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On the commencement of the Renters Rights Act 2025, expected on 1 May 2026, all assured fixed-term and assured shorthold tenancies will convert to assured
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On the commencement of the Renters Rights Act 2025, expected on 1 May 2026, all assured fixed-term and assured shorthold tenancies will convert to assured
Landlord Law Blog looks back at 2023Another year is over, and as usual, we are going to be closing down the Landlord Law Blog over the holiday period.
So here are some of our best posts of the year to give you something to read until we are back again in the New Year. Click here.
“Interesting posts on residential landlord & tenant law and practice
In England & Wales UK”

Welcome to another Landlord Law Newsround, let’s see what has been in the news this week. Not all landlord house improvements pay off – claim

Perhaps the biggest ‘headline’ issue about the Renters Rights Act is the abolition of section 21. As all political parties have committed to it, it

This is a question to the blog clinic from Paul, who is a tenant in England. We moved into a property five months ago. The

On the commencement of the Renters Rights Act 2025, expected on 1 May 2026, all assured fixed-term and assured shorthold tenancies will convert to assured
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