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Home Office consults on landlord code
Landlords should ensure that no prospective tenants are discouraged or excluded from renting, either directly or indirectly, because of their race including skin colour, nationality…
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Slough and Camden take action against landlords
A Wembley landlord has been fined more than £57,000 after having been found to have run an unlicensed and unfit HMO in Arborfield Close, Slough….
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Landlords suffering fewer void periods
Void periods in which rental properties are left untenanted are now approaching their lowest level of incidence in five years. After peaking in the third quarter…
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Government to boldly go on ten-year PRS mission
‘Levelling up’, as envisaged by the Government, requires abolition of Section 21 grounds for possession and cracking down on ‘rogue landlords’. This became clear in…
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Law requires only ‘properly authorised’ signatory
A corporate landlord has won an appeal that had things gone otherwise, might had led to an avalanche of claims. Northwood Solihull v Fearn &…
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Race for space shows no sign of flagging
UK appetite for home moving has continued into the New Year with January demand up by close to 50 per cent on recent new year…
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Tax changes have made landlords reduce their holdings
More than a third of landlords have considered selling rental properties due to the loss of buy-to-let mortgage interest tax relief, Nationwide’s new The Landlord…
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Scotland gets short-term let licensing law
All short-term lets in Scotland will require a licence to operate under a new law approved by the Scottish Parliament this week. Local authorities will…
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London primed for property price recovery
A recovery in prime central London property values is underway, estate agents Savills have reported. ‘Though renewed Covid-19 uncertainty will likely push the expected bounce…
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More landlords opt for incorporation
More and more landlords have been incorporating their buy-to-let businesses, international estate agency business has reported. Although the peak may now be passed, over the…
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New guidance follows lifting of COVID restrictions
Lifting of the so-called ‘plan B’ COVID has prompted the Government to this week issue updated guidance to landlords. COVID-19 and renting: guidance for landlords,…
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Move to help blighted affordable home owners let their properties
It is to be made easier for shared owners of government grant funded affordable homes that are affected by building safety issues to sublet. To…
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Government consults on leaseholder rights in mixed use properties
Reform of leasing law following the Grenfell Tower cladding scandal could make it easier for residential leaseholders in ‘mixed-use’ properties to buy their freeholds. This…
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Wales set for major change in landlord and tenant law
The ‘biggest change to housing law in Wales for decades’ will be made in July this year with implementation of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act…
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Revenue holds fire on late filing penalties
Landlords having problems meeting self-assessment filing deadlines have been allowed an extra month to complete their online returns. HMRC has announced that it will not…
