NRLA backs landlord database plan

Reply to the comment left by Darren Peters at 06/08/2024 – 10:00
Could not agree more!

Reply to the comment left by David at 06/08/2024 – 10:57The NRLA represent their own interests ie salaries. And of course running expensive courses to add to their income.
I would not join them, ever. If need any documents or advice I would use, and have used, Pims.co.uk An excellent service, knowledgeable, no nonsense and 110% professional. And no bombarding with courses that in the most part are teaching grandmothers to suck eggs!

Landlords have a Right to a Private Life. Would a Landlords data base open for anyone to access be a breach our statutory Human Rights???
A serious question.
For many small portfolio landlords, especially those who self manage, it is already a real worry that our “rogue” tenants have our home addresses (on Tenancy Agreements/s47-48 Notices etc etc).
Why on earth would I want to publicise my home address to the world at large?

Reply to the comment left by Judith Wordsworth at 06/08/2024 – 12:10
Sadly this has already happened in selective licencing areas – in other areas just HMO licence holders are visible.

My local council did this. I am on a database. It costs me £70 every three years. To be on a list, that nobody uses ever. If they want to do something useful, make a database of all bad tenants, so future landlords can see what they are getting into.

“We are committed to raising standards and driving rogue and criminal landlords out of the sector and – implemented in the right way – the new database can help do that.”

Hands up all those who think the Government will implement this in the right way.

Who will decide what goes on, how can landlords challenge it, how can errors be corrected? What remedies will landlords have if they lose out because of incorrect information? Oh, I know the answer – there will be no redress. If a landlord loses income because tenants avoid him or loses his asset because his mortgagee forecloses or puts him on a penal rate of interest, he can go whistle.

Reply to the comment left by Judith Wordsworth at 06/08/2024 – 12:06
How long have you been with Pims Judith? I’m thinking of joining them .

Reply to the comment left by David100 at 06/08/2024 – 13:39
if the list is held by the council do a ROI request to ask them how many ‘hits’ they have had since its inception and for a breakdown of how the £70 (per entry I presume?) is spent. How was this figure even worked out? Ask for the details of the mins of the meeting where the idea what first mooted and what was the reasoning for its implementation? Which councillors agreed and who voted in favour of it.

Ask for copies of meetings thereafter where its ‘effectiveness’ has been discussed. How do they deem the database a ‘success’. What is their methodology? How are they capturing feedback has been for all parties involved – tenants and landlords?

Absolute nonsense NRLA should be insisting on a tenant register .

The have had licensing in Scotland for years now. £90 then £12 per house.

It is one register for the whole of Scotland but if you have properties in different council regions . You have to pay £90 to each council area.

It has not made a single bit of difference to any rouge landlord.

License last three years . It used to be you got reminders to say you are due to renew now they are issuing £160 penalties for not ensuring you renewed by the due date.

Many landords never even registered.

Still cheaper than many schemes in England.

Northern Ireland has had landlord registration aswell.

Again many landlords not registered.

These registers are more away for different government departments to know who should be paying tax.

I have no problem with a database of landlords and of tenanted properties. There should be database of tenants too.

My issue is around the security of the data.

We have seen riots in the streets with anti-immigration groups attacking the Police and property. Imagine if anti-landlords groups could easily identify landlords and their home addresses.

There is already a so-called database of rented properties (TreeHaus). It’s full of bad data. If my tenants populated this database, I would increase rents and the landlord/tenant relationship would be permanently soured.

The cost of any database will, quite rightly, be picked up by tenants through higher rents. That’s how businesses operate; the costs associated with running the business are paid for by the customer.

I trust Social Housing properties will be included in the data.

As for the NR?A, why would anyone be a member.