False comparisons on renting in London help no-one

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The Independent has in an article* today claimed that renting an ‘average London flat’ is more expensive than living in most European hotels. A headline grabbing shock statistic ….. but is it actually true? When taking a closer look at the facts there are clear inconsistencies with the newspaper’s statistics. In the article it is […]

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Dispute Resolution Procedure at Rent Review – Calderbank offer

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Basically, what is known as a Calderbank offer is a ‘without prejudice;’ offer to settle a dispute to avoid the extra costs and associated risks of a full referral. From Calderbank v Calderbank [1976] and originally confined mainly to family property disputes, an offer of settlement made before the trial of an action and contained in […]

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False comparisons on renting in London help no-one

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The Independent has today claimed that renting an ‘average London flat’ is more expensive than living in most European hotels. A headline grabbing shock statistic ….. but is it actually true? When taking a closer look at the facts there are clear inconsistencies with the newspaper’s statistics. In the article it is claimed that latest […]
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Right-to-Buy policy may make housing crisis worse

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BREAKING NEWS – The government’s Right-to-Buy policy for housing association tenants has not been accurately costed, is open to wide-scale abuse and may make the housing crisis worse, claim MPs. The Chairman of Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has said that the controversial “Right to Buy” scheme introduced in the Chancellor’s budget last year was not […]

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Dip in house prices, despite surge in sales

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First Dip in house prices in eight months shows House Price Index. The LSL Acadata monthly House Price Index reports on transaction numbers and the movement of average house prices in Scotland and in England and Wales, including regional data. It uses the actual prices at which every property in England and Wales was transacted, […]

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Radical action needed to protect tenants

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Radical action is needed to protect tenants from the grip of criminal landlords, as new data points to worryingly low levels of enforcement of rented housing regulations by local authorities.
According to Freedom of Information data, collected by the Residential Landlords Association (RLA), among the 255 councils that responded, just 827 prosecutions had been taken out against landlords over the last five years following notices to improve a property being issued.
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