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    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.

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    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.

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    • #3
      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.

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      • #4
        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.

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        • #5
          Re: The growing crisis facing Cardiff's rental market with landlords selling up and 100 people fighting for every property

          Originally posted by LeningradCowboy View Post
          Buy-to-let landlords are parasites. My heart bleeds for them.
          If there were no landlords the housing crisis would be a lot worse.

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          • #6
            Re: The growing crisis facing Cardiff's rental market with landlords selling up and 100 people fighting for every property

            Originally posted by Alfresco View Post
            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.

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            • #7
              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

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              • #8
                Re: The growing crisis facing Cardiff's rental market with landlords selling up and 100 people fighting for every property

                Originally posted by Alfresco View Post
                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

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                • #9
                  Re: The growing crisis facing Cardiff's rental market with landlords selling up and 100 people fighting for every property

                  Originally posted by JamesWales View Post
                  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

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                  • #10
                    Re: The growing crisis facing Cardiff's rental market with landlords selling up and 100 people fighting for every property

                    Originally posted by Ninja View Post
                    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 ?

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                    • #11
                      Re: The growing crisis facing Cardiff's rental market with landlords selling up and 100 people fighting for every property

                      Originally posted by SLUDGE FACTORY View Post
                      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.

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                      • #12
                        Re: The growing crisis facing Cardiff's rental market with landlords selling up and 100 people fighting for every property

                        Originally posted by SLUDGE FACTORY View Post
                        Got a link ?


                        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.

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                        • #13
                          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

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                          • #14
                            Re: The growing crisis facing Cardiff's rental market with landlords selling up and 100 people fighting for every property

                            Originally posted by Ninja View Post
                            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.

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                            • #15
                              Re: The growing crisis facing Cardiff's rental market with landlords selling up and 100 people fighting for every property

                              Originally posted by Alfresco View Post
                              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

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