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Applicant Safety on Viewings

Applicant Safety on Viewings

A woman fell 30ft into a well on a viewing resulting in the estate agent being fined Ā£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...
Amended Section 8 Notice

Amended Section 8 Notice

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...
EPC’s and the Creation of Tenancies

EPC’s and the Creation of Tenancies

As you are aware new and renewed tenancies must have an EPC rating of at least ā€˜Eā€™ 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...
Immigration Act 2016

Immigration Act 2016

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...
Edwards v Kumarasamy

Edwards v Kumarasamy

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...
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