Call of the Week-Gaining possession and court forms

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Every week the RLA provides advice and support to landlords suffering with court delays. With a 22 week average wait from applying to court to regaining possession it is no surprise that most landlords seek advice from someone before applying to court. Unfortunately, this week the landlord did not seek any advice before applying to […]

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Chaos Theory! What’s next for the private rented sector? – Hamilton Fraser’s property podcast

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Hamilton Fraser’s property
podcast aims to help support landlords and agents throughout the private rented
sector with industry updates and key advice from industry experts.

In October’s episode, Eddie
Hooker, CEO of award winning Hamilton Fraser Total Landlord Insurance and Paul
Shamplina, Founder of Landlord Action and Brand Ambassador at Hamilton Fraser,
are joined by special guest, Sean Hooker, Head of Redress at the Property
Redress Scheme.

The Property Redress Scheme
operates as a straightforward and easy to use consumer redress (ombudsman)
scheme for property agents and professionals. Sean is a qualified Adjudicator
(ACIArb), CEDR Accredited Mediator, and has a Professional Award in Ombudsman
and Complaints Handling Practice (Queen Margaret University and Ombudsman
Association), bringing a wealth of knowledge on the industry to the podcast to
help keep landlords and agents up to date with legislative changes.

In the latest
episode of Hamilton Fraser’s property podcast, Eddie, Paul and Sean attempt to
decode the confusion surrounding legislation in the private rented sector,
including delving into upcoming consultations that could impact landlords.

They also
discuss the ‘tenant fee ban’, ‘Section 21’ updates, ‘right to buy’, ‘rent
control’, and Sean gives his opinion on housing courts and whether there could
be a ‘housing act overhaul’ on the horizon.

In addition,
Sean, Eddie and Paul discuss the importance of preparing for upcoming
regulation and legislative changes, whatever they may be! Read more about your
current legal obligations here.

As always, Eddie and Paul round up the
podcast by asking Sean … ‘If you could
make one new property law, what would it be?’

Missed the previous podcasts in the series?
Don’t worry you can catch up with industry news here!

Previous guests include:

• Kate
  Faulkner,market analyst, commentator and co-author of ‘The Landlord’s Friend’
• Tessa
  Shepperson, residential property lawyer and Managing Director of Landlord Law
• Tony Gimple,
  Founding Director of Less Tax 4
  Landlords
• Jeremy Leaf,
  Principal of Jeremy Leaf & Co Chartered
  Surveyors and Estate Agents
• Arden
  Hanley, Property Educator and HMO landlord

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RLA opposes Bassetlaw licensing plan

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The RLA has opposed plans to introduce a licensing scheme in Bassetlaw, Nottinghamshire. Bassetlaw District Council is consulting over proposals to introduce Selective Licensing for privately rented housing in the designated areas of Worksop South East, Worksop Central and Worksop Sandy Lane. The consultation on the plans runs until 10th October, and a full list […]

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John Lewis Partnership threatens landlords with rent cuts

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High Street
Rents:

John Lewis is said
to be threatening its landlords with rent cuts, a desperate measure
to reduce its operating costs as trouble on the high street
continues.

The leading UK
retailer, with its famous John Lewis and Waitrose stores, is said to
be informing its landlords in certain shopping centre locations that
it requires rent reductions, otherwise it will withhold 20 per cent
of its quarter’s service charge.

As reported by The
Scotsman newspaper, it is not known if the flagship Edinburgh
store is affected, but it is known that several other leading sites
are.

In Scotland, John
Lewis has three major department stores, in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and
Glasgow, plus a number of Waitrose supermarkets. According to a BBC
report there have been few signs of efforts by landlords to cooperate
with the retailer to reduce its costs.

The retail giant has
said service charge increases from landlords have been “simply
not acceptable” and have resulted in the high street firm doing
“everything we can to reduce our cost base”.

However, John
Lewis’s threat to to withhold one-fifth of its service charges
would not result in a threat to foreclose on leases, as could be the
case if rent was withheld, but it could result in legal action being
taken by its property landlords to recover any unpaid service
charges.

John Lewis claims
that its service charges bills have risen by as much as 20 per cent
over three years. These are fees in addition to rents the retailer
must pay as part of its lease obligations to cover services such as
insurance, heating and security.

A John Lewis
Partnership spokeswoman had said:

“At a time when
we are doing everything we can to reduce our cost base, we have
unfortunately been faced with regular increases to the service
charges we pay for some of our shops in shopping centres.

“Over the last
three years we have seen an increase in service charges of 20 per
cent and these continued increases are simply not acceptable,
particularly in the absence of strenuous efforts by landlords to work
collaboratively with us to reduce these costs.

“We are
investing more in our current shop estate than ever before to do
everything we can to encourage customers and grow footfall, and we
hope that our landlords will support us in continuing to do this.”

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