Teresa May’s announcement of a general election on June 8th, will have an impact on the upcoming Housing legislation. Some of that legislation is likely to be either delayed and may even be lost if a new Housing Minister is appointed as they may have other ideas. Banning letting agents fees. The consultation is continuing. …
The government’s white paper on housing, called “Fixing our broken housing market,” was presented to the House of Commons and Lords on Tuesday. The white paper accepts that there is a shortage of homes on the market and further acknowledges, in a radical departure for the Conservative party, that home ownership is not the aim …
We start this blog with a Happy New Year to all our readers! 2017 is a busy year for the Residential Landlord and Tenant sector so we have taken the liberty of summarising some of the key events we expect to see this year. In April and June 2016, we wrote a few blogs on …
Renters’ Rights Bill This new Bill has been introduced by Baroness Grender and it is at the committee stage in the House of Lords. The aim of the Bill is to make provision about the rights of tenants. As a Lords Bill introduced privately it is unlikely that this Bill will proceed much further but …
We have now blogged about the Bill/Act on two separate occasions. This should be the final post, unless something else changes! Banning Orders Part 2 of the Act is about rogue landlords and property agents. Under the Act, agents and rogue landlords can be banned from engaging in letting agency or property management work …
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