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Material information to be included in property listings The National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team, being the Trading Standards body dealing with Estate Agents, have specified that from May 2022 there will be new requirements for certain material information to be included on property listings.  Material information, such as, a property’s council tax …

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PainSmith are looking for an Office Administrator to join the team. As Office Administrator you would be responsible: For carrying out administrative duties. To provide support to fee earners. To arrange and prepare all training services provided by PainSmith. To administer the firm’s legal helpline and document sales. To provide accounts assistance under the direction …

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There is now clarity in the requirements when corporate landlords and agents are signing notices and prescribed information. The judgment in the second appeal of Northwood (Solihull) Ltd v Fearn & Ors (2022) EWCA Civ 40 has been handed down by Lord Justice Lewison in the Court of Appeal with the decision unanimously in favour of …

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  We have a number of positions available, if any of the roles are of interest to you please send your CV and a covering letter confirming the position you would like to apply for to: marveen@painsmith.co.uk   Litigation Solicitor An exciting role available to the right candidate to work within one of the leading …

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We will be doing another 1 hour webinar with TDS tomorrow at 10am for anybody that may be available. We will be covering the updated notice periods and a Tenant Fees Act Update.   The link to register is below:   An update on notice periods and The Tenant Fees Act (zohoshowtime.eu)  

Following almost 18 months of disruption the notice periods for Section 8 and Section 21 notices have now returned to their pre-covid levels. The Coronavirus Act 2020 (Residential Tenancies and Notices) (Amendment and Suspension) (England) Regulations 2021 have suspended the relevant provisions in the Coronavirus Act 2020.   Section 21 Notice: Minimum 2 Months’ notice. …

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We are pleased to announce that as from 1st October 2021 Matt Edwards will commence his period of recognised training in compliance with the requirements of the Solicitors Regulation Authority with PainSmith Solicitors, the final stage of the process to qualify as a solicitor. Matt completed his Law degree in 2018 before undertaking the Legal …

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From the 1st October 2021, Section 21 notices will change again. We had mentioned a phased return to the usual notice periods in our previous blog: https://painsmith.co.uk/updates-on-notice-periods-and-bailiff-evictions/   The originally proposed timeline has now been confirmed meaning that from 1st October 2021, the notice period for section 21 notice will revert back to the pre-coronavirus position …

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We have another 1 hour webinar with TDS coming up on 9th September 2021 at 10.30am. Richard Pulford will again be taking the session on behalf of PainSmith and the title of the course on this occasion is ‘Landlord repairing obligations and access requirements.’ You can sign up to the webinar via the link below: https://lnkd.in/dz9_M7qD  …

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Our Document Vault has now been finalised for the year to include up to date versions of the relevant documents for our helpline subscribers. As we mentioned in late June, this now includes a number of new documents which have not been available in the past through this service. Further details are set out in …

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As most of you will be aware, the advice for some time has been to ensure that the up-to-date version of the section 21 notice is checked and used as and when it is required. Changes more recently have tended to be made to the form without prior warning and as it is a prescribed …

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The third of our 1 hour webinars made in conjunction with TDS will be on 15th July 2021 at 10.30am. Richard Pulford will again be taking the session on behalf of PainSmith and this time the title of the course is HMOs, update on notice periods and pre-tenancy information – what to serve and when. …

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As many of you who are already helpline members will already be aware, PainSmith Solicitors are in the process of renewing the telephone helpline subscriptions for the upcoming year.   The helpline year runs from 1st August 2021 to 31st July 2022 and the annual cost of subscribing for single office letting agencies remains with …

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  As from June 1 2021, the Notices for Section 21 (Form 6A) and Section 8 (breach of the Tenancy) have changed to comply with the alterations to notice periods introduced by the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government last week.  The good news is that the notice periods seem to be gradually reducing …

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Following the success of the first Webinar in April, PainSmith and TDS have organised a second as promised on 7th June 2021 at 10.30. This time the topics will be the recent updates to Right to Rent, the new Debt moratorium, some implications of the Queen’s Speech as well as a general tenancy refresher.   …

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As part of PainSmith’s ongoing partnership with Tenancy Deposit Scheme ‘TDS’ (details for the June webinar will be posted imminently), there will be guest blogs posted on our respective websites. The first of which has been provided by TDS below and relates to fair wear and tear. It is our hope that this will give …

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