The Housing Ombudsman has reported that it had made two findings of severe maladminstration for Onward Homes’ failings in handling a resident’s complaint about damp and mould caused by rotten window frames and her request for compensation due to damaged belongings. A...
The Observer has reported that police had said that criminal gangs are buying properties and setting them up as supported accommodation to receive the higher rates of housing benefit for such properties. However, according to the police, the landlords provide little...
Tenants in Tunbridge Wells claim they are paying a 'hidden charge' for energy to landlord But Town and Country Housing said the charge was for how much heat was lost during its journey from the communal boiler to their home Tenants of retirement housing in Tunbridge...
PropertyWire has just published an article on a current loophole in the EPC/MEES regulations for commercial property, where an EPC is generally considered not to be required on a renewal lease, many landlords have been able to renew leases to sitting tenants where the...
Tessa Shepperson has just published a blog on selling a property with lodgers. You can see it here.
Scores of landlords and block managers may have unwittingly overlooked their new legal responsibility to ensure fire door safety throughout smaller residential buildings and are running out of time to take action, according to property and construction consultancy...
A website called Daze is giving instructions on how to sue their landlord. It can be seen here, and has backing from Acorn, the tenant association. The answer is very simple, don’t fall into the small minority of landlords who do things wrong, and lay themselves open...
Welsh Shadow Housing Minister Janet Finch-Saunders has described measures put in place by the Welsh Government to control the proliferation of second homes as “a tsunami driving landlords to sell up”. The Welsh Conservative Senedd Member for Aberconwy also claims that...
The Telegraph are warning about the potential problems facing buy to let landlords, if the mortgage rate continues to rise. The article can be seen here (subscription might be necessary), and states ‘Landlords will be forced to sell up or inflict huge rent rises on...
Spare Room have published the following blog: How Section 24 caused rental chaos We’ve been running flatshare sites since 1999 and we’ve NEVER seen the rental market like it is today. There are more people looking for rooms than ever before, fewer rooms available than...
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