There has been a positive flurry of tweets and emails crossing my computer screen today, preceding and then following, the announcement from the Communities and Local Government (CLG) Dept. about their plans for the Private Rented Sector.
You can read the news item here, and the report itself can be downloaded from here.
This follows on from [...]
Tag Archive: rogue landlords
Government makes new announcements on the Private Rented Sector
Two harassment and unlawful eviction damages cases
The January issues of Legal Action Magazine has two reports on harassment and unlawful eviction damages cases, which I thought might interest you. Note the massive damages in the second case!
Odera v. Iqbal – Luton County Court, 3 September 2009
In this case the tenant had the tenancy of a room in a shared [...]
Two disrepair cases and one HSE prosecution
I have just received the excellent Legal Action Magazine, and have found three cases, which I hasten to share with you.
HSE v. Hussain – Stafford Crown Court – 25 February 2009
This was a prosecution brought by the HSE under the gas regulations against Mr Hussein. Mr Hussein had 12 properties, 9 had gas appliances but [...]
HMO licensing in Cathays ward Cardiff
One of the stories which stood out for me when I looked through my various feeds and Google news headlines this morning was this one about an application for additional licensing in Cathay ward in Cardiff, Wales.
As regular readers of this blog will remember, mandatory licensing for the larger HMO properties was introduced by the [...]
Labour MP plugs legislation hole to help tenants
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 [...]
How to protect yourself against rogue landlords
An interesting article in the Cash section of the Observer today looks at the increasing tendency of tenants to check up on their landlords before signing a tenancy agreement. And quite right too! As has been reported on this blog in the past, innocent tenants have been known lose their homes at short notice and [...]
The Landlord Law Blog from Tessa Shepperson
Will the next 10 years be the decade of the rental?
Is the coming decade going to be the one where Britain becomes more like countries in Europe where renting is the norm? Several interesting reports online today consider this.
An article in the FT quotes the Department for Communities and Local Government’s Survey of English Housing, which shows that the proportion of owner-occupied homes in [...]
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