HMRC Issues Warning to Landlords Regarding 'Hybrid' Tax Avoidance Scheme
By The PR Lettings TeamHMRC has recently provided updated guidance concerning a tax avoidance scheme that specifically targets landlords in the country.
This scheme is promoted as a tax planning option available to individual property...
Attention Landlords - New Version of How to Rent Guide Released!
By The PR Lettings TeamThis morning the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DHLUC) released an updated version of the How to Rent guide. This is one of the prescribed documents that landlords, and agents, need to issue pre-tenancy...
Renters Reform Bill - Update
By The PR Lettings TeamThe Government has now published the Renters (Reform) Bill. This is the biggest shake-up to the private rented sector in decades.
The outcome was...
Renters Reform Bill
By The PR Lettings TeamThe Government's Renters' Reform Bill, promised over four years ago, to abolish Section 21 evictions, was delayed again last week due to "procedural issues".
The Bill aims to provide tenants with new...
Government announce crackdown on anti-social behaviour
By The PR Lettings TeamLast week we heard from the UK Government that they plan to give landlords more powers to evict unruly tenants.
The Government announced an action plan to crack down on anti-social behaviour giving more powers...
When are the government going to announce changes to the EPC regulations?
By The PR Lettings TeamLast week there were murmurs among the press surrounding the new EPC regulations for rented properties. Conjecture is that the deadline for the private rented sector to meet the proposed new Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards...
How To Rent Guide - New Updated Version Finally Released
By The PR Lettings TeamThis morning the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DHLUC) released the long anticipated new version of the How to Rent guide. This is one of the prescribed documents that landlords, and agents, need to issue...
Act Now to Stop Preston Landlords Leaving the Private Rental Sector
By The PR Lettings TeamProperty industry figures are calling for action to prevent a critical shortage of rental stock in the buy-to-let sector.
They say that unless the government acts, there will be an exodus of landlords from the...
Michael Gove Announces Crack Down on Private Landlords
By The PR Lettings TeamMichael Gove has announced plans to crack down on landlords following the tragic death of two-year old Awaab Ishak due to the presence of hazardous mould in his family's rented home. Gove has said "Everyone deserves the right...
Right to Rent Checks - Changes for Chorley Landlords
By The PR Lettings TeamThe regulations for landlord right to rent checks were updated on 1 October 2022, following interim measures introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Surveyors Warning – Some Insulated Properties May Be Unmortgageable
By The PR Lettings TeamA warning has been issued by the Residential Property Surveyors Association (RPSA) that as many as £250,000 properties, with some likely to be in the rental sector, may be unmortgageable due to the insulation installed.
...What’s Your View on the Renters Reform Bill White Paper?
By The PR Lettings TeamIf you are private landlord in Preston, Chorley, Leyland, Blackburn or surrounding areas please read on, this affects you.
On 16 June 2022 the Government’s Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities released...
Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm (Amendment) Regulations 2022
By The PR Lettings TeamGuidance for Landlords and Tenants Issued
If you are landlord in Preston, Chorley, Leyland or Blackburn you need to know this!
Guidance from the government has now been issued to support landlords, agents and tenants...
TV star set to join forces with UK’s leading property regulatory body
By The PR Lettings TeamPropertymark, the professional body for property agents in residential and commercial sales, lettings and auctioneering has revealed its exciting teaming with TV personality and property expert Phil Spencer’s Move iQ.
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