Right to Rent guidance update

Right to rent updated Guidance Factsheet This email only affects Right to rent checks in England. On 1 December 2014 the government introduced the Immigration Act 2014 in the West Midlands as a working trial and then for the rest of England on 1 December 2016. Section...

Electrical Safety Standards

This email affects electrical safety standards in England. Provisions were made in the Housing and Planning Act 2016, for the Secretary of State to make regulations about electrical safety standards for properties let by private landlords. (Commencement No. 11) brings...

Buy to let mortgages can no longer dictate “No DSS”

This email applies to England and Wales The Equalities Act 2010 has 9 protected characteristics which are: age disability gender reassignment marriage and civil partnership pregnancy and maternity race religion or belief sex sexual orientation There is nowhere in the...