Neglect tenants at your peril – Landlord fined £30k after leaving tenants with no heat for four weeks A rogue landlord with property on Talgarth Road, London has been fined more than £30,000 to reflect the serious “physical and mental hardship” endured by five tenants...

A round up of all things property related in November... ...From across the country! Bank Lending Rate The Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee has confirmed that the Bank Base Rate is to remain at 0.5% for a further month. It has been at this very low level for...

Buying and selling property are commonly cited as two of life’s more stressful activities and a new survey carried out by an estate agent goes someway to demonstrating this. After commissioning independent insight agency Opinion Matters to survey over 1,000 home...

Mortgage applications from homebuyers and remortgaging homeowners reached their highest point of 2014 last month. The Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) found that total applications via mortgage brokers were up 13% from September, the second successive month of...

The majority of tenants are yet to be convinced by the raft of housing policies set out by the UK’s main political parties, according to the National Landlords Association (NLA). With just over six months to go before next year’s General Election, 62% of tenants...

House hunters are still out in force as the number of people looking for a property during September hit a ten year high, according to the latest Housing Market Report by the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA). NAEA member agents reported an average of 406...

Being aware of the impact that the enquiry process has on property transaction completion times can help to reduce stress and doubt for home movers. This is according to conveyancing services provider myhomemove. With a pre-Christmas rush to complete a yearly...

Homeowners in England and Wales are not afraid to make changes to create the home they desire, after 98.5% recently surveyed by Principality Building Society said there is something about their homes that they would like to improve. Unsurprisingly, the most common...

The Midlands- based developer has secured retailers Homebase, Wickes, Pets at Home and Bensons for Beds for the development ahead of its planned opening in September 2015. Homebase has taken a 48,751 sq ft unit plus 10,000 sq ft for a garden centre; Wickes has taken a...

The average home improvement in the UK would add a healthy 10% to the value of a home, based on home owner’s estimates, new research shows. This works out at just under £30,000 whilst the average return on investment was estimated to be 80%, based on the total amount...

UK landlords are still experiencing high levels of demand during the third quarter of the year with just 3% reporting that it is declining, the latest monthly buy to let survey shows. Overall 41% of landlords surveyed said tenant demand was growing or booming and 51%...

More than four out of 10 non-home owners aged 25 to 34 in the UK doubt they will ever be able to buy a property while one in three has no interest in buying. Research by mortgage firm Ocean Finance shows that 40 per cent say that while they would like to be able to...