What does the future hold for landlords? Dr Tom Simcock shares his view

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RLA PEARL Senior Researcher Dr Tom Simcock will be speaking at our Future Renting conference taking place next month in London, delivering the session: “Building the evidence for changeâ€�. Here, Tom shares what he thinks the future holds for landlords. The private rented sector has grown significantly over the last 20 years, doubling in size […]

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What does Selective Licencing actually achieve?

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From what I have seen, the vast majority of prosecutions are for landlords not having a licence.

Hang on a minute?

I thought the whole idea behind licencing was to improve the rented sector?

How does prosecuting a person for not having a licence achieve that?

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BLOG: Universal Credit and pursuing complaints

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RLA trainer, and housing benefits expert Bill Irvine, returns with his Universal Credit column for private landlords housing benefit tenants. Here, Bill describes one of his recent cases around recouping losses and explains how to pursue complaints, when mistakes have been made. The following case, published on the local government and social care ombudsman website relates […]

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Landlords call for greater ambition to improve energy efficiency of rented homes

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LANDLORDS are calling on the Government to be more ambitions when it comes to the energy efficiency of rented housing. Since April, all new or renewed private sector tenancies require properties to have at least an ‘E’ rating on their Energy Performance Certificate. From 2020 that will apply to all private rented homes. Whilst the […]

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Repair kitchen for tenant or pay more Nottingham licence fees?

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Dear Licensing,

Please find enclosed 2 screenshots of my credit card transactions so far: 25 Licenses on it in the space of about 9 days at £360 each

I need some advice.

I have a kitchen to do on one of my houses.

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