I am delighted to introduce another insightful post from housing consultant and former TRO, Ben Reeve-Lewis, this time on worrying aspects of insurance (which I touched on also last year in a previous post on insurance for lodgers).
Criminal convictions and insurance
I have recently become aware of quite an alarming development in private renting. It is [...]
Tag Archive: Law Commission
Insurance – how it can be invalidated by tenants trivial criminal convictions
Housing law reform and legal aid
There have been a lot of announcements recently from the government about housing law reform, and what they intend to do in the private rented sector. Whether any of these proposals will actually come to pass is not certain. However I (along with many others) am concerned about the approach taken by this government, both [...]
Government makes new announcements on the Private Rented Sector
There has been a positive flurry of tweets and emails crossing my computer screen today, preceding and then following, the announcement from the Communities and Local Government (CLG) Dept. about their plans for the Private Rented Sector.
You can read the news item here, and the report itself can be downloaded from here.
This follows on from [...]
Where next for the Private Rented Sector?
At the recent CLT Conference I attended, there was an excellent talk by Professor Martin Partington OBE (former Law Commissioner) on possible future developments in the Private Rented Sector (PRS). I set out below a very condensed version of his notes (with his permission).
He started by saying that the PRS is now a key feature [...]
The Rugg Report – the governments response
The government published a consultation paper yesterday in response to the recent Rugg Report and the other various reports that have been published over the past few years.
Supporters of the Law Commissions long project and reports, will be pleased to see that this is acknowledged and referred to in the response which confirms that many [...]
The problem of landlord regulation
A recent article in Inside Housing looks at how landlords are using the governments review of the private rented sector to call for a review of the HMO licensing system, which they say is not working. One organisation is asking for it to be done away with altogether, allowing landlords to ‘self regulate’.
The main [...]
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Responsible Renting – the final report
After having got back from holiday, settled back in, and dealt with the back log, etc, I have finally got around to reading what is the final report from the Law Commission on their housing projects.
The new legal team on Nearly Legal got in ahead of me with a rather depressing report, taking the view [...]
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