A companion piece to my article in the Solicitors Journal published on 2 Augsut 2011
Category Archives: News and comment
Ben Reeve Lewis Friday Newsround #18
The usual round up of housing news and trivia – essential reading for a Friday
Council plans to enter the private rented sector
An interesting news item on Landlord Today picks up on a topic mentioned a couple of times by Ben Reeve Lewis – Councils entering the private rented section. This is Newham Council who, the article states, are planning on buying up large areas of poor quality rented accommodation in the borough (possibly using compulsory purchase…
OFT v. Foxtons case costs Foxtons £4.4 million?
Regular readers of this blog will remember the Office of Fair Trading v. Foxtons case a couple of years ago. Foxtons were sued by the OFT claiming that three of their landlord agency agreement terms were unfair under the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999 (see a summary of my blog posts here). To…
Ben Reeve Lewis’ Friday Newsround #17
[Ben Reeve Lewis regular Friday feature is back to normal again this week, well as normal as it ever gets ...] Back to the news I took a break from new reporting last week to air my own personal philosophy of how I think the rental business should run. I got some great views and thanks…
The topsy turvy world of government thinking
Huge levels of unpaid fines and cuts in legal aid (again).
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Residential letting agents get new code of practice
A new code of practice has been published by the Property Ombudsman. This is not what we really want, which is a code which is mandatory for ALL letting agents (the industry being unregulated). However it is a good start. It applies to all agents who are registered with the Property Ombudsman and came into…