Government portal will give details on criminal landlords

Government portal will give details on criminal landlords

8:00 AM, 14th September 2022, About 2 years ago 12

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The government has revealed that its property portal will be publicly available for everyone to help drive criminal landlords and agents from the private rental sector.

The response is part of the consultation to reforming its rogue landlord database with news that the recently announced property portal will ensure that local councils, landlords and tenants will be able to access the information they need.

The database of rogue agents and landlords was unveiled in April 2018 but has since failed to deliver in highlighting the number of unscrupulous landlords and estate agents as was predicted.

Since the register was unveiled, it has been mandatory for housing authorities to report when an agent or landlord has received a banning order.

Councils have been able to use discretion

However, poor legislation means that councils have been able to use discretion over whether to add details to the register where the agent or landlord has received two or more civil penalties within a year or has been convicted of a banning order offence.

Now, the government’s new portal will offer a single ‘front door’ for a landlord to understand their responsibilities and for tenants to find out whether their landlord is complying with laws.

The portal will also, the government says, help councils crackdown on criminal landlords.

A spokesperson for the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, said: “As set out in the ‘a fairer private rented sector’ White Paper, we will introduce a new Property Portal to make sure that tenants, landlords and local councils have the information they need.

‘Better data to crack down on criminal landlords’

“The portal will provide a single ‘front door’ for landlords to understand their responsibilities, tenants will be able to access information about their landlord’s compliance, and local councils will have access to better data to crack down on criminal landlords.

“We also intend to incorporate some of the functionality of the Database of Rogue Landlords, mandating the entry of all eligible unspent landlord offences and making them publicly visible.”


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Mick Roberts

8:08 AM, 15th September 2022, About 2 years ago

Reply to the comment left by Monty Bodkin at 14/09/2022 - 16:06
Ha ha yes Monty. My mate has 4 on Lido Close Bulwell, told him too cheap when doing new let. He had to pull the advert after one day. Too many calls.

When I find rent comparable for my tenants to show em how much I'm looking after em at £520 when rents are £850 & I'm saying I can't do your 2022 repair on a 2007 rent, so we either rent increase as we agreed every year which I've not done looking after u, or u do the repair yourself & no rent increase. Most choose to keep quiet as I would do. I'm effectively giving lots of them £3000 per year. I cannot find rent comparables within 1/2 a mile of em. There always used to be 10-20 as u say. I have to widen the distance.

Good for u selling up in Nottingham cause of Licensing. We on our 4th Councillor now if u din't know. Not once have they spoke to me verbally.

Selective Licensing is making us long term GOOD landlords better off financially it shun't be like that.
My tenant been with me 15 years, in current 3 bed 10 years charging her £565. She's had inheritance & buying a house (I don't get people move now by normal methods of seeing somewhere they want then going-As no one in Nottingham takes a UC tenant any more or any tenant earning less than 30k now cause of Selective Licensing conditions (I'll put again below as it has to get out there) & UC). So £565 looking after em. My other current tenant in 2 bed paying £622 desperate for 3 bed & only wants one off me as Landlords in Nottingham sell just like cause of Selective Licensing wearing us down. So I've told her £850 even though she good existing tenant, she is now moving, albeit with me, & we have all the paperwork to do & are subject to all the new rules/regs/Selective Licensing conditions etc

So now I'm up 3k a year just on one house & can charge this rent cause of Licensing & UC.

Part of my selling text to tenants.
Most of u r very good. But are u perfect? Read Licensing conditions and tell yourself:
1. Could u comply with all them.
2. Would u take any tenant on that wasn't the most prim proper person ever?
3. If u was a landlord getting older, would u want to be dealing with that for EVERY house EVERY tenant?
4. Could u be doing with giving out 200 pages to each tenant each house.
5. Would u take a Benefit tenant on after being told u had to comply with them conditions?
Selective Licensing conditions Feb 2022
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sD_HRl57ANNw4PBAb-FGRU7h-0Qby9Vm5xLioH_nA7c/edit?usp=sharing

Mick Roberts

8:21 AM, 15th September 2022, About 2 years ago

And here's another one people, what over regulation is doing in Scotland.

https://propertyinvestorpost.com/scotlands-hostile-landlord-policies-killed-the-market/

Scotland’s hostile landlord policies “killed the market

Legislative changes in Scotland have been blamed on falling supply and rising rents – creating an overly competitive environment for tenants.

In July Hamptons found that average rents on newly let properties in Scotland have risen by 12.3%, compared to 8.3% across Great Britain as a whole.

What’s more Scotland had the largest share of agents forecasting further rent rises over the next three months according to RICS.

Last week First Minister Nicola Sturgeon opted to freeze rents until at least March, but the measure is seen as something of a sticking plaster that could further drive landlords out of the sector.

Back in 2017 the Scottish Government abolished no-fault evictions and scrapped assured shorthold tenancy agreements, two changes that are set to come into force in the UK.

It’s said that these are two policies that have already driven investors out.

Ken McEwan, of McEwan Fraser Legal estate agents, told The Telegraph: “Landlords are selling up and moving into commercial property, or they are just getting out altogether.

“Landlords are in tears on the phone to us regularly because they can’t get their tenants out.”

If landlords have grounds for eviction the creaking court system means it can take them 12 months to get possession of a property because there is such a court backlog.

McEwan added: “Demand outstrips supply by five to one. This has been the case since the Scottish government changed the legislation.

“They killed the market. I am seeing a massive exodus of Scottish landlords.”

Fraser Crichton of Dove Davies estate agents in Edinburgh claimed it’s only listing properties online for an hour or two in order to cope with the mass of enquiries from tenants.

He told The Telegraph that a two-bedroom flat was listed on Thursday night at 7:30pm, and in the space of 12 hours there were 130 enquiries.

Zoopla found that the supply of rental homes on the market in Scotland is at roughly half the level of the five-year average.

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