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£85 per week – Bills Included – Available Now
Progressive Letting Agents Southampton is pleased to present this furnished room situated in Millbank street southampton.
This well proportioned room is one of Two in the property which comprises; Kitchen with Dinning area , Bathroom with Sepert toilet, Central heating. The property also benefits from full gas central heating, doubles glazing and is offered with Council Tax, Gas, Electric and Water bills included.
The property is ideally located for easy access to Woolston, Bitterne and Southampton .
Sorry no Couples, pets or DSS applicants at this time.
Contact progressive Lettings 02381 780 649 to arrange a viewing, send a request via email, or check www.progressivelettings.com for details of our other properties.
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Landlord Alim Iqbal has been prosecuted for three offences under the Management of Houses in Multiple Occupation (England) Regulations 2006 and one under the Housing Act 2004. Alim Iqbal pleaded guilty on 29 October at Oxford magistrates to failing to comply with licence conditions and renting out a sub-standard property, Ms Iqbal, of Blenheim Way, Horspath pleaded guilty and was fined a total of £2,200 for breaching a condition on her HMO Licence and ordered to pay Oxford City Council costs of £400.
On the 2 February 2010, officers visited the Horspath Road property after concerns were raised about the state of the property by a ward councillor. The officers inspecting the property found an array of rubbish scattered around the garden areas as well as discarded furniture and other household appliances, these included a bed in the rear garden, two beds and a matters at the side of the property, black sacks of household rubbish, empty oil containers, beer cans, car parts, and a home-made incinerator.
Returning to the property the next day, the officers noted that an attempt had been made to tidy the garden but it remained in an unacceptable condition, the property was also in a state of disrepair with a stair handrail and ceiling lights missing, the front door and adjoining window needing attention, the manager’s details with their name, address or contact telephone number were not displayed at the property and fire doors that were propped open.
The EHOs had also requested a certain repair and maintenance work be carried out as part of the licensing conditions, which Ms Iqbal had also failed to carry out.
A member of the housing board Councillor Joe McManners, said: ‘We are being tougher than ever before on bad landlords – the minority who let everyone, both their tenants and the wider community, down. ‘In this case the landlord has failed to comply with the conditions on their HMO licence and so we will revoke it as soon as possible.’
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The Assured Tenancies (Amendment) (England) Order 2010 – SI 2010 No. 908 was laid on 25 March 2010, the Statutory Instrument raising the annual rental threshold for assured, including assured shorthold tenancies to £100,000 will come into effect on the 1st October 2010. The delay between the two dates should have given landlords the opportunity to prepare for the change.
For tenants these changes will benefit from the protection of the Housing Act 1988, new tenants in particular will benefit from tenancy deposit protection. Where new tenancies start after 1 October 2010 and the rent falls within the new threshold you will have to protect the tenant’s deposit in one of the three government-approved tenancy deposit schemes. Landlords will have to comply with all the legal requirments associated with assured shorthold tenancies agreements; they will also have the option to use the accelerated Court procedures for possession, when proposing rent increases, the Housing Act 1988 procedures must be followed.
when the rental threshold is increased on the 1st October 2010 existing common law tenancies landlords have will become assured shorthold tenancies, however landlords will not have to immediately protect their tenants’ deposits in a recognised scheme, although it would be good practice to do so. Where a tenancy is renewed on or after the 1st October 2010, or if a new deposit is taken these do need to be protected in one of the government-approved tenancy deposit schemes, as deposits taken before 1st October 2010 were not taken under an shorthold tenancy and so do not meet the specification for protection under the Housing Act 2004, however the decision when deposits should be protected will ultimately be decided by the courts and you could only speculate the outcome in any particular case.
The legislation is not ‘retrospective’ and will not provide for any transitional arrangements from the 1st October 2010 it will affect all existing and new tenancies therefore if a tenancy would have been assured shorthold tenancies but for the rent being higher then £25,000 will now become an assured shorthold tenancy if their rents are below £100,000, therefore this new rental threshold will affect the existing rights of landlords and tenants who have already taken out tenancy agreements as well as those entering into new agreements on or after 1st October 2010.
Letting agents need to check their existing tenancies, including those managed on a “let-only” and ensure landlords are aware of the change and the implications i.e. existing contracts need to be reviewed to incorporate the change to an assured shorthold tenancy. If you are in any doubt what these changes mean to you please seek legal advice.
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In a recent survey carried out by the company, which owns the Uk’s largest lettings agency, LSL property services found that out of every ten landlords surveyed with five or more properties four said they planned to increase their portfolios over the coming year. 48% of those surveyed said they think now is a good time for investing in property and just 2% think it is time to sell up, while smaller buy to let investors (26%) also intended to grow their portfolios. 46% of landlords with large portfolios and 37% of smaller buy to let investors said they had witnessed tenant demand growing, with 64% expecting to see tenant demand continuing grow over the next year and only 7% reported a decline.
LSL Property Sevices Commercial Director David Brown said “optimism is flooding back to the buy to let market, with tenant demand continue to grow”. It is a good time to be looking at property investing as a lucrative long term investment with total annual returns of 13.3%.
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£500 per month – Including water bills – Available Now
Progressive Lettings are pleased to offer this unfurnished ground floor one bedroom flat, available in the ever popular Foyes Court, on Shirley Road, Southampton.
This property benefits from One double bedroom, with fitted wardrobe, Open plan lounge/dining area (with Patio Door, leading to shared garden area), Fitted kitchen with fridge/freezer, washing machine, hob and oven, Bathroom with white suite, mixer tap shower over bath, All eletric heating – economy 7, Security Entry Phone, Secure Parking space, and includes water rates.
Short walk to both Shirley High Street shopping area and Central Railway Station. And close to major bus routes into the City Centre (First 8,10, & 17, BlueStar 4 & 18), with onward connections to all areas of Southampton.
Ideal for a couple or a single person.
No DSS or Pets.
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