October 2015

On Wednesday 21st October at Headingley Carnegie Stadium in Leeds an RLA sponsored landlord day for property professionals will be taking place from 10 o’clock in the morning. Yorkshire Landlords Day is a partnership event which will aim to inspire, inform and support those landlords and agents who seek to provide vital housing stock. The event is FREE and aimed at all landlords, agents and property professionals from across the Yorkshire region and will consist of a series of seminars provided by guest speakers and exhibitors seeking to inform landlords of their products…

RLA Policy Director David Smith, who runs a blog for Anthony Gold Solicitors, has penned an update for landlords and agents regarding regulation changes from 1st October. David tackles smoke alarms & CO detectors, Section 21 notices, and what agents need to know about their websites. There have been a number of key changes today which will affect all landlords and agents in the private rented sector. Some of these changes affect all tenancies while others only affect tenancies which are new from today.

According to the latest information on the real estate market, the number of tenants who are seriously lagging behind debt to pay the rent almost rose to the highest level in the UK for these two years in the second quarter of 2015. Or actually currently 74,000 residents who already owe more than 2 […]

Thanks to the efforts of the RLA, the government has made a last minute correction to fix a serious error in their new prescribed Section 21 form. The amendment means that from October 1st landlords with periodic tenancies will be able to use the new Section 21 form as the Deregulation Act intended. On the previous version landlords who have tenants paying every six months could have been prevented from serving a Section 21 completely. The RLA is very pleased that we managed to alert the government to this in time for it to be fixed…