When I first started blogging in February 2006, there were only a few British legal blogs. For a while I think I was the only blogger covering housing/landlord and tenant law. However since then a few more have started up. I thought it would be nice to list them. 1. Nearly Legal http://nearlylegal.co.uk/blog This is…
A chill wind is blowing through the halls of anonymous blogdom, after the High Courts decision that the writer of Night Jack, an anonymous police blogger who told it like it was, did not have the right to prevent The Times naming him. I am in two minds about this. On the one hand, if…
I have been meaning to comment on the post on the Pain Smith blog recently on tenancy deposits and ‘let only’ agents. However Francis Davey on the Nearly Legal blog has beaten me to it. It only remains therefore for me to refer you to the original posting by Pain Smith, and the subsequent posting…
I have just discovered the excellent blog from Landlord and Tenant specialists Painsmith Solicitors. It has some really interesting posts, as one would expect, and I shall certainly be reading it in future. Highly recommended to anyone interested in landlord and tenant. Tweet
I have decided to go on to twitter. For those who don’t know what this is, it is one of those social networking sites from America. You sign up and then every now and then you do a tweet. This is a short statement of what you are doing. Like ‘I am having a cup…
Did you know, dear reader, that The Times have included this as one of their 25 top property blogs in their Friday Life and Style section?? I am very honoured. Their comments: “Low on entertainment, but high on enlightenment. All buy-to-let landlords should make this a regular read.” That does rather sound as if they…
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New blog from DPS director
A new blog has recently been started by Kevin Firth, a director of Computershare, the company behind the Deposit Protection Service. The blog is called The Letting Protection Service Blog. There are only a few entries so far, but one of them has a little video, so it looks as if Kevin will be using…