Private Residential Property Lettings in a Re-opened Housing Market
How to restart lettings or reinstruct Home Relief in a re-opened housing market
As the housing market has been reopened and the lockdown has been gradually eased, some landlords/ladies may be thinking of restarting lettings or reinstructing us.
This week, we will be e-working with those landlords/ladies who are contemplating to let their properties, but do not know on which basis they can restart since the coronavirus pandemic is still constraining the economy.
This week’s e-work will be about exploring with them their property letting needs, requirements and expectations under the Covid-19 constraint. In doing so, it is hoped the e-work will come up with some sort of a roadmap with them concerning private residential property lettings in a re-opened housing market.
The e-working activity will cover areas such as the following:
√ Covid-19 measures and restrictions in the context of a reopened housing market
√ Lettings plan and process under the circumstances of an economy in a partial lockdown
√ Property maintenance within the framework of protection against coronavirus pandemic
√ Property disinfection, decontamination and cleaning to get rid of the strains and traces of Covid-19
√ Alternative to physical aspects of lettings (e.g. virtual or online viewings versus in-person viewings)
√ Online rental payments and cover
√ Update on available resources and guidance about the coronavirus pandemic in the letting industry (e.g. self-care, health, security, post/mail, etc.)
One could hope that the week’s e-working activity will help …
√ To boost landlords/ladies confidence for instructing or lettings while improving their understanding of extra health and safety provision in the context of lettings in the time of Covid-19
√ To protect landlords/ladies from misinformation or lack of appropriate information regarding private residential property letting and management under the Covid-19 restraint
√ To safeguard landlords/ladies’ interests and investment while saving money as the economy gradually reopens
√ To avoid trouble tenancies and misunderstanding throughout this time of economic reopening
√ To reduce exposition to Covid-19 risk and associated risks of the moment
√ Above all, to bring peace of mind and security when giving instructions to let your property in time of the coronavirus pandemic
If you are a landlord/lady and want to give instructions to let but do not know what to do during this time of Covid-19, why not e-work with Home Relief?
Need to restart lettings under the Covid-19 constraint and anti-coronavirus measures, please e-work with Home Relief.
If you are looking for an affordable location and home, Home Relief is the people dealing with affordable homes you could consider in your property searches and enquiries.
As the lockdown has started to be cautiously eased and the housing market has been reopened, Home Relief will be e-discussing with renters about their moving in and out plans.
Home Relief will be e-working with them on how to proceed with their rental plans under the constraint of Covid-19 and the conditions of anti-coronavirus measures and restrictions. This e-discussion will be dealing with a number of points such as:
√ Understanding on how the rental industry will be operating under the new environment of Covid-19 and anti-coronavirus measures and restrictions
√ What to do and what not to do as renters during the lift of temporary freeze on home moving
√ How to adapt to new ways of working in the rental sector (e.g. virtual viewings, disinfection or cleaning of property before and after viewings)
√ How to prepare themselves as prospective tenants and restart renting within the boundaries of anti-coronavirus rules
√ New areas of safety and protection to consider in the new era of Covid-19
√ Understanding and maintenance of the socially distanced rules within the rental sector (e.g. to keep 2 meters apart during property viewings; staggered viewings, etc.)
√ (For those who want to move) Help them progress their plans to move as the housing market reopens
The e-discussion will enable those who want to rent to have the opportunity to e-discuss their plans in more details and register their rental needs.
Need to restart renting under the Covid-19 constraint and anti-coronavirus measures, please e-work with Home Relief.
If you are looking for an affordable location and home, Home Relief is the people dealing with affordable homes you could consider in your property searches and enquiries.
The consequences of the Covid-19 Shock on renters have not yet been fully unveiled since the Covid-19 continues to claim its victims.
This week, we are e-working with renters to find out the rental consequences of Covid-19 on them. We have planned this e-working activity in our Covid-19 rental campaign as we online came across a renter who asked us for advice. She lost her job due to coronavirus and wanted to claim unemployment benefit and needed a tenancy agreement as a proof of address.
It is understood that she entered a verbal agreement with her their landlord/lady where she has been renting a property without any written tenancy agreement or a licence to rent. She has asked us what can she do since she has got a tenancy agreement?
Although verbal contracts can be enforceable in the court of laws, it is recommended to private landlords/ladies letting their properties by themselves to provide a professional written and reviewed tenancy agreement.
It is not safe for both parties (landlord/lady and tenant) to have verbal agreements or no formal tenancy agreements or even adapted tenancy agreements. A professionally written and reviewed tenancy agreement protects both contractual parties.
There could be some numbers of vulnerable renters who are in a similar situation and facing the same kind of problems. With the impact of Covid-19, they may be struggling to sort out their problems without knowing there is always a way out to this kind of problems.
There are available resources online regarding the Covid-19 rental guidance and the rental sector generally. However, it is not sure whether or not these resources will respond to specific issues that some vulnerable and unaware renters are facing during this difficult time of the coronavirus pandemic. It is not also certain if all the renters will understand these online resources and materials.
To reduce the rental fallout that renters may have due to the Covid-19 impact, Home Relief will be e-working with them by discussing their individual rental cases where there is a fallout. Since one cannot wait until the end of Covid-19, Home Relief will be e-working with renters on the consequences of Covid-19 on their rental situation.
This e-working together about the impacts of Covid-19 on renters could lead to problem-solving steps where, if requested or needed, legal expertise and rental industry professionalism can be sought on behalf of renters.
Need to explore possible rental leads and solutions to the problem posed by the Covid-19 on your rental situation, please e-work with Home Relief.
If you are looking for an affordable location and home, Home Relief is the people dealing with affordable homes you could consider in your property searches and enquiries.
Covid-19 and Private Landlords’/ladies’ Property Portfolio
Home Relief’s e-working programme to keep landlords/ladies and renters engaged during the Covid-19 will be dealing this week with the impact of Covid-19 on property portfolio. We will be discussing about the collection of properties and financial securities attached to these properties that landlords/ladies may be holding in their portfolio.
When landlords/ladies build a property portfolio, they will have a number of buy to let investment opportunities with the aim of generating an optimum return on investment with many properties. They will try to achieve the goals of meeting capital growth returns or rental yields or both.
There are many types of landlords/ladies in the private rental market. In the context of this week’s e-work about the Covid-19, we will be dealing with small landlords/ladies who have more than just one property, that is to say those who have between 2 and 5 rental properties in their property portfolio.
In our e-work, we will try to find out how the Covid-19 has impacted their property portfolio. In other words, we shall together with them try to know how the achievement of expected return from a varied portfolio of properties and their related securities and risks, has been affected by the Covid-19 outbreak.
Through our e-work, one could hope the following points will be raised:
√ How landlords/ladies have spread the risk amongst the different securities or properties in their portfolio
√ The level of risk incurred so far for their expected return as a result of Covid-19
√ How their selection in their portfolio is meeting the goals of optimum capital growth and rental yields
√ Whether or not the capital value associated with their properties have been appreciated or depreciated due to the coronavirus impact
√ Property management under the constraints of anti-coronavirus measures
√ Essential property maintenance during the Covid-19 time
√ Performance about the return on their property investment
√ Property running expenses versus incoming rents during the Covid-19 period
√ How Covid-19 has affected the relationships between landlords/ladies and their tenants, etc.
One could hope that as outcome from this e-work, landlords/ladies will know where they stand in terms of their property portfolio during this difficult time of the Coronavirus pandemic.
Landlords/ladies will be able to discuss their individual cases or portfolios. Where the need arises or the request will be made, landlords/ladies will be referred to financial advisors or property portfolio specialists to look into their matter. However, due to the lockdown we cannot guarantee that this type of portfolio advisory support will be currently available.
Need to discuss your property portfolio, please e-work with Home Relief.
If you are looking for an affordable location and home, Home Relief is the people dealing with affordable homes you could consider in your property searches and enquiries.
This week, we are carrying on our e-work by engaging landlords/ladies with the topic of coronavirus-led property vacancies.
Indeed, the coronavirus has put an alt on some aspects of residential private property lettings, particularly moving in and out. This has led to a relative increase in the stock of unoccupied or vacant properties.
As a ripple effect of coronavirus, many landlords/ladies may have found themselves with unoccupied or vacant properties since there is a rental fallout between the two sides of the rental market (supply and demand).
Some of them are asking what they can do in such market conditions.
Other landlords/ladies who are better equipped and informed may have been advised by their letting and/or managing agents what to do.
Other ones who do not have the necessary information to handle the situation may need some forms of support.
This week, Home Relief will be trying to e-work with those landlords/ladies who still do not know what to do and those who are under informed to find out the possible answers to vacant properties as the coronavirus pandemic lasts.
Our distance working session will help them to tackle the following issues:
√ Inspections
√ Upkeep of the property
√ Security
√ Inside property maintenance
√ Prevention and management of damages and losses, etc
We are as well going to share online resources regarding vacant or unoccupied properties. These resources will be both from the residential private property sector and the UK gorvernment’s guidance related to property maintenance during the Covid-19 national emergency.
Additionally, landlords/ladies will have the opportunity to raise issues related to their individual property cases as the session will be customised.
Need to know more about what to do with unoccupied or vacant properties, please e-work with Home Relief.
If you are looking for an affordable location and home, Home Relief is the people dealing with affordable homes you could consider in your property searches and enquiries.
This post is about a limited number of services that Home Relief is organising for landlords/ladies and renters in relation to the current coronavirus situation.
Before saying something about these services, let us hope that landlords/ladies and renters are keeping themselves healthy and safe as the confinement goes on.
Virtual Property Services for Landlords/ladies
For those landlords/ladies who are in need or would like to know what is going at Home Relief, we would like to inform you that Home Relief is only taking online enquiries and queries during this restricted period of Covid-19.
We can virtually offer a limited number of landlord/lady services such as virtual viewings, valuations, maintenance, etc.
In relation to the coronavirus pandemic situation itself, we can provide advice and information about disinfecting your rental property.
We are as well reiterating and can customise the health and safety measures and guidance given by the UK government, the NHS as well as by the private residential property industry to adapt them to your circumstances and the conditions of your rental property.
Virtual Property Services for Renters
As you probably know, Home Relief provides all-round residential property services principled by social goals with the aim of reducing housing deprivation for low income people and families.
Our property relief service does not only provide home seekers and buyers with advice to access a home to live, but also help them to help themselves in effectively running their lives.
One of the ways of supporting these people and families to effectively run their lives is to support them at this critical time of the coronavirus lockdown by providing them with a virtual service to ease pressure.
Our virtual property services for renters include information on rents determination, property locations, referencing criteria, rental market information, vacancies, rental contracts, etc.
Like for landlords/ladies, we can advise and inform renters about the health and safety at home as provided by the UK government, the NHS and the private residential property sector.
At the moment, we know that many people (including renters) have lost their earning capacity and income due to the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic. To support those renters suffering from these effects, we can provide leads and information on income recovery schemes, deposits and rent payment problems.
The above named coronavirus-related income advice service is in line with the provision of the UK Government on the matter and the newly set up available rental help by many funders on the market to help homeless and renters who are experienced financial hardships due to the coronavirus impacts and restrictions.
Need help and advice related to private residential property letting and rental during the coronavirus pandemic period, virtually work with Home Relief.
If you are looking for an affordable location and home, Home Relief is the people dealing with affordable homes you could consider in your property searches and enquiries.
Engaging Landlords/ladies and Renters during the Coronavirus Crisis
We hope that all landlords/ladies and renters had a healthy and safe Easter week end.
We are carrying on to virtually support landlords/ladies and renters during the coronavirus pandemic. This virtual engagement is regardless of whether a landlord/lady or renter has been self-isolated or shielded or confined or locked down.
We trust that landlords/ladies and renters are helping each other by sharing the practicals about disinfecting the Covid-19 germs from their homes.
Last week, we discussed about ways of making homes healthy and safe by cleaning areas of property that may be the channels of transmission for the traces of the coronavirus pandemic.
Let us expect that those anti-coronavirus fixers related to home cleaning are being put into action. Those who have new tips and hints on the matter, it would be good to share them in the interest of saving lives.
Like you, we too are following the UK Government’s anti-coronavirus instructions, the NHS and the World Health Organisation guidance, the residential private property industry’s advice on the same matter.
We shall continue to engage with you on any matter regarding the health, safety and security of yourselves and everybody making the sector at this turbulent time.
The health and sanitation of landlords/ladies and renters are a parcel of our mission and priority than anything else. We are on their side when it comes to health and safety.
If any of you has any queries or questions about any aspects of residential private property management and maintenance related to the Covid-19 crisis, please do not hesitate to text or email or phone or complete the contact form. We will respond to you and try to be supportive as much as we can. Where our competence will be limited we shall lead you to the relevant body or expertise or source of information.
It is with a great appreciation that you understand that we keep our communication with you free of physical contact during the coronavirus pandemic crisis.
We thank you for your loyalty.
If you are looking for an affordable location and home, Home Relief is the people dealing with affordable homes you could consider in your property searches and enquiries.
How to keep essential cleaning for private property rental maintenance within the context of anti-coronavirus measures
At the moment, we are in the context of e-following the UK government advice and the NHS guidance in order to protect each other against the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. In this context, it is required to everybody to make sure that they clean any potential traces of Covid-19 germs or viruses in their property from the entrance to the inside as well as around the building. This should be done knowingly or unknowingly that the Covid-19 can survive on hard surfaces for up to a week.
Because of this non-clinical decontamination requirement for collective protection from the coronavirus, we are going to follow on this as part of essential or perhaps life-saving cleaning duties making the essential property maintenance. This essential cleaning includes household items, shopping, clothes and shoes.
Within the private rental property maintenance, there are many aspects. However, in the context of this week’s e-exercise with landlords/ladies and renters, we are going to focus on the cleaning elements related to anti-coronavirus pandemic. We are going to e-discuss with landlords/ladies and tenants this cleaning matter.
At the moment, landlords/ladies may be spending money to decontaminate their properties from any potential traces of coronavirus germs or strains. They may be spending on cleaning products and materials necessary either to keep their rented properties or the one they reside free from any traces of Covid-19 germs. Some of them may be sharing information and good practices on this matter with their tenants in the interest of public health protection.
In this spending process, they may encounter difficulties between essential and non-essential spending in order to protect themselves and people around them. To ease this process for them and tenants, we will be e-discussing with them the following:
√ Essential and non-essential spending items in their cleaning budgets regarding the anti-coronavirus measures
√ Recommended key cleaning products and techniques to get rid of the traces of coronavirus hazards
√ Areas of properties to clean and wipe to disinfect them from Covid-19 germs
√ Protective equipment and clothes for this kind of anti-coronavirus cleaning work
√ The weekly or monthly cleaning budget for protection against coronavirus
√ Stores and shops where to purchase at affordable prices essental cleaning products as well as where to get information and advice
Etc.
In addition to the above, we are going to share some good cleaning practices, stories, experiences, online sources, resources (such as videos) and leads regarding non-clinical decontamination of properties from Covid-19 germs.
This week, we are working with them via ONLY phone, text, email and contact form to try to exchange ideas and good practices about essential cleaning in the critical context of non-clinical decontamination of private reantal properties from the traces or strains of coronavirus pandemic.
Like many of us, renters and landlords/ladies are searching for the best possible way of cleaning household items and of carrying out preventive personnal hygiene against the Covid-19.
Need to e-discuss your property cleaning matter to get rid of the Covid-19 risk factor, please do not hesitate to work with Home Relief.
If you are looking for an affordable location and home, Home Relief is the people dealing with affordable homes you could consider in your property searches and enquiries.
How to put in place alternative arrangements for property management in the critical context of life-threatening impacts of the coronavirus pandemic outbreak
This week, we will be virtually working on essential and non-essential aspects of residential property management within the context of decontamination in non-clinical settings and social distancing requirements for managed properties in order to slow down and contain the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
As the coronavirus pandemic crisis continues, there are renters and landlords/ladies who maybe having to rethink any issues or works related to the property management, particularly they have to think between essential and non-essential issues or works, between emergency and non-emergency ones.
At this time of national emergency, everybody including renters and landlords/ladies should follow the government’s guidance and the NHS advice. The UK government guidance is clear: STAY HOME, PROTECT THE NHS AND SAVE LIVES. We will apply as much as we can this guidance within the context of residential property management.
Within the contexts of self-isolation and social distancing requirements, both landlords/ladies and tenants are required to only communicate via phone, text and email. If landlords/ladies follow the government’s guidance and the NHS advice, they should not arrange any inspections or non-essential works during this period unless it cannot be avoided. The same, tenants are advised against having visitors in the property.
However, where for example a tenant has a mental health issue or is classified as a vulnerable person, there are different provisions from the government; provisions which both landlords/ladies and tenants need to explore and to be aware.
The current time is a difficult one as tenants may have maintenance issues, but cannot ask their landlords/ladies or managing agents to deal with these issues. To help both contractual parties to manage management issues during this exceptional time of the coronavirus, we will be discussing with them how to go about them.
For example, we will be looking at together what is essential and non-essential repair or visit or cleaning at managed properties at this time of the coronavirus pandemic.
This week, we are working with them via ONLY phone, text, email and contact form to try to find alternative arrangements for property management in the critical context of life-threatening impacts of the coronavirus pandemic outbreak.
Like many of us, renters and landlords/ladies are searching ways of adapting to this new difficult situation.
Need to discuss your property management issue while taking into account the Covid-19 risk factor, please do not hesitate to work with Home Relief.
If you are looking for an affordable location and home, Home Relief is the people dealing with affordable homes you could consider in your property searches and enquiries.
Making your HOME a Place of RELIEF from Coronavirus
How to create an adaptable indoor living environment during the time of Coronavirus Pandemic
As many renters and landlords/ladies may be home bound during the coronavirus pandemic, we are exchanging ideas with them on the best possible way of making their home, whether it is rented with or without landlord/lady resident, a place of reliefduring this difficult time.
We are all following the news, reviews and updates as they unfold about the cases and numbers related to the coronavirus. We are as well continuing to listen to the hygiene and health security measures as we have been recommended to apply them in the interest of everybody.
In this unique situation, we are also trying to support those with the most basic need of having a home. Amongst them are: those who may have fallen behind their rent payments, those who lost their jobs and businesses, those who are living in unaffordable home, those who may become homeless, etc.
The good news is that the UK government has promised that private and social renters affected by coronavirus will be protected from eviction for three months in a new emergency legislation.
On our part, we are discussing with renters and landlords/ladies the following issues during the coronavirus period: viewings, rent payments and arrears, repairs and maintenance issues, etc.
We are as well looking at various ways of adapting their homes to make a better indoor living during this worrying time.
For example, the following issues have been raised: how to apply social distancing indoor between landlords/ladies and tenants or between tenants themselves, how to self-isolate without bumping into each other, etc.
From a rental perspective, we may have during this time different types of home bound people like the following ones:
√ Renters in multiple-rented accommodation who may be confined in the same property at the same time
√ Landlord/lady residents who may be self-isolating in the same property with their tenants
√ Landlords/ladies or renters who are quarantining in their homes
√ Landlords/ladies and renters may be working from home while looking after kids, etc.
Since pubs, restaurants and places of entertainment are closed, there is a need for landlords/ladies and renters to try to make their HOMEa place of RELIEFfrom the coronavirus pandemic.
This week, we are working with them via phone, text, email and contact form to try to find ways of creating an adaptable indoor environment while this coronavirus crisis lasts. Like many of us, renters and landlords/ladies are searching ways of adapting to this new difficult situation.
Need to discuss ways of adapting your indoor living environment while taking into account the Covid-19 risk factor, do not hesitate to work with Home Relief.
If you are looking for an affordable location and home, Home Relief is the people dealing with affordable homes you could consider in your property searches and enquiries.
