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We offer Landlords & Buy to Let investors a through and comprehensive 'Guaranteed Rent' scheme for residential properties in North, East & West London boroughs. As former local authority senior housing officers, we founded Central Housing Group in 2000 with two equally important objectives:- firstly, to offer landlords a very reliable, efficient and competitive Guaranteed Rental service that they

could trust and depend upon and secondly, to offer London local authorities, seeking social housing, better value for money and much better quality accommodation in the private rented sector, for their tenants. We began our business, located in north London, introducing local landlords to our Guaranteed Rent Scheme and using our long-standing, trusted relationships with London local authorities, who have a high demand for suitable properties, to allow us to gradually and successfully grow our Company. Central Housing Group Guaranteed Rent Scheme ;
Our Guaranteed Rent Scheme has proven so popular with landlords throughout London that we now have several hundred properties in management located across north, west and east London.

21/03/2025

Propertymark is advising agents to prepare for potential changes in rent collection processes and consider implementing “supportive measures” to assist struggling tenants facing financial difficulties.

This is as a result of a shake up in benefits next month.

From April the Universal Credit Fair Repayment Rate will drop from 25% to 15% next month, reducing the amount available to service an individual’s monthly debts, including housing payments.

Furthermore, the Department for Work and Pensions is set to overhaul the system of the automatic deduction of arrears and ongoing rent payments directly from tenants’ Universal Credit or other benefits, following a court ruling which deemed the practice unlawful.

In January this year, a legal case challenged this system when a tenant discovered that £500 had been deducted from his benefits without consultation, despite an ongoing dispute with his landlord over property repairs.

20/03/2025

The average number of new tenancies agreed per lettings agent branch climbed to around eight in the first month of this year, a new report has revealed.

The research by industry body Propertymark highlighted the increase from seven during the previous month, in December 2024.

It also found that demand continues to outstrip supply, with the average number of applicants per member branch reaching around nine people for each available property in January of this year.

Nathan Emerson said: “For the private rental market, pressures remain, and the age-old story continues of demand levels increasing against a slowing backdrop of supply.

19/03/2025

New buyer enquiries and agreed sales in the housing market are dipping into negative territory according to RICS' latest report.

Changes in Stamp Duty and geopolitical and international economic uncertainty are creating a ‘less favourable climate for the housing market,’ says RICS Chief Economist Simon Rubinsohn.

His comment are within the latest RICS Residential Property Survey which has revealed that buyer demand has weakened, with a net balance of -14% during February compared to -1% in January and the weakest it has been since November 2023.

‘Net balance’ is the percentage of agents reporting uplift minus the percentage reporting a downward trend.

According to the survey’s respondents, the changes to Stamp Duty on April 1, when the threshold will reduce from £250,000 to £125,000, is expected to weaken market activity, and RICS believes that this is increasingly influencing the slowdown as the deadline approaches.

18/03/2025

The RICS market latest snapshot points to rising rents, despite little movement in the lettings sector.

The monthly RICS market study is a sentiment survey, rather than dealing in hard data, but surveyor respondents suggest that tenant demand recorded a figure slightly below zero for a fourth month in a row,.

Consequently, this is longest stretch without a positive reading for this indicator since RICS began this measure in 2012.

The organisation says: “This points to a broadly stagnant trend rather than an abrupt downturn. Alongside this, landlord instructions continue to show negative momentum, registering a net balance of -22%. Despite the subdued demand backdrop, a net balance of +34% of survey participants foresee rental prices rising over the coming three months.

17/03/2025

Online property auction house, Bamboo Auctions, has appointed former Reapit CEO, Gary Barker, and experienced fintech specialist, Rob Barnett to its board.

Together with CEO, Robin Rathore, and Chairman, Nicholas Leeming, the pair will help advise and guide property auction house Bamboo Auctions’ strategic direction as it continues to increase its market share of the online auction sector as well as expanding its product offering into the wider property market.

Gary, a well-known industry expert with over 20 years’ experience in property technology, was also CTO at Countrywide and has held senior roles at other firms including Nurtur, COHO and ViewMyChain.

Rob has spent much of his career working in large international businesses including Friendslife, Kingfisher, RBS Insurance, Direct Line, and more recently NED at ContentCal and Chairman at Detected.

16/03/2025

Small landlords with one or two properties could end up being replaced by larger portfolio or corporate landlords as part of the Government’s push to improve standards, according to a top property lawyer.

Justin Bates, barrister at Landmark Chambers, believes the Government is worried about the “amateur” PRS, as it thinks it makes it harder to drive up standards.

However, he said the Government isn't inherently anti-landlord.

“This is a Government that sees that the current arrangements don’t work for the majority of people,” explains Bates.

15/03/2025

Many holiday lets sector owners are concerned about the impact recent and upcoming regulatory and tax changes will have on their businesses – especially in the context of other rising running costs.

Sykes Holiday Cottages conducted a survey of 500 holiday lets sector owners to understand their attitudes to the industry and views on recent changes. Almost half (45%) of UK owners say they’ve already been affected by regulation changes, which increases to 63% of those in Wales.

Owners say rules allowing some councils to charge increased rates of council tax are most impacting their businesses, with nearly six in 10 (58%) affected by this.

Many holiday let owners are concerned about the impact recent and upcoming regulatory and tax changes will have on their businesses – especially in the context of other rising running costs.

Sykes Holiday Cottages conducted a survey of 500 holiday let owners to understand their attitudes to the industry and views on recent changes.

14/03/2025

An estate agency boss has urged the Government to bring in a Property MOT style system for homes coming to market in the UK which, she claims, will help speed up the house sales process.

The comments by sales director Amy Reynolds of London agency Anthony Roberts follow the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s announcement that it wants to digitise the conveyancing process, and ongoing efforts by Trading Standards to make agents and vendors supply ‘mandatory information’ to prospective buyers ahead of offers.

Reynolds points out that the average time to complete a home purchase in the UK is just over five months and that such a slow system has real-world impacts for the estimated 71,000 hoping to get their purchases through before the March 31st Stamp Duty deadline.

Reynolds says: “The current system is fraught with unnecessary delays.

13/03/2025

Tenants are being urged by the housing minister to challenge unfair rent increases.

Matthew Pennycook's comments were in response to a question to the Government about the impact of unfair rent increases on the number of tenants being evicted.

He called on tenants to challenge any increases deemed above the market value.

He said: “The Government recognises that paying rent is likely to be a tenant’s biggest monthly expense.

“The Renters’ Rights Bill empowers private rented sector tenants to challenge unreasonable rent increases, with all rent increases taking place via an existing statutory process.

12/03/2025

Disputes with tenants over rent arrears account for over one in five rental disputes, the highest percentage seen over the last five years.

FCC Paragon analysed rental disputes data across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, looking at what proportion of total disputes lodged across the UK rental market were related to rental arrears.

The figures show that last year an estimated 47,405 disputes were lodged by tenants across the private rental sector.

This marked a 13.6% increase in total dispute numbers versus the previous year and the highest total seen over the last five years.

Some 9,784 of these disputes involved rental arrears, again the highest figure in the last five years, whilst also marking a huge 80.8% year on year increase.

As a result, over one in five disputes involved rental arrears, which is by far the highest proportion seen since 2019/20.

11/03/2025

Hounslow Council is running a consultation on its proposed extension of its mandatory licensing requirements to include all smaller HMO's which it hopes will help it tackle anti-social behaviour.

Councillor Tom Bruce, Cabinet Member for Assets, Regeneration and Development at Hounslow Council says, with around a third of residents living in the private rented sector across the borough, HMOs are an important, much-needed source of accommodation.
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However, he adds, HMO's are amongst the most difficult to manage properties in the sector and can present serious risks of harm to the health and safety of its tenants and persistent anti-social behaviour issues.

The proposed new scheme will extend mandatory licensing requirements to include all smaller HMOs where facilities are shared and are occupied by 3 or 4 persons.

11/03/2025

Tenants lodged an estimated 47,405 tenant disputes across the PRS in 2024, a 13% increase on the previous year and the highest number in the past five years.

Based on UK-wide data from TDS, lettings platform FCC Paragon estimated that some 9,784 of these tenant disputes involved rental arrears, again the highest figure in the last five years, while also marking a huge 80% year-on-year increase.

Disputes involving rental arrears now account for more than one in five of all rental market disputes, which is by far the highest proportion seen since 2019/20.

Even during the pandemic - 2019/20 and 2020/21 -, the number of rental disputes involving arrears accounted for just 14% of total disputes lodged. While this figure fell to 12% in 2021/22, it has increased consistently during the past two years.

Bekki Leaves said the figures suggested that the private rental sector has become more volatile when it comes to the relationship between landlords and tenants.

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