New HMO Bill Passes First Westminster Hurdle Almost Unnoticed
A new bill threatening higher penalties for house in multiple occupation (HMO) licensing breaches is progressing through Parliament under the smokescreen of MPs rowing about Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic. Tory MP for Blyth Spartan Ian Levy has steered the Houses in...
Arrangements for When Possession Claims Start
Reactivation Notice Where a claim for possession was filed with the court before 3 August 2020 and was stayed under the Coronavirus rules, a “reactivation notice” is required to get the claim running again. See our article about this here. The government has published...
Website Changes and Roadmap 2020
You may or may not have noticed that there have been some changes to the website recently. The changes aren’t always especially visible but have actually been ongoing since lockdown begun with major changes to the backend. Primarily we’ve been going through old...
Six Months Notice Length for Wales Tenancies
Updated 16 September 2020: the length of time the six months notice is required has been extended from 30 September 2020 to 31 March 2021. Today (23 July 2020), Julie James MS, Minister for Housing and Local Government of the Welsh Government has announced new rules...
Possession Rules After Suspension Published
Update: the date of 23 August 2020 referred to below has been extended to 20 September 2020. Please see this article for details. Further update 16 September 2020: the government have published a non statutory reactivation notice which is now linked below. It was...
Coronavirus: Guidance for Landlords and Letting Agents
Stats above are for UK only and refreshed daily. Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic Hub for Landlords and Letting Agents For the latest #StayAlert guidance, please see the.gov coronavirus page here. Landlord Specific Guidance Inspections and Repairs Here we will look at:...
Selling A Buy To Let With A Sitting Tenant
Landlords are not fleeing buy to let in droves, but a steady number are selling up, according to letting agents. The latest stats from trade body the Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA) says the average branch has four buy to let properties for sale – and...
What Landlords Need to Know About No DSS Adverts
Housing charity Shelter has won a second case against a letting agent discriminating failing to consider tenants on housing benefits seeking to rent a buy to let home. The government has already signalled new laws are on the way to ban ‘No DSS’ adverts but some...
September Brings New Laws For Landlords
September sees some big changes in the law that impact landlords and tenants, including fast-track planning for home extensions and cash for improvements to make homes greener. This update wraps up all the changes including proposals to lend tenants in Scotland and...
Updated Legionella Risk Assessment Template
Our legionella risk assessment template for the iAuditor app has today been updated to version 2.0. This is free to download for all subscribers to the Guild or active subscribers to the legionella pack product. If your subscription has expired for the legionella pack...Practical Guidance And Template For Legionella Risk Assessment
Introduction This page provides practical guidance on doing your own risk assessment for risks associated with the control of Legionellosis bacteria. We would recommend using our specially designed iAuditor template for iOS or Android device which simply requires...
Guild of Landlords Rent Digest – August 2020
Keeping an eye on rents to make sure your properties stay competitive but still make as much profit as possible is a key task for landlords. To help with the leg work of looking up all those statistics on different web sites, here’s a digest of some of the leading UK...
Six Months Notice Rules and New Form 6A For England Published
In recently typical timing by government, late Friday afternoon, the regulations which make the changes for increasing the length of notices to six months in England were published. The regulations are The Coronavirus Act 2020 (Residential Tenancies: Protection from...
Holiday Let Ban for Landlord in Planning Dispute
A landlord has lost his planning battle to rent out a city centre investment property as a holiday let. Oxford City Council banned the landlord from letting out the home after neighbours alleged holidaymakers staying there upset the neighbourhood with antisocial...Coronavirus Guidance
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