Feature: The UK’s Waterways Are Run by Property Developers
Cameron Baillie
The Canal and River Trust denies it’s a landlord, but routinely fines, evicts and even repossesses boaters’ homes. Guess who runs it? Cameron Baillie reports.
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Opinion: The Government Pays Landlords £17bn a Year. It’s Taking Back £2bn. So What?
Nick Bano
Rachel Reeves’ increased property income tax and mansion taxes have been described as a “swoop” on landlords and wealthy property-owners. In reality, it’s they who are raking in government handouts, writes Nick Bano.
Report: Here’s All the Government Handouts Landlords Get
Rivkah Brown
News that the chancellor may force landlords to pay national insurance – why don't they already? – got our reporter Rivkah Brown wondering: what other cushy treatment are landlords getting?
Opinion: Buy-to-Let Landlords Are Dodging Tax En Masse
Harriet Williamson
Buy-to-let firms are now the UK’s biggest single type of business, as landlords switch set-up to cut tax payments. Let’s call this what it is: mass tax avoidance by a workshy, parasite class, writes Harriet Williamson.
Opinion: Labour Is Finally Treating Landlords Like the Spoiled Children They Are
Nick Bano
With the recent budget Labour whispered its first words of defiance to the bullying landlord lobby. A little louder for the people at the back, writes Nick Bano.
Long Read: Jas Athwal Claims He Was Cleared of Sexual Assault. Was He?
Rivkah Brown
The newly elected Labour MP gained instant notoriety as the biggest landlord in the Commons. Less known is that in 2019 he was accused of serious sexual assault. Athwal claims that he was cleared by the party. The truth wasn’t so clear-cut, Novara Media can reveal.
Opinion: Home Insurance Will Not Save the USA
Moira Birss
Hurricane Helene, which left North Carolinian entire towns underwater last month, exemplifies the rot at the heart of America’s home insurance industry, writes Moira Birss. It needs rebuilding from the ground up.
Feature: The Museum of Neoliberalism Is Being Bulldozed to Make Way for Luxury Flats
Juliet Jacques
The satirical museum has met an end too good to be scripted. Juliet Jacques meets its co-founder, the artist Darren Cullen.
Red Flags: I Know the Nuclear Family Is Flawed But What Else Can I Do?
Sophie K Rosa
Sophie K Rosa advises a single parent still hankering for their child’s father and wondering what it is they really need.
Feature: Labour’s Building Blitz Won’t Fix the Housing Crisis, Experts Say
Aron Penczu
Even if built, Labour’s promised 1.5m new homes will not move the dial on house prices, rents, or homelessness, say experts. They probably won’t even keep up with population growth. Aron Penczu reports.
Opinion: We Don’t Need to ‘Talk About Immigration’
Rivkah Brown
The far-right riots have exposed the racist core of Britain’s immigration panic. Angela Rayner has shown the right instinct by seizing this moment to chip away at the hostile environment, writes Rivkah Brown.
Report: A Government ‘Best Value’ Inspection of Tower Hamlets Council Turned Out to Be Very Bad Value
Rivkah Brown
Michael Gove signed off on paying inspectors more than £1,000 a day to make sure Tower Hamlets council was spending money well. Ironically, their enquiry is now more than £130,000 over budget, Novara Media can reveal.
Report: Suspected ‘Revenge Eviction’ at Property Owned by Tory Councillor
Andrew Kersley
The founder of a rental management company has complained that ‘arsehole’ tenants are one of the biggest challenges in the sector.
Red Flags: I Have Incurable Cancer. How Do I Live the Time I Have Left?
Sophie K Rosa
Sophie K Rosa addresses a reader with stage four breast cancer, and shares her own relationship with death.
Red Flags: I Hate Landlords. How Do I Avoid Becoming One?
Sophie K Rosa
Sophie K Rosa advises the potential inheritor of multiple properties on how to resist the temptations of landlordism.
Report: Cramming 40 People Into a Four-Bed House Wasn’t Enough to Get This ‘Rogue Landlord’ Added to the Government Database
Hajar Meddah
Banning orders and a ‘rogue landlord database’ are among an arsenal of enforcement tools technically available to local authorities. But they’re abysmally underused, while slum landlords run rampant. Hajar Meddah reports.
Report: This Landlord Used a Legal Loophole to Boot Out His Renters in Just 11 Days
Rivkah Brown
Paul Odell backtracked on a contract at the last minute, giving his tenants just days to get out. Rivkah Brown reports.
Sit Down, Relax, Have a Holiday – Welcome to Being a Landlord
Rivkah Brown attended the National Landlord Investment Show in London where landlords gather to complain about renters and share tips on how to increase their portfolios.