How Residents of Singapore Can Invest in UK Property

How Residents of Singapore Can Invest in UK Property

Low property prices and a country that’s easy to invest in are just some of the reasons Singapore residents might want to invest in UK property. Here’s some advice on how Singaporeans can invest in UK property, and how it is different to Singapore.Article...
A Guide to DIY Conveyancing

A Guide to DIY Conveyancing

When buying or selling a house it is usual to have a solicitor or conveyancer to handle the conveyancing process for you. However, it is possible to do your conveyancing yourself. Here we will look at what you need to know about doing DIY conveyancing.Article updated:...
How to Sell a Property with a Short Lease

How to Sell a Property with a Short Lease

Selling a house or a flat ought to be easy. But if you have a house or a flat with a short lease then selling it could be very difficult… or even totally impossible. If you have short lease problems here’s what you need to know about short leases, and a way to...
How Residents of Hong Kong Can Invest in UK Property

How Residents of Hong Kong Can Invest in UK Property

The UK has become an attractive place for Hong Kong residents to invest in property in recent years. Here’s some advice on how Hong Kongers can invest in UK property, and how it is different to Hong Kong.Article updated: September 2026ContentsCan Hong Kong...
Rejecting the new town in Enfield isn’t nimbyism | Housing

Rejecting the new town in Enfield isn’t nimbyism | Housing

Polly Toynbee’s article about the proposed new town in Enfield mischaracterises local opposition and overlooks more practical options (Nimbys can’t stand in the way of Labour’s legacy: a 21st-century new town boom, 1 September). Objecting to the town is a rejection of...
Why links and late documents will not help you at a rent tribunal » The Landlord Law Blog

Landlord Law Newsround #452 » The Landlord Law Blog

Welcome to our first Newsround for September where we find no shortage of housing news this week. Landlords’ request for a guarantor increases An interesting report claims that more than half of all landlords are now requesting a guarantor if the tenants’...
Explore remote homes across the UK

Explore remote homes across the UK

It’s easy to dream about trading city living in for a quieter life. Whether it’s the fresh air, more space, or the blissful silence that you can only get when living miles from anywhere, the idea of moving to remote, scenic locations has obvious appeal. There’s...
What Does Vacant Possession Mean When Buying or Selling?

What Does Vacant Possession Mean When Buying or Selling?

Vacant possession means the property is handed over empty on the day the sale completes. Empty of people, empty of belongings, and with nothing legally standing between the buyer and the front door. The courts break that into three tests: the property must be free of...
How They Work and the Risks

How They Work and the Risks

A property bond is a loan. An investor lends money to a property company, usually a developer, for a fixed term at a fixed rate of interest. The loan is normally secured by a legal charge over a property or a site, and the capital is due back when the bond matures....
How They Work and the Risks

The Address Every Landlord Must Give Their Tenant

A Section 48 notice is the written notice a landlord gives a tenant setting out an address in England and Wales where the tenant can serve notices, including court papers, on the landlord. It comes from the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987, and you will see it shortened...
How They Work and the Risks

How to Challenge Your Council Tax Band and Check Your Bill

If your home sits in the wrong Council Tax band, you are paying the wrong bill. Two questions settle it: is your band right, and if it is not, how do you get it changed? This guide answers both, for England, Wales and Scotland. Challenging is free and you can do it...
Nonsensical housing policy from Reform | Reform UK

Nonsensical housing policy from Reform | Reform UK

Our first child was born in Singapore, 30 years ago, through no fault of their own. As UK citizens, we briefly lived there, came back to the UK, had two more children and have lived here ever since. Yet Reform UK would make it harder for our first child to get social...
What is a Tenement?

What is a Tenement?

If you are considering buying a tenement or investing in a tenement then you need to know exactly what a tenement is. Here’s a guide to what is a tenement and what you need to know when buying one.Article updated: August 2026ContentsWhat Exactly is a Tenement?Is...
Why links and late documents will not help you at a rent tribunal » The Landlord Law Blog

Landlord Law Newsround #451 » The Landlord Law Blog

Welcome to our last Newsround for August. Let’s see what has been in the news this week. Increase in guarantor demand Since the start of the Renters Right Act which bans landlords taking rent in advance there has been a gradual increase in tenants being asked to...
A Complete Guide to Estate Agent Fees and Contracts

A Complete Guide to Estate Agent Fees and Contracts

Estate agent fees can amount to many thousands of pounds, and their contracts can be complicated and difficult to understand. Here we’ll look at how much estate agent fees are likely to be, and at what you need to know about estate agent contracts.Article...
A Guide to DIY Conveyancing

Early 20th Century Housing | The Interwar Period

There are very few positives which can be written about the First World War. However, the loss of life in the conflict, across all social classes caused a great social change in the following decades and had a marked effect on housing in Britain.Article updated:...
What are Modular Homes?

What are Modular Homes?

Due to rising house prices and new construction technologies, there is currently a lot of interest in modular homes. Here we will look at what they are and examine the advantages and disadvantages of this type of design.Article updated: August 2026ContentsWhat Exactly...
Asbestos Cement: A Guide for Homeowners

Asbestos Cement: A Guide for Homeowners

Asbestos cement, a once-popular building material, lurks in many homes across the UK, a silent reminder of a time when its durability and resistance were prized above all else. Yet today, we know that the asbestos in this cement can pose serious health risks if...
What are Squatters’ Rights (in the UK)?

What are Squatters’ Rights (in the UK)?

There’s a lot of confusion about what squatter’s rights are in the UK. It’s sometimes thought that squatter’s have a right to occupy your property under squatter’s rights. While that’s not entirely true there are some circumstances...
The Baltic Triangle: An Area Guide

The Baltic Triangle: An Area Guide

While it used to be an inner-city area of workshops and warehouses the Baltic Triangle is now Liverpool’s liveliest and best place for culture, a social centre, a growing creative and digital hub, a great place for food and drink and a sought after city-living,...
To end homelessness, look to the root causes | Homelessness

To end homelessness, look to the root causes | Homelessness

As a vulnerable teenage girl carrying my life in a rucksack, I have been the person Andy Burnham describes people walking past in his article (I won’t abandon anyone to sleep rough on our streets. That’s my £442m promise, 19 August). That experience taught me that...
Why links and late documents will not help you at a rent tribunal » The Landlord Law Blog

Landlord Law Newsround #450 » The Landlord Law Blog

Weekly news and a little bit more with Landlord Law Newsround this week. Let’s see what has caught the teams’ eye. Council consults on tougher and higher fines Bath and North East Somerset council has started a consultation which will run until 23rd September to...
Five amazing school conversions on Rightmove

Five amazing school conversions on Rightmove

It’s difficult to imagine living in the same sort of building as you went to school. But old school buildings make a great place to live. They have a lot going for them, with high ceilings, huge windows and bags of character being just the start. We’ve been through...
What Makes a Property Unmortgageable?

What Makes a Property Unmortgageable?

An unmortgageable property is one that mainstream lenders will not lend against on their standard terms. A mortgageable property is the opposite: one a typical lender will accept as security for an ordinary mortgage without special conditions. “Non-mortgageable...
England’s New Landlord Database Explained

England’s New Landlord Database Explained

England is getting a national landlord register. It is called the Private Rented Sector Database, it was created by the Renters’ Rights Act 2025, and every landlord of an assured or regulated tenancy in England will have to register on it, along with each...
Why links and late documents will not help you at a rent tribunal » The Landlord Law Blog

Landlord Law Newsround #449 » The Landlord Law Blog

What has been happening in the housing news week? Landlord Law gives you some highlights in our weekly blog. Fraudulent tenancy applications on the rise thanks to AI Goodlord has carried research on fraudulent tenancy applications and it has found that these are...
Most Expensive Streets in Coventry: New Top 10

Most Expensive Streets in Coventry: New Top 10

Coventry’s most expensive street is Cryfield Grange Road in CV4, which averages £1,425,000 across the two standard residential sales HM Land Registry has recorded there since January 2020. Two sales is the bare minimum this ranking accepts, and both of them...
Most Expensive Streets in Derby: New Top 10

Most Expensive Streets in Derby: New Top 10

The Common in Quarndon is the most expensive street in Derby, averaging £1,181,250 over six standard residential sales logged from January 2020 to June 2026. The biggest single sale is £2,812,000, a detached freehold house sale on Well Lane in Repton, and Well Lane...
Most Expensive Streets in Leicester: New Top 10

Most Expensive Streets in Leicester: New Top 10

Warren Hill in Newtown Linford is the most expensive street in Leicester on the sold-price record since 2020, averaging £2,680,833 across six standard residential sales lodged with HM Land Registry. The record for one individual sale is a different question with, this...
Most Expensive Streets in Nottingham: New Top 10

Most Expensive Streets in Nottingham: New Top 10

The Old Woodyard in Wysall is the most expensive street in Nottingham on the sold-price record since 2020, averaging £2,258,333 across three standard residential sales on HM Land Registry’s register of completed purchases. Every one of those three sales cleared...
Most Expensive Streets in the UK: Sold-Price Top 100

Most Expensive Streets in the UK: Sold-Price Top 100

The most expensive street on the sold-price record since 2020 is Grosvenor Place in Belgravia (SW1X), where twelve standard residential sales average £28,553,596 on HM Land Registry’s England and Wales register of completed purchases. The record for a single...
Why links and late documents will not help you at a rent tribunal » The Landlord Law Blog

landlord Law Newsround #448 » The Landlord Law Blog

Welcome to our first Newsround of August, where we find no shortage of housing news this week. Renters at a disadvantage for EV charging A survey out this week claims that renters are at a clear disadvantage when charging their EV vehicles and have to negotiate many...
Most Expensive Streets in Northampton: New Top 10

Most Expensive Streets in Northampton: New Top 10

Golf Lane in Church Brampton is the most expensive street in Northampton, measured by average sold price. Ten standard residential sales there average £1,690,650 on the latest Land Registry price paid data, and two of them reached £3 million or more. The record for a...
5 Passivhaus eco homes under £400k

5 Passivhaus eco homes under £400k

Passivhaus is a building standard that focuses on making ‘passive houses’ that require as little energy as possible for heating and cooling Eco homes are designed to stay cooler in summer, warmer in winter, and use less energy overall Passivhaus focuses on the...
The buzz about fly infestations this summer | Insects

The buzz about fly infestations this summer | Insects

My experience of flies is that during the past 20 years or so there has been a significant decline in numbers – Highland midges not included of course (‘It makes you feel you’ve got a really dirty house’: what’s behind the UK’s plagues of flies?, 30 July).Memories of...
The most-viewed homes of 2026 so far

The most-viewed homes of 2026 so far

With the summer well underway, it’s time to revisit the properties that attracted the most clicks from home-hunters on Rightmove in the first half of 2026. And it’s not just the mega-mansions catching people’s eye either, although we’ve got plenty of those too. From a...
Lake District Holiday Let Income by Town

Lake District Holiday Let Income by Town

More bookings sound like more money. In the Lake District, the numbers do not work that neatly. The town with the highest occupancy is not the highest earner, while the town charging the highest nightly rate has the lowest occupancy. That is why this guide looks...
What is a FENSA Certificate?

What is a FENSA Certificate?

FENSA stands for Fenestration Self Assessment Scheme. It was originally established by the door and window replacement industry in response to the new building regulations introduced in April 2002. These required that any new double-glazed door, window or roof light...
How They Work and the Risks

The Section 40 Notice: A Detailed Guide

For qualifying business premises in England and Wales, the Section 40 Notice is a tool for landlords and tenants approaching the end of a tenancy. This legal instrument, rooted in the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, serves as a formal request for information, enabling...
Net Zero Carbon Housing: A Guide

Net Zero Carbon Housing: A Guide

More and more houses will be net zero carbon housing in the future. Here’s a guide to net zero carbon housing including what it is, why it’s important and how to build a net zero carbon house.Article updated: August 2026ContentsWhat is Net-Zero Carbon...
Understanding Taxation for Buy-to-Let Limited Companies

Understanding Taxation for Buy-to-Let Limited Companies

If you are running (or setting up) a buy-to-let limited company tax rules differ from those if you are owning buy to let properties in your own name. Here’s a guide to understanding tax for buy-to-let limited companies.Article updated: August 2026ContentsLimited...
What Is a Leasehold Property?

What Is a Leasehold Property?

You’ve probably heard of properties being described as ‘freehold’ or ‘leasehold’ but what do these terms actually mean? Today, we look at what do you will need to know if you are thinking about buying a leasehold property and also at...
Why links and late documents will not help you at a rent tribunal » The Landlord Law Blog

Landlord Law Newsround #447 » The Landlord Law Blog

Welcome to our last Newsround of July where bring you all the latest landlord related news from the past week. The end of Section 21 Today (31 July 2026) is the very last day that landlords can issue proceedings for possession based on a Section 21 notice. The end of...
Homelessness crisis starts at the prison gate | Homelessness

Homelessness crisis starts at the prison gate | Homelessness

We should all applaud Andy Burnham’s commitment to end rough sleeping (‘It’s generations of decline’: can Andy Burnham really end rough sleeping?, 24 July). The ambition is right and overdue. But he set the same goal in Greater Manchester in 2017 and found, as anyone...