Welcome to ‘Buy to Let Market’, a column aimed at providing you with recent criteria and product updates within the Buy to Let lending markets. Buy to Let Market Update: – The Mortgage Works – has announced a series of rate cuts across its two and five-year fixed rate buy-to-let products. The rate cuts include […]
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A managed migration pilot scheme has launched in the Yorkshire town of Harrogate. Managed Migration is the process whereby benefit claimants on the old system move on to the new Universal Credit system. The regulations for the scheme can be found online here. Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd MP has previously confirmed that up […]
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Landlords are being urged to make their views heard in local authority licensing consultations. Several local authorities currently have consultations that are open, including Brent, Lewisham, Worksop and Rotherham. The RLA aims to respond to all local licensing consultations. You can read our recent response to Birmingham City Council’s consultation on plans to introduce a […]
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The heatwave is here and many parts of the country have been experiencing very high temperatures. While the warm weather will be welcome for many, there are also things that landlords should consider when the mercury rises. Here, we take a look at some of the problems that landlords could find themselves facing because of […]
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Robert Jenrick MP has been named as the new Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) replacing James Brokenshire who has left the position after just over a year to return to the back benches. So, who is the new Secretary of State for Housing? Prior to taking up his new role, […]
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Former TV presenter Esther McVey MP has been named the new housing minister, taking over the reins from Kit Malthouse. She will be the ninth housing minister in nine years. So who is she – and what are her views on housing? Tatton MP MP for Tatton and an ardent Brexiteer, McVey was Secretary of […]
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Summer is here and with that there are bound to be a plethora of barbeques, swimming pools and sun-loungers filling the gardens up and down the country. This week one of our members contacted us with a query relating to the garden of their property, specifically regarding who should be responsible for the maintenance of […]
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Letting agents in England are being urged to check that they are signed up to an approved redress scheme that covers the full remit of their work. The warning comes after a letting agents was recently fined £3000 for belonging to an approved redress scheme for its letting agency work but not for its property […]
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RLA Wales has told the government it must take landlords’ time into account when setting default fees. While the fee ban in England was introduced in June, the Welsh ban does not come into force until September. However, unlike the English equivalent, matters such as default fees (paid by tenants breaching their contract) and prescribed […]
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Here RLA trainer, housing benefit and Universal Credit expert Bill Irvine examines a recent case in which a tenant was falsely accused of being in a relationship with her landlord. The council claimed it had overpaid £17,000 in housing benefit and took the decision to prosecute the tenant in the county court for benefit fraud. […]
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