New rules on HHSRS, the PRS database, EPC C and Decent Homes Standard are stacking up for landlords. Here’s why the gap between organised and disorganised investors is about to get much wider.
HHSRS is changing from June 2026. Here’s what the new Low, Medium and High hazard ratings actually mean for landlords, and why it’s worth reviewing what you already own.
Buy to let landlords sold 35,000 more properties than they bought in 2022, with the rental sector losing an average of 66 buy to let properties a day last year, according to analysis by agents Hamptons. Hamptons also says 140,000 people stopped being landlords in 2022, and 96,000 are expected to follow suit…
Is the Private Rental Sector Losing Landlords? Since December 2021, we’ve been hearing a lot about landlords exiting the Private Rental Sector. The narrative goes that rising interest rates, increased mortgages, and political factors have led to this trend. But is this really the case? According to analysis conducted by estate agents…
A comment which I sometimes see made on social media, like on the Facebook, on different sorts of property groups on Facebook, is that buy to let is an outdated model. In fact sometimes people will come to my YouTube channel and do little troll type posts saying ‘Buy to let is dead, property investing…
Sometimes you just happen to be in the right place at the right time. This happened to me a while back when I sent my son in law around to inspect a potential buy to let property for me. It raises the question, how much is a bucket of dirty rainwater actually worth? Every cloud…
In this video I want to talk about the upside, the benefits, the things that are great about owning property and being a buy to let investor. Number one on my list, and probably very top of my list, is the ability to be able to create equity in a property. If you like, that’s…
Hi, Peter Jones, author, property investor, ex-chartered surveyor. I’m outside one of my buy to let properties here and a question I am often asked is “What makes a good buy to let yield?” But, it’s one of those things where I don’t think there’s any hard and fast rules. The answer…
I’ve been talking to a number of people who want to get into property investing recently and a question which quite often arises is ‘What sort of property should I be buying if I want to get into buy to lets’. Sometimes the question is ‘Peter, why do you advise buying cheaper properties rather than…
When a lot of would-be investors start in buy to let, they often have dreams of buying really nice houses, in really nice areas. But are those the best properties to buy as an investment? Often the answer is no. By and large the best properties for investing are cheaper properties in cheaper areas. This…