Category: Landlord Advice
How to improve your property’s EPC rating
If you’ re a landlord, you will be aware that recent years have seen successive changes to the energy-efficiency standards the law requires you to maintain for your domestic let property. It might have been something of a challenge to …
The importance of the PRS
What is it? The initials might not be recognised by everyone, but for those in the know, PRS simply means the Private Rental (or Rented) Sector – populated by private sector landlords and the growing number of private tenants they …
Landlord safety responsibilities: How to ensure compliance in rented properties
As a landlord, you have a legal responsibility to ensure your rental property is safe, secure, and free from hazards that could harm your tenants. This applies whether you let out a self-contained property, a house in multiple occupation (HMO), …
Energy-saving tips and green funding for your home
As the wintry weather bites, you’ll inevitably want to turn up the heating at home. But you’ll also want to balance your comfort against the constraints of your budget – energy costs an increasing amount of your hard-earned cash. We’ve …
Squatters and the law
Few things are likely to generate an increase in the blood pressure of many landlords than the subject of squatters. Unfortunately, no brief article of this nature can cover a multitude of different situations that might be defined as squatting …
Legal and compliance aspects of unoccupied property
If you have to leave your home temporarily unoccupied for a month or more, it becomes not only more vulnerable to the risks of loss or damage but might also pose a hazard to neighbours and passersby. These and other …
Home renovations and insurance gaps
The builders are in to carry out some long-awaited renovations to your home. But in all the excitement to get the job finally done, are you at risk of overlooking a potentially critical insurance gap? Any work likely to affect …
Technological solutions for monitoring unoccupied properties
If you own a property that you know will stand vacant and empty for longer than a month or two you might already have heard about the need for unoccupied property insurance. As we’ve explained in our comprehensive guide to …
The accidental landlord
There are things we make a conscious effort to engage in, and then there are others we just seem to fall into doing almost by sheer chance. In the private rented sector of the housing market, it is this difference …
The dreaded Japanese knotweed
Anyone with a garden is almost certain to have heard of the menace of Japanese knotweed. An increasingly large number of unfortunates will have learned all about the problem first hand as the pernicious weed finds its way into their …
