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This week is Fire Door Safety Week – with landlords reminded of the importance of fire doors in rental homes. The week-long campaign aims to raise awareness and educate people of the importance of fire doors in commercial, public and multiple occupancy buildings. Landlords have a responsibility under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 […]

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RLA members have donated goods worth £1,500 to charity via new app Gone for Good. Gone for Good asked RLA members to donate unwanted items from their properties to be sold to raise cash for a range of good causes. In the two months since the scheme was launched donations from RLA members have helped […]

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Tenants and landlords are being let down by local authorities who are failing to use powers to tackle criminal landlords. In a new report homeless charity Shelter claims 12.9% of renters have suffered at the hands of their landlord, based on a survey of more than 3,200 renters by YouGov. Researchers found tenants had […]

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Tenants are being let down by local authorities who are failing to enforce the powers available to tackle criminal landlords, the leading landlords’ body has said in response to figures released today by Shelter on the number of tenants having problems with rogue landlords. Andrew Goodacre, Chief Executive of the Residential Landlords Association said: “Figures from […]

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No matter where you are in the UK, being a landlord is becoming a more and more competitive business. For the most part this is considered a good thing, as the more competitive the market is, the more choices tenants have and the harder it becomes for criminal landlords to operate. It can almost be […]

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The use of Airbnb in the UK has exploded over the last 12 months. In our previous research report into Airbnb we identified a growth of 27% between February 2016 and June 2016 alone, to a staggering 42,646 listings in London. Our latest research report into Airbnb created a lot of discussion in terms of whether […]

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Student landlords could be forced to pay business tax under controversial new plans. Students are currently exempt from paying council tax and student accommodation is currently exempt from business rates – a situation that could now change if councillors in Liverpool get their way. Liverpool City Council believes that as student landlords are a ‘profit […]

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This week marks Gas Safety Week and here Gary Oakford, Group Manager at Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service reminds landlords of the importance of gas safety checks to tackle unsafe work and dangerous appliances. Badly fitted and poorly serviced gas appliances can cause gas leaks, fires, explosions and carbon monoxide poisoning. Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning alone results in around […]

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Serving notice is one of the most difficult parts of being a landlord and it is only getting more complicated by the year. Whether it’s the new section 21 form, with all the new rules that come with it, or the new grounds for section 8, serving notice in England has got significantly more complicated […]

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Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has quoted the Residential Landlords Association and its research in a discussion on Airbnb during Mayor’s Question Time. Mr Khan was responding to a question by Assembly Member Tom Copley on the issue of Airbnb rentals in the capital and the potential impact on the PRS. Mr Khan said: “I […]

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