A year since the launch of a scheme which is meant to improve standards for private renters, it is claimed that at current sign-up rates, it’d take 100 years to reach the Mayor’s target. Just over 14,100 landlords have voluntarily agreed to the London Rental Standard (LRS), a code of practice including things such as a written rental agreement, protected deposit,…

Landlords will no longer have automatic entitlement to a 10% tax break for wear and tear tax allowance of their properties. The important change to the wear and tear tax allowance came largely unnoticed after yesterday’s Budget headline announcement that mortgage interest relief for private landlords is to be restricted…

    Why do we need it? In central London, we have a combined sewer system. Storm water runoff and waste water go into the same sewers. Most of the time this is fine, but during a rainstorm it’s a problem. When it rains heavily the sewers fill up quickly,…

Landlords and letting agents of student tenants are putting their lives at risk by failing to fix serious safety hazards, according to new research by a safety charity. Electrical Safety First has discovered that a worrying number of landlords and letting agents ignore safety concerns reported to them, leaving their…

Around 445,000 free smoke alarms and 40,000 carbon monoxide alarms have now been issued to the 46 fire and rescue authorities in England in a bid to encourage agents and landlords to meet their safety obligations ahead of their October deadline. Statistics show that tenants are at least four times…

The council which became a standard bearer for so-called ‘landlord pro-licensing’ – Enfield in north London – appears to have abandoned any attempt to introduce such a scheme. Enfield’s Labour authority was one of the early adopters of the landlord pro-licensing craze, claiming it would reduce anti-social behaviour and increase…

House prices increasing at an alarming rate, according to new figures from the Land Registry. Annual growth in house prices across London for the year to April 2015 was 10.9%, and up 2.3% between March and April. The cost of an average home in London is now £474,544, compared to…

There’s been a four per cent rise in the number of private sector households owing more than two months rent, according to LSL Property Services. Figures for the first quarter of 2015 show that there are 70,900 private sector households facing what the agency calls “severe rent arrears” up from…

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