11 September, 2014
10 September, 2014
Proposals include new regulations, strengthened guidance and ensuring social landlords set aside properties for use by those exercising Right to Move
10 September, 2014
Commenting on the report, Bronwen Rapley, Deputy Director Investigation & Enforcement at the Home and Communities Agency, says, 'we hope by explaining the arrangements, and providing case studies, we can help landlords – and the local bodies that hold them to account – ensure that problems do not get to the stage where the regulator has to get involved.'
10 September, 2014
New research from the Association of Residential Letting Agents, reported in the Independent, also finds that one in seven tenants say their problems were never resolved and one in five tenants had reservations about their landlord or letting agent on day one of their tenancy.
9 September, 2014
New CPAG Scotland bulletin provides an overview of welfare rights cases collected from frontline workers across Scotland, and explores the impact on housing and homelessness policy.
9 September, 2014
Briefing explains duty on landlords to protect tenants’ deposits and summarises how tenancy deposit schemes operate.
9 September, 2014
8 September, 2014
BBC reports on Barnardo's research showing that, in 2013/2014, 51 per cent of authorities placed care leavers in B&Bs for 28 days or more, while just under half (46 per cent) placed care leavers in B&Bs repeatedly.
8 September, 2014
DCLG press release highlights fine of up to £5,000 for agents who do not belong to one of three schemes from 1 October 2014
5 September, 2014
New regulations that require persons who engage in letting agency work or property management work to belong to a redress scheme that has been approved by the Secretary of State or that has been designated as a government administered redress scheme.
4 September, 2014
Court finds that no one was 'living' in property, occupied in protest at Camden Council's sale of council houses, as squatters were there on a rota basis.
3 September, 2014
New guidance advises that, from 1 December, landlords in relevant areas face fine of £3,000 if they rent out properties to those who do no have 'the right to rent'.
3 September, 2014
New report from Age UK, 'Housing in Later Life', calls on the Government to ensure that all new homes are built to the lifetime homes standard so they can be easily adapted as people age.
3 September, 2014
Homes and Communities Agency release statistics from an annual online survey completed by all English private registered providers.
3 September, 2014
New DCLG statistics for period 8 October 2013 to 30 June 2014 also show that 79 per cent were purchases by first time buyers.
2 September, 2014
Findings of first interim report include that 'performance in year one of the programme, against the five outcomes and in the context of the targets set at the outset, has been variable'.
1 September, 2014
However, new report also warns that more effective regulation is needed to tackle unscrupulous landlords and to ban letting agents from charging tenants fees.
29 August, 2014
New reports set out how Scotland’s social landlords are performing against the Scottish Social Housing Charter in the areas tenants told the Regulator matter most: homes and rents, quality and maintenance, neighbourhoods, tenant satisfaction and value for money.
29 August, 2014
Local Government Ombudsman also finds that the couple did not receive adequate housing advice and their housing application was not prioritised in accordance with the council's housing policy, and in addition the council continued to charge council tax on the couple's former home even though an exemption should have been applied.
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