Tenancy Deposits – a rounding error could cost landlords dear!
Author: Ian Narbeth
19th November 2025, 11 months ago | 8
Ian Narbeth
Landlords: Enervating bureaucracy and sullen rage!
Author: Ian Narbeth
22nd March 2024, 3 years ago | 3
Renters Reform Bill – the end of fixed term tenancies
Author: Ian Narbeth
23rd May 2023, 3 years ago | 33
Consultation on single banding HMO rooms – Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
Author: Ian Narbeth
21st March 2023, 4 years ago | 0
Ground rent reform – a sledgehammer to crack the wrong nut
Author: Ian Narbeth
7th December 2021, 5 years ago | 29
Generation Rent wants the Government to force landlords to accept more risk
Author: Ian Narbeth
1st June 2021, 5 years ago | 40
New Year brings “Interesting” problems and Misguided Guidance
Author: Ian Narbeth
4th January 2020, 7 years ago | 6
What if some of the obstacles to S21 claims are also applied to S8 claims?
Author: Ian Narbeth
9th October 2019, 7 years ago | 8
The flawed Call for Evidence over Tenancy Deposits
Author: Ian Narbeth
8th July 2019, 7 years ago | 17
Tenant Fees Act 2019 – Elephant trap for the unwary!
Author: Ian Narbeth
17th May 2019, 7 years ago | 28
Forfeiture of holding deposits/reservation fees
Author: Ian Narbeth
9th April 2019, 8 years ago | 14
Ian Narbeth
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Solicitor specialising in commercial property since 1985. Residential BTL and HMO landlord.
Platinum Property Partners franchisee since 2012. Advocate for fair treatment of landlords and tenants.
21st October 2026, 2 hours ago
I have every sympathy for tenants who need a property adapted. However the Renters' Rights Act has made their situation much worse than before. Suppose a tenant could say: "If you put in [a stairlift][a ramp][an accessible bath][some other change],...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Ryan Stevens at 20/10/2026 - 10:49
Reply to the comment left by Ryan Stevens at 20/10/2026 - 10:49"However, if a tribunal actually cuts the existing rent then that may well trigger a decision to sell ". I agree. My point is that serving a s8 notice...
Read More →20th October 2026, 1 day ago
Mairi MacRae says “Decades of poor political choices have driven down the supply of genuinely affordable social homes and pushed millions into expensive private renting." Ms MacRae misses the point. Whether the homes are "social" or private, the problem is...
Read More →Reply to comment left by [email protected] at 19/10/2026 - 20:50
David I am no fan of this government and the previous soi-disant conservative government was almost as bad. However, Reluctant Landlord is advocating acting precipitately. If you are planning to sell anyway, why bother trying to increase the rent? If...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Ryan Stevens at 19/10/2026 - 16:02
Reply to the comment left by Ryan Stevens at 19/10/2026 - 16:02It's your business but it may just happen that rents go down and you have to accept it. That's life. In the example cited the landlord was unable to...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Reluctant Landlord at 19/10/2026 - 14:07
Reply to the comment left by Reluctant Landlord at 19/10/2026 - 14:07Cripes! No wonder we have anti-landlord legislation. If a tenant who is or suspects he/she if paying over the market rent faces eviction for seeking to change the rent,...
Read More →Reply to comment left by David Fox at 19/10/2026 - 13:31
Reply to the comment left by David100 at 13:31 I think people need to take a step back and think. No landlord likes a rent decrease but this is not communism. In the commercial property sphere (of which I have...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Neil Patterson at 19/10/2026 - 11:39
Reply to the comment left by Neil P at 19/10/2026 - 11:39Neil, agreed. Paradoxically, if the landlord had not sought an increase, the tenant would have been out of time to challenge the £1650 figure because more than 6 months...
Read More →Reply to comment left by northernpleb at 17/10/2026 - 18:06
And the moral of the story is that the Council's promise of "unlimited back up and help if needed" only applies if the tenant continues to "work with" the Council. A useless promise. Criminals and antisocial tenants will doubtless tell...
Read More →Reply to comment left by David Fox at 16/10/2026 - 10:47
You are quite right David100. By getting rid of s21, the Government has made it much harder to deal with antisocial behaviour. It is also costly for landlords who will almost certainly need paid professional help to bring a successful...
Read More →14th October 2026, 1 week ago
Well they would say that, wouldn't they? We have never had any tenant (out of several hundred over the years) offer to pay more in exchange for rights to be involved in approving new housemates. There are numerous factors that...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Andre Mattar at 14/10/2026 - 11:51
Reply to the comment left by student landlord at 14/10/2026 - 11:51This is not legal advice but I note that York's guidance says: "Heating A range of questions about the type of heating provided. It should be noted that heating...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Andre Mattar at 14/10/2026 - 08:31
Reply to the comment left by student landlord at 08:31 You write that [controlling the heating remotely] "is not permitted under the HMO license conditions." Is there a specific clause about this in your licence? We do not have this...
Read More →13th October 2026, 1 week ago
You can set up the heating controls using Owl Intuition or Nest or similar. You set times and temperatures. Tenants can "boost" for an hour but not override. Before we did that we had a tenant who we found wandering...
Read More →Reply to comment left by Mick Roberts at 07/10/2026 - 15:04
Reply to the comment left by Mick Roberts at 15:04 Mick, I agree the Renters' Rights Act is terrible but it is just the Tories' Renters' Reform Bill with some added pain and a few elephant traps for landlords. Michael...
Read More →7th October 2026, 2 weeks ago
From the Times newspaper Labour shelves £800m on repairs to ‘dilapidated’ military housing https://www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/article/labour-repairs-military-housing-cuts-budget-th25shbz2 "14,000 properties were in such poor condition that they needed knocking down or comprehensive floor-to-ceiling renovation." Antony Cotton, an armed forces advocate said: "Some of those...
Read More →6th October 2026, 2 weeks ago
Not that I am proposing it but you getting a lower fine for beating your tenant up than for issuing an old form AST or as Mick says messing up the admin with a certificate for the property. Penalties for...
Read More →2nd October 2026, 3 weeks ago
Whether landlords are super-earners or just getting by with a single property supplementing their pension is irrelevant. The law should be no respecter of persons. Thankfully the Greens are never going to win power to implement this nonsense. Even Labour...
Read More →2nd October 2026, 3 weeks ago
I am concerned that Labour will thrash around with an inept policy. "Something must be done about the housing crisis! This is something. Therefore, it must be done." How will they monitor empty homes? What exemptions will there be for...
Read More →Reply to comment left by joe bloggs at 29/09/2026 - 21:21
Reply to the comment left by Joe Bloggs at 21:21 The devil will be in the detail. Either the Council may act as agent for the landlord (but without having to pay the blindest bit of notice to what the...
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