Could be worse. My dads just forwarded me this email he's received about one of his flats. Hopefully it gives him the push to actually sell it!
What’s it got to do with the landlord? Neighbours can call the police to deal with any crimes going on.
Could be worse. My dads just forwarded me this email he's received about one of his flats. Hopefully it gives him the push to actually sell it!
What’s it got to do with the landlord? Neighbours can call the police to deal with any crimes going on.
Management fees another thing to milk?It's still boring because the disconnect some landlords have from reality means they can't seem to admit it, but again.
If you're paying 10-15% right off the top in management fees, maybe your business model is the problem.
If you're massively overleveraged and put very little capital in yourself, maybe your business model is the problem.
If you're paying out full costs every time something needs doing to your properties, maybe your business model is the problem.
If your industry relies on the best part of £20 billion subsidy every year from the government and taxpayers, maybe your business model is the problem.
Housing isn't a free market and the fact that a broken system has meant it didn't matter how bad your 'business model' was for the last 20 years you still made money doesn't mean you should be protected forever.
Why would anyone be bitter of a hobbyist landlord who inherited a house? :S
Landlords don't set the prices, tenants do, if tenants won't pay the price because it's too high then LLs have to drop prices to get tenants in.lol wut
It has nothing to do with your Dad in all fairness.Could be worse. My dads just forwarded me this email he's received about one of his flats. Hopefully it gives him the push to actually sell it!
Well I suppose masses of people could choose to be homeless instead, housing isnt a luxury good, so it doesnt quite fall into the old supply and demand situation. There is also of course tenants refusing to accept rent increases and moving out, but there is such a critical shortage, there will inevitably be a replacement. So of course landlords (or their representatives) set the rents. you are the first one I have seen claim they dont, usually they will admit to be in control of what they rent out for.Landlords don't set the prices, tenants do, if tenants won't pay the price because it's too high then LLs have to drop prices to get tenants in.
Month on month rental prices dropped from September to October and average voids increased from 14 to 19 days.
Upward pressures are still there going forwards though because of tight supply, it's still up 4% yoy and likely to continue going up over the next year, but month to month it just dropped.
'One of his flats'.... How many does he have?Could be worse. My dads just forwarded me this email he's received about one of his flats. Hopefully it gives him the push to actually sell it!
So landlords costs decreased in sept/Oct and they decided to reflect that in rents being asked?Well I suppose masses of people could choose to be homeless instead, housing isnt a luxury good, so it doesnt quite fall into the old supply and demand situation. There is also of course tenants refusing to accept rent increases and moving out, but there is such a critical shortage, there will inevitably be a replacement. So of course landlords (or their representatives) set the rents. you are the first one I have seen claim they dont, usually they will admit to be in control of what they rent out for.
Lol dude I'm not a fan of hobbyist landlords at all but this is a hot take. The two places I have rented in my life I did it for flexibility and I couldn't have afforded the place by several magnitudes.'One of his flats'.... How many does he have?
So instead of the flat being owned by someone that actually wants to live there, he's just leeching money from people instead? Yea no sympathy whatsoever, hope they trash his place.
Surely if landlords sell up, then either the flats/houses they are selling are going to other landlords or people that will own them and live in them?So landlords costs decreased in sept/Oct and they decided to reflect that in rents being asked?
I don't think so.
Similarly, I had to replace a boiler this year, so as I'm a landlord and we always pass on all costs, I could have just whacked their rent up by £200?
Again, no, in the area there are of course other houses to rent and my tenants would have moved out.
So yes, supply and demand does very much apply to rents.
Landlords are being squeezed by government policy, it pushes some in to unprofitability, they sell, reducing supply, rents go up because tenants compete over the remaining supply.
LLs can always try to increase rents but without tenants paying the increase the house sits empty, hence also the increase in void time sept/Oct.
You made a comment tenants set the rent, what has what you just typed to do with that?So landlords costs decreased in sept/Oct and they decided to reflect that in rents being asked?
I don't think so.
Similarly, I had to replace a boiler this year, so as I'm a landlord and we always pass on all costs, I could have just whacked their rent up by £200?
Again, no, in the area there are of course other houses to rent and my tenants would have moved out.
So yes, supply and demand does very much apply to rents.
Landlords are being squeezed by government policy, it pushes some in to unprofitability, they sell, reducing supply, rents go up because tenants compete over the remaining supply.
LLs can always try to increase rents but without tenants paying the increase the house sits empty, hence also the increase in void time sept/Oct.
houses are being sold by landlords to people who live in them, removing a rental house from the rental supply - not everyone wants to own a property so the number of renters doesn't go down because someone somewhere bought a houseSurely if landlords sell up, then either the flats/houses they are selling are going to other landlords or people that will own them and live in them?
Unless they're then being knocked down to maintain the high pricing in the local area? (IIRC there are some investment groups in the US that are very deliberately buying up entire new build suburbs purely to stop them being available as they've worked out they can make more money by deliberately crippling supply in the area).
I'm really not sure why this is so hard for people to get their heads around, but as they say, you can lead a horse to water..houses are being sold by landlords to people who live in them, removing a rental house from the rental supply - not everyone wants to own a property so the number of renters doesn't go down because someone somewhere bought a house
immigration is still rampant, so for every 1 person/family that first time buy a property, there are several other families arriving who need to rent - there were over 400,000 work visas issued in 2023 alone and 293,000 first time buyers.