Regulation
What the Renters' Rights Act changed for landlords
Section 21 is gone, tenancies are periodic, and rent increases run through a statutory form. What that means for an owner deciding whether to keep letting directly.
Insight
The rules, the numbers, and what they mean for your asset
Written for owners and operators who need the detail, not a summary of a summary. Specific, sourced, and updated when the law changes rather than when the content calendar says so.
In preparation
What we are writing
These are the pieces being researched now. We would rather publish six that are right than sixty that are filler.
Regulation
Why company lets survive the Renters' Rights Act
A tenancy to a company was never assured, and the relevant section of the Housing Act 1988 is unamended. The reasoning, and the two cautions that come with it.
Market
What an operator can actually pay for your flat
Rent cover is the ratio that decides every guaranteed rent conversation. How it is calculated, and why the average London two-bed does not clear it.
Regulation
Licensing, use class and the questions nobody asks first
The restrictions that determine which operators can legally take a property, and why establishing them early saves an owner six weeks.
Market
Blocks: one agreement instead of ten tenancies
What changes when a building is offered whole rather than unit by unit, and which operators can absorb it.
Regulation
The London short-let rules, and where they stop applying
The 90-night rule, what sits outside it, and why the registration scheme still has not launched.
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