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Regulations in housing law
Looking at the various regulations which apply to landlords and tenants when renting property
Land Law, a bit of history, and the two estates in land
Foundations of landlord and tenant law – part 1 Land law is pretty complicated. The subject matter, land, is after all both very important and limited. There may be a few bits at the edge of the country where land is dropping into the sea, and other bits where new land is being created (by…
Foundations of landlord and tenant law – it begins
Over the five years or so that I have been writing this blog I have written a lot about various aspects of landlord and tenant law, and I have also done several series, in particular my series on tenancy agreements. However I have never done a proper series about the basics of landlord and tenant…
What are fixed terms and periodic tenancies?
Today I am going to look at something which puzzles a lot of people – fixed terms and periodic tenancies. Many people don’t even realise that periodic tenancies exist. They assume that a tenancy is given for a specific period and then it just ends, and if the tenant stays on they are a squatter….
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Calling all landlords of posh propeties in Wales
This is just a reminder to landlords in Wales, that the upper limit for assured shorthold tenancies will be going up to 100,000 today, 1 December 2011. Here is the statutory instrucment (if you like that sort of thing) This change happened in England last October and seemed to go through quite smoothly. The significance…