Tag: Private Rented Sector

Alternatives to Landlord Licencing Schemes

Author: Mark Alexander

12th August 2013, 13 years ago | 42

The alternatives to Landlord Licensing Schemes require joined up thinking, changes to data sharing protocols within local authorities and revised...

Landlord Licensing Schemes – Raising Standards or Raising Funds?

Author: Mark Alexander

9th August 2013, 13 years ago | 118

WARNING – this article might make you want to cry, it might make you want to laugh and it will...

Meet The Landlords TV programme – fair representation?

Author: Mark Alexander

30th July 2013, 13 years ago | 73

Last night I finally got around to watching a TV programme I recorded on BBC a few weeks ago called...

Private Rented Sector Review – Conclusions and recommendations

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

18th July 2013, 13 years ago | 7

The Private Rented Sector Review conclusions and recommendations published by the Communities and Local Government Committee: Simplifying regulation 1.  We recommend...

Private Rented Sector Review – Summary

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

18th July 2013, 13 years ago | 2

The Private Rented Sector Review summary published by the Communities and Local Government Committee: The private rented sector has seen...

NLA report on the Private Rented Sector Review

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

18th July 2013, 13 years ago | 1

Looking at the House of Commons Communities and Local Government Select Committee’s Report on the Private Rented Sector Review, Richard...

NUS also report on The Private Rented Sector Review

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

18th July 2013, 13 years ago | 2

The National Union of Students (NUS) has welcomed The Private Rented Sector review from the Communities and Local Government Select...

Latest PRS advice concerning ASTs, Voids, Referencing and Rent2Rent (e-news compilation)

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

11th July 2013, 13 years ago | 0

Rent2Rent contracts – if you’re going to to it do it right Rent2Rent companies are using the wrong letting contracts...

The evolution of the Private Rented Sector – Deed of Assurance

Author: Mark Alexander

27th June 2013, 13 years ago | 116

Why on earth would The Mortgage Works “TMW” agree to three year AST’s? More to the point, why would landlords...

Council of Letting Agents (Scotland) announcement

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

18th June 2013, 13 years ago | 0

Scottish Association of Landlords (SAL) directors are pleased to announce the appointment of Kathleen Gell as convenor of the newly...

Superstrike Ltd vs Rodrigues Tenancy Deposit Protection Court of Appeal

Author: Mark Alexander

16th June 2013, 13 years ago | 123

My reading of a recent Court of Appeal ruling (Superstrike Ltd vs Rodrigues) is that thousands of possession orders may have...

R.I.P. Geoffrey Cutting – former NLA President

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

14th June 2013, 13 years ago | 5

R.I.P. Geoffrey Cutting, President of the National Landlords Association. Property118 readers and landlords throughout the UK will be devastated to hear that...

Labour plans for a National Register of Private Landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

28th May 2013, 13 years ago | 3

The Labour Party policy review paper indicated: The Party is considering creating a national register of private landlords so that...

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NLA to make accreditation training compulsory for landlord members

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

24th May 2013, 13 years ago | 0

In a recent press release the National Association of Landlords NLA have announced plans committing that all its landlord members...

Scottish Association of Landlords – dismayed by Shelter Cowboys Slur

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

10th May 2013, 13 years ago | 8

Scottish Conservative Housing Spokesman Alex Johnstone and the Scottish Association of Landlords have slammed the language employed by housing charity...

Mark Garner of Garner Homes Maidstone

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

3rd April 2013, 13 years ago | 0

Mark Garner of Garner Homes Maidstone I have been a full time landlord since 1996 with property in Maidstone, Ashford...

ARLA’s advice on what to expect from the private rented sector

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

30th March 2013, 13 years ago | 0

The latest figures from letting agents suggest that the UK still has a healthy appetite for rental properties. According to...

NLA report void periods on steady decline

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

28th March 2013, 13 years ago | 1

According to the latest research from the National Landlords Association (NLA), void periods in private-residential property have fallen to their...

A winning plan for property for The Budget 2013?

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

18th March 2013, 13 years ago | 2

Naomi Heaton, CEO of London Central Portfolio Limited has shared her four point plan which she’s asked Chancellor George Obsourne to consider for...

Class Action Litigation BOI + Bristol and West Mortgages

Author: Mark Alexander

5th March 2013, 13 years ago | 28

As you have probably heard, Bank of Ireland (BOI) and Bristol and West have advised borrowers who took tracker rate...