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…
An interesting article in the January / February issue of Residential Property Investor looks at Fast Trak, a new company tackling the problems of too many social housing tenants, not enough social housing to put them in, and not enough private landlords willing to take a chance on them. There are a myriad reasons why…
Last year I reported that the Tenancy Deposit Scheme (TDS) run by the Dispute Service had announced that they were going to increase their fees. They have now announced what these are. Or rather they haven’t, because the fees information page tells us that all TDS members fees are going to be calculated individually now,…
A report in the Times today confirms,what we all suspected would happen as soon as the Banks decision was announced, ie that Foxtons will be appealing the High Court decision against them in the claim brought by the Office of Fair Trading. As you will remember, the OFT brought a claim against Foxtons claiming that…
We all know, or those of us who do possession proceedings know, that only the landlord (the claimant) or his solicitor can sign the court paperwork for issuing a county court claim for possession. Claim forms being signed by letting agents is one of the top reasons why cases get chucked out by the court….
No sooner do I create a comparison document showing the different fee structures of the three tenancy deposit schemes (which you can download from here) than we learn that the tenancy deposit scheme run by the Dispute Service (TDS) is to increase its fees! The reason, according to the press release from the Dispute Service…
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Foxtons withdraws appeal
Two property web-sites have been reporting that Foxtons have withdrawn their appeal to the Court of Appeal against the High Court decision against them last year. You will find a summary (as at October 2009) of my previous posts on the OFT v. Foxtons case here. The two articles that I have seen are on the PainSmith Blog…