Dealing With Tricky Tenants
February 17, 2015
There are some scenarios that can challenge even the most experienced landlord or agent. I’m not thinking so much about legal matters, more those grey awkward management issues that we may have a clear policy or procedure for, but in the end it’s the way we manage the situation that wins the day.
I was recently asked to talk about dealing with tricky tenants for Greenwich Business club and I put together four classic scenarios: moving extra people in, dealing with noise, untidy tenants and failure […]
In 2014, I had numerous discussions with fellow landlords and journalists about the perils of rising interest rates. It was also during 2014 that predictions for when base rate would begin to rise shifted from Spring 2014 to the current consensus of Spring 2016.
It never ceases to amaze me how something as seemingly benign as a valuation can be the cause of so much frustration. I’ve come to learn over the years that it is the most critical part of the financing process. It would seem that all kinds of legal uncertainties can be airbrushed away with an indemnity policy. But if the valuer says the property is worth less than you would hope or its condition makes it unfit as lending security, then you can kiss goodbye […]
Average UK house prices rose by 7.2% in 2014 according to Nationwide. Throughout the year, it has been a North South divide story, prices have risen 17.8% in London, 10.6% in the South East and 9.8% in East Anglia. This compares with more modest rises of between 1 and 7% in Wales, the Midlands, the North and Scotland, where in many cases prices have still not recovered from their pre-2008 credit crunch […]
It is busy on the landlord meetings circuit in London at the moment, I’ve been doing the rounds across the East London boroughs I look after for the NLA. Two weeks ago, I was at a very positive meeting in Hackney where cabinet member for housing, Cllr Phillip Glanville attended the whole meeting. He is sensible and approachable and in our obligatory licensing chat, he assured me it was an option, no definitive decision had been taken and we should meet to discuss further.