Landlords could be offered financial incentives for longer tenancies

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Financial incentives could be offered to landlords willing to offer long term tenancies, under plans revealed by the Government today. In a consultation launched today  the Government is proposing a number of options to bring in a three year tenancy model. It is bringing forward the plans in response to the demand for longer tenancies from […]

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Top tips for landlords for clearing out at end of tenancy

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It’s time for many students up and down the country to clear-out their properties, so now is a good time to make sure they know how to correctly clear out their properties. Make sure your tenants know the correct bin to use With all this hot weather we’ve been having recently, there’s nothing worse than […]

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Labour warn of “a return to pre-war slum housing”

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Responding to today’s announcement from the Labour Party that they would create “Healthy Homes Zones� and join up housing and health policy, the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) has welcomed the proposals but called for more details.

The Labour Party has claimed that hundreds of thousands of rented homes are unfit to live in

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Record number of first-time landlord products

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Given the recent upheaval in the Buy-to-Let market, many would assume that the number of products to first-timers would dwindle along with demand. However, the latest research from Moneyfacts.co.uk shows the number of deals to first-time landlords has risen to record levels

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Longer term tenancies: What’s in it for landlords?

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Minimum three year tenancies have been mooted by the Government, with the story dominating news reports. RLA directors appeared on the BBC news channel, BBC radio and LBC yesterday to talk about three year tenancy plan, after the story was given to the press ahead of the release of official papers, which will be made […]

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NLA say they have been misled by government

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Reacting to reports that the Government will announce plans to introduce mandatory three year tenancies, Richard Lambert, CEO at the National Landlords Association (NLA) said:

“In his speech to the Conservative Party conference last October, Sajid Javid announced plans for a consultation on how to encourage longer tenancies.

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Landlords “TAP� into website for notifying water companies

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Tenants’ Details:

The Landlord Tenant Address Portal provides an easy to use website that allows landlords and managing agents, of properties in England & Wales, to provide water companies with details of those responsible for the payment of water and/or sewerage charges for their tenanted properties.

Landlords and managing agents should always inform the utilities and councils, ideally in writing, when tenancies start and end, so that bills can be apportioned and charged appropriately. In this way landlords are never charged for a tenant’s proportionate of use of utilities and or their council tax.

With the TAP website, instead of having to pick up the phone, or write to the water company, once a landlord or agent is registered, the forms on the web site provide the required information to the water company concerned and transaction receipt reference is issued.

Some local authorities are now providing forms on their own websites for landlords and agents to notify them of council tax tenant changes.

The TAP web site allows you to:

– Add new properties to your portfolio

– Tell TAP about changes to tenant details, including changes of tenancy

– Let TAP know when a property becomes empty

– Inform TAP if you sell or stop managing the property

The Welsh Government introduced regulations from 1st January 2015 making it mandatory for landlords to submit information to relevant water companies regarding responsibility for water service charges and the regulations refer to the availability of the portal to facilitate this.

Landlords and agents should be aware that they will be charged themselves if they fail to inform the water companies.

To start using Landlord TAP you should register from the home page of the website here

Landlord TAP has also produced a user guide to help landlords and agents through the process of registration and account activation accessed here

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