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The Property Podcast

ASK485: Buy a home or invest? PLUS: Can tenants object to upgrades?

The Property Podcast

Rob Bence & Rob Dix

Investing, Education, Business News, News, Business

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Happy Tuesday! It’s time for another episode of Ask Rob & Rob, where we dive into your property questions.     (0:47) Sam’s eager to renovate his buy-to-let to boost its value and potentially increase the rent. But with upcoming rental reforms, especially the end of no-fault evictions and tribunals for rent disputes, he wants to know what rights he’ll have if a tenant refuses improvements to avoid a rent increase.  (3:18) Tom’s expecting to get £200k from a future property sale. He originally planned to buy a family home and invest in a buy-to-let through a limited company. But he’s now debating ditching homeownership entirely, using the full pot to build a portfolio, and possibly living in one of the company-owned properties. He asks Rob & Rob for their take on the strategy and whether there are any pitfalls.  Enjoy the show?  Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts - it really helps others find us!  Sign up for our free weekly newsletter, Property Pulse  Send us your question by calling us on 013 808 00035 and leaving a message with your name and question (normal UK call rates apply) or click here to leave a recording via your computer instead.  Find out more about Property Hub Invest

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Rob.

0:03.4

And I'm Rob.

0:04.4

And this is Ask Rob and Rob.

0:05.6

Yes, it is Ask Rob and Rob.

0:08.8

Welcome to the show where we answer two of your property questions every week without fail.

0:13.2

And the reason this works is because you send in really interesting questions.

0:16.7

And Rob, the way to do that is so, so easy.

0:19.2

It's so easy whether you want to leave a voicemail, you want to leave a recording via your computer,

0:25.2

or you want to get in touch to maybe see yourself in the Sunday Times, where we answer your questions every week as well.

0:30.8

You can go to the one place, it's property hub.net forward slash ask.

0:35.8

Go there, submit your question however you please and from that you may see

0:40.4

your question in the sunday times or hear yourself on the podcast first up we've got a question in

0:47.2

from sam hi rub and rob my name's sam a big fan of all the content you produce so thanks

0:52.8

for keeping us well informed my question is around the end of low-fault evictions and tribunals for rent

1:00.6

dispute. Potential legurus I'm likely going to bring in. As an example, we have a property

1:06.7

that we would like to renovate and improve the condition of, for example, the carpet to be replaced,

1:12.0

we'd like to fit to the new kitchen, things like that.

1:14.1

Currently, the rent is quite low.

1:15.9

When no fault evictions come in and when the no reds go to a tribunal,

1:20.5

if the tenant turns around and says, actually, I don't want these renovations to take place,

1:27.1

I'm going to be in a bind where we'd like to try

1:29.7

and improve the property to increase the values so that we can draw out some equity from it

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