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This week, the Government proposed detailed regulations for enforcing mandatory five-year electrical safety checks in the private rented sector in England from July this year. In this blog first published on Anthony Gold, RLA policy director David Smith examines the indications given by the Welsh Government as to standards that could be required, once the Renting […]

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Five-year safety checks will be mandatory for landlords for all new tenancies from July 1 this year. This will be rolled out to all existing tenancies from April 2021. The new regulations were tabled today (MON), requiring pre-tenancy and five yearly checks of all fixed appliances and wiring. Landlords failing to comply with the new […]

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The RLA is warning that rents in the London Borough of Camden could rise if an additional HMO licensing scheme is renewed. Camden Borough Council is currently consulting on plans to renew the five year scheme, which is coming to an end. If plans to renew the scheme get the go ahead, all HMO landlords […]

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Plans to end the freeze on housing benefits will still leave many tenants unable to afford their rent say landlords. It was announced today that from April the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) will increase by inflation (as measured by the Consumer Price Index). However, the Residential Landlords Association says that as the Allowance has been frozen since […]

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The government’s appeal against a damning ruling by the High Court that the Right to Rent breaches human rights law will be heard on Wednesday. Following a Judicial Review of the policy secured by the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) and supported by the RLA and Liberty last March, the presiding judge concluded discrimination […]

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Many landlords and letting agents go above and beyond when it comes to their tenants and their communities. Sallie Stone-Bearne is the founder of Branch Properties, which specialises in finding accommodation for disabled people in the private rented sector. In this piece first published in Residential Property Investor magazine, Sally Walmsley meets her. Sallie Stone-Bearne is the founder of […]

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Landlords in Birmingham who want to convert homes into small HMOs will have to apply for planning permission to do so. It comes as Birmingham City Council’s Cabinet approved plans to introduce a city-wide Article 4 Direction on small HMOs at a meeting in December. The Article 4 Direction will come into force on Monday […]

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Today we find out more about the campaigners telling the social sector it must learn from the PRS, the publication of proposed broadband legislation and an ombudsman warning on housing benefit. Social sector ‘has lessons to learn’ from PRS The End Furniture Poverty (EFP) organisation has said that the social housing sector has lessons to […]

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Today we look at the chancellor’s comments on absentee landlords, a government pledge that it will support good landlords to ‘thrive’, plans to make it easier to get broadband installed in blocks of flats – and a survey on the number of landlords planning to sell homes. Absentee Landlords Chancellor Sajid Javid said there is […]

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Landlords with properties in the North East are being invited to hear an update on the sector at a landlord forum event being held in Newcastle on 23rd January. The forum will take place at Northern Football Club on Great North Road, and registration starts at 5:30pm. The agenda on the night will be: Ian […]

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