Why wait to see who’s moving in?
Alan Williams, Fenn Wright’s managing partner, reflects on conditions in the residential housing market and what the next few months may hold.
Read moreMore households are mortgage free
The latest English Housing Survey, just released by the government, gives a startling insight into the housing market – including the revelation that for the first time the majority of owner occupiers own their homes outright, without a mortgage.
Read morePrivate renters feel they can’t put down roots
Almost a million more people in England rent their home than they did five years ago, and new research shows that many of them are stuck in a cycle of short-term lets that leaves them unable to put down roots or plan for the future.
Read moreCouncil tax exemption for landlords?
Jon Barker, who heads up Fenn Wright’s lettings team in Chelmsford comments on a recent move by NLA (The National Landlords Association) to help reduce landlords’ council tax bills.
Read moreFenn Wright has a new address in Chelmsford
Fenn Wright has been in Essex and Suffolk for nearly 250 years – and in Chelmsford for 25 of those. And now we have moved to new premises in 20 Duke Street.
Read moreLandlord or immigration officer?
It is proposed that letting agents, private landlords and even those taking in lodgers under the national ‘Rent-A-Room’ scheme will have to vet their tenants to ensure they are not illegal immigrants.
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