Landlord Articles
Landlords – Were You Ready for 20th March 2019?
The Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act came into force this week on 20th March 2019. This has confused some landlords (probably the deliberate intention)…
The Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act came into force this week on 20th March 2019. This has confused some landlords (probably the deliberate intention)…
I have written before about the regular replacement there seems to have been over the last few years in the posts of Housing Secretary and…
The private landlord has a hard time; whilst many are aware that tenants will seek private rented properties because of better standards, sometimes better areas,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
‘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. …
This is hardly a new topic and won’t surprise any private landlord, but on all sides, there are reports of how universal credit is failing…
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 long, hot summer days continue and whilst many tenants may decide to ‘staycation’ because of the heat, there are a few things landlords and…
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…
It has been announced that the Right to Rent legislation is to go to Judicial Review at the High Court, as the worth of the…