Councillors want powers to force private landlords to improve energy efficiency

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Glasgow SNP councillors have called for new powers to force private landlords in the city to make their homes more energy efficient, to help tenants and homeowners in fuel poverty, Glasgow Live reveals.

Cllr Ruairi Kelly and Cllr Kenny McLean have written to Scottish Ministers to ask for more flexibility around the Energy Efficient Scotland (EES) fund

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Tenant with mental health issues?

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Hello, I have a tenant that has been hospitalised then released and put under a mental health officer for almost 30 months. In that time all rents have not been paid and I’ve taken it to court and won possession of my property back it has cost me in solicitors and losses so far 16k.

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Rayner hits back at ‘hypocrisy’ claims over Right-to-Buy

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Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner has dismissed Tory accusations of hypocrisy over her use of the Right-to-Buy scheme, saying she is proud of owning her former council house.

Ms Rayner said she bought her home in Stockport, Greater Manchester

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UK house prices defied crash predictions in 2023, new data shows

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Despite predictions of a UK house price crash in 2023, new data shows that prices were resilient.

The UK house price index from the estate agents Yopa reveals how the property market fared despite the cost-of-living crisis and higher interest rates.

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Exclusive Legal Training Opportunity: Learn from Housing Barrister Justin Bates

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As all landlords know, being a landlord involves a lot more than just sitting back and waiting for the rent to drop into your bank account.

In fact, if you are not careful, that rent might not be sufficient to pay all your expenses.

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UK’s housing crisis made worse by migration – MP

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A Tory MP has claimed that the UK’s housing crisis is being aggravated by the post-Brexit migration system which sees tenants now paying 40% of their disposable income on rent, The Times reports.

Neil O’Brien

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Rees-Mogg slams Gove’s ‘socialist error’ Renters (Reform) Bill

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Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, the leader of the House of Commons, has launched a scathing attack on the housing secretary, Michael Gove, over his proposed Renters (Reform) Bill, which he called a ‘socialist error’.

The Bill aims to improve the security and standards of tenants in the private rented sector (PRS) and would abolish section 21 ‘no-fault’

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Section 21 ‘no-fault’ evictions are ‘fundamentally unfair’

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Using section 21 ‘no-fault’ evictions to remove ‘model tenants’ in a court of law is ‘fundamentally unfair’ and will ‘get worse’.

That is the opinion of Simon Harris, the chief executive of Citizens Advice Staffordshire North and Stoke-on-Trent

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Council slammed by Housing Ombudsman for poor repairs and complaints handling

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A special investigation by the Housing Ombudsman has exposed how Hammersmith and Fulham Council failed to provide adequate repairs and complaints handling to its residents, leaving them ‘feeling anything but secure in their homes’.

The report found that the council had a maladministration rate of 88% in 33 cases investigated

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Over 55’s landlords turning to Landlord Sales Agency to get out of trouble financially as new buy-to-let mortgages grind to a halt

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It’s another week of news suggesting that landlords need to sell. If you’ve not yet considered cutting your losses, this might be the sign it’s time to exit the market, fast.

The Independent reported that not only have landlords over 55 increasingly been getting rid of their buy-to-let properties to exit the market before things get worse

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