In a shocking, and embarrassing for Northampton Borough Council (NBC), determination by Judge Wayte of the First Tier Tribunal property, he went so far as to suggest that the landlord should make a claim for costs against the Council. A move that is a…
Instead of charging landlords around £1,000 like most UK councils – for the dubious honour of going into a database – which the council will then use, so they can easily inspect properties and issue eye-watering fines, Jersey (which is of c…
A council has explicitly announced it’s “on the side of tenants against landlords”. Totally ignoring the fact that landlords are its citizens too. And citizens they are legally required to serve!
To date, this council boasts that it has stolen £320,000…
For once, well organised Landlords are threatening to take the council to the High Court over plans to expand a housing licensing scheme.
York Residential Landlords Association claim City of York Council’s proposals are “unlawful and irrati…
And so the EPC witch-hunt begins: Threatening fines of up to £5,000 for any rental property with an EPC lower than Band E, councils are now using artificial intelligence to pull together all manner of records and information to cross-correlate properti…
In a landmark decision, the Upper Tribunal (Lands) has confirmed that the judgement of the First Tier Tribunal that “Rent Arrears must be accounted for BEFORE rent is eligible to be reclaimed under a Rent Repayment Order (RRO).”
This Judgement of the F…
Labour-controlled Oxford council says it’s confident a huge new Revenue Generating licensing scheme for one of Britain’s most high-profile cities will be voted through today, but it admits there’s a big clash of opinions between landlords and agents on…
Sefton council has reached a new low in cynical entrapment in its relentless war against landlords. Like many councils waging war against landlords, they do this in the single-minded pursuit of raising revenue from Landlords’ investments and pensions.
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A London council is running what it describes as “an innovative project” to help private tenants reclaim rent from landlords who fall foul of licensing rules.
The London Borough of Tower Hamlets council claims that over £200,000 has been reclaimed for …
In what we see daily as nonsense from council housing enforcement officers, Salford City Council has today excelled itself.
The situation is a bog-standard 2-up 2-down terrace of which there are thousands in Salford. Because it is inhabited by three no…
Landlords you need to make your voice heard! You have only until February 11th to respond to the licensing proposals of the City of Westminster council. Except you can’t. The City of Westminster has some 52,700 rental properties constituting 43% of its…
Momentum is building against councils pushing ahead with licensing schemes despite the pandemic and despite instructions from the government not to.
One wonders why so many councils are going against the Governments wishes and public health concern to …
Many of the insurrectionists who marched on the UA Capitol building on Jan 6th and violently forced their way into the building stupidly live-streamed their activities or boasted about them via social media. So far, those self-identifying actions have …
Landlords need to be in no doubt that tenants are being educed by councils, shelter, a wide range of no-win, no-fee ambulance chasers and now tenants unions too.
Tenants are not only shown the ‘tricks and hacks’ they can use to stop you being able to g…
A recent incident in my own HMO with fan heaters plugged in but hidden behind bedding making the place an absolute death trap made me realise just how little tenants (and indeed most landlords) understand about fire safety.
Most tenants
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