Law Reform from landlords Reading the excellent Landlord & Buy to Let Magazine today, I came across an article about the Residential Landlords Association’s submission to government with their top law reforms. I thought you might be interested. These are the proposals: 1. Self regulation It is proposed that landlords who are members of approved…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
Are the Law Commission just wasting their time?
The post looks at a report on past Law Commission projects and says whether they will be implemented or not. It looks as if the big housing projects carried out a few years ago are being thrown on the scrap heap …
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