NB. I guess in the future what people in ISAM’s position are going to have to do is get a third party to act as rent guarantor & give them a large pile of cash to cover the risk, repayable at the… (View Post)

Given current practice I expect Labour to decide to ban guarantors in the next Renter’s Rights Bill. Why should people with rich parents have an advantage over those that don’t? (Although perhaps tha… (View Post)

It’s kind of spectacular just how anti-free market the last Conservative government was. The entirety of the British state appears to have abandoned any idea that market forces & market prices ar… (View Post)

This is supposition, but I suspect that MPs were swayed by stories of constituents borrowing money at usurious rates in order to outbid other renters for rental properties. It’s pretty obvious that, … (View Post)

As a renter, would you pay a years rent to a landlord with absolutely no legally enforceable contract in place? You have the same problem the landlord does - you can’t realistically risk this much mo… (View Post)