Property News · September 12, 2015

As migrants fill his properties, Fergus Wilson puts up rents by 33%


But landlord has ‘concern’ for low-income Maidstone-born people who are priced outFergus Wilson, Britain’s most controversial buy-to-let landlord, is increasing rents across his 900 houses in Kent by up to 33% and filling his properties with eastern European migrants – while at the same time saying that Britain is heading for a “housing disaster”.Wilson told Guardian Money that when he let a three-bed mid-terrace home in Maidstone, Kent, last weekend, he managed to hike the rent from £900 a month to £1,200. Most of the demand, he says, is from migrants who are willing to pay higher rents than other local residents. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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