Call of the week – missing tenancy agreement

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One of the most common complaints to the Landlord Advice Team is that the government is drowning landlords and tenants in paperwork – making life ever more difficult.
It’s not surprising then, that with so many stacks of paper to keep track of, some landlords simply forget or just misplace something vital. Like a tenancy agreement.
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Property Inspections – What Landlords Need to Know

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Regular property inspections are critical. As any landlord lulled into a false sense of security by a polite tenant willing to hand over a year’s rent in advance at the start of the tenancy knows, things can go horribly wrong if you don’t check your asset regularly. Tenants are not always well-meaning and not all […]

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Court Bailiffs taking months to evict

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County Court bailiffs, along with the courts themselves, can take up to 45 weeks to evict a tenant, that’s according to Ministry of Justice figures, statistics for possession claims for the first quarter on 2016. According to The Sheriff’s Office, overall there is a slight decrease in the number of possession claims, but the really […]

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Brexit aftermath

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I hesitated whether to contribute my tuppence-worth to this momentous occasion. Of the three taboo subjects – religion, sex, politics – that one is not supposed to talk about in polite society, nowadays politics is possibly higher up on the list. For some, money is also a taboo subject and perhaps why it is easier […]

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Insulating some Buy-to-Lets will be hard…

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Insulating some of the UK’s hard-to-treat or ‘problem’ domestic dwellings could face landlords with a difficult problem as we approach the looming deadline for minimum energy efficiency standards. According to The British Urethane Foam Contractors Association (BUFCA) over 23%, or 4.7 million out of the 19.6 million domestic properties in Great Britain do not have […]

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Supreme Court gives Landlords confidence

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The Supreme Court has ruled today that the right to a private and family life does not prevent, in legitimate cases, landlords and mortgage lenders from reclaiming possession of a rented home.
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Lord Flight and the Landlord Tax

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Over 600 private landlords came together in London on Thursday 9th June to learn how the legal challenge against the government’s hugely controversial tax changes towards the Buy-to- Let sector is progressing. The Tenant Tax Summit which was initiated by two private landlords Chris Cooper and Steve Bolton, had a wide range of industry figures […]

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Buy-to-let landlords adopting new strategies…

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Following the introduction of what some would describe as punitive taxes designed to “cool-down” a booming buy-to-let lending market, and despite the changes, landlords remain resilient and optimistic about the future of buy-to-let. Mortgages for Business (MfB) has notices a “sizeable shift towards complex property types” with landlords adopting different strategies. A recent survey conducted […]

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England v Wales – the facts

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With England and Wales due to do battle on the football pitch tomorrow in Euro 2016 do you know the key differences when it comes to renting out properties in the two countries?
The distinctions are growing each year.
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Lords unite to challenge unfair MIR plans

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A group of Tory peers has urged George Osborne to rethink plans to cut Mortgage Interest Relief for landlords. In an article for The Times Lord Flight, Lord Howard, Lord Lytton and Lord Cathcart say the Government’s assault on private-sector landlords is ‘misguided’ and will make the UK housing crisis worse, forcing up rents and […]
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