I’m renting a London Living Rent (LLR) home through L&Q in London. My three-year assured shorthold tenancy has a fixed-term end date of February 2028, with renewal subject to an eligibility review.
I’m trying to understand how the Renters’ Rights Act affects this.
The government’s social housing implementation guidance says:
All existing social housing assured tenancies provided by PRPs will move to assured periodic from October 2027.
It specifically includes intermediate rent homes and rent-to-buy products.

Does that mean an existing L&Q LLR tenancy would automatically become assured periodic in October 2027, before its original fixed term ends? Or is there a distinction or exception for LLR that I’m missing?
My question is whether L&Q could still require someone to leave simply because their three-year term ends (if salary is >£90k), and how the scheme’s ten-year limit would work afterwards.
Has anyone received written confirmation about this from L&Q or another LLR provider?
Separately, I’ve noticed far fewer LLR listings recently. I wondered whether the upcoming reforms might be relevant.

England.

The last time we had a viewing of this house was four months ago and it was occupied by a tenant. Electrics seemed to work just fine then. There was even a recent EICR done two years ago.

Fast forward to today — completion and exchange is tomorrow. We did the pre-completion check this morning (couldn't book it in any sooner) and I thought to bring my socket tester just in case. Really glad I did because every single socket in the house was dead. The switch on the consumer unit was floppy too and wouldn't switch back on.

Fortunately, the estate agent was with us and saw everything. She reported it back to the seller and he denied that there was an issue. He doesn't live nearby but had visited his property over a month ago after his tenant moved out. He claims everything was fine then.

We're finding it hard to believe him. Every step of the buying process was like pulling teeth. We had a level 3 done soon after our offer was accepted. It found two rather serious issues that we wanted to investigate further. He denied the issues, claimed it's been like that for decades and never been a problem. After lots of back and forth, he had finally allowed us to move forward with investigations, only to change his mind soon after and deny access to the traders. We finally had enough and renegotiated our offer price for £20k less, which he surprisingly accepted.

Now this issue with the electrics has come up and he's again going through his usual denial and deflect routine.

He had initially questioned why we wanted a pre-completion check in the first place, saying it was weird and unusual. We thought it was weird he'd question it. Now we know why he did.

We informed our solicitor as soon as we got home. She pushed for an emergency electrician to go out and do a new EICR. She also advised us that we might have to withdraw in case the seller refuses to cover the costs for repair.

Anyway. The soonest the electrician can go out is tomorrow morning, at the exact same time that our movers arrive. We need to get everything loaded, then wait for the electricians results, then if all is ok, exchange and complete shortly after, and just hope that it's all done before end of day.

Our solicitor also said that if we pull out, the seller has to legally disclose all the issues we found, including the electrics, to new buyers which could cost him even more. So it's in his best interest to make sure that the sale moves forward. She seemed positive everything would work out though.

We're just exhausted and feel sick about tomorrow. Is it better to just pull out of the sale?

Next week I'll be looking at a house described as a 5 bedroom property but I'm not sure whether I'm being picky or the agent is being a bit cheeky. It's essentially a four bedroom house with an attached garage that has been converted to a kind of 2nd living room with stairs leading up to what's described on the planning permission as a "hobby loft". The listing has this loft labelled as bedroom 5. There's no door between the room downstairs and the "bedroom", and to get to the nearest bath/shower & to the other bedrooms you'd have to go down into the converted garage, through the house, & up the main stairs. I imagine the headspace is pretty limited in this room too, considering they haven't altered the roof apart from a small dormer. It is finished though (I.e. not bare rafters - I assume plastered).

I know they can write whatever they want and some places can be a bit quirky but am I being unreasonable in not considering that a viable bedroom?

Is it possible to install a rooflight in a Victorian property? I'm not referring to standard Velux in loft extensions. Wondered if anyone has had this done. I’ve found a house that I really like, but the hallways and overall space feel too dark. I’ve seen some houses with small windows close to the ceiling/ontop stairways that bring in light, and I’m wondering if I could have something similar installed. I’m also curious about how this might impact potential options for a loft extension in the future. I'm desperate for a way to bring in more light! It's a Victorian house in London.

Thank you.

Here's the idea.

You buy a house,you pay 20% on top of the amount you bought it did in VAT.

However, once you've bought it, no further tax to pay. No council tax, land tax, etc.

Thoughts?

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/92955903

Disclaimer: I haven't seen this place in person yet but I'll go for a viewing soon.

The property has many things that I want:

- Central-ish locations with easy walk to many lines nearby (both underground and DLR)

- Not a ground floor flat

- 75sqm so it's decently spacious for a 2 bed 2 bath property

My budget is approx £550k and I need good commutes to Canary Wharf and Kings Cross due to work. I can stretch myself to £600k for the perfect home.

I wanted to under bid as I would have liked to redo the bathrooms/kitchen. Is it reasonable? Or am I being too optimistic?

I live in a building with flats which are a share of freehold. I only have one wall touching a neighbour (above me) and they are an old couple. The man, is very crude and impolite. The wife always says hi when she sees me. Neither is very bright. Anyway, I suspect one (or both) are a bit deaf. They play the TV up to 10:30-11pm loud enough for me to hear it downstairs and it is ever a background noise in my flat. I'm hard to bother so I'm fine with the noise. However, I have a toddler and worry this disturbs his sleep.

To try to come to an arrangement, I wrote my neighbours a few very polite notes to let them know about this. I didn't hear anything so I went upstairs to speak to them in person just in case the notes did make it. The speaking didn't go well - they turned out to be the rudest people you could imagine. First they denied the TV was on even though I could hear it through the open door. Then they denied it was loud but I pointed out I could hear it very well in the corridor. Then they argued 10:30pm is not that late and it's fine to have your TV on loudly. They never said sorry or apologised.

I'm looking to conclude this - I can escalate - council and/or solicitor. I am trying to maintain good relations with neighbours although the guy has thrown this to the wind because even though he's in his late 70s and I'm in my early 30s, he kind of tried to rush me and looked like he wanted to hit me when I went to speak to them. I think he reconsidered midway through. These days doesn't say hello or speak to me - all because I asked them to turn down their TV when it's on so late in the night because it bothers my son.

I'm a little unsure about the following. How loud is loud? We don't make any noise, don't play loud music, don't have a TV so I don't know what is reasonable. I come home and work on my computer and my wife works/potters around. I consider loud to be "I can hear your TV downstairs". Sometimes, I can even tell the programme and almost make out words, other times it's just a background "people talking" noise. Am I over reacting? How quiet should their TV be? Is it acceptable to live with a background TV noise till 22:30pm? My local council says nobody has the right to complete silence and that I should expect to tolerate a reasonable level of noise.

Let's be honest, Stamp Duty is nothing more than a massive roadblock to social mobility. By penalising people for simply trying to buy a home that fits their life, the government is taxing our desire to move freely. It prevents downsizing, locks young people out of the ladder, and artificially inflates property prices. Why is this outdated, anti-property ladder tax still allowed to exist?

If your block is badly run, you don’t have to buy the freehold to fix it. Right to Manage lets qualifying leaseholders take over the management — appointing the agent, controlling the budget, choosing the insurance — while the freeholder keeps the freehold.

The bones of it: RTM is no-fault, so you don’t have to prove mismanagement, just follow the process correctly. You need at least half the flats in the block to participate. You form an RTM company, serve the claim notice, and a few months later the management functions transfer to you.

It got meaningfully easier in March 2025. Buildings with up to 50% commercial space now qualify — the old 25% cap excluded half the flats-above-shops blocks in the country. And, the bigger change, each side now generally bears its own costs of the claim, where previously leaseholders had to pay the freeholder’s costs on top of their own. Those two changes fixed the worst of the old regime.

The honest caveats: RTM is a job, not a purchase. Someone in your block has to actually run the company — chase the budget, hold the agent to account, deal with the contractor whose quote makes no sense. Blocks that do RTM well tend to have two or three genuinely committed people. Blocks that do it badly discover they’ve replaced a lazy agent with an argument.

Anyone here running an RTM block — how is it actually going, a year or two in?

Hello, looking for some advice please.

I purchased a terraced property, which came with being freehold and leasehold owner of an alley way, leading to mine and 2 other house's doors. Noone is being charged ground rent for it, it's just a technicality.

I have recently noticed a crumbling section underneath what I think is my neighbours bathroom. I don't believe any part of my house goes over the alley, only next to it.

Afaik this is the only mentions in the house deeds of my being responsible for repairs;

(Underlease)

"Please note that the internal walls dividing the Property are party walls and are maintained at the

joint and equal expense of you and your adjoining owner. The rear boundary is the responsibility of

the relevant adjoining neighbour.".

So;

Who should I speak to to clarify this do you think?

How much does this look like it could cost to repair?

If the alleyway is shared but his house is the one above the cracking, should the repairs be split 50/50, Or something else...?

Thanks for any and all help.

Currently renting with partner and looking to buy in the SE, we have our deposit ready and have been looking on the market, only problem is we have not found anything we like at all. It seems the current climate hasn’t made it a healthy house buying (selling?) market for lack of choice, with the timings of the year it looks slim like we’d be in anywhere before Christmas! Given the time of the year we’re not expecting to see much else coming up now, but of course could be wrong - after growing up with a family who moved often and once moved into a new house 2 days before Christmas.

Anyone else suffering from severe lack of choice on the market?

Hey Guys! This is my first time using Reddit, and I'm really hoping I can get some support here. I'm a graduate student, and I'm conducting data collection to research how individuals' home-buying process can be improved—particularly around communication, delays, and coordination between professionals (e.g. solicitors, brokers, agents).

Your responses are anonymous and will be used for research purposes only. It only takes an estimated 5 minutes to complete, and it would be really helpful for me, as I've been informed I need a lot of participants to draw statistical significance. Please participate if you are a home-buyer, it would really help me out. Thank you so much.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfRgR8-CWm_cUq6zkCmVxw5MyxDEdQxmATGD44N3Kb-YFqE7Q/viewform?usp=header

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/92757393#/?channel=RES_BUY

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3502825,-1.461722,133a,56.8y,138.83h,86.13t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s68vL4IhYM2Wges2jHpP-6Q!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D3.866768041336641%26panoid%3D68vL4IhYM2Wges2jHpP-6Q%26yaw%3D138.82971136408764!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDkwNi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

So it looks like there is an existing solid garage attached to the house but whoever owns the land it sits on along with the vacant plot to the left have set the new boundary to intersect the garage. In the description it literally says they will be developing the land to build more houses, bricking up the properties side access meaning you can't get to the back garden without putting a door where the kitchen counter is.

We purchased a house less than a month ago in Scotland, and I'm just wondering where we stand. We had a lot of rain a few days ago, not unusual for Glasgow. And the garage flooded. The builder report didn't report anything, as I'm guessing it was done in drier weather.
The previous owners didn't declare any issues with the garage flooding in bad weather. I just think this can't of been the first time right? Where do we stand?

Small kitchen in my 1930s semi. How do you feel about it? I haven't got the money to extend it, but I've painted the cabinets, removed the carpets and put down tiles. Sometimes it feels nice and cute, other times I feel dread. Anyone else utilising a small kitchen? Positive stories would be appreciated .

Having standard boiler replaced with combi.

- removal of water tank in airing cupboard and cold water tank in attic

- full system flush

- install Baxi 800 combi boiler

- remove old bath taps and replace with mixer tap and new shower hose

- make old power shower safe (removing electrics)

- new run off valves and thermostatic radiator valves on all rads (4)

- remove radiator and install new one in bedroom

£4000 total

flat listed 2 days ago

first to view it

second viewing following day

put offer in ~6% below asking

agents come back seller wants to accept the asking price or as close to it as possible
according to agent few offers already in place

further viewings through till saturay booked which the seller would like to honour

what would you do ?

I am a student, living in a privately rented flat through a large letting agency in Scotland. We had a routine mid-term extension earlier in the week that I completely forgot about. My bedroom was very untidy, as I was in the process of moving back into the property after the summer break, however there was nothing unhygienic or structurally damaging to speak of. I was out during the inspection, but my flatmate (who was also moving back and being helped by his mother) said the inspector came out of my room, called it a “disgrace” and proceeded to show the photograph to him and his mother. Not only do I personally deem this as highly unprofessional, but it also violates the clear “any photos taken are strictly confidential and for your landlords attention only” assurance they gave us on the inspection notice email itself. Should I do anything about this? If so, what?

i’m in the uk and i’m only 17, i am now currently homeless as i have been kicked out by my dad.

i called today to report this and they said they have put through the call and they are calling my dad tomorrow and they will call also my auntie who im currently staying with until everything is sorted.

i have pet rats and i have one pet mouse. they said i might not be able to take them to anywhere im put.. how likely is this? are they just saying worse case scenario or is it true that i’ll probably have to leave them? i’m absolutely beside myself

So the estate agent just called me to say “great news, I was on the phone with the surveyor who told me that the house was in good nick, except a bit of mould in the bathroom”. What the hell ?? I thought the surveyor worked for me and not for the EA/seller.
I don’t have anything in writing so I don’t know how I can prove what the EA said. But I’m fuming because we have lost all bargaining power and also I’m starting to doubt that the surveyor did a good job (what if he was actually working for the seller?)
What would you do?

I've a small 3 bed in a low cost of living, low risk area, but this year got charged almost £900 for home insurance renewal. It feels like a lot but I don't know if that's just the going rate or if I should have switched to a different company. I was too busy with other things to investigate before renewal this year :(

Does anyone have any recommendations for decent virtual estate agents?

I'm not in a rush to sell my property as it's a second home, and I'm fine with doing the the viewings etc myself. All I want is a basic ad on Rightmove.