There are an average 13 renters battling it out for every property available to let — but are landlords profiting or selling up? It feels genuinely hopeless and it’s making me ill,” says Lottie, who privately rents a two-bedroom property in outer London. Like thousands of private tenants right now, her biggest worry … [Read more...]
The Death of the Landlord
Spring is property auction season, when a motley collection of semi-derelict houses, flats with leases in the single figures and the homes of mortgage defaulters get sold off. This year, though, a scan of the catalogues of some of the UK’s leading property auction houses reveals a new class of property under the … [Read more...]
