Latest News impacting Buy to Let Landlords

Introduced in 1933 by the Local Government Finance Act 1992, council tax is imposed on households in Britain based on the number of people living in the property and what its value would have been on April 1st 1991 (2005 in Wales). From this, the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) will give your home a valuation band which determines how much you will be required to pay. Use this quick link to find out which band your property belongs to. 

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You could be the perfect tenant who keeps the property in a more than satisfactory state and always pays their rent on time. But what if one of the other tenants does not mirror your conduct. What if one of the other tenants damages the property in some way?

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On Friday 28^th November MP’s heard a parliamentary bill aimed at putting an end to landlords ‘revenge evicting’ tenants who complained about their property.

That bill did not become law because two Conservative MPs filibustered and stopped the debate which would have ended in the bill becoming law. 

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A guarantor is someone who accepts liability on behalf of the tenant for things such as a failure to pay rent or damage to the property during the course of the tenancy.

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Landlords spend a lot of time working with letting agents or by themselves to attract the best calibre tenants possible.

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A monetary remedy is possible where a landlord has not followed the legal procedures in place regarding the protection of a tenant’s deposit.

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If you wanted to claim compensation from your landlord for failing to protect your deposit (by not putting it in a tenancy deposit scheme) within 30 days, you could go to court to claim compensation.

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A Landlord does not have to take a deposit but here are some reasons why it could be a good idea.

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Your landlord can deduct money from your deposit for the following reasons...........

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If you currently have an Assured Shorthold Tenancy in England and Wales that started after 2007 your landlord is required to pay your deposit into a tenancy deposit scheme.  Written by Jordan Dowe - UWE Law Undergraduate

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