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The Landlord’s Friend – the ‘help to rent’ book
As the buy-to-let market becomes ever more complex, help is at hand in a handbook written by experts Paul Shamplina and Kate Faulkner.
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£2 million for councils to crackdown on rogue landlords
Reacting to recent reports that councils aren’t taking enough enforcement action against ‘rogue’ landlords, an announcement has been made about further funding.
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£2 million more given to local authorities to crack down on rogue landlords
Cash-strapped local authorities to be given an additional £2 million to fund new initiatives to help crack down on rogue landlords.
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More rogue landlords are hardened criminals not old-fashioned chancers, says leading expert
A high profile tenancy relations officer says new breed of rogue landlord who seek systematic and organised cash cultivation.
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‘Tech makes it easier for rogue tenants to fake referencing documents’
Tech makes it easier for rogue tenants to fake referencing documents, a leading eviction specialist has claimed.
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Rogue letting agent case kicks off new Channel 5 eviction documentary
Channel 5 is to launch a new documentary series on the rental sector including one case in which a long-standing and notorious rogue letting agent in Essex is featured. Called Bad Tenants, Rogue Landlords and starring eviction specialist Paul Shamplina of Landlord Action, its first episode looks at a tenant placed by rogue agent Carter Stones based in Ilford, Essex. The company, which is no longer trading and was dissolved via compulsory strike-off in September last year, has some eye-watering reviews on the allAgents.co.uk website. This includes one renter who lost £4,200 after paying a deposit and the first month’s rent for a property to Carter Stones. The firm was investigated by the BBC last month and recently expelled from both the redress and deposit protection schemes it belonged to. Harrowing tales Channel 5’s first episode of Bad Tenants, Rogue Landlords is to be screened tomorrow Thursday 5th April at 8pm and will feature harrowing stories of poor behaviour by both landlords and tenants including a bedsit fire in a poorly-maintained property in NW London and problems with squatters for a landlord in Cheshire. The episode kicks off with the Carter Stones case. It involves a tenant placed by the…
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Rogue agent list must be available to all says ARLA as government mulls banning orders
The government’s plans to police letting agents and landlords from the private rental market via banning orders are ‘completely illogical and defeat the purpose of the legislation’, says ARLA Propertymark in its response to the government’s recent consultation. ARLA is concerned that the database of rogue landlords and agents subject to banning orders will only be available to local authorities and the Department for Communities and Local Government. “If there is no public access to the database how will landlords or tenants know if they are using a banned agent and how do agents see if those applying for employment are blacklisted or banned,” it says. ARLA instead wants access to the database granted to industries such as it and the NAEA because “unless we are included we will not know if our members are banned or blacklisted” and be able to take the “appropriate action against any member on the list”. But ARLA is pleased that the government has consulted on which offences by landlords and agents may attract a banning order and agrees with them, although it also says that agents who do not display their letting fees or who fail to sign up to one of the…
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NLA rebuffs Shelter’s rogue landlords report
The National Landlords Association (NLA) has defended the private rented sector’s track record after a ‘rogue landlords report’ was released over the weekend by housing charity Shelter. It revealed that more than a million tenants in the UK have suffered illegal landlord activity over the past 12 months. The research, which was conducted among 3,250 people by YouGov, revealed that abuses include entering a property without tenant permission, threatening behaviour or harassment, disconnection of utility supplies or changing of locks without good reason, not lodging deposits correctly as well as racial, gender or nationality-based discrimination. But Richard Lambert, CEO of the NLA, says much of the blame for this lies at the feet of councils who are not enforcing the relevant laws or prosecuting landlords who break them which, he says, means “it’s way too easy for the unscrupulous to get away with this kind of behaviour”. “These [Shelter] figures highlight serious issues that are simply unacceptable but our research with tenants shows that 82 per cent say they are happy with their current landlord. Furthermore, Shelter’s figures show the vast majority of landlords to be law abiding.” Lambert also clearly believes that Shelter should also be tackling the problem of abusive…
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Name and shame rogue landlords
Criminal landlords in London should be named and shamed according to a new RLA survey in which members backed Sadiq Khan’s plans to create a rogue landlord database.
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