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New approaches to market renting
This CIH briefing looks at the potential opportunities and challenges involved in letting homes at a market rent. It looks at the options for…
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Call for rental contracts with rent control on the private sector
The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has published an academic report dismissing Shelter’s call for fixed term private rental contracts and rent controls as superficial solutions to…
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Options and opportunities for letting homes at Market Rent
This briefing looks at the options and potential opportunities and challenges involved in letting homes at a market rent. New approaches to market rented…
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Report suggests returns could be lucrative from buy to rent
Build to rent could offer institutional investors 4.7 per cent returns and provide affordable accommodation for families earning as little as £22,000, an economic…
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Help to Buy defended and PRS regulation details provided
The guardian have published this week’s parliamentary briefing includes a defence of the Help to Buy scheme by David Cameron and a written ministerial…
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Private landlords to check immigration status of new tenants
The coalition yesterday introduced the Immigration Bill into the House of Commons. The government says that the Bill will make it: easier to identify illegal immigrants…
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Government plans for family friendly Private Sector
New measures will encourage longer fixed-term, family-friendly tenancies and raise standards in the private rented sector, Communities Secretary Eric Pickles announced today (1 October…
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Can social housing learn from the private sector?
Mark Henderson, chief executive of the 55,000-home landlord, told the National Housing Federation conference in Birmingham that housing associations should develop their businesses along…
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Bed in shed landlord fails to get planning permission
The landlord had gone to the national Planning Inspectorate to overturn Waltham Forest LBC’s decision to not let the tenant be housed in the…
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Driving up private rented sector standards
Last week’s Communities and Local Government committee report on the private rented sector(PRS) is a welcome sign that this Government remains committed to a large-scale…
