The landlord licensing register set up in 2016 covering Whitechapel, Spitalfields and parts of Bethnal Green is being extended to 2026 by Tower Hamlets Council. The decision was approved by the mayor and his cabinet this week after public consultations. The scheme...
There are just three weeks left for landlords to respond to one of the largest consultations undertaken by a council in London.Southwark council wants the views of landlords, agents, tenants and businesses about its broad approach to the private rental sector, as well...
Activist group Generation Rent are telling tenants to use the slightest documentation error by landlords to avoid eviction.It claims as many as three quarters of tenants were not given a government guide to renting at the start of their tenancy - a figure the group...
There appears to be no evidence yet as to the effectiveness or otherwise of the government’s mediation scheme, introduced ahead of the eviction ban lifting.The Association of Residential Letting Agents’ wing of Propertymark - which backed the pilot of the scheme when...
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We’re on track for a bumper summer of lettings according to one of the sector’s most authoritative rental market monitors.Goodlord’s latest analysis shows that voids dropped in seven of the eight regions monitored by Goodlord during May, reducing the average void...
Rightmove has identified five ways that landlords and other property owners can improve their property’s EPC rating - some for well under £100.Current legislation in England and Wales requires buy to let properties to have at least an Energy Performance Certificate...
A council says it’s “on the side of tenants” against landlords.The London borough of Tower Hamlets has renewed its Selective Licensing Scheme for an additional five years, and will now run until October 2026.The decision was approved by the council after a...
A rogue landlord has been fined £2,000 and must pay a victim surcharge of £22 after pleading guilty to breaching a prohibition notice preventing him letting a property.Leicester council’s private sector housing team had served the prohibition order on a bedsit in the...
The Press, in Yorkshire, have run an article on the Council trying to make a profit from selling new homes, rather than dealing tenants needs. It concludes:- "York council is more pre-occupied with footstreets, cycle paths, closing roads to cars, and touting their...
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