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Sex for shelter- One scandalous result of our housing crisis.

11 September, 20180 Comments
Sex for shelter- One scandalous result of our housing crisis. When you hear of vulnerable young people paying for shelter with sexual favours, what country springs to mind? We would be willing to bet that the UK isn’t the first place that you thought of. Yet that’s exactly what’s happening right here in one of
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More tenants turning to National Debt line as they fail to pay the rent.

11 September, 20180 Comments
More tenants turning to national debt line as they fail to pay the rent. Uk landlords are facing a crisis as more companies are closing and making redundancies as debt problems in the UK are both growing and changing. At Tenant Referencing Uk we are hearing from more and more member landlords who have done
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Landlords, fancy a rent reduction of up to 90%?

03 September, 20180 Comments
Landlords, fancy a rent reduction of up to 90%? No? We didn’t think so! That’s why we were pretty surprised to see that’s what has been agreed as part of the Homebase Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) to rescue the business from administration. The CVA will result in 42 stores closing and rents cut by between
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Another government failure brings a £1 Billion unprecedented repercussion!

01 September, 20180 Comments
A 1 Billion Pound unprecedented repercussion! An article by inside housing examined the figures from 290 local authorities and calculated that last year alone, local councils’ temporary accommodation spend neared £1bn (£937m). With this figure being reported as a 56% increase in just 5 years, we can’t help but think this is part of the
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Shouldn’t Landlords shoulder the burden that’s resulted from the Government’s failure to provide?

23 August, 20180 Comments
Shouldn’t  Landlords shoulder the burden that’s resulted from the Government’s failure to provide? An undercover investigation undertaken by the charity Shelter has revealed that one in ten regional letting agent branches they reached out to had a policy not to let to anyone on housing benefit. As a result of their findings, Shelter is planning to
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Household debt has now overtaken credit as the main source of financial problems

22 August, 20180 Comments
Household debt has now overtaken credit as the main source of financial problems Today, the Citizens Advice Bureau released a press release revealing that “households have fallen behind on their essential bills, such as council tax and utilities, by an estimated £18.9 billion”. This means that household debt has now overtaken credit as the main
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There’s a lot we can learn from our friends in New Zealand

17 August, 20180 Comments
The UK has a lot in common with New Zealand despite the 11,000 miles distance between them. We both enjoy landscapes of green rolling hills, we share the same Monarch with similar political institutions and both countries have a passion for beer and skill at rugby. But we have something else in common too – we are both
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What shall we do? as pressure mounts to pass on costs to tenants.

16 August, 20180 Comments
As landlords and Letting Agents continue to feel the pressure of more and more legislation and taxes we are all starting to wonder where it will stop and how to deal with the onslaught of costs. The real story started many years ago when the country was run by two schoolboys Cameron and Osborne. Since
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