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Plummeting rates of home ownership among young people demonstrate the folly of choking off investment in private rented homes says the country’s largest landlords’ organisation. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) today shows that just 27 per cent of 25-34 year olds with incomes in their middle 20 per cent for their age are homeowners […]

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With Parliament taking the half term recess, politicians were free to roam the land this week. The Labour Party used the opportunity to publish an animal welfare plan, which included proposals to allow pets in rental properties as default. While many council and housing association leases ban pets it was the private rented sector that appeared in […]

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When a couple split up, you, the landlord may also be left picking up the pieces. So where do you stand when a couple announce they will be going their separate ways? What happens to the joint deposit? And what if one half of the couple wants to stay? Here Michael Morgan, Director of Dispute […]

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The Government has approved plans to introduce Selective Licensing in some areas of Nottingham this summer. From August, landlords in two thirds of Nottingham will have to pay for a license if they want to rent their properties out. The cost of the license is still to be confirmed by Nottingham City Council. Largest scheme […]

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Using an App to create a property inventory, interim or check-out report is not a new concept. Richard Abbots, founder of RLA Inventory Plus, explains that creating the initial report actually plays a small part in the reporting process. Printing, capturing tenant feedback, signatures and filing can be equally as time consuming – something overlooked […]

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COMMENTING on proposals published today by the Labour Party, which would allow tenants to keep pets as the default positions in rented homes unless there is evidence that the animal is causing a nuisance, David Smith, Policy Director for the Residential Landlords Association said: “The proposal raises a number of questions which we will work […]

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A proposal by the Labour party to give tenants the default right to keep pets in rental properties has been met with caution by the RLA. Under the proposals, tenants would have a ‘default’ right to keep a pet in a rental property, unless there is evidence that a pet would be a nuisance. The Labour Party […]

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LANDLORDS are being reminded of the importance of serving a copy of a valid gas safety certificate at the start of a tenancy, or they risk being unable to serve a Section 21 notice of possession. In a case that was heard at Central London County court earlier this month, a letting agent failed in […]

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PROPOSALS to link rent increases to inflation would leave tenants worse off according to official data published today. According to the Office for National Statistics’ rent index published today, private sector rents across Britain increased by 1.1 per cent in the year to January 2018. In London they grew by just 0.2 per cent. Over […]

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It might only be Valentines day for one day of the year, but questions relating to tenancies and couples frequent our Forum all year round. Here, we take a look at some of the short but sweet solutions that our Landlord Advice Team have provided to common questions regarding couples and tenancies. Q: I am […]

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