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:…
A news report out by My Deposits shows that 91% of tenants get their money back at tenancy deposit arbitrations. The report states: “Figures from mydeposits.co.uk show 91 per cent of dispute cases settled by the scheme’s independent adjudication service found in favour of the tenant. The average amount in dispute was £733, which is…
The National Landlords Association (NLA) has recently started a campaign to change the rules for the payment of housing benefit/local housing allowance (LHA). As has been described elsewhere in this blog, LHA cannot normally be paid direct to the landlord in the way that housing benefit was. The NLA consider that this is unfair, particularly…
I have seen quite a few news and other items on the internet reporting the statement from the ‘my deposits’ tenancy deposit scheme confirming that, unlike Tenancy Deposit Scheme (run by the Dispute Service), they will not be withdrawing cover from unaccredited agents (see my report here). However this is hardly surprising as my deposits…
The big news in landlord world at the moment is the recent announcement of the merger of the two big landlords associations, the National Landlords Association (NLA) and the National Federation of Residential Landlords (NFRL). However I am sure many landlords will be frustrated to read that there appears to be a question mark over…
I have now visited and done interviews with all three of the companies running the new Tenancy Deposit Protection schemes, due to come into force on 6 April, so am in a position to say a bit more about them. The company running the Custodial scheme is Computershare Limited, a large multinational firm. They have…
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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 naturally…