Tom Entwistle

1 week ago | landlordzone.co.uk | Tom Entwistle

Renting with pets – the rules are changingBoth the Conservatives and now Labour have vowed to make it easier for tenants to rent with pets. The Renters’ Rights Bill currently in the final stages of progressing through parliament, prior to passing into law later this year, will give tenants greater pets rights.

2 weeks ago | landlordzone.co.uk | Tom Entwistle

Converting commercial property to residential useCommercial to residential conversions are creating lots of new investment opportunities for landlords / developers. They involve change of use and transforming office spaces, retail units, or other commercial properties into residential accommodation, often driven by high housing demand and the potentially high rewards.

2 weeks ago | landlordzone.co.uk | Tom Entwistle

Government energy efficiency schemes have left people living in houses “unfit for human habitation”Insulating houses to improve energy efficiency should not only improve the lives of the thousands of residents, but it should also considerably reduce the expenditure needed to heat their homes.

2 weeks ago | landlordzone.co.uk | Tom Entwistle

LEGAL landlord case: serving notices on your tenants – get it right first timeDenial of receipt of notices is a recurring theme on the landlord-tenant landscape. Some tenants will deny receipt of a notice in an attempt to prevent or at least delay an eviction process. It usually comes down to one person’s word against another, difficult to prove one way or the other unless there’s good evidence, and that’s the key to this issue, landlords / agents must pay attention to getting this right.

3 weeks ago | landlordzone.co.uk | Tom Entwistle

COMMENT: Spring Statement 2025 – how will it affect the property sector? Tom Entwistle reflects on the Spring Statement which he says was not so much an emergency budget, more an update on the state of the economy with a few tweaks. The Spring Statement should have been a non-event, but Rachel Reeves was forced to announce spending cuts after her £9.9 billion headroom from the October 2024 Autumn Budget was wiped out by high borrowing costs and low UK growth figures.