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Changes to the benefit system are behind the decade-long increase in homelessness from private rented housing, according to a new report published today. Research by the Policy Evaluation and Research Unit at Manchester Metropolitan University for the RLA has found that a key driver of homelessness from the private rented sector has been introduction in […]

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Black Friday week here and you’re not going to want to miss out on our fantastic offers this year! This week we have slashed our joining price, so you can join the home for landlords today for just £39.98. In return, you’ll get unlimited one to one advice when you need it most, and access […]

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Ahead of our Future Renting Wales conference next week, here we have a chat with one letting agent about what she feels the future holds for renting in Wales. Sandra Blake has bee a letting agent for several years in Cardiff. Here, she talks about what she feels the biggest change has been in the […]

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RLA Policy Director and lawyer at Anthony Gold solicitors David Smith blogs about what the EU withdrawal agreement could mean for the private rented sector. This blog post was originally published on Anthony Gold. The long-awaited withdrawal agreement between the UK and the EU has been published. Naturally, we do not know at this stage whether […]

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Property fraud is big business with tens of millions of pounds a year lost to scams targeting both landlords and tenants. To mark International Fraud Awareness Week, we look at some of the most common and how you can protect yourself. From criminals taking out mortgages on empty properties to students being stung for thousands […]

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#AskTDS: My tenant cut down a tree in back garden to use for bonfire fire night – can I deduct for this? The real question here is not what the tenant did with the chopped wood but did the tenancy allow for or require the tenant to maintain or remove the tree during the term […]

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The RLA has formally responded to a consultation which was run by the Welsh Government, on the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 – regulations relating to Supplementary Provisions. What was the Welsh Government consulting on? According to the Welsh Government, the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (‘the Act’) will make it simpler and easier to […]

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As the weather gets much cooler, our Landlord Advice Team are receiving more calls from landlords around the maintenance of radiators. This week our Call of the Week is from a landlord who phoned us about a request they’d had from one of their student tenants. The tenant had complained that only the bottom of […]

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A landlord with properties in Wales called our advice team this week, to discuss the best way that he would be able to gain possession of his property. The situation One of the tenants in the property was in prison, and the other was still in the property. The tenancy had recently become contractual periodic. […]

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Fresh data from the consumer watchdog Which? reveals that four in ten first year students in 2017 had begun searching for accommodation for the next academic year before the end of their first time at University. The data, complied from responses over over 3,000 students, found that one in four freshers said that they had […]

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