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Alexandra Morris

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About Me

Founder & Director of MakeUrMove - online letting and property management platform servicing the private rented sector in England.
Founder of Habeo - home energy efficiency management tool. Helping homeowners reduce costs, improve efficiency and manage carbon footprints. Driving towards net zero.

my expertise in the industry

16 years within property letting as a landlord and agent.
Bachelor Degree Law LLB (Hons)
Hold Level 3 qualifications in lettings, property management and property sales.
Qualified and accredited

Alexandra's Recent Activity

Another day and another piece identifying the core issue; lack of good quality social housing. Instead of focusing on that and pushing the long term solution of building more social housing, investing in existing social housing to improve quality what do they do - lead with blaming landlords! When a landlord regains possession it isn’t so they can leave it empty. That home will be occupied by another tenant, themselves or a new owner usually within 6 months. There are 30,000+ homes empty in Landlord, the largest number by region is in Chelsea and it’s understood that most of the 30,000+ empty is due to lack of financial resource to make them habitable or that they form part of inheritance matters. Very very few of these will have been recovered under Section 21. Displacement occurs in the most part due to affordability, tenants being unable to afford the home they have AND others in the area and it isn’t just rent that causes problems. Fuel poverty is a huge issue with a more than 200% rise since 2020, council tax rising and public services diminishing every year. Homelessness has no one root cause. That said I’m all for the abolition of Section 21 on the grounds that it is replaced by a fair, simple and easy to access system allowing recovery in fault cases or out of necessity to the legal owner. Then the debate can no longer focus on the landlord and we will be forced to evaluate the real reasons behind eviction and in some cases homelessness.

From: Alexandra Morris 02 February 2024 07:22 AM

Hi John if that is to me then yes of course.

From: Alexandra Morris 01 February 2024 17:52 PM

How can this be seen as independent. It’s a shameful attack on private landlords which is in unjustified even within its content. Not a single fact or piece of supporting evidence included within its paragraphs! 1. EPC’s are not fit for purpose hence the reason they are being overhauled. They are a static snapshot for a single point in time often riddled with assumptions and calculations which are now outdated. 2. Private landlords provide a much needed source of housing to plug a gap caused by poor government policy and lack of investment into social housing. 3. Tenants still don’t understand process and my guess is this ‘survey’ has been positioned without a clear explanation of processes such as legal rent increases and what headline figures are. This lack of understanding is just as bad today despite the how to rent guide and various other meddling tools brought in following ‘think tank’ input, consultations and popular policy. 4. Existing social housing is graded much much lower in quality than the private and is the reason lots of social tenants want to move to private. There is a big rise in fraudulent or misleading applications from tenants and in part its desperation to be accepted despite affordability issues because they are seeking a better standard of home. 5. Damp and mould is not always a landlord issue. There is now lots of data around occupier lifestyle and living conditions, including overcrowding amongst families. When referencing it this should be contextualised in order to position the debate as ‘unbiased’ and drive change which improves the status quo. You have to ask why this has been published and what the benefit is to private landlords - to whom it’s been published! It’s just a self promotion press release for the foundation and key individuals, appealing to the wider, often misinformed tenant audience without a clear message on a proposed solution. We’d invite the NEF to publish their full survey and dataset and engage with the private sector on these matters should it have a genuine desire to effect change in housing stock and quality.

From: Alexandra Morris 01 February 2024 07:42 AM

Hi Jonathan Thank you for the suggestion. We have our own pre-check process and software, 2 out of 3 applications are rejected as a result of our pre checks. Our average let time is still the same but that won’t be the case across the industry. Of those that move to full references we have a 92% pass rate.

From: Alexandra Morris 27 June 2019 11:31 AM

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