November 2018

As the weather gets much cooler, our Landlord Advice Team are receiving more calls from landlords around the maintenance of radiators. This week our Call of the Week is from a landlord who phoned us about a request they’d had from one of their student tenants. The tenant had complained that only the bottom of […]

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The RLA has formally responded to a consultation which was run by the Welsh Government, on the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 – regulations relating to Supplementary Provisions. What was the Welsh Government consulting on? According to the Welsh Government, the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (‘the Act’) will make it simpler and easier to […]

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RESPONDING to the launch today of a consultation by the Government on establishing a new housing court, David Smith, Policy Director for the Residential Landlords Association, said: “The RLA called for a new Housing Court at the time of the last election and in its budget submission. It therefore welcomes this important consultation. “Improving and […]

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The Government has launched a new consultation on a proposal to introduce a Housing Court, which could provide greater access to justice for both landlords and tenants, in the event of disputes. The RLA has campaigned for a dedicated housing court extensively, including the proposal in its recent submission to the Autumn Budget. The dedicated housing […]

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Fresh data from the consumer watchdog Which? reveals that four in ten first year students in 2017 had begun searching for accommodation for the next academic year before the end of their first time at University. The data, complied from responses over over 3,000 students, found that one in four freshers said that they had […]

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The Government has announced that local authorities in England are to receive additional cash, to help them root out criminal landlords. Under the proposals announced on Thursday by Housing Minister Heather Wheeler, up to £2 million worth of funding will be give to Councils. The Government say that the additional funding will help to ‘ramp […]

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Chartered Tax Advisor Sean Hughes is the latest speaker to be announced for the RLA’s Future Renting Wales conference, on 29th November. Sean’s tax advisory company, Comprehensive Tax Planning, specialises in advising property investors to mitigate the effects of recent tax changes that have impacted the sector – primarily section 24. He will be talking about […]

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Sheffield City Council has chosen the RLA to be the official delivery partner of its training courses for both the selective licensing scheme and the mandatory HMO licensing scheme in the city. Selective licensing On 1st November 2018, a new selective licensing scheme came into force in some areas of Sheffield, including parts of London Road, Abbeydale […]

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Television personality and founder of Landlord Action, Paul Shamplina, will address delegates at our Future Renting Wales conference this month. Paul is famous for fronting a number of hit television shows on ITV and Channel 5, including “Nightmare Tenants Slum Landlords”. The founder of ‘Landlord Action’, Paul has also spent over 25 years helping landlords […]

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The Government has responded to a letter from the RLA which called for clarity over the rights that EU nationals will have to rent property both before and after the UK leaves the EU, including under a no deal Brexit. In the letter which we sent in August, we also called for: A commitment from […]

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