This Saturday Slot post is the fourth part of my weekly series of posts on Court Hearings (in the UK). You can see the others >> here.
Not all court hearings are trials
There are two main types of court hearing. The first is the main hearing or trial which decides the case. I [...]
I am delighted to introduce this guest post from housing consultant and former TRO, Ben Reeve-Lewis.
Mortgage advice for Buy to Let Landlords
The recession has not appeared to have greatly dented the buy to let market but where does the novice landlord stand if the tenant doesn’t pay their rent and as a consequence, they can’t [...]
As previously mentioned on this blog, tenants often get a raw deal when, unbeknown to them, their landlord has defaulted on his mortgage, putting them at risk of eviction. Tenants can be evicted with only a few days (or even less) notice, even if they are completely up to date with their rent.
Ministers have previously [...]
Homeowners in distress who have sold their property to a ’sale and rent back’ company in the belief that they will be able to live their for the rest of their lives, only be to kicked out a year later, will be pleased to learn that this sector is now to be regulated by the [...]
I was delighted to read a report that a campaign is being launched to help tenants who get evicted through no fault of their own, because their buy-to-let landlords have not kept up their mortgage payments. You can read more about it on the Citizens Advice Bureau site here.
Long term LandlordLaw Blog readers [...]
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 [...]
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New help for tenants being evicted by their landlords mortgage company
For years there have been complaints about the unfairness of landlords mortgage companies being able to evict tenants, if the landlord falls behind with his mortgage payments.
We have discussed a number of these cases on this blog, perhaps the worst example being this case here. However hopefully this sort of thing won’t happen again (or [...]
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