Buy-To-Let And Working From Home : Tap Into The Trend To Boost Your Rental Property’s Income
By Phillippa Baillie-White
Can you believe the average UK employee now spends just 1.5 days a week at the office? Unimaginable just a couple of years ago, it's now abundantly clear that the way we work has changed forever. The new era of flexible working...
Why Buy a Rental Property in Wickford or Basildon?
You might be wondering ‘why buy a rental property in Wickford’? After all, we’re in the midst of a global pandemic, and a trip to the shops is stressful enough! However, all the findings suggest that now is a great time to...
Essex in Tier 4: What it means for tenants and landlords in Basildon
As of today, a new area of Essex has replaced Basildon as the Covid capital of England. Yesterday (Saturday, December 19), Basildon, Essex, was announced as the worst-affected area in the week leading to December 14. But today the...
Self Management: Cost saving, or a false economy?
Why do some landlords work with lettings agencies while others prefer to go it alone? A survey carried out this month by insurance provider Hamilton Fraser may help us to understand. It found that 48.3% of more than 2,200...
The end of the Furlough Scheme: What next for Essex renters and landlords?
The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, better known as the furlough scheme, was introduced by the chancellor Rishi Sunak in March to help employers deal with the financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Official estimates suggest...
Right to Rent checks: finally moving to online platform
The Home Office is proposing a new online service to make it easier to check that prospective tenants fulfil the much maligned 'Right To Rent' requirements. Right To Rent was introduced in 2015 after a six month trial in the...
Tenants Queuing Up: demand outstrips supply
The number of new prospective tenants is at its highest level ever according to the August 2020 Private Rented Sector report just released by ARLA Propertymark. The average letting agency branch registered 101 new tenants last...
Post Ban Evictions: New Regulations announced
The government has set out confirmation of the new regulations and protocols that landlords will have to follow if they wish to restart or request a possession hearing and evict a tenant. “This guidance is to help private...
Race into Essex: Renters happy to pay more for larger homes in smaller towns
New research suggests that tenants are joining home buyers in a trend towards leaving big cities and heading for more spacious homes in smaller towns and the suburbs. Between May and August 2020, 34% of tenants that moved home...
New Eviction Ban Rules: What has changed?
It didn't come as a shock to many within the industry when Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick extended the ban on evictions for another 4 weeks just 2 days before courts were due to resume eviction hearings on the 23rd August. This...
'The New Normal': What's next for the rental market?
Well 2020, you've certainly kept things interesting...! As the UK begins to bounce back from the Coronavirus lockdown, analysts begin to speculate on what the future holds for the UK economy. Here at Baillie White, we are going to...