Project to reduce the reluctance to rent to tenants on benefits

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Shelter Press Release:

Thousands of vulnerable private renters across Greater Manchester were boosted today as the £600,000 test and learn fund for Fair Housing Futures was announced.

The partnership project, hosted by the housing charity Shelter and funded by the Nationwide Foundation

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WEBINAR: What’s the future of Section 21?

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On Wednesday March 11th at 19.30pm, Paul Shamplina, Founder of Landlord Action and star of Channel 5’s ‘Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords’, will host LandlordZONE’s very first Webinar!

The Government have announced that the ‘Non-Fault’ Section 21 will be abolished in the future, so that tenants cannot be evicted without a reason, as tenants should have greater security.

There’s always a reason why a landlord has to evict a tenant. What does the abolishment mean for the Private Rental Sector and Landlords. What measures need to be put in place for this to work and what could be the negative consequences of the abolishment of Section 21. How will a Housing Court work?

‘The Landlord’s Friend’, Paul Shamplina will take you through this, in LandlordZONE’s very first webinar.

Register Here

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Threats from tenant after serving section 21

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Two previous agents did not manage my flat effectively, no inspections were carried out for the past 7 yrs. The Flat got mould which I have now cleaned off after deciding to self manage.

Since taking over the management tenant has become very intimidating to myself and contractors that have been repairing the damages.

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Protecting property from old flame?

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A friend wants to gift his unencumbered, mortgage-free, own residence to his son and move into a previously let property. He is concerned that an old flame of his son might try to cook up a story of stalking/harassment to sue his son for financial benefit.

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New housing minister revealed

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Chris Pincher arrives from the Foreign Office where he survived a inappropriate behaviour scandal three years ago after allegations appeared in a national newspaper.

A new housing
minister has been revealed following Boris Johnson’s brutal cabinet reshuffle
yesterday.

The new
minister is Chris Pincher, MP for Tamworth in the West Midlands who replaces Esther
McVey. Unlike
McVey, it is understood that Pincher will not be attending cabinet.

He is an
unlikely candidate for the job having enjoyed a ministerial and political
career almost exclusively at the Foreign Office, until now, and who has no political
experience of the housing market and its issues.

Pincher has also
been embroiled in controversy. Three years ago he voluntarily resigned the Tory
whip following national newspaper allegations about his behaviour after making
inappropriate comments to a former Olympic rower.

He apologised for causing any offence and was later cleared of breaking any Conservative party conduct rules.

Pincher said
last night on Twitter that he is delighted to be appointed as the new housing
minister for England, but that he was sad to be leaving the Foreign Office.

“This
Government will deliver on our commitment to build the housing that people
need. Looking forward to getting stuck in alongside

@RobertJenrick,”
he tweeted.Pincher has plenty to get stuck into within the private
rental sector, primarily helping steer through the government’s ‘new deal for
renting’. This includes guiding legislation through parliament that will see
greater regulation for landlords in England, implementing radical reform of the
evictions
process and the
setting up of a housing court.

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Airbnb and London’s City Hall clash over accuracy of research showing huge expansion of short-lets

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Research endorsed by Sadiq Khan claims more landlords are switching to ‘professional’ listings on the platform.

Hosts with multiple properties are behind at
least one-third of Airbnb’s listings in the capital – seemingly more evidence that
landlords are spurning the private rental sector for the platform.

New research from City Hall compiled using
analytics tool Inside Airbnb, shows 30% of hosts advertising three or more
listings, with 1% renting out 7,440 properties.

It found the number of Airbnb listings in
London had quadrupled in the last four years; as of May 2019, 80,770 properties
were listed on Airbnb, with 23%, or 11,200, thought to be in breach of the
capital’s legal 90-day limit.

However, Airbnb
says the data is inaccurate and points to its own figures that show in April
2019 there were 60,000 listings in London. A spokesman adds: “It
confuses ‘listings’ – a term used to refer to spare rooms, entire homes, hotel
rooms and other forms of accommodation on Airbnb – with entire homes.”

Local councillors in London have already raised concerns
about scam companies using fake listings and fake reviews.

According to City Hall, properties in the capital listed
on short-term rental sites pocket an average of £109 per night, whereas if they
were rented out to long-term tenants, they would make £58 per night.

A spokesperson for Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, says:
“Councils are doing their best to find and shut down unlawful short-term lets
in London, but they don’t have enough powers or resources to successfully
prosecute and deter the worst offenders.

“Ministers must take these issues seriously by giving
powers to London to introduce a mandatory registration system for short-term
lets.”

An Airbnb spokesperson says it
is meeting with policymakers, communities and hosts across the country to
co-develop a proposal for a registration system that works for everyone before
presenting it to the Government.

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STUDENT HMOs: Lancaster consults on plans to clamp down on university rental market

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Lancaster City Council says measures are needed to prevent ongoing ‘imbalance’ within areas swamped by student lets.

Landlords in Lancaster are under
attack from their local council which is cracking down on the city’s HMOs.

A large student population has fuelled
growth in Lancaster and nearby Galgate, which the council hopes to curb. It
wants to make landlords submit a planning application before they can convert family
homes into HMOs and restrict HMOs to no more than 10% of
housing stock within a 100-metre radius. 

Lancaster City Council also has
its sights set on To Let boards and wants advertisement controls to prevent
them being put up in the wards of Bulk, Castle, John o’Gaunt and Scotforth
West.

However,
Gavin Dick, the National Landlord Association’s local authority policy officer,
says the council is misguided. “It’s good news for sitting landlords but the
council is reducing the housing supply so people seeking properties will pay
higher rents. It’s not good news for new landlords either,” he says.

Many
homes in the city have permitted development rights, so they can be converted
into small HMOs – for three to six occupants – without having to apply for
planning permission.

Councillor
John Reynolds, Cabinet member with responsibility for planning policy, says the
concentration of student HMOs in some areas is creating an imbalance in the
community and affecting the neighbourhoods’ character. 

“Issues
arise from depopulation over the summer period, noise and disturbance, pressure
on refuse storage, car parking and services, as well as the detrimental visual
impact caused by the display of a significant volume of ‘To Let’ boards,” he says.
“Student HMOs also remove family homes from the housing market and by
constraining their further growth we will retain a good balance of affordable
accommodation.”

A six-week
consultation starts on 21st February.

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What’s causing landlords and tenants to fall out of love?

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The latest data by rental deposit replacement scheme, Ome, has revealed which areas of the UK have seen the biggest uplift in deposit disputes, as well as the areas with the highest number of total disputes raised.

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Today in politics : Cabinet reshuffle and new PRS data

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In a bumper edition we look at the impact of the cabinet reshuffle, data from RICS and the Ministry of Justice as well as HMOs, Disabled Facilities Grants and much more. Javid quits and housing minister McVey leaves role Sajid Javid has quit as Chancellor of the Exchequer after number 10 told him to sack his […]

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Japanese Knotweed: Property information form updated

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Those selling their properties who do not know whether there is an issue of Japanese Knotweed at the property will now have to declare this, after the Law Society updated the TA6 Property Information Form sellers complete when selling a property. Currently, those selling a property have to select either ‘yes’ or ‘no’ if they […]

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