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Fixed Term Tenancies Under Threat from IPPR
The latest to call for private rental sector change is the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). Don’t you, as a private landlord, love it…
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Tenants ‘Too Scared to Report Rogue Landlords’
Tenants ‘Too Scared to Report Rogue Landlords’ read the headline in the Manchester Evening News Advertiser. This was one of two adjoining articles which I…
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To Give Notice Or Not To Give Notice…..
That is the question I am often asked. Over the years, I have had many a landlord approach me about the tricky issue of ‘notice’….
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Tenant Fees Bill to Become Law This Year
It still needs Royal Assent, but the Tenant Fees Bill seems set to become law on 1st June 2019 and will apply to all tenancies…
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Landlord Guidance on Room Size Regulations
Since October 2018, a new space standard with room size specifications was introduced, to provide more spacious, healthier sleeping environments. A person (child over the…
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First New Housing Legislation for 2019
It seems that the first new housing legislation of the year will soon be upon us, with the implementation of the Homes (Fitness for Human…
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Housing Court Consultation Ongoing
The consultation as to whether a Housing Court would be helpful to landlords, or tenants, or both is still ongoing, but statistics provided by the…
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Insurance – Make Sure You Have Enough
Insurance will often seem money for nothing; most of us live quiet, peaceful lives and, though anyone can be burgled, or have a fire, this…
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Xmas is Coming – the Landlord’s Getting Flak
We are coming up to Xmas and despite the Xmas songs and Xmas markets, some landlords may think ‘so what’. Of course, they are right…
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Mental Health Issues and the Private Rental Sector
Problems with mental health have probably existed forever. The Bible has Jesus curing people with ‘evil spirits’, other people suffered from what we recognise as…
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Article in the Guardian 10th September 2018
We all live busy lives, so I hope you will forgive my reporting on an article in The Guardian from 10th September this year. I…
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USA Housing Law Very Different
I find material for my items on housing law and the private rental sector from the most unusual places; inspiration is often provided by television…
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Andy Burnham Makes Pronouncement on Asylum Seekers
Mayor of Manchester Andy Burnham’s latest pronouncement has been made on the subject of asylum seekers. Does he have a point? Since Mr Burnham became…
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Private Rented Sector Access Fund
There seemed little in the autumn budget that would excite the private landlord, unlike the ‘Private Sector Access Fund’ announced in the previous Budget; the…
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Improved Protection for Private Sector Tenants
‘Improved protection for private sector tenants’ read the headline in the Manchester Weekly News (18th October 2018) in a column written by the Citizens Advice Bureau. …
