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Hundreds of thousands of landlords face bills of £15,000 as housing secretary Michael Gove cracks down on poor-quality rental homes.

The Government will introduce a new minimum standard that will push landlords to upgrade an estimated 800,000 rental properties.

Max Armstrong, of North East Property Investment, a buy-to-let specialist, said the cost of bringing a three-bedroom house up to scratch would be £12,000 to £15,000. Additional costs could be added by the supply chain crisis and rising materials and labour costs. “Three years ago this would cost 25pc less,” he said.

The legislation will be announced as part of Mr Gove’s "levelling up" agenda – which focuses on improving poorer parts of Britain – due to be unveiled today. The minister also plans to introduce a register for anyone wishing to let out property – with rogue landlords being struck off – while also giving tenants new rights for redress.

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Chris Norris, of the National Residential Landlords Association, a trade body, estimated costs would be between £10,000 to £15,000 for an extremely substandard home.

However, he described the Decent Homes Standard – which measures to what extent a home meets a “reasonable state of repair” – as arbitrary and subjective. "I would be very concerned if the social housing measures are applied to private rentals. It would be counterintuitive."

Mr Armstrong added: "Everything is pre-faced with 'to a reasonable level' and it is just a get out clause."

The additional burden on landlords () comes while they are also being forced into £10,000 eco-upgrades to meet the Government’s Energy Performance Certificate targets. Experts have warned more will sell up adding to the rental sector's severe shortage of homes that has pushed up rents. (this is bad for renters too!! promise!!!)

Dominic Agace, of Winkworth estate agents, said landlords should be incentivised to improve properties rather than threatened. “A register will increase the burden on landlords – which will be self-defeating as they will sell up, increase the shortage of homes, and rents will rise," he added.

Ros Beck, 56, a landlord with multiple properties in Wales, said: "This is bound to make many want to sell, but will anybody buy? It’s a nightmare for those affected, stuck between a rock and a hard place."

mrpwase posted:

What's the most cost efficient way to stay warm? If i boil a kettle to make a cuppa or something does that use more energy than turning the heating on?

Guavanaut posted:

Liz sent the first shitpost in 1976

ThomasPaine posted:

Maplin seemed aright when I went in a few years back, I wonder how they went out of business while lovely companies like curry's are still going. Who's going to bloody curry's in 2022?

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So I cry instead. I have a lump in my throat that stops me from eating. I feel as if someone has died. I keep thinking of his skin, his precious skin, inked like a pig carcass.

Failed Imagineer posted:

Some of the finest merging of topic and page number nonsense in a long time

Angrymog posted:

I don't think that BLUE HADES is that interested in invading, more keeping us out of the oceans.

Julio Cruz posted:

this needs a Galaxy O'Brain Warning

e: hmm did I accidentally switch off Youtube thumbnails somehow?

ee: no it should still be showing according to my settings, anyone else having a similar issue?

Failed Imagineer posted:

irredentist

kecske posted:

this phrase along with the cry-laughing emoji make me inexplicably angry. maybe I have terminal twitter poisoning

Reveilled posted:

If there's one word I wish I could ban from the media it would be "destroyed". I have come to utterly detest that word. Like, the gold standard for "destroyed" would be "senator, you're no Jack Kennedy", and nothing I've seen the word "Destroyed" attached to in the last 10 years even rises close to that level.

ThomasPaine posted:

Imagine being a literal Labour Party MP and being against strikes lmfao.

I know it's hardly a cutting point to make in 2022, but you do wonder what party these people think they're part of.

Darth Walrus posted:

https://twitter.com/chrisgiles_/status/1493481619360989185?s=21

Yay!

WhatEvil posted:

ThomasPaine posted:

The more dots, the more dread

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

And that wretched 'care' thing on facebook. I rarely use the heart one and I think I've used the care one twice. But if I post a humorous (IMHO) cat video or whatever, people put the care thing. I just use the like and laugh signs 99.999% of the time.

Tesseraction posted:

COMRADES, THE RED WIND IS UPON US

oh it's just destroying poo poo and making people miserable?

Guavanaut posted:

My bin just got emptied and now I'm debating whether to put a couple of bricks in it or if that's asking for more trouble.

Rustybear posted:

do you really want to live in fear of hot pans, live current and motorway traffic?