The growing crisis facing Cardiff's rental market with landlords selling up and 100 people fighting for every property

[LeningradCowboy]

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/growing-crisis-facing-cardiffs-rental-25070441

Landlords, letting agents and student groups have hit out at the growing crisis facing Cardiff's rental market with properties being sold off and more than 100 people fighting to secure every home listed.

[LeningradCowboy]

Re: The growing crisis facing Cardiff's rental market with landlords selling up and 100 people fighting for every property

Buy-to-let landlords are parasites. My heart bleeds for them.

[JamesWales]

Re: The growing crisis facing Cardiff's rental market with landlords selling up and 100 people fighting for every property

There will be loads of issues coming together here, but I am not surprised some ill thought out Welsh Govt law is behind it at all.

[Ninja]

Re: The growing crisis facing Cardiff's rental market with landlords selling up and 100 people fighting for every property

I'd be more concerned about the lack of social housing available to locals, and the fact that immigrants are being housed in hotels with their own chefs, whilst locals from the area are being forced to sleep on the floor of the huggard centre.

[Alfresco]

Re: The growing crisis facing Cardiff's rental market with landlords selling up and 100 people fighting for every property

Buy-to-let landlords are parasites. My heart bleeds for them.

If there were no landlords the housing crisis would be a lot worse.

[Eric Cartman]

Re: The growing crisis facing Cardiff's rental market with landlords selling up and 100 people fighting for every property

If there were no landlords the housing crisis would be a lot worse.

If the landlord took the house with them when they left then yes it would.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Re: The growing crisis facing Cardiff's rental market with landlords selling up and 100 people fighting for every property

You can whistle all you like

This all boils down to conservative housing policy from Thatcher onwards and now everything is going tits up

The right to buy robbed local authorities of loads of properties

They were never replaced by successive governments

Buy to let was encouraged and made plenty of people a lot of money

Combined with this was the slashing of security in the rented sector with people previously able to live for many years renting the same property whilst enjoying the protection of a fair rent

Now it's all market rents .....which means money ! ......and sometimes only 6 months in a flat before you are given notice

No wonder this has become the area where people are dumped and rely on as a last resort

I hope if Truss and her mob of snake oil salesmen are given the boot that starmer bit by bit sorts out housing policy in this country

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Re: The growing crisis facing Cardiff's rental market with landlords selling up and 100 people fighting for every property

If there were no landlords the housing crisis would be a lot worse.

If we hadn't sold millions of feckin council houses there wouldn't have been the need for so many landlords .....who are there to make money ....in the first place

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Re: The growing crisis facing Cardiff's rental market with landlords selling up and 100 people fighting for every property

There will be loads of issues coming together here, but I am not surprised some ill thought out Welsh Govt law is behind it at all.

Lack of affordable housing thanks to selling off council homes , failure to replace them and the promotion of buy to let are the main causes of this crisis

It's been on the cards for years

Thatcher onwards basically

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Re: The growing crisis facing Cardiff's rental market with landlords selling up and 100 people fighting for every property

I'd be more concerned about the lack of social housing available to locals, and the fact that immigrants are being housed in hotels with their own chefs, whilst locals from the area are being forced to sleep on the floor of the huggard centre.

Got a link ?

[Alfresco]

Re: The growing crisis facing Cardiff's rental market with landlords selling up and 100 people fighting for every property

If we hadn't sold millions of feckin council houses there wouldn't have been the need for so many landlords .....who are there to make money ....in the first place

Many landlords turn run down properties into habital housing which would otherwise be left derelict. Surely that has to be a positive thing.

[Ninja]

Re: The growing crisis facing Cardiff's rental market with landlords selling up and 100 people fighting for every property

Got a link ?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.walesonline.co.uk/news/cardiff-hotel-close-provide-accommodation-24947175.amp

That's the latest I've seen.

The Copthorne at Culverhouse Cross has been officially closed since last year. They fired all their kitchen staff to make way for foreign chefs that can accommodate a foreign menu.

Not bullshit either, I saw a few people at the time on twitter complaining that they knew of people that had been fired.

Fecking disgusting stuff.

[Alfresco]

Re: The growing crisis facing Cardiff's rental market with landlords selling up and 100 people fighting for every property

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/c...20embarrassing.[/QUOT-accommodation-24947175

[Alfresco]

Re: The growing crisis facing Cardiff's rental market with landlords selling up and 100 people fighting for every property

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wal...n-24947175.amp

That's the latest I've seen.

The Copthorne at Culverhouse Cross has been officially closed since last year. They fired all their kitchen staff to make way for foreign chefs that can accommodate a foreign menu.

Not bullshit either, I saw a few people at the time on twitter complaining that they knew of people that had been fired.

Fecking disgusting stuff.

Another hotel in Cardiff is being used to accommodate 'the unprecedented amount of asylum seekers', the staff have been given a few days notice.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Re: The growing crisis facing Cardiff's rental market with landlords selling up and 100 people fighting for every property

Many landlords turn run down properties into habital housing which would otherwise be left derelict. Surely that has to be a positive thing.

How many is many ?

Social housing should be provided by the state , there are some good landlords out there , one posts on here but let's not kid ourselves that the reason why people buy houses and flats is to make money