March 2016

The RLA’s Landlord Advice Team is on hand to offer free unlimited advice to members. Each week, we are featuring a call from one of our members outlining their problems and how the team helped them. The team recently received a call from an anxious member relating to an eviction case. Two months earlier the […]

More than 140 landlords have sent letters to their MPs backing the RLA’s Mortgage Interest Relief campaign.
George Osborne announced plans to cut Mortgage Interest Relief on buy-to-let homes in his summer budget, essentially taxing income rather than profit.

Proposals to make it easier for London boroughs to introduce landlord licensing schemes will do nothing to root out criminal landlords.
That’s the warning from the Residential Landlords Association (RLA) in response to a new report on housing in the capital out today.
The London Housing Commission recommends that Ministers should give boroughs the power to create their own landlord licensing schemes.

A groundbreaking new partnership between the Residential Landlords Association and the TDS Charitable Foundation will help charities and other organisations offer free training on how to rent properties.
Developed by the RLA and funded by the TDS Charitable Foundation, the train2rent scheme will see groups such as housing associations, trusts and residents’ groups given access to specially created training packs including the all materials needed to deliver a course about renting a property.

Landlords will no longer be immediately criminalised for failing to pick up illegal tenants says the RLA, which has campaigned for changes to the government’s right to rent legislation.
Changes to the Immigration Bill will provide protection for landlords who take reasonable steps in an appropriate time frame to terminate tenancies of tenants in the country illegally.

The RLA’s Landlord Advice Team will continue to operate on Saturdays following a successful pilot scheme.
The association extended the service to Saturday mornings in January – and is now extending the scheme.

Rent Smart Wales is set to come under the microscope after the Welsh Government commissioned new research into the scheme.
Research firm PACEC has been asked to quiz buy-to-let landlords in Wales about their experiences, in particular what they think about the recent changes that are being brought about.

Bosses at internet auction site Gumtree will meet with the Residential Landlords Association to discuss scam in which fraudsters posing as landlords demand cash for viewings.
The RLA issued a warning over the online advertisements which often include cloned logos from websites including the RLA’s DepositGuard scheme.

The Government must commit to collecting comprehensive data on housing in Wales to property address the needs of the country’s landlords
That’s the call being made today as the Residential Landlords Association Cymru publishes its manifesto for the Assembly Elections.