New How to Rent Guide January 2018

New How to Rent Guide January 2018

Yesterday, 17 January 2018, the Government released a revised version of the How To Rent Guide. This should be used for all tenancies set up from today onwards. The point in law about if you gave the old guide to a tenant who moved in yesterday is not clear so we...
HMO Licensing

HMO Licensing

On 28th December Alok Sharma MP, the Housing Minister, announced that the HMOs that fall into mandatory licensing will change. Currently HMOs with 5 or more people from two or more families and where the property is over three or more qualifying storeys, need to have...
More Energy Consultations

More Energy Consultations

On the 19th December another consultation was launched about minimum energy standards. In October a 97 page guide was issued and this consultation proposes some significant changes to that guidance. At the heart of the guidance is the rule that the landlord should not...
New Court Form

New Court Form

Just to give all members the heads up, HMCTS have released a new N5B accelerated court application form. The new form can be found here.  This version of the form takes account of the changes required by the Deregulation Act 2015 which came into force in October 2015...
Tenant Fee Ban Legislation

Tenant Fee Ban Legislation

The following are simply notes made from reading through the draft legislation. The legislation in full is also attached, along with the explanatory notes. The comments below could form part of any comments you want to make to your own MP and lobbying your own MP is...