Tag: Selective Licensing

City’s selective licensing scheme condemned as ‘a waste of time’

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th December 2022, 3 years ago | 11

A city council that introduced a selective licensing scheme in April has been deluged with 31,000 applications from landlords –...

Council slammed after moaning about its 8,000-strong homeless list

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

6th December 2022, 3 years ago | 13

A frustrated landlord has hit out after a council revealed that the housing crisis in their city is so bad...

Rent to Rent Tips, Advice and Case Study

Author: Mark Alexander

9th August 2019, 7 years ago | 0

We first published this article back in 2013. It has been resurrected because the information provided within it is just...

Milton Keynes abandon Selective Licensing

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

18th March 2014, 12 years ago | 7

Milton Keynes City Council has abandoned plans to introduce a proposed city-wide Selective Licensing scheme under pressure from the National...

Ipswich Council refunding landlord licensing fees after Westminster Court of Appeal sex shop case

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

12th February 2014, 12 years ago | 9

The RLA has recently received an email from Ipswich Borough Council confirming it has started to refund Landlord Licensing fees...

Boiler Theft – Copper and Carpets Too!

Author: Readers Question

23rd October 2013, 13 years ago | 13

I had a call about one of my properties in the Middlesbrough area that has gone downhill quite a way...

SEAL – South East Alliance of Landlords

Author: Neil Patterson

23rd October 2013, 13 years ago | 5

Members of the South East Alliance of Landlords (SEAL) are putting together a bedsit task force to go Street to...

Thought provoking HMO and selective licensing question

Author: Mark Alexander

18th October 2013, 13 years ago | 7

The importance of my question is that, depending on the answer, it may be a way for landlords to bypass...

Does my Buy to Let lending criteria make sense?

Author: Mary Latham

23rd August 2013, 13 years ago | 9

While fully acknowledging that I am not a financial specialist I do know the residential property market. I have a...

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...

Immigration Bill checks to be light touch for Landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

24th May 2013, 13 years ago | 5

The Housing Minister Mark Prisk speaking to MPs on the Immigration Bill announced in the recent Queen’s speech confirmed the...

Terry Lucking of Belvoir Lettings Cambridge and Peterborough

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

8th April 2013, 13 years ago | 0

Terry Lucking of Belvoir Lettings Cambridge and Peterborough I have been trading in lettings since 1999 with our offices in...

HMO Licensing Fees – Oxford Council Humiliated

Author: Mark Alexander

17th November 2012, 14 years ago | 16

Further to my rant about HMO Licensing Fees on 16th October one of my readers decided to submit a Freedom...

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Private Rented Sector Licencing Debate

Author: Readers Question

25th September 2012, 14 years ago | 6

Richard Cubitt, a reader of Property118 has submitted the following summary of Private Rented Sector Licencing. In an email to...

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Council hit-team takes on hardcore rogue landlords

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

15th February 2012, 14 years ago | 0

A council hit-team is readying to prosecute rogue landlords who have dodged signing up to a selective licensing scheme. The...

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HMO licence fees up 650 percent

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

25th January 2012, 14 years ago | 6

In the last year it has become very clear that many Local Authorities are looking very carefully at Private Sector...

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Here’s a radical idea – Stop Shooting Fish in a Barrel

Author: Mary Latham

13th January 2012, 14 years ago | 32

I am writing this after reading an article with the opening line “A Labour MP says that every MP he...

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Landlord Fined £4,000 after Tenant Flees Buy to Let Blaze

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

7th December 2011, 14 years ago | 1

A landlord was fined £4,000 for failing to carry out fire safety work at a rental property after a tenant...

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HMO Confusion Could Costs Landlords Fines of £50,000

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

27th October 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Planning and licensing rules for shared houses could be an expensive trap for landlords as some councils take on new...

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I Will Not Say Sorry for Being a Good Landlord

Author: Mary Latham

24th October 2011, 15 years ago | 24

An article in the Telegraph last week really offended my sense of justice. I am well aware that only landlords...