How Not to Fall Foul of Landlord Tenant Discrimination Laws A landmark ruling at a court in York has backed up something rental campaigners have been battling to clarify for a number of years. Namely, that landlords and letting agents placing a blanket ban on housing benefit claimants when advertising a property is unlawful. Many tenants have won out-of-court settlements from letting agents and landlords over the years due to the discrimination they felt as a result of these

The Changes to the Landlord Repossession Process That You Need to Know About Coronavirus has changed every aspect of our lives. From pubs to shops and sport to holidays, 2020 and potentially 2021 will look very different from previous years as we adjust to new ways of life and new rules. Some of those rules dictate how the landlord repossession process will work once the government lifts the stay on evictions currently scheduled to end on Sunday 23rd August. The changes to th

While we continue to sail through uncharted seas in the lettings industry during the coronavirus pandemic, the good news is that evidence suggests there will be no major eviction crisis once the hold on landlord evictions is lifted. The government acted early on to halt landlord eviction proceedings and to discourage landlords from filing any new complaints in order to ease the worries of renters whose jobs were in danger during lockdown. However, with the country slowly trek

The number of tenancy deposit disputes between landlords and tenants in England has dropped by 15% so far during 2020, according to one of the government’s authorised deposit schemes. Deposit replacement firm Ome analysed data and found that complaints lodged with mydeposits plummeted in London, the South East and the North East in particular, with most other regions also seeing a fall in deposit disputes. Only two regions witnessed rises compared with the same period in 2019