Book your 2025 corporate retreat with Stay & Escape today, and see how we can help create an unforgettable experience for your team. Could corporate retreats be the antidote to the WFH era? Hybrid or fully-remote working is a boon to many, lending employees more flexibility and often an improved work-life balance. But, with up to 44% of the UK’s workforce working from home at least part of the time, it means some bosses are increasingly worried that lack of office-hours is negatively affecting team cohesion. With increasingly disparate working locations, faceless virtual meetings have become the norm. We’ve all […]
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Big changes are coming fast to private renting. Should UK landlords worry about ASTs being abolished?
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A colossal shake-up is right the horizon for the UK private rental market. The now-familiar AST, the backbone of the market, is set to be outlawed entirely in the new 2025 Renters’ Rights Bill. The AST (or Assured Shorthold Tenancy) offered the advantage of fixed-term, guaranteed income for landlords. Alongside it, Section 21 provided flexibility and a quick route to repossess properties. From Spring 2025, these will be no more. The nature of private renting in the UK is about to become unrecognisable, with no-fault evictions outlawed and rolling contracts made mandatory. Here, we outline a host of disadvantages with […]