Changes to the Consumer Rights Act means that UK lettings agents will be required to display their charges and fee structures on their company websites and in physical branch offices, in order to provide their customers with clearer information.
Advice that saw landlords encouraged to “stalk” potential tenants is withdrawn
The Residential Landlords’ Association (RLA) – an organisation that represents private landlords across the UK – has been criticised for encouraging harassment after it published advice for its members to visit their prospective tenants without warning before entering a tenancy agreement with them.
How landlords and tenants can fulfil their legal obligations
Landlords are faced with numerous rules and legislation that they must adhere to when letting their properties to tenants, and they must follow rules that protect their tenants, as well as themselves, or risk facing legal repercussions.
Landlords will soon have to check the immigration status of potential tenants
Later this year, new rules will come into effect that will require landlords to check tenants’ immigration status before a property can be let to them.
Government plans could prevent councils from selective landlord licensing
Councils across the UK could be stopped from introducing selective licensing for landlords in the private sector.