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Be Ready for the Buy to Let Olympics
The TV screens have been full of the Winter Olympics, the sports being televised seeming more death-defying than in the Summer Olympics, which will follow…
The TV screens have been full of the Winter Olympics, the sports being televised seeming more death-defying than in the Summer Olympics, which will follow…
During the party conference season, the subject of longer tenancies in the private sector again reared its ugly head. We have to accept, that Shelter…
Although the tenant should be the one who should be doing their best to persuade a landlord to give them a tenancy, it is quite…
I have met many tenants – generally because they have fallen into rent arrears or are anti-social, lacking communication skills and refusing to engage with…
The Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) have revealed that in the year between March 2015 and March 2016, the three deposit protection schemes,…
The New Housing and Planning Act 2016 has introduced yet more legislation for landlords to wrestle with as they manage their portfolios. With the buzz-words…
All over the country, seasonal lights are festooned along our high streets, supposedly in memory of a birth 2000 years ago. Whether it is believed…
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, confirmed that his first Autumn statement will also be his last – he has announced that in future…
When asked if their tenancy agreement says what they want it to say most landlords would confidently say ‘yes it does’, particularly if obtained from…
I am often asked when eviction is reasonable. Where a tenant is 2 months or more in rent arrears, there will be no argument from…
It was a small item in a Metro daily some years ago that alerted me to what I thought would be the next Shelter/CAB campaign….
Landlords are used to problem tenants; those that don’t pay the rent, those that cause nuisance to neighbours, that damage properties through malice or accident….
The private rental market has witnessed significant growth in recent years, with the average tenancy now lasting over four years. Jacqui Glenn director at Argos…
A couple of recent appearances on a specialist Sky TV programme have shown me how the legislation around tenancy deposit protection is still being flouted,…
A recent question made me ponder about how landlords ask for advice, particularly as there are now various help-lines that can offer assistance to landlords…