New Local Housing Allowance Rates How the New LHA Rates Have Huge...
Even landlords who don’t let to benefit dependent tenants and tenants who don’t get state aid to pay their rent will be affected by the capping of Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates. As a result of...
View ArticleResearch Is Needed Into Implications of Budget Changes to Housing Benefit...
The detail of how the change to Local Housing Allowance / Housing Benefit rates will be managed in practice will be interesting and the government will need to tread very carefully and will have to...
View ArticlePrivate Sector Leasing and Housing Association Lease Schemes for Landlords A...
Do you want to know a secret? Well, it’s not actually a secret at all but it’s something that’s been kept a bit quiet up to now. (And true to form the mainstream press has not reported it.) So what’s...
View ArticleLocal Housing Allowance Concessions Likely and Innovative Thinking Sought...
I hope you are not too bored by our coverage of the Housing Benefit story. If you are an organisation or public body and are providing / selling services or products to the private rented sector, you...
View ArticleWill the Private Rented Sector Initiative PRSI and Build to Let Ever Take Off
If you asked a group of private landlords what they understood about the term “private rented sector initiative” (or PRSI) you would get a blank look from most. And yet, this could be one of the...
View ArticleLocal Letting Agency Model and Councils. Can Local Authorities Make A Success...
In this blog post we say that local authorities face big challenges trying to make a success of the “Local Letting Agency” concept – and we highlight the areas they will have to work hardest in if they...
View ArticleGovernment Policy on the Private Rented Sector is Not Joined Up
Sometimes government policy doesn’t seem to join up too well – with different policies apparently conflicting with each other. Two good examples are (1) the lending activities of state owned banks...
View ArticleAccreditation Private Landlords and the Social Letting Agency Model
Key Point: Most private landlords don’t set high value on things like membership of accreditation schemes and property inspections offered by some councils as part of Local Letting Agency schemes...
View ArticleHousing Associations, the Private Rented Sector and Landlords
In this blog post, David Lawrenson of www.LettingFocus.com looks at the growing clamour for housing associations and city investors to get into the private rented sector via “build to let” and thus...
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