There have always been criticisms of the new Local Housing Allowance (LHA) scheme, for example see this report here I did in October 2007. Shelter have now issued further criticism of the scheme after surveying “more than 450 LHA claimants” (although perhaps not the most comprehensive survey – 1,000 would have been better). Their findings [...]
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Raising the rent a room tax rebate
The National Landlords Association (NLA) and spareroom.com are both calling for the rent a room tax scheme tax threshold to be increased. It has been £4,200 since 1997 and since then prices have risen considerably. To quote the NLA:
“The NLA supports the Raise the Roof campaign’s call for the Rent-a-Room threshold to be increased [...]
National Landlords Association Conference
The National Landlords Association (NLA) conference is to be held this year at Birmingham on 20/21 November. I will not be there (having already travelled once to Birmingham, from Norwich, for the Landlord & Buy to Let Show I felt that was enough). However it looks to be a good event.
Looking at the program, the [...]
NLA gets Tory promise for direct payment of LHA to landlords
When speaking to Simon Gordon of the National Landlords Association (NLA) recently at the Landlord & Buy to Let Awards dinner, he was telling me about their lobbying work, and how they attend all of the party conferences. Well it seems as if all this has paid off as the conservative party have now announced [...]
NLA Property Women Awards
Further to my post yesterday, I have been reminded by the National Landlords Association that they also have awards, and have recently announced the finalists in their Property Women Awards 2009.
I am happy to support the sisterhood and publish their names here:
•East of England: Karen Murray, Irene Turner and Christeen Wilson
•East Midlands: Tracey Abbiss, Rachel [...]
NLA publishes merger court order
Having been alerted by a twitter posting by the National Landlords Association (NLA) stating that their web-site page on the merger between the NLA and the National Federation of Residential Landlords/Southern Private Landlords Association had been updated, I was intrigued to see that they have published the court order online. Being a lawyer I [...]
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TDS increases prices for agents using arbitration scheme
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, [...]
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