I sometimes wonder if the world is going mad. We have about a million people on Council waiting lists yet posh houses bought by billionaires are just left to rot.
As per this video in the Guardian.
Councils have powers to take over empty homes -why can’t they use them? (Rant over).
So, what happened on the blog this week?
Monday
A Practical Approach to Landlord and Tenant by Simon Garner & Alexandra Frith
A review of an excellent landlord & tenant law book
Tuesday
Exciting changes and new benefits to my Landlord Law Business
Wednesday
Tenancy Agreements 33 days of tips – Day 30 – Preparation
My series on Tenancy Agreements looks at preparation this week
Thursday
Can my landlord include a clause preventing a periodic tenancy after the fixed term?
A question asked by a tenant in my blog clinic this week
Friday
Tessa Shepperson Newsround #20
My look at the housing news this week
Further Reading
- Interesting Guardian story about a landlord who is selling up
- A Channel 4 video looking at the housing crisis in London
- Cardiff suspends the ‘right to buy’ for 4 years
- Oxford deals with its homeless problem by issuing fines
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The Guardian article you link to is from January 2014.
This article from a year ago claims the market is changing;
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/billionaires-row-londons-notorious-bishops-avenue-returning-dead-1542604
Still full of filthy rich international oligarchs but an improvement from being left to rot.