A woman fell 30ft into a well on a viewing resulting in the estate agent being fined £200,000 + expenses The Wiltshire estate agent pleaded guilty last week at Swindon magistrates court to a charge of breaching the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act for failure to...
Due to the addition of Ground 7B to Section 8 of the Housing Act 1988 (as amended) to accommodate the requirements under the Immigration Act 2016 the Section 8 (Form 3) has been updated. Please make sure that if you do serve Section 8 notices you are using the latest...
As you are aware new and renewed tenancies must have an EPC rating of at least ‘E’ with effect from April 2018. There are circumstances where a landlord can apply to go onto an exemption database. Agents should be starting to check their portfolio to identify any...
New legislation affecting landlords and agents comes into effect in a few weeks times, on the 1st December 2016. This updates and amends the existing Immigration Act 2014, not least by making offences a criminal rather than a civil matter. The main area of interest is...
You may remember that a decision on this case last year left landlords in the position of potentially being liable for repairing common ways in properties of which they were leaseholders and furthermore that this obligation was on them even if they had not been...
The Department for Communities and Local Government (dCLG) have produced a booklet providing guidance for letting agents and landlords. These guidelines make it clear that the requirement for smoke alarms is relevant for ALL rented property from the 1st October 2015...
