Property Lettings and Management Educational Blog
Our team regularly write educational articles about everything property management and lettings.
Should Private Landlords Let to Tenants on Universal Credit?
Is the Risk of Letting to Tenants on Benefits Really so Big? A question we are often asked by our private landlord clients is whether they should let to tenants on Universal Credit. Our advice [...]
Time for Buy-to-Let Landlords to Get a Gas Boiler Service
Avoid Cold and Irate Tenants This Winter Summer is winding down, and winter is fast approaching. Experts are predicting one of the coldest winters for decades. For buy-to-let landlords in the UK, this means it’s [...]
7 Tenant Scams That Buy-To-Let Landlords Must Avoid
Tips to Ensure You Don’t Get Conned I recently read about a fake landlord scam in Edinburgh, in which prospective tenants are conned out of money by the fake landlord asking for a deposit before [...]
Evicting a Tenant Could Give You a Criminal Record
Abide by Eviction Rules or Go to Jail without Passing Go Are you thinking about evicting a tenant? In the UK there are strict proceedings for starting the eviction process. Not following the rules as [...]
Length of Void Periods Are Collapsing
Rents Are Rocketing, Too Don’t let Labour’s plot to steal wealth from buy-to-let landlords cloud the real landlord news. The length of the average void period in the UK has collapsed to only 11 days, [...]
High Employment Boosts Rental Values
A Perfect Storm to Raise Rents Figures from ARLA Propertymark and research from Howsy show that landlords are benefitting from higher rental values, thanks to the UK’s booming jobs market. More tenants than ever before [...]