Buy-to-let Property News, Licensing
Zurich: cannabis farm claims cost landlords £9.4m
Zurich UK has investigated 17 cannabis farm claims worth £9.4m since January 2022, warning landlords about costly damage and long repairs.
Electrical safety
Buy-to-let Property News, Regulation
Riskstop warns landlords over plug-in solar safety checks
Riskstop says plug-in solar panels became legal in Great Britain on 27 August, leaving landlords to weigh consent, electrical safety and insurance checks before tenants install them.
Buy-to-let Property News, Licensing
West Suffolk keeps £7,500 landlord electrical safety fine
West Suffolk Council kept a £7,500 landlord fine after a tribunal backed enforcement over 21 electrical safety defects and said the penalty could have been higher.
Buy-to-let Property News, Regulation
Court ruling lets landlords seek forced entry for safety checks
A county court ruling says landlords can ask judges to permit forced entry for gas and electrical safety inspections after an access injunction has been ignored, giving compliance cases a clearer route.
Buy-to-let Property News
Landlord fined after fire at unlicenced HMO
When Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Services were called out to quench a blaze in Uxbridge Road, Wexham, they discovered the property, which on paper…
Landlord Articles
Mandatory Electrical Safety Checks
Mandatory electrical safety checks are to be introduced. It has been tossed into the ether many times over the years, but it has taken the…
