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“ …71 per cent of employees would get a pay-off if they were laid off, only 12 per cent of self-employed people would.” Surely you don’t lay yourself off when you’re self-employed?
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05 October 2023 17:16 PM
The PRS isn't new, it has been around forever. Various stats show that property conditions in the PRS are generally better than social housing so I'm not sure what you're basing that comment on. Yes, rents are generally more expensive, but most Social Housing was built and paid for a long time ago so it doesn't have to cover large borrowing/purchase costs, or providers tend to do land deals with local authorities at a big discount so the overheads on new stock are reduced and they can charge lower rents. However, there isn't anywhere near enough social housing to go around so the PRS fills the gap. If the PRS wasn't there, would house prices be cheaper? Yes, probably. Does that mean everyone could afford to buy,? No. Furthermore there would still be a huge shortage of housing due to our stupid planning laws.
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22 February 2023 10:30 AM
But on the other hand, tenants in mainland Europe generally have much more security. I've lived in France and Germany. In France they offer 3 years minimum tenancies for unfurnished lets and 6 months notice. In Germany the law is very complex and they offer a lot more Indefinite Tenancies, which are akin to our Assured Tenancy. Both countries can offer shorter fixed term lets but that only tends to be in certain circumstances like student lets or if the tenant requests it. The common default is the longer term option.
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22 February 2023 10:08 AM
This is supposed to make things simpler for the tenant - sorry, Contract Holders - but they must be having a laugh. The new model agreements are ridiculously long. Tenants - sorry, Contract Holders - don't read them at the best of times. If you want to remove any of the supplementary terms you have to leave them in the main body but then repeat them in appendix 2 as clauses that do not apply, making it even longer and harder to read. And why are they Contract Holders and not tenants any more? Surely the landlord is a contract holder too, so why are they still called landlords? Funnily enough I see in the Welsh government's guidance, they still slip in to calling them Tenants at least once :)
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07 December 2022 10:01 AM
Success would probably depend on whether this is in a addition to, or replaces, the requirement for affordable housing at the current thresholds. If it is an additional requirement, then most developments over 10 houses would simply not happen. Leading to more shortages of housing as developers focus on more profitable areas.
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20 May 2022 15:57 PM
I predict zero effect. They will just get listed on a competitor platform.
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06 May 2022 16:32 PM
Is there any real evidence apart from maybe in Walthamstow, that proves these selective schemes make a blind bit of difference? I've not seen much evidence in Wales, Scotland or any selective licensing authority in England that there has been any improvement in anti-social behaviour or property standards as a result of these schemes. We have properties in a lot of them and all the schemes are different so it's a real pain as the costs, systems and requirements are different in each area. If we're going to do this, at least make it a nationwide scheme so that it is more efficient. Just at a basic system level, how much money has been wasted developing a separate online system in each borough?
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27 April 2022 17:02 PM
It's called PR.
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27 April 2022 16:53 PM
At over £8600pcm they must be aiming for tiny sub-section of the retirement market. How many retirees can afford those sorts of rents? We need more rental properties that the elderly can actually afford on relatively fixed incomes.
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27 April 2022 16:50 PM
There is simply no comparison. From my own extensive experience of 28 years in both the PRS and social housing sector, I would say the vast majority of social housing is much lower specification than the PRS and has significantly poorer standards when it comes to repairs and maintenance. You're lucky if your social landlord even provides carpets at the start of a tenancy. And rather than a fresh redec, you are likely to receive a £70 "Paint Pack" including brushes, tins of paint and dust sheets. The argument being that tenants just love being able to choose the colours and get stuck in to the DIY, when in reality it is just a way to cut void turnaround times and costs.
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21 April 2022 18:28 PM
It's not difficult, check his profile....
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21 April 2022 18:06 PM
That is completely meaningless. Surely it would be more useful to know how it compares to the number of tenancies that ended in that period, not the total number of tenancies registered!
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08 January 2021 16:31 PM
"The only people suffering from this scheme are here illegally anyway." This is far from true in our experience. Not everyone is lucky enough to run an agency where they let most of their properties to families, young professionals or students. We let a lot of properties to older people in their 70s, 80s and 90s. Many of them don't have any of the tier one documents and struggle to find the other documents too. Imagine trying to explain this to someone in their 80s or 90s who lives a long distance away, has no support network and is partially deaf and has quite poor mobility. It is almost impossible and it happens on an almost daily basis for us. Imagine how difficult it is for them to obtain a letter of attestation or something up to date from the local authority that meets the strict documentary requirements. Or you discover their husband, who looked after all the paperwork and finances died 5 years ago and they lost their marriage certificate to prove the name on their 40 year old expired passport. I have seen countless older people become extremely stressed and upset by the whole process and it has led to significant delays in moving in, or missing out altogether.
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04 March 2019 09:36 AM
Yes it does matter! We specialise in letting retirement properties nationwide and many elderly, frail and sometimes vulnerable people do not have the paper work to prove their right to rent in the UK. The process has caused a great amount of extra work, stress and delays for these people in trying to obtain the strict evidence they need. I quite regularly just make a commercial decision and take the risk to accept them without full evidence. This means I could potentially end up in jail. It's easy letting to young, technically and physically able professionals, but try following the rules for a frail, partially deaf 94 year old with no support network, no computer or smartphone and who has never had a passport and lost their birth certificate in WW2. This is an absolutely genuine situation and far from being an isolated case for us.
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06 June 2018 10:18 AM
So it's completely un-verifiable then and could be an utter load of nonsense? Is that what passes for news these days? If I write a blog about the excellent best-practice demonstrated by my agency would you publish it?
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08 August 2017 16:51 PM
Please show me where any of the existing selective licensing schemes are making noticeable improvements?
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01 August 2016 09:29 AM
And if you click on the map and zoom out, the property is apparently located in the middle of the Gulf of Guinea, about 400 miles off the coast of Ghana :)
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