Regulation & Law
News articles looking at national legislation and local regulation and the application of law to the residential property industry.
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Portfolio landlords’ inaction forces tenant to urinate in bathtub
Tribunal issues £5,300 rent repayment order after tenants go 58 days without a working toilet in unlicensed HMO.
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Rachel Reeves selective licensing debacle claims another scalp
Cabinet Member for Housing at Southwark Council, which covers the Chancellor's property, resigns after admitting his properties were unlicensed too.
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Bad landlords not prosecuted by most local authorities
Councils will shoulder most of the responsibility for policing the Renters’ Rights Act, but vast majority lack will or resources to do it, research suggests.
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New £40,000 fines and criminal prosecutions for errant letting agents announced
Local authorities will be handed powers to fine ‘landlords, letting agents, or anyone acting on their behalf’ when the first phase of the new tenancy rules comes in next year.
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Minister ‘to fix court eviction delays’ but provides few details
Plans to prepare the courts for Section 21 abolition have now been published, but the official ‘Roadmap’ leaves more questions than answers.
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New guidance for letting agents on rent ‘bidding wars’ ban published
Officials reveal how the ban will work in practice including how tenants who try to start bidding 'wars' won't covered by rules, but landlords will.
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BLOG: ‘Speaking as a landlord, I’m out!’
Under the Renters' Rights Act, councils will be given "powers in many cases greater than the police and frankly with little or no accountability," says Phil Turtle.
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Property industry missing from Renters’ Rights Act timetable announcement
Unexpectedly there were no comments from landlord or agent leaders within the announcement heralding 'a roadmap' for the Act.
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BLOG: Commonhold is not only answer to ‘broken’ leasehold
There is a third and better option for leasehold reform, according to Leasehold legal expert, Lucy Riley.
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‘Skint’ London landlord hit with £11k rent repayment order
Hackney landlord tries to blame local council’s hacked IT for his failure to obtain an HMO licence for his rental property, to no avail.
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