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Legal advice: How to recover rent arrears
Sheila Manchester spoke to Danielle Hughes, Solicitor in The Dispute Resolution Team at Kirwans law firm to find the best ways for letting agents and landlords to legally deal with non-paying tenants.
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Boxing charity event Rumble with the Agents launches
Rumble with the Agents, the white-collar charity boxing event hosted for the last two years by Landlord Action, in association with Hamilton Fraser, is returning for a third year. The event will be held on Thursday 25th May 2017, and the team is requesting the support of men and women from all sides of the property industry looking for a New Year challenge. The event will once again raise funds for Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice, North London’s only ‘Hospice at Home’ service, providing support for children and young people with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions and their families. The charity also provides respite and support to families, helping them to face the future with hope after bereavement. Paul Shamplina, founder of Landlord Acton, said, “We’re offering individuals the chance to get fit and try a new sport in a safe and professional environment, whilst supporting the wonderful work of Noah’s Ark, who are hoping to build a new state of the art hospice by 2018.” Rumble with the Agents has some keen participants already signed up, but the event requires a total of 12 boxers, so remaining places are on a first come first served basis. There will be six fights lasting six…
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‘Rumble with the Agents’ nearly sold out
Landlord Action’s second white collar boxing event for the property industry, Rumble with the Agents, is taking place on Thursday 26th May, and with the venue already at 90% capacity,
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Housing ‘no place for dirty money’, says NAEA
The NAEA has joined forces with the Transparency International to oppose money-laundering in the estate agency sector. The NAEA and the anti-corruption body want to see four major changes introduced to the sales and purchase process in a bid to combat the problem. This includes ensuring that all foreign companies are transparent over their ultimate beneficial ownership of property titles in the UK, anti-money laundering checks are carried out by estate agents on the purchaser, as well as the seller of high-value property, make sure that agents adhere to anti-money laundering regulations, and that meaningful punishment and sanctions are imposed on agents who break the rules and support criminal money laundering. Following on from the Channel 4 ‘From Russia with Cash’ documentary in the summer, the NAEA’s Mark Hayward said that there is still ‘not absolute clarity’ in relation to anti-money laundering among those in the property sector, despite the very clear legislation in place and regular training and updates from within the industry. “It is now time to step up the level of scrutiny that the sector comes under to ensure that a small minority of agents do not support criminal activity and those that do are appropriately sanctioned,”…
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Agents up for knockout night!
Agents who are taking part in what has billed as the biggest white collar boxing event ever brought to the property industry, ‘Rumble with the Agents’, recently met up for their first group training session.
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Landlords’ body voice concerns over sub-letting
The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has expressed concern over controversial plans to allow private tenants to sub-let their tenancies in England, announced by the Chancellor in the Budget last month. The Chairman of the RLA, Alan Ward (left), has written to DCLG Director General, Peter Schofield, seeking greater clarification over the detail of the proposals and has raised various questions as to how this would affect landlords with leases, licensing, and mortgage conditions, and why it is that this proposal has been put forward with no consultation. You can read Alan Ward’s letter in full below. Last month, tenant eviction firm, Landlord Action, also expressed grave concern over Government plans to allow private tenants to sub-let from their tenancies, claiming that it would be “catastrophic” for the rental market. “This appears to have slipped in under the radar which, if it goes ahead, will throw up a magnitude of problems in the buy-to-let industry,” said Paul Shamplina (right), Founder of Landlord Action. “We have never seen so many sub-letting cases going to court because of unscrupulous tenants trying to cream a profit from a property they have rented,” he added. Shamplina believes that “the risk of nightmare sub-tenants” and subsequently…
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Plans to allow sub-letting would be “catastrophic”
Concerns are growing over “catastrophic”plans to permit private tenants to sub-let their tenancies in England, while a Scottish housing organisation is calling on the Scottish Government to introduce a new law banning retaliatory evictions in the private rental housing sector north of the border. Following the Chancellor’s Budget last week, tenant eviction firm, Landlord Action, has expressed grave concern over Government plans to allow private tenants to sub-let their tenancies by preventing landlords from using clauses in residential tenancy agreements that expressly rule out sub-letting. “This appears to have slipped in under the radar which, if it goes ahead, will throw up a multitude of problems in the buy-to-let industry,” said Paul Shamplina (left), Founder of Landlord Action. “We have seen so many sub-letting cases going to court because of unscrupulous tenants trying to cream a profit from a property they have rented,” he added. Landlord Action, which is currently exposing the level of the sub-letting problem in a Channel 5 documentary due to air in a few months, reports that it continues to experience problems with tenants taking out tenancy agreements and then, in some instances, not even moving into the property themselves, but putting up partitions and sub-letting…
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Stress in the PRS
11,000 tenant evictions in three months – will the problems for landlords and tenants worsen in 2015, asks Paul Shamplina of Landlord Action.
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