To date, guidance has been issued to the industry and consumers to cover pre-visits and visits to a home which is on the market. However, it is apparent that renting HMOs is more complicated especially when combining households that don’t know each other. This is allowed by the government, however, you need to follow the new home moving guidance rules and you need to ensure any tradespeople, cleaners etc that visit the property also follow the guidance laid out by the government, the industry and to consumers. Read more to find out the procedure for letting or renting an HMO during COVID-19.

Although many of the price reports are likely to struggle to reflect what’s happening in the market over the coming months, we are able to glean some information from data running up to the stay at home measures and combine this with individual reports that some of the best commentators are publishing. Read my latest property price report to find out more.

A cross industry guide to re-opening the housing market, enabling people to move safely has now been published today. It is essential that if you are thinking of buying, selling, letting or renting that you read in particular the consumer guidance. Although you can now move, there are a lot more things that you and the property industry will need to do to do so safely. To find out more, read the full guidance and property checklists.

For renters, to answer all your property renting questions, visit our 'help' page for lots of helpful information, from financial costs and considerations, renting direct from a landlord or using a letting agent, choosing a rental property through to how to get Government financial help, tenant responsibilities and lots more.

For buy to let investors, to answers your property investment questions, visit our 'help' page for information on choosing a buy to let, your buy to let objectives, financing buy to let, letting property legally and safely, insuring your buy to let, how do you exit a buy to let, plus much more.