Landlord & Agent Licencing: The Bigger Picture
Since the Coalition Government came to power in 2010 the issue of licencing private landlords in England is as far away as its ever been (apart from the London Borough of Newham who want to licence all PRS landlords in their borough).
This updated article was originally published on the hipconsultant.co.uk website under the title of ‘Landlord Licencing: How Much Longer Do We Wait?’ in November 2009…
RMC’s: Rogue Landlords & Anti-Social Behaviour
Rogue landlords and anti-social behaviour are subjects that are gaining ever increasing attention. The word ‘rogue’ is currently being used as a ‘catch all’ to describe private sector landlords who fall way outside the parameters of acceptable landlording with Shelter acurrently running a campaign to remove them. When it comes to owning and managing blocks of flats with a majority of flats sublet and with more than one such landlord, if they house anti-social tenants with drink, drugs, and natural aggressiveness it will inevitably fall to the freehold RMC (Resident Management Company) to seek remedy…
RTM Directors: The Buck Stops With You!
Right to Manage appears to be very easy to market. Removing your current managing agent and replacing it with a better one of your own choosing. Great!
But after you have set up the company in order to exercise the right and the Directors have secured a new managing agent (from an unlicenced and unregulated pool) does this mean the company can sit back and let the new agent get on with things? Most certainly not!
So what exactly is the role of the RTM Directors and what should leaseholders expect from them?…
Flat Owners On Pimlico Estate Challenge Maintenance Charges
Under the enormously popular ‘Right to Buy‘ legislation introduced by the Conservative Government in 1980, tenants up and down the country took the opportunity to purchase their homes at a considerable discount to what they could expect to pay on the open market. Among these were the tenants of the Lillington Gardens Estate in Pimlico, in the London Borough of Westminster. On the surface it was a great deal but years later, has turning from tenant to leaseholder been such a great idea?…
Leasehold Reform: Could Do Better
After reading the section of the Carsberg Review on leasehold and rental property management I started to think about where we actually are in terms of reform and education in the leasehold sector, especially as much of the new-build property is being leased. So, in order to understand where we are now we perhaps need to remind ourselves how we got here…