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The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) are today welcoming the Government’s decision to moderate the amount it expects landlords to pay for energy efficiency improvements, where homes have to be brought up to a minimum E EPC rating. This requirement comes into force for new lets and tenancy renewals from April 2018 and for all residential […]

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With Christmas just around the corner, many of your tenants could have opted for a real Christmas tree. This week’s Call of the Week features a case involving a landlord who contacted RLA partners, TDS, about a fiddly deposit issue around pine needles. Michael Morgan, the Director of Dispute Resolution at TDS, talks us through […]

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Staff at the RLA got into the Christmas spirit this week by reaching out to those in the community who are less fortunate. As part of the RLA Christmas food bank appeal, staff donated more than £200 worth of canned fruit, snacks and toiletries to the local food bank, run by The Trussell Trust, which is […]

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Landlords are today welcoming the Government’s decision to moderate the amount it expects landlords to pay for energy efficiency improvements, where homes have to be brought up to a minimum E EPC rating. This requirement comes into force for new lets and tenancy renewals from April 2018 and for all residential lets from April 2020. […]

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London mayor Sadiq Khan is today launching his rogue landlord and agent checker – fulfilling his long-term commitment to name and shame criminal landlords. The new checker has three parts: a public online database of landlords and letting agents who have been prosecuted or fined by London Boroughs or the London Fire Brigade, issued a […]

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A damning Government review carried out in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy has found current building and fire safety regulation is not fit for purpose. DCLG has published the interim report of the Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety led by Dame Judith Hackitt. In her forward to the document Dame […]

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2017 has felt like a very busy year for local authorities and licensing. Perhaps it is because this was the year I was appointed the RLA’s first Local Government Officer? Or- maybe it is was the almost 30 local consultations I responded to? And while we are yet to finish our advent calendars, local authorities […]

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At the very end of last week, the government snuck out yet another consultation, this time on licensing and taxation. ‘Tackling the Hidden Economy: Public Sector Licensing’ proposes to link tax compliance with public licences, including HMO and selective licences. So landlords applying for a licence would have to be registered for tax. While the […]

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This article, by RLA Policy Director David Smith was first published on The Times’ Red Box site Getting on for half of landlords are now less likely to consider renting to someone without a British passport because of the Government’s Right to Rent policy. That’s according to a recent survey by the Residential Landlords Association (RLA) […]

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Right to Rent checks should be suspended by the Government, after new figures showed landlords are so afraid of criminal sanctions they are wary of letting to tenants without a British passport. New research shows more than 40% of landlords are now less likely to consider renting to someone without a British passport due to […]

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