Ask ten Birmingham landlords what “guaranteed rent” means and you’ll get ten slightly different answers. Some think it’s a letting agent’s marketing phrase. Some assume there’s a catch buried in the contract. Others have heard it pays below market rate and stopped listening there. It’s simpler than the confusion suggests. A guaranteed rent scheme means […]
Few terms in housing are used as loosely, or as often misunderstood, as “exempt accommodation”. It appears in news coverage, council reports and parliamentary debates, usually attached to a story about poor standards. It is also, when done properly, the housing that keeps thousands of vulnerable people off the street. Here is what it actually […]
Looking for somewhere to live in Birmingham can be exhausting. Listings that have already gone. Landlords who stop replying when you mention benefits. Places that look fine in photos and are anything but in person. If you need a room and you could do with some support around you, supported and shared accommodation may be […]
If you work in housing, social care, probation or homelessness support in Birmingham, you already know the hardest part of the job is rarely identifying that someone needs accommodation. It’s finding a provider with the right placement, at the right time, who will actually come back to you. This page is intended to make that […]
Here’s a statistic that should worry anyone who rents: research this year found that most tenants are unaware of the Renters’ Rights Act — the biggest overhaul of renting in England for a generation, and one that is now fully in force. That means millions of people are still renting as if the old rules […]
For the best part of a decade, the story told about buy-to-let has been a funeral. Tax relief cuts. Stamp duty surcharges. Licensing. The Renters’ Rights Act. Every year, another think-piece declares the private landlord extinct. Then the actual data arrives. According to UK Finance, landlords took out 58,272 new buy-to-let loans worth £10.8 billion […]
Something quietly remarkable happened in the housing market this summer, and it barely made the front pages: average asking prices fell by more than £2,000 in June — the largest drop for that month in fourteen years. At the same time, mortgage rates have continued to edge down, and research shows the salary needed to […]
Ask a tenant and they’ll tell you rents are still going up. Ask a landlord and they’ll tell you the boom is over. The strange thing about 2026 is that both are right — and the details matter a great deal depending on which side of the tenancy you’re on. Here’s what the numbers actually […]
For years, the Renters’ Rights Act was something landlords talked about in the future tense. Something coming. Something to worry about later. Later has arrived. The Act now frames every letting in England, and 2026 is the year its requirements stopped being theoretical. If you’re still letting property the way you did in 2023, parts […]
Misunderstandings regarding supported living are often due to misconceptions based on assumptions. Residents have been misled into believing that they do not have choices on a daily basis or have restricted independence. However, in the real world, supported living arrangements are developed to enable people to function autonomously, with support to meet their needs. Morning: […]
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