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The Journal
Plain-English pieces on selling, letting, landlord law and shared housing. The advice we give clients, published.
The series · 9 guides
Every part of the 2026 reforms in plain English, with official sources linked throughout. Start at the hub or pick a guide below.
Landlord Law
The biggest change to private renting in a generation. What it actually means for your tenancies, in plain English.
July 20265 min read
Rooms & HMOs
Renting by the room can outperform single lets. But licensing catches out more landlords than anything else. Here's the framework.
July 20264 min read
Selling
Three agents, three different numbers. And the highest one wins the instruction. Here's why that game costs sellers money, and what we do instead.
Silent Market
Off-market selling is having a moment. It's genuinely right for some sellers and wrong for others. An honest look at both sides.
Landlords
The honest decision framework. Because the right answer depends on your time, distance and temperament, not on what earns an agent more.
A fixed rent every month regardless of voids sounds too good to be true. It isn't. But it is a trade, and you should understand both sides of it.
Buying
The distinction that shapes what you own, what you pay and what you can change. Without the legal fog.
Deposit slip-ups are the most avoidable. And most expensive. Paperwork failure in lettings. The full sequence, in order.
July 20263 min read
Compare
We're a local agency, so discount our bias accordingly. Then read the one question that actually decides it.
Auctions trade price for certainty and speed. For the right property that's a brilliant deal. For the wrong one it's an expensive mistake.
Renting
It's not just a budget decision. Contracts, bills, flexibility and daily life all differ more than most renters expect.
The tenancy regime changed on 1 May 2026. Here is exactly what you must hand your tenants, by when, and what can wait.
No-fault evictions are gone. Here are the grounds that replaced them, the new notice periods, and the discipline that now decides possession cases.
One increase a year, on the right form, with two months' notice. And the advertised rent is now the ceiling, not the starting bid.
Blanket refusals are the habit to retire. What the Act actually requires when a tenant asks for a pet, and who you can no longer turn away.
The Renters' Rights Act did not change HMO licensing. It changed almost everything around it. What shared-house landlords actually need to reconcile.
Fixed income looks even more attractive when tenancy law gets stricter. An honest account of what a guaranteed rent agreement does and does not protect you from.
Periodic tenancies, two months' notice and a one-month advance cap change the rhythm of shared living. What room landlords and sharers should both expect.
Everything a private landlord should have in order this year, in one list: what the Renters' Rights Act requires now, what is coming, and the perennials that never went away.
July 20266 min read
Under roughly 80 years, a lease starts costing you buyers. What actually happens, what it costs to fix, and when selling as-is makes more sense.
You do not have to evict anyone to sell a rental property. How tenanted sales work, who buys them, and what it means for price and timeline.
Everything in the Journal is the conversation we'd have across the table. Book a valuation and have it about your property.