Making a Bed and Breakfast your bread and butter: Starting and running a B&B
There was a time, when running a Bed and Breakfast was considered the perfect post retirement plan of action to support straitened means. Or even a means to satisfy romantic notions of meeting interesting travelers along their way, exchanging fascinating tales while breaking bread, and then sending them happily along their way. But that time is past. With the B&B sector turning over £2bn per year according to Smarta, and trumping the low-cost hotel sector by a whopping 28%, it is now by no means something to be sneezed at. And with the UK tourism industry being one of the largest in the world, you should want, and have, a piece of the £19bn it generates in foreign revenue per year. ...
Young adults are increasingly relying on the private rental sector
Young adults are less likely to own a home than ever before according to new research from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).
This reinforces that the private rented sector (PRS) continues to be an integral part of the housing market....
Landlords must get to grips with mould under proposed new tenancy law
Tenants may soon have the right to sue landlords who let properties that aren’t “fit for human habitation”. The Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation and Liability for Housing Standards) Bill, put forward by MP Karen Buck, has passed its second reading in Parliament....
Top picks for caravan holidays this February half term!
February half term is right around the corner and you may be wondering how to keep your children occupied and happy during this time.
A caravan holiday could be the perfect answer! We’ve rounded up some of the best half term activities in the UK and Europe to help you out....
The longest average time for a home to go under offer revealed!
A new league table showing how long it takes on average to sell a property in different postcodes across England and Wales suggests that the slowest area for a home to be sold is West London. Properties typically take 108 days to go under offer from the moment they are put on the market....