September 2016

This week marks Gas Safety Week and here Gary Oakford, Group Manager at Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service reminds landlords of the importance of gas safety checks to tackle unsafe work and dangerous appliances. Badly fitted and poorly serviced gas appliances can cause gas leaks, fires, explosions and carbon monoxide poisoning. Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning alone results in around […]

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Student landlords could be forced to pay business tax under controversial new plans. Students are currently exempt from paying council tax and student accommodation is currently exempt from business rates – a situation that could now change if councillors in Liverpool get their way. Liverpool City Council believes that as student landlords are a ‘profit […]

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Serving notice is one of the most difficult parts of being a landlord and it is only getting more complicated by the year. Whether it’s the new section 21 form, with all the new rules that come with it, or the new grounds for section 8, serving notice in England has got significantly more complicated […]

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Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has quoted the Residential Landlords Association and its research in a discussion on Airbnb during Mayor’s Question Time. Mr Khan was responding to a question by Assembly Member Tom Copley on the issue of Airbnb rentals in the capital and the potential impact on the PRS. Mr Khan said: “I […]

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With summer now behind us, and the kids heading back to school, attention is rapidly turning to Christmas. For charity shops this period is a key time to sell more goods and raise money for good causes; but often they are held back by a lack of the right stock. So Gone for Good is […]

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The data talks for itself; low rents, longer tenancies, lower evictions, high satisfaction and better quality. When you look at the independent data, you would think that the PRS is, broadly speaking, on the right track in Wales. But there are dark clouds on the horizon for landlords in Wales, and the storm looks set […]

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The RLA has called for landlords’ spend on mandatory energy improvements to be capped at £2,500 – half the figure proposed by the Government. Under plans from the new Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy landlords would have to fork out up to £5,000 to bring homes up to a minimum Band E energy […]

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New plans to replace Stamp Duty Land Tax in Wales have been hailed as great news for landlords and tenants. The Residential Landlords Association Cymru is backing the Welsh Government’s proposals to establish a new Land Transaction Tax from 2018 to replace Stamp Duty. The plans were revealed in a new Bill published this week. […]

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Next week is Gas Safety Week, with landlords around the country being reminded of their obligations when it comes to keeping tenants safe. Badly fitted and poorly serviced gas appliances can cause gas leaks, fires, explosions and carbon monoxide poisoning, which can kill quickly with no warning and affects thousands of people each year. Landlords […]

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The Government has reassured landlords that amendments recently tabled to the Finance Bill will not affect PRS landlords. The RLA raised concerns about the proposed changes, which it believed blurred the distinction between trading profits from the purchase and resale of property and investment in homes to let. The Law Society also warned that the […]

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