On Thursday 23rd May, the fifth annual ‘Rumble with the Agents’ white-collar charity boxing event took place at The Holiday Inn in Finchley Central. The sell-out event, attended by more than 300 property professionals, raised in excess of £19,000 for …
Caridon Landlord Solutions (CLS) was contacted by a landlord whose tenant was in more than 10 months of rent arrears. The landlord had served the tenant with a Section 8 notice as a precaution but did not necessarily want to evict her if the Housing B…
Firstly, the new tenants are a married couple with two children. The wife has no income. The letting agent has named both husband and wife as tenants on the AST even though the wife will be contributing no rent. The letting agent is advising that this …
I have been wondering about the tenant fee ban and how it may affect situations that are not addressed. My starting point is as an agent we have never issued a non-student tenancy solely for a fixed term unless we were asked to
The post Tenant fees ban…
The National Landlords Association (NLA) is concerned the Tenant Fees Act 2019 may limit access to rented property for tenants in areas with selective licensing.
The Tenant Fees Act, which comes into effect on 1 June, limits the fees landlords and lett…
I nearly died of shock today! My inbox contained a request for a tenant eventually evicted last November, which began in April 2018. Yes, it was one of those Section 21s, the so-say ‘no fault’ eviction route to ensure I got possession witho…
Olivia Bridge is a political correspondent and commentator for the Immigration Advice Service – an organisation of leading UK immigration solicitors.
Theresa May’s ‘hostile environment’ policy introduced in 2012 has achieved exactly what it says on the…
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has published its latest newsletter designed to keep landlords who let to tenants on Universal Credit informed of the most recent updates and current position of the roll out.
Click here to view the full May 2…
Should mortgage companies be able set the requirement to use a closed panel of solicitors as one of the criteria for obtaining a loan from them?
I have a cousin who has his own legal practice in my area and there are a significant number of partners
Th…
The UK’s towns and cities where homeowners are making the most money by renting out their driveways as parking spaces have been revealed by online parking portal YourParkingSpace.co.uk. Its research shows that empty driveways, garages and secure parkin…
Have any Property118 readers and contributors read the thorough Crisis report on homelessness? You seem to have a number of luminaries who could throw some light on what appears to be a thorough and detailed report.
There may be an alternative valid vi…
Our Hon. Legal Counsel, Mark Smith, Head of Chambers at Cotswold Barristers will be presenting an overview of several landlords tax strategies at the pin Leeds Meeting property networking event Wednesday 26th June 2019.
The event will start at 6:00pm u…
NAEA Propertymark has issued its April Housing Report1 with the headline – Number of property transactions increases despite fall in supply and demand.
Mark Hayward, said: “Despite a fall in housing supply and demand, it’s encouraging to see an …
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The 1st of June was the deadline for the implementation of the Tenant Fees Act 2019.
As of this date the tenancy deposit will be capped to a maximum of five weeks rent where the annual rent is less th…
Am I correct in assuming that if my 6 month AST’s then revert to Periodic Tenancies after the 6th month, I don’t need to issue another How to Rent guide, even if a new version has been introduced by the Government
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