Under the title - Will the new UK legislation to manage COVID rent arrears help landlords and tenants and avoid an insolvency cliff edge? an article has just appeared in LexBlog looking at the consequences. The original can be seen here - and says:- There is a faint...
Landlords and letting agents are being made ‘scapegoats’ by Chancellor Rishi Sunak as the government continues to rebuff calls for tenants to be given more financial support to clear rent arrears, it is claimed. A new report by the National Residential Landlords...
The government has confirmed how landlords and letting agents will check the right to rent status of EU, EEA, and Swiss citizens after 30 June 2021, many of whom will no longer be able to physically document their right to rent in England after this date. Citizens...
The House of Commons Library has published a paper presenting a selection of publications on the issue of how to house an ageing population now, and in the future. For the paper, click here.
The Local Government Association has published a six-point plan which it says is needed to protect vulnerable households who could lose their homes after the ending of the ban on bailiff evictions on 31 May, and to tackle homelessness in the long-term. The LGA is...
A councillor has issued a warning to landlords and tenants who allow anti-social tenants to “run wild”. Labour councillor Peter Atkinson, who represents North Portslade, said that he was “extremely concerned” by the growing number of complaints about nuisance...
On 6 June 2021 the Guardian reported that the government is cutting DHP funding to local authorities to £140m in 2021/22 (a reduction of 22 per cent). It had increased the funding from £139.5m to £180m in 2020/21 amid the pandemic. The cut brings the funding below the...
On 3 June 2021 the Ministry of Justice published statistics for the volume of civil and judicial review cases dealt with by the courts between 1 January and 31 March 2021. Mortgage and landlord possession claims were down 76 per cent to 7,100. This decrease has been...
A cluster of councils in the south of England want to know how Covid-19 has impacted landlords and letting agents in the private rental sector.The councils include Horsham, Arun, Adur and Worthing, Chichester, Crawley Mid-Sussex and West Sussex.Horsham district...
On 24 May 2021 the MHCLG published a policy paper in response to the HCLG Select Committee’s report on Government’s actions to support the homeless and private rented sector during the Covid-19 pandemic. For the response, click here. For the Select Committee’s...
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