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Merseyside Has Not All Good Landlords
I seemed to spend my working life defending the many good landlords I come into contact with. I actually risked dismissal by assisting a landlord…
I seemed to spend my working life defending the many good landlords I come into contact with. I actually risked dismissal by assisting a landlord…
A wonderful summer has ended; the complaints from tenants, or their neighbours, have been about rowdy parties and insects but not about mould and condensation. …
The Chartered Institute of Housing has its roots in the work of Octavia Hill, who sought to address the problems of poor housing. It has…
Last month, I promised I would write to the Mayor of Manchester, Andy Burnham, about his jumping on the bandwagon of fighting the ‘Rogue Landlord’. …
The topic of longer tenancies has again reared its’ (to many buy to let investors) ugly head. The new Housing Minister, James Brokenshire, seems to…
A new month and with it, a new housing minister. But is a new housing minister a compliment to the sector? It is not surprising…
We all know about a healthy diet. We know it should be balanced, with fats, carbohydrates and proteins providing essential vitamins and minerals to ensure…
Leaving aside the outrageous sums which commentators confidently state it costs parents to raise a child in the modern world, it now appears that many…
I am not for one moment suggesting that private landlords require Gordon Ramsey cooking skills – it is not generally a condition of the tenancy…
Karen Buck, MP, introduced the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation and Liability for Housing Standards) Bill as a private members’ bill in July 2017; it…
A recent story in the news entertained me, but also made me think. The story concerned a light-hearted article by a Doctor, blaming episodes of…
The Chancellor announced in the Autumn Budget that Councils would be allowed to charge the landlord of an empty property 100 per cent of the…
Well that’s it then – Summer time has ended before the Summer really arrived! Whether we feel ready for Winter or not, the days will…
With the roll-out of Universal Credit accelerating from October 2017, the role of ‘trusted landlords’ is now being discussed. The pilot scheme, started in 2013,…
Though not a regular viewer of day-time television, an episode of Judge Rinder did spark my interest, as it showed how the law around eviction…