A lettings agency has been heavily criticised by a property tribunal judge after it asked four HMO tenants to pay for the cost of licensing their property. The comments have been made by First Tier Tribunal Judge Shepherd about East London and West Essex firm...
Nottingham City Council has approved a new selective licensing scheme for private landlords in order to help safeguard and improve housing standards for tenants. Selective Licensing requires all landlords to licence any privately rented property they have within a...
Since 2015, all new tenancies had to have working Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Detectors fitted. Smoke detectors on every residential floor, and CO in any room have solid fuel heating - but not gas. Note that HMO's are subject to seperate regulations. In draft...
Last year saw the implementation of the Breathing Space (see our fact sheet), a scheme whereby anyone in debt could apply for a 'breathing space' of up to 60 days during which any debts would be frozen to enable them to work out a repayment scheme. This debt could...
Analysis by Rightmove suggests that capital appreciation remains strong for landlords and owner occupiers alike, despite the recent flurry of interest rate rises. The portal says the price of property coming to market has hit a fourth consecutive record of £367,501,...
Landlords are shunning older and less energy efficient properties in favour of more modern homes to make it easier to comply with new rules, a survey has discovered. A quarter of landlords said they were likely to avoid properties with low Energy Performance...
Michael Gove has warned the UK’s largest housing association he intends to take a “personal and direct interest” in its efforts to fix its horror homes. Crisis-hit Clarion Housing has been at the centre of allegations from ITV News and housing activist Kwajo Tweneboa...
Paragon Bank has found that landlords are prioritising that their properties are suitable for their preferred tenant type over profits. The research into landlord investment strategies, undertaken for Paragon’s Landlord Report 2022, found that when expanding...
An HMRC tax initiative designed to reduce landlord tax fraud by allowing letting agents to pay tax on their clients’ behalf has been universally rejected in focus groups. Government researchers assessed the idea of an alternative voluntary ‘withholding process’ to UK...
The abolition of Section 21 eviction notices could lead to a surge in evictions by private landlords anxious to sell before restrictions come into force, a legal practice claims.The decision to overturn Section 21 of the 1988 Housing Act, which permits landlords to...
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