Prices

Tenants should be offered indefinite tenancies, says think tank

Posted by on 09/01/2015 at 10:00 am

  Published by Landlord Today on Monday, 05 January 2015   Tenants in the private rented sector should be given new rights to stay in their home as long as they want, according to Civitas. The think tank also suggested that tenants should receive guarantees that their rent will not increase above inflation. In a […]

Abbot calls for rent controls at 50% of annual council tax bill

Posted by on 11/12/2014 at 11:34 am

  Published by Landlord Today on Wednesday, 10 December 2014   Labour Mayoral hopeful Diane Abbott MP has called for a system of private sector rent controls in a paper published today with renter rights campaign Generation Rent. Under the proposals, monthly rents could be no more than 50% of the local annual council tax […]

October saw a further dip in property valuations in the UK

Posted by on 21/11/2014 at 4:51 pm
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  Published by Property Wire on Monday, 17 November 2014   The UK housing market has now cooled following a pick-up in valuations activity in September with October seeing the total number of valuations fall by 20%, new data shows. However, on an annual basis, housing market activity decreased by 10%, an improvement from a […]