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What is the common law?
Law is a funny old thing and surprisingly vague and imprecise a lot of the time. I often get people emailing me with a problem and saying “What is the law which covers that?”. The answer to which is often “There isn’t one”. Not if you mean Act of Parliament law. Non lawyers often seem…
Warning to landlords of pre 1997 high rent common law tenancies
Common law tenancy changes on 1 October 2010 As you should be aware by now, on 1 October (unless the coalition government decide to change things) all non regulated/common law tenancies where the rent is between £25,000 and £100,000 will convert automatically to assured shorthold tenancies. Except that some of them won’t. As pointed out…
Tenancy Agreements 31 days of tips – Day 4 – tenancy types
This is day 4 of my 31 days of tips on tenancy agreements series. To see the rest of the series click here. Legal background In their consultation paper on housing law, the Law Commission identified 13 different tenancy/occupation types, and their recommendation was to cut these down to two. Sadly their recommendations have not…
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Tenancies with high rents – changes on 1 October 2010
(This change is due to come into effect for landlords in Wales on 1 December 2011) High rent common law tenancy changes This is a just a reminder of what all landlords of high rent tenancy properties ought to know already. At the moment all tenancies with a rent of between £25,000 and £100,000 are…