(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…
HMOs and planning law As reported on this blog previously, landlords and landlords organisations were extremely unhappy at the changes which were brought in to the planning laws on 6 April this year by the last government. Suspected to have been introduced largely because of problems in one minister’s constituency with ‘studentification’, Labour’s new rules…
Housing Law Reform Information is gradually filtering through about the current coalition governments intention for housing law reform. Basically they aren’t going to do any! Grant Shapps said in the House of Commons yesterday : It is important that we strike the right balance between tenants and landlords. The current legislative framework, which I have…
I have just learned via the National Landlords Association, that the government *will* be implementing the increased rent level for ASTs that was announced in their news item on 3 February. However the surprising piece of news is that the legislation will be retrospective So all tenancies where the rent is between £25,000 and £100,000…
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…
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Landlords proposals for law reform
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…