To address the capitals current and predicted housing problems the Institute for Public Policy Research is calling on the newly re-elected Mayor of London to make housing a priority. Due to the impact of high rents in the capital, brought about by the new welfare reforms, the think tank is calling for the local housing [...]
Our official statistics for April, 2012 (below) reveal our second month of 1,000,000+ traffic hits to our website. Therefore we would like to thank you ALL for regularly accessing the website, reading our blogs and posting in our discussion forum. The overwhelming amount of “Not viewed traffic” (search engines, etc) is due to all of [...]
Following on from our recent blog Not such a Good Friday for the Private Rented Sector…?; which highlighted the new legislation, whereby you must protect all of your tenants’ deposits, whether they are existing or new tenants, within 30 days of a tenancy starting – Landlords now have until tomorrow (5th May 2012) to put [...]
Police are now having to patrol an estate around the clock after Islington Council sent details of residents who had complained of anti-social behaviour straight to the ASBO offenders. Following recent problems with late night loud music, drugs and verbal abuse on the Andover estate in Holloway; Islington Council urged their residents to report the [...]
Figures released today, via an Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) report, reveal that the number of cannabis farms in the UK has more than doubled in the last four years; 7,865 farms detected in 2011/12 compared to the 2007/8 baseline of 3,032. The most worrying finding for landlords and letting agents, right [...]
Figures that show the full extent of outstanding consumer debt passed to Debt Collection Agencies (DCA’s) or sold to Debt Buyers have been published for the first time today by The Credit Services Association (CSA); the National Association for the UK debt collection industry, who represent 90% of the debt collection industry. At the end [...]
Small-print that states borrowers can only take out a Wonga loan if they sign away their right to their personal data being passed on to third parties has recently emerged. The evidence, bought to attention from a privacy company, shows that in order to take out a loan with the pay-day loan firm vulnerable borrowers [...]
It’s official; the much-feared double-dip recession is now a reality for us all. The contraction for January to March, confirmed by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) this morning, followed 0.3% of negative GDP growth in the final quarter of last year, resulting in the first double-dip recession since 1975. The data baffled market [...]
On the same day that it has emerged Labour-run Newham council are planning to move the most impoverished and underprivileged housing benefit tenants over 160 miles away to Stoke-on-Trent; it has now been confirmed that Conservative-run Westminster council (along with two other Tory-run councils) are now considering moving at least 150 homeless housing benefit claimants [...]
Today it has been revealed that, due to the chronic shortage of housing, the most impoverished and underprivileged tenants from the London Borough of Newham are being forced to move over 160 miles away to Stoke-on-Trent. Newham council has written to over 1,000 housing associations to try and find accommodation, including the [...]
