Two and a half million British adults will take out loans to heat their homes this Christmas, a social landlord's poll has revealed.
Circle Housing's survey found that around seven million (15%) British adults will take out a loan over the festive period to cover costs.
Thousands of new homes for rent are to be built across the UK through a major deal that has the backing of Prime Minister David Cameron.
Residential and urban regeneration specialist Sigma, has agreed a major joint venture with Gatehouse Bank plc which will support the roll-out of an initial 2,000 new privately rented residential properties across the North West, with the development cost estimated at £200m.
The recent case of a Reading landlord who was fined £12,000 for failing to maintain a rental property, is just one example of growing problem of dangerous properties that are putting tenants at risk, according to the Association of Independent Inventory Clerks (AIIC).
Ravinder Singh Takhar, 57, was recently prosecuted under the Housing Act and Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act for failing to comply with regulations in respect of managing HMOs and one of failing to provide information in respect of a property. Takhar, a millionaire, owned and let a house which had been converted into four flats. The fire extinguisher had not been tested since November 2006, the rear garden had become overgrown with several discarded household items in it and a gap in metal railing at the front of the house was wide enough for a small child to fall through and down to the basement flat.
Four in 10 tenants say that they’ve needed to borrow money in order to pay a tenancy deposit, according to new figures from the leading tenancy deposit protection scheme, my|deposits.
The research, part of my|deposits’ quarterly Tenancy Deposit Protection (TDP) panel, also shows that the average tenant has paid £2,344 on tenancy deposits since renting property.
Landlords who do a good job should have enhanced tax allowances, the Chancellor has been told.
The Chartered Institute of Housing is calling for better tax breaks for private landlords who keep their properties well maintained and managed.
Changes to benefits payments have led to difficulties letting affordable homes and may stop hundreds more being built every year, research suggests.
Community Housing Cymru (CHC), which represents housing associations, reports problems letting 700 homes.
The capital is more than 209% more expensive for renters than the rest of the country, according to new figures from Move With Us.
After levelling out in September, average advertised rents in London grew by over £32 in October.
A Derbyshire landlord has been handed a suspended prison sentence for failing to maintain a faulty gas boiler that caused the death of a tenant from carbon monoxide poisoning.
Dr Victoria Martindale, 39, was sentenced at Derby Crown Court for breaches of gas safety laws after she failed to arrange gas safety checks to be carried out at the property in Stanley Common, near Ilkeston, over a four-year period.
Housing associations say change to benefit rules means tenants cannot afford to rent three-bed maisonettes.
Three-bedroom homes are being condemned to demolition by housing associations because the coalition's bedroom tax has made them too expensive for tenants to live in, the Observer can reveal.
A cash package worth nearly £400,000 has landed in council coffers to help those affected by the ‘bedroom tax’.
The news was welcomed by Linlithgow MSP Fiona Hyslop who called the measure an “unfair tax”.