September 2016

The Welsh Government says it is seeing a surge in applications for its Rent Smart Wales scheme, after the RLA revealed just 3% of landlords have been issued with licences. It has reminded landlords they face prosecution if they have not registered with the scheme by the November 23rd deadline – now just eight weeks […]

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Landlords are being asked for their opinion on the Government’s new digital tax plans. The HMRC has launched a simplified four question consultation asking landlords what they think about proposals for digital record keeping and quarterly tax reporting. Landlords are being asked whether plans to introduce a cash basis for those with simple tax affairs […]

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Just 3% of Welsh landlords have been licensed under the controversial Rent Smart Wales scheme, with just nine weeks until the November 23rd deadline. The registration and licensing scheme was launched in November last year and requires all landlords and letting agents to register their properties and undergo a training course to obtain a licence. […]

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Landlords have hit back at accusations made by Jeremy Corbyn in his Labour conference speech that they are being subsidised by £9 billion of housing benefit cash. According to Budget figures, in 2014/15 total housing benefit spending for social rented tenants at £15.2 billion, was significantly more than the £9.1 billion for those in the […]

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This week is Fire Door Safety Week – with landlords reminded of the importance of fire doors in rental homes. The week-long campaign aims to raise awareness and educate people of the importance of fire doors in commercial, public and multiple occupancy buildings. Landlords have a responsibility under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 […]

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RLA members have donated goods worth £1,500 to charity via new app Gone for Good. Gone for Good asked RLA members to donate unwanted items from their properties to be sold to raise cash for a range of good causes. In the two months since the scheme was launched donations from RLA members have helped […]

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Tenants are being let down by local authorities who are failing to enforce the powers available to tackle criminal landlords, the leading landlords’ body has said in response to figures released today by Shelter on the number of tenants having problems with rogue landlords. Andrew Goodacre, Chief Executive of the Residential Landlords Association said: “Figures from […]

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Tenants and landlords are being let down by local authorities who are failing to use powers to tackle criminal landlords. In a new report homeless charity Shelter claims 12.9% of renters have suffered at the hands of their landlord, based on a survey of more than 3,200 renters by YouGov. Researchers found tenants had […]

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No matter where you are in the UK, being a landlord is becoming a more and more competitive business. For the most part this is considered a good thing, as the more competitive the market is, the more choices tenants have and the harder it becomes for criminal landlords to operate. It can almost be […]

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The use of Airbnb in the UK has exploded over the last 12 months. In our previous research report into Airbnb we identified a growth of 27% between February 2016 and June 2016 alone, to a staggering 42,646 listings in London. Our latest research report into Airbnb created a lot of discussion in terms of whether […]

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