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Landlord Trecarrell House Limited is being supported by the RLA and has launched a Crowd Justice appeal: "Protecting Landlords Rights: Gas Safety and Section 21" Click Here The Court of Appeal has now granted the landlord the right to appeal. The case centres around the lack of a remedy for being able to gain possession using Section 21 if a Gas Safety Certificate has not been issued before the tenant moves in. The Crowd Justice case summary: "After serving a section 21 n

Barking and Dagenham have increased their selective license fee 78% to a massive £900 per property from the 1st September 2019. No early fee discount either! This has got to be the highest charge in the UK to date? Surely this can not be justified or legal? This is a perfect example of illegal profiteering by money grabbing councils. Where are the RLA and NLA in this? I’ve not heard anything from them regarding this outrage. No doubt other councils will follow Barking’s

The first Citizens Advice article can be viewed if you click here: "3 things we know about how private landlords work Key findings from the government’s first survey of landlords in 8 years" There are some important discrepancies in the above-mentioned article, which appear to be drawn from data provided by the English Private Landlords Survey (EPLS) 2018 and the English Housing Survey (EHS) 2018. In section 3, the article states the following: However, they are n

I was surprised to see that Shelter still hasn’t given up on its campaign to prevent private landlords from using the phrase ‘no DSS,’ and that it is continuing to spend its considerable financial resources on this. This is despite the overwhelming evidence in research by Openrent that 90% of tenants on benefits want to know if the landlord genuinely will accept them or not – so Shelter is doing the diametric opposite to what those it purports to advocate for would wish it to

I have been left 50% of a property in a Will with the other half to my brother. We both own our own homes. I want to buy him out and he is happy to gift my wife his half for now to get out of paying any stamp duty (this gets the property into joint names)....

This post originally appeared on the Nearly Legal website. Disrepair Claim Farming is something I’ve been mulling over for a while, and have sounded off about in conversations, but the ongoing proliferation of housing disrepair claims farmers (and associated solicitors) has pushed me to go public with something of a rant....

The average five-year fixed rate has fallen by four basis points, dropping from 2.83% to 2.79%, according to data collected by Moneyfacts. Looking at the average two-year fixed rate, it has fallen for the first time since the start of July...

It seems that Sajid Javid and Boris might have been reading Property 118, because they have just announced £600 million input into 50,000 new homes in Essex and Bedfordshire. The Country has been building 150,000 annually and this additional 50,000 represents a third more based on one year!...