Over 160 smaller housing developments across the country have been shortlisted for loans from the £525 million pound Builders Finance Fund, which is intended to get stalled sites back up and running with new homes being built. The first wave of sites with potential to...

The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has produced a report calling all political parties to ensure that coming generations have a realistic opportunity to buy their own properties by increasing the number of new homes being built each year. Of “Housing...

A specialist eviction and advice service, through their helpline calls, predicts that up to 38% of landlords who are trying to evict tenants are facing an uphill battle as they have not properly protected their tenants deposits. The correct procedure for deposit...

Well here it is at last, after all the rhetoric about landlords coming under the legislation to check migrants' legal status to remain in the country, the government has announced the pilot areas where it will be implemented. The areas in which landlords must carry...

Although large numbers of councils are making landlord licensing mandatory, another council has dismissed the scheme. Sandwell Council undertook a series of intensive consultations on introducing a compulsory landlord licence into their borough and despite uptake...

The HSE (Health and Safety Executive) after investigating a landlord on failure to carry out gas checks, successfully prosecuted the owner of the property in Slough. The landlord was ordered to pay over £10,000 in fines and costs. The landlord, over a four year period...

A house fire is undergoing investigation to its cause when a rented property was destroyed in Cleethorpes, however the landlord says that fire fighters have told him that a cigarette not put out was to blame. The owner, Keith Newsum, is strongly urging all landlords...

When you make that big decision to move and its time to sell the house thats when all those years of hard lovin' need to be addressed. Yes, that family bathroom has coped with hundreds of bathtime battles, the kitchen has produced countless masterchef meals and the...

The application, from David Wilson Homes, will be available to view at 138-140 Norton Leys. Members of SARD (Stop Ashlawn Road Development) will be on hand to take residents’ questions. The meeting will be 10AM to 4PM on Saturday and campaigners will take details of...

According to a recent report by AXA insurance, UK landlords are leaving themselves wide open to the country’s worst tenants by failing to carry out basic checks, and proper tenant screening. With the rental market’s peak season about to start in September, AXA shows...

Yesterday Chancellor George Osborne said that the Help to Buy scheme is ‘working exactly as intended’ after the latest figures for the equity loan part of the initiative show that a total of 29,829 properties have been bought so far. In July 2,662 home hunters secured...

After research recently published by Aviva claimed that house hunters spend an average of 33 minutes looking at a property, an estate agency, Barton Wyatt, believes the decision is in fact made in the first ten minutes. James Wyatt, partner of the agency claims he is...