Looking at social housing law – a quick history and a bit about tenancy types
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Explaining the Housing Act 1988
My Foundations in Landlord and Tenant Law series has reached the present, and here we look at the Housing Act 1988 which sets up the code governing short lets today
The Rent Act 1977 in context
Foundations of landlord and tenant law – part 11 A hundred years ago … It would probably surprise many people to know that a hundred years ago, most people lived in private rented accommodation. In 1918 figures show the private rented sector to be around 76%, with home ownership at just 23% and public housing…
The basic rules of tenancies – before the codes
Before we consider the statutory codes we need to look at the rules which apply under the pre existing common law
Decline in home ownership and rise of renting needs a big change in government thinking says new report
I have recently come across an interesting report, published by the Smith Institute called ‘The end of the affair – implications of declining home ownership’, written by Andrew Heywood. The report considers what seems to be a permanent trend – the decline in home ownership in this country. Together with the worrying fact that this…
Landlord convicted of harassment by text
We have all learned from Ben Reeve Lewis’s writings on this blog, how hard it is to get a conviction for harassment against a landlord. Well hats off to Sheffield Council whose officers obtained a conviction against landlord Steven Loxley in May at Sheffield Magistrates Court. His tenant, Ms Muscroft, had lost her job and…
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Differentiating tenancies from business lets and long leases
Foundations of landlord and tenant law – part 8 This series of posts is directed towards increasing understanding of short lets, so in future posts we will largely be concentrating on these. However before moving on to this, I just want to look at two issues: the situation where a lease is for both business…