June 2018

The Residential Landlords Association will hold its next Future Renting conference in London this September. The one-day conference will be held at Imperial College London on September 13 and comes hot on the heels of successful events in Wales and Manchester. The event, at the college’s Kensington campus, will include a packed programme, featuring a […]

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Ministers need to scrap the tax on new homes which is punishing those in need of a home to rent, the UK’s leading landlord body argues. A new report being published today by the Residential Landlords Association’s (RLA) research exchange, PEARL, warns that the country faces a net loss of 133,000 homes for private rent […]

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This week, a landlord called us with a question about serving a Section 21 notice and when he needed to serve the documents on his renewal tenancy. The tenancy began in July 2017 and is set to become a statutory periodic tenancy on July 1st 2018. The landlord planned to serve a Section 21 notice […]

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This week is set to be a scorcher for the UK, with a heatwave already bringing temperatures of 30 degrees in some parts of London on Monday. This week’s Forum Spotlight is all about keeping tenants cool when the mercury starts to rise. A landlord posted in our Forum a question about providing his tenants […]

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The Government has issued an updated version of its How to Rent guide with landlords reminded they MUST make sure new tenants, or those renewing have the correct version. Landlords entering into tenancies have to give this new version to their tenants as of today, or they are leaving themselves at risk, with Section 21 notices […]

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A new think tank is fundamentally wrong in its analysis of private rented housing – and the number of buy-to-let mortgages is falling, not rising. In its first report, focussed on housing, the Conservative supporting Onward, claims that at the end of 2017 buy-to-let lending was above the 2007 peak. In fact new buy-to-let lending […]

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Once again we read headlines predicting a grim future for the smaller landlord due to a combination of legislation change and increasing costs. Tory think tank Onward is proposing further tax changes to dampen investment in buy-to-let homes, with finance firms claiming more and more landlords are setting up as limited companies. In an article […]

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RLA policy director David Smith, will be presenting evidence to the MHCLG Committee’s Hackitt enquiry tomorrow. The evidence session is being held by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee and is the first following the publication of the Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety, led by Dame Judith Hackitt. In […]

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Plans to establish a new housing court are moving forward, with a Government consultation into plans to be held later this year. The call for a housing court was one of the RLA’s key asks ahead of the last electionand budget, and Sajid Javid confirmed the Government planned to adopt the plans in October last […]

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Our Landlord Advice Team are still receiving some calls relating to GDPR, nearly a month on from when the regulation came in to force. This weeks call was from a landlord of two properties, both of which had tenants already in place. The landlord wanted to know whether he needed to register with the Information Commissioners […]

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