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 [...]
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The Rugg Report – the governments response
Refunds after Foxtons
One aspect of the Foxtons case which I have not seen mentioned is the impact this will have on the status of past payments.
To remind readers, a claim has been brought against Foxtons by the Office of Fair Trading, for a declaration that some of the terms in their landlord agency agreements are unfair under [...]
TDS ditches unregulated agents
TDS, the tenancy deposit scheme aimed at letting agents, has now announced that it will only accept agents and landlords who are members of recognised professional bodies as members from now on. With effect from 6 April 2009 they will be withdrawing membership from current non regulated members.
This action, it appears, has been taken [...]
Another mortgagee / tenant eviction case
I have another mortgagee evicting innocent tenant case for you. Here I was consulted by the letting agent who had been contacted by the distressed tenant. She had just found out she was being evicted, after having received the normal notice which is served on the occupier of the property in these cases.
My [...]
Stand your ground on damage deposit claims
In my last post I talked about the case of my poor clients, evicted by their landlords’ mortgagee. In fact the situation was worse that I let on, as not only were they evicted, they also didn’t get their deposit back!
My advice to them was (inter alia) to threaten the agents with an application under [...]
Agents letting property subject to a re-possession order
There is quite a lot of discussion about tenants evicted unfairly by landlords in retaliation for something that they have done, such as complain about repairs. However there is another type of unfair eviction where tenants do not even get the benefit of the two months notice under section 21 which tenants receive in [...]
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Foxtons on Twitter
Having nothing better to do today, while messing around on the computer I did a twitter search on Foxtons. It was interesting to see what came up.
- There were a large number of moans from discontented tenants and landlords.
- There was the announcement of the Court of Appeal’s decision (against Foxtons) in [...]
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