Market trends, strategy and analysis for UK self-managing landlords navigating the post-RRA rental market.
Hand-picked, high-value reading for self-managing landlords.
93,000 landlords left the UK rental market in 2025. What's driving the exodus, who's staying, and what the shrinking supply means for rents and property values.
Traditional referencing, open banking, and AI statement analysis each have strengths and blind spots. Here's how each method works, what it catches, and when to use it.
The Equality Act 2010 prohibits discrimination on protected characteristics — but landlords can still screen on affordability. Here's the line between lawful assessment and unlawful discrimination.
Understand what credit checks for renters reveal, what they miss, how to run them legally, and how to interpret CCJs, IVAs, and affordability as a UK landlord.
We show your certificate expiry dates for free. Charging to warn you about them would be a trap, not a paywall. Where we draw the line, and the limit.
Panorama showed criminals passing agency checks with fake British IDs. Here's what the programme really revealed about tenant checks — and what it means for a landlord managing their own place.
Bulk screening before viewings vs a detailed check before signing — when to use each, how they work together, and why affordability triage matters more under the Renters' Rights Act.
Margaret Thatcher's Right to Buy sold 2 million council homes at huge discounts. Decades later, 40% are now privately rented — and those landlords face the toughest regulation in history. Here's the full story.
Where rental profit actually leaks — voids, bad tenants, unreviewed rents — with worked net-yield figures for self-managing versus paying a letting agent 10%.
Section 24, higher CGT, RRA compliance costs and rising mortgage rates. We crunch the real numbers on buy-to-let profitability in 2026 — and the answer might surprise you.
Section 24, RRA 2025, EPC targets, higher SDLT. Every new policy seems to hit small landlords hardest. Coincidence or deliberate policy? We look at the evidence.
93,000 landlords left the UK rental market in 2025. What's driving the exodus, who's staying, and what the shrinking supply means for rents and property values.
Thousands of UK landlords are selling up after RRA 2025. But is it actually worth it? We break down the real costs of selling vs staying — CGT, agent fees, void periods and what adapting actually costs.
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