder we have such a low buy to let market with article after article of how landlords are losing out? The differences vary region by region, with the current average […]
THE IMPACT OF THE TENANT FEE BAN
THE IMPACT OF THE TENANT FEE BAN We learnt a few things from the tenant fee ban announcement but there is still a lot of ambiguity that will not become clear until after the end of March. So the date has been set as the 1st of June. This means that all contracts SIGNED AFTER […]