Welsh Assembly urged to scrap unfair landlord tax

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The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) Cymru is asking the Welsh Assembly to scrap the 3% stamp duty levy on buy-to-let properties to boost the number of homes to rent.
The Welsh Assembly is set to adopt the new Land Transaction Tax – the Welsh equivalent to stamp duty – and the RLA is now lobbying AMs to drop the surcharge which was brought in by George Osborne.
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Wembley rogue landlord jailed

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A Wembley rogue landlord has been jailed for illegally evicting tenants. A Wembley landlord who waged a war of intimidation against tenants living in his property has been sentenced to four months imprisonment and ordered to pay costs and compensation of £20,000. Rehan Sheikh of Manor Drive was found guilty at Willesden Magistrates Court of […]

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Corporate investors failing the PRS say Lords

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The new Government needs to back the nation’s landlords as a new report by Peers finds that institutional investors are failing to provide for the rental sector.
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5m extra homes needed in England

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An extra 5m homes will be needed in England for the old, migrants and singles over the next 25 years. The impact of an ageing population, more immigration and a singleton lifestyle, new projections produced by Government estimate, that over five million new homes could have to be built in England in the next 25 […]

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