If a landlord wants to evict a tenant using a Section 21 notice, they must ensure they have complied with all the legal requirements before serving the notice. Otherwise, they could end up losing the case and paying the tenants’ legal costs, as one landlord recently found out.
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Before serving a Sections 21, a landlord must return the deposit to serve a valid notice. But if the tenant refuses communicate can the landlord send it via cheque?
Can landlords return a deposit by cheque? Read More »
The government has announced that it intends to invest at least one million pounds into modernising the court system for dealing with possession claims.
Digitisation of the court system – what will it look like? Read More »
The housing ombudsman service currently handles complaints from social housing tenants, but they will now take on the role of resolving disputes between private landlords and tenants. In this blog we look at how this will work.
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One of the biggest topics of conversations of Rental Reform has been the scrapping of Section 21, however in recent discussions this has been put on hold.
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The government recently announced that it would stop requiring tenants of shared dwellings to pay hefty council tax bills by banding individual rooms in shared households individually for council tax reasons. The NRLA projects that this change will save landlords and their tenants up to £1,000 annually.
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With the autumn statement released last week, it is important to be aware of the measures and how they could affect landlords.
Autumn Statement – Impact on Landlords Read More »
With news of Paris being overrun by terrible bed bug infestations, the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan stated that reports of bed bugs on the London underground is cause for serious concern.
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On the 18th October 2023 the government updated the landlord’s guide to Right to Rent Checks. It is vital that both letting agents and landlords understand what is needed, and in this blog we look at the change that has been made and recap why a Right to Rent Check is so important.
Update: Right to Rent Check Read More »
If a landlord is owed money from an ex-tenant who refuses to pay, they may have to resort to legal action to recover the debt. However, getting a court judgment is not the end of the story; the judgement still needs to be enforced and the debtor made to pay. In this blog we look at the different options a landlord has including a third-party debt order and attachment of earning order.
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