The consultation runs from 13 January until 24 March 2023 and focuses on plans to designate a new Additional HMO Licensing scheme, the former Additional Licensing scheme came to a close at the end of 2022, for another five years. An independent review of the former...
The House of Commons Library has just published a report on Household Debt: Key Economic Indicators. It can be seen here, and says: Household debt as a % of disposable income Household debt peaked in Q3 2008 at 155.6% of household disposable income. It then declined...
On 30 January 2023 Shelter Legal updated its webpage concerning data protection requirements for landlords. Some landlords or letting agencies which handle personal data need to register with the Information Commissioner’s Office and pay a data protection fee. For the...
The Human Rights Joint Committee has published a report in which it calls on the Government to reconsider the majority of the Bill of Rights Bill, calling into question the wisdom of proceeding with the legislation at all. The Committee has numerous criticisms of the...
On 30 January 2023 the DLUHC announced that it had issued developers with legally binding contracts that will commit them to pay to repair unsafe buildings. The Government has set a six-week deadline for developers to sign the legal agreements failing which they will...
Leeds City Council have just published an update on its work to tackle mould and damp issues in council housing.; It can be seen here.
A report in the Telegraph shows that taxes paid on second properties surged in the last financial year. The report can be seen here (subscription may be necessary) and shows that HMRC have reported tax paid last year of £4.56bn, against an average of £3½bn in previous...
Almost 13,000 offshore companies holding UK property have failed to declare their ultimate owners and may now face fines and a ban on selling their land, the government has said. Martin Callanan, a business minister, praised the introduction of the new register of...
UK Nationwide house prices grew by 1.1% year-on-year in January, falling short of estimates for growth of 1.9%. On a monthly basis, the figure declined by 0.6% also underperforming forecasts for a decline of 0.3%, representing the fifth consecutive monthly drop....
In their a trading update for the year ended 31 December 2022, leading morgage broker, Mortgage Advice Bureau reported revenue for the year increased by 22%, despite the immediately negative impact of September's mini-budget on the mortgage market. The statement...
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