A report published in The Times today highlights the growing problem of landlords having to pay up for deposits, when agents go bust. Under the two ‘insurance based’ tenancy deposit schemes (MyDeposits and the Tenancy Deposit Scheme run by the Dispute Service) if the agent deals with the deposit on behalf of the landlord, the…
An item on the BBC news site has alerted me to a new report from the Citizens Advice Bureau on fees to tenants by letting agents. The report comments that many letting agents are regularly making unjustified charges to tenants for “tasks that are no more than the routine business of letting and managing a…
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…
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 the…
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…
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…
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Landlord licensing and agent regulation – impact assessments now published
Those interested in the governments consultation paper issued in response to the Rugg Report, will also be interested in the impact assessments which have now been published by the Department for Communities ands Local Government . Impact assessment for regulation of Landlords This is available to download from here. This shows that there are two…