With the introduction of mandatory client money protection from April 2019, Hamilton Fraser is annoucing a joined up approach to its group companies; the Property Redress Scheme (PRS) and CMProtect (CMP).
With the mounting commercial pressures on letti…
Landlords, did you know that if you did not provide a gas safety certificate at the start of a tenancy (be it a first agreement or written renewal after 1st October 2015), before the tenant moved in, you may find that any Section 21 notice served durin…
In North East London, Landlord Steve Moreno has been put in an extremely stressful situation. His problems began after deciding to sell his flat in Lea in order to purchase a property with his girlfriend.
Having informed his tenant
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Last week, whilst filming in the town of March, Cambridgeshire, for the fourth series of Channel 5’s ‘Nightmare Tenants Slum Landlords’, I experienced the worst living conditions I had ever seen in my 27 years in this business.
Although a unique case
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Having raised more than £58,000 for local charities across the last three events, ‘Rumble with the Agents’, the white-collar charity boxing event which was set up in 2015 by founder of Landlord Action, Paul Shamplina, will return for a fourth year.
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A few weeks ago, I started filming the new series of Nightmare Tenants Slum Landlords (due to air on Channel 5 in Spring 2018), and one of the eviction cases was for a landlord called Emmanuel in Dagenham.
He was owed £6,000 rent by a tenant who unfortunately ran into financial problems
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The Government appears to have bowed to the volume of criticism leveled at its flagship Universal Credit scheme and a realisation there is a range of fundamental issues which need to be urgently addressed. Mounting evidence pointed to the fact signific…
Earlier last month the Conservatives announced that all buy-to-let (BTL) landlords will be forced to register with a redress scheme, as is already compulsory for all letting and estate agents. The Property Redress Scheme (PRS) says an introduction of this kind should also be extended to include Rent to Rent (R2R) firms.
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Everyone knows that rogue landlords bring down standards and should be rooted out, but have recent buy-to-let changes gone too far in punishing the good landlords who provide an excellent service and high-quality accommodation, as well as people who actively choose to rent not buy?
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Results from a survey released today by mydeposits, the custodial and insurance-backed tenancy deposit scheme, have revealed that 44% of landlords are planning to make changes to their present circumstances in direct response to tax changes imposed on landlords over the last 18 months.
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On Thursday 25th May 2017 ‘Rumble with the Agents’, an annual white collar charity boxing event in association with Landlord Action and sponsored by Hamilton Fraser, raised £18,000 for Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice. The sell-out event, which took place at The Holiday Inn Finchley Central, brought together a room filled with property professionals, including estate/letting… Read more
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This week (Thursday 18th May, 9pm) Channel Five’s “Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords” will highlight why Client Money Protection is of paramount importance to all landlords and tenants, as a rogue agent in Ilford fails to pass on rent or carry out sufficient referencing, leading to a sub-letting scam via a Romanian property website. When IT… Read more
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Today (Thursday 27th April, 9pm) on Channel 5s “Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords”, a Watford landlord has a fight on his hands when his long-term tenant stops paying rent and unleashes a deluge of abuse when he tries to evict her. With rent arrears already at £6000 and mounting legal costs, builder David Simpson has been… Read more
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Historically, there were two key things that could cripple a landlord financially; rent arrears (where the tenant does not pay rent on time) and void periods (when a property is empty). Now however, there is also a third caveat that landlords need to take into consideration – cuts in mortgage interest tax relief. Mortgage tax… Read more
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Following the success of the first two series, Channel 5 has commissioned a third series of ‘Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords’, with Landlord Action as one of the leading tenant eviction firms featuring throughout the twelve-part series. As rents spiral ever upwards due to continuing pressure on housing stock, the dramatic observational documentary will continue to… Read more
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