I hope you are enjoying the January ‘Mystery Boxes‘?
So far we have had:
- A video of housing barrister Sam Madge Wyld’s ‘Year in Review’ talk from our Conference (Monday)
- An article and information about the forthcoming energy efficiency minimum standards (Tuesday)
- Access to our training video on landlord and agents obligations under the forthcoming General Data Protection Regulation (Wednesday)
- Access to the Landlord Law guidance on checking tenants (Thursday), and
- Information about how consumer law affects landlords and tenants and David Smiths talk to our 2017 Conference.
These are all important topics which landlords need to be aware of. Five more a lined up for the coming week. Find them all here (until 31 January).
But what happened on the blog this week?
Monday
The January 2018 Mystery Box Giveaway
An introduction to the Mystery Boxes on the day the first box opens.
Tuesday
Taking a look at the London Landlord Database
Ben Reeve Lewis writes about London Mayor’s new Landlord Database
Wednesday
The Housing Crisis: Foreign ownership
Continuing my series on the housing crisis, I look at overseas investors in our housing market
Thursday
Should a long term tenant agree to sign a new tenancy agreement?
A question asked by a tenant in my Blog Clinic this week
Friday
Tessa Shepperson Newsround #31
I take a look at whats been happening in the housing news
Further Reading
- Deposit Diaries from Mike Morgan of TDS about the importance of unambiguous tenancy agreements
- Is housing a human right?
- The London Fire Brigade is buying aerial ladders that could have reached the upper floors in Grenfell
- DGLC press release re new powers against rogue landlords
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