Rents are predicted to rise significantly in 2017 as landlords pass on their rapidly increasing new costs to tenants according to property investment platform Landbay.  Across the UK as a whole rents have risen slightly this year with the exception of London where rents have shrunk by 0.31%. John Goodall, Chief Executive of Landbay, says “When you look at the raft of ...

Ever since the Government announced that landlords would no longer be allowed to offset the finance costs of their businesses, prominent economists have opposed this.  Immediately following the Summer Budget of 2015, Professor Philip Booth from the Institute of Economic Affairs and Paul Johnson from the Institute of Fiscal Studies were invited to scrutinize the Finance Bill ...

A survey by AXA has found that a typical UK tenant believes they will be renting a home for ten years.  However, in many cases this is not because they cannot afford to buy, but rather that a change in attitude towards renting means more are benefiting from the freedom it offers. Just 44% of tenants said they were renting for financial reasons compared to 67% in 2013.  ...