The Landlord Law Blog
Blog URL http://landlordlaw.blogspot.com/
Located Norwich, Norfolk United Kingdom
Tags landlord, law, tenancy deposit, legal, tenant, property
Tessa, editor of www.landlordlaw.co.uk, ponders on life, the universe, and residential landlord and tenant law
Latest Blog Posts
- Book Review - Furnished Holiday Lets, by Carl Bayley on Nov 17, 2009 in book review
If you rent out furnished holiday accommodation, you should buy this book. At present there are tax advantages in renting out furnished accommodation, but on 10 April, this will all change. Carl Bayley has written this book to explain the changes t...
- Raising the rent a room tax rebate on Nov 15, 2009 in lodgers
The National Landlords Association (NLA) and spareroom.com are both calling for the rent a room tax scheme tax threshold to be increased. It has been £4,200 since 1997 and since then prices have risen considerably. To quote the NLA:"The NLA suppor...
- New developments on Landlord Law on Nov 12, 2009 in Landlord-Law
Several things I have been planning for a while will come to fruition shortly. The NewsletterThe Landlord Law newsletter is an important part of my service. However, the newsletter mailer I have been using almost since we started in 2001, is now a b...
- Sherbet - Charity of the Month - (November 2009) on Nov 11, 2009 in Charity of the month
Well done High Court Enforcement company Shergroup for setting up the Sherbet foundation charity, aimed at families affected by enforcement. Shergroup along with other enforcement officers have a clear responsibility to enforce the orders and judgme...
- Another tenancy deposit problem – what happens when the receivers step in? on Nov 11, 2009 in tenancy deposits
I have been contacted by a landlord who has drawn my attention to a thread on the popular LandlordZone forum: “Briefly, the rental property has been in the hands of the receivers since July 2000. The receivers accepted the tenancy and collect ren...
- Book review - The Essential Guide to Flatsharing by Rupert Hunt and Matt Hutchinson on Nov 9, 2009 in book review
This book is written by the owners of the popular SpareRoom.co.uk flatsharing web-site. It is addressed to 'sharers,lodgers, and everyone renting out a room', and is very much a companion book to their web site service. As the authors have been wor...
- Landlord flouting the spirit of the tenancy deposit legislation says Judge on Nov 7, 2009 in tenancy deposits case law
There is new tenancy deposit case report in the November issue the Legal Action Magazine, Da Costa v. Pinter, which took place at Bromely County Court in April 2009.Here the tenancy agreement provided for a monthly rent of £1,950 but also stated 'Pa...
