This is day 20 of my 31 days of tips on tenancy agreements series. To see the rest of the series click here. Repairing obligations and tenancy agreements As mentioned on Day 12, tenancies with a term of less than 7 years have to comply with’ statutory repairing covenants’. These are set out in section…
This is day 18 of my 31 days of tips on tenancy agreements series. To see the rest of the series click here. Penalty clauses in tenancy agreements Penalty clauses are clauses which provide for the tenant to make a payment if they breach the terms of the tenancy in some way. Great care needs…
This is day 16 of my 31 days of tips on tenancy agreements series. To see the rest of the series click here. Practical aspects of the Unfair Terms regulations The Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999 (the Regulations) were discussed on Day 15. Today we are going to look at some of the…
This is day 15 of my 31 days of tips on tenancy agreements series. To see the rest of the series click here. About the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations The Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999 (the Regulations) originally came from Europe as a directive which member countries were then required to…
Tenant notice on vacating when the fixed term ends It can be very inconvenient and sometimes downright difficult, if a tenant leaves without warning. Perhaps one of the most controversial clauses in my Landlord Law tenancy agreements is the one which says: During the last month of the fixed term (and not later than seven…
Two property web-sites have been reporting that Foxtons have withdrawn their appeal to the Court of Appeal against the High Court decision against them last year. You will find a summary (as at October 2009) of my previous posts on the OFT v. Foxtons case here. The two articles that I have seen are on the PainSmith Blog…
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Foxtons case concluded – now is the time for agents to review their agency agreements
I have just learned that a final order has been made in the case of the Office of Fair Trading v. Foxtons, which I have written about in the past (see here). Foxtons have now made ‘significant changes’ to its standard terms and conditions which have satisfied the OFT ‘including making the liability to pay…