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Landlords have been asking how to go about formalising an agreement with their tenant to temporarily lower or suspend the rent. Understandably  these landlords want to help out their tenants without...

The Government published the draft Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector (England) Regulations 2020 in January which, subject to parliamentary approval, will impose new electrical s...

The Upper Tribunal has recently been giving attention to the regime at Schedule 13A of the Housing Act 2004 which allows local housing authorities to impose fines as an alternative to criminal prosecu...

The ‘use it or lose it’ rules at s21(4D) of the Housing Act 1988, which apply only in England, prevent a landlord from starting a possession claim more than six months after a section 21 notice is...

While manifesto promises are fashioned into draft legislation, or quietly shelved as the case may be for some proposals, the raft of new laws coming in 2020 will be accompanied by various existing Act...

The Welsh tenant fees ban came into force on 1 September 2019, applying to assured shorthold tenancies granted from that date onwards for properties in Wales. The Renting Homes (Fees etc.) (Wales)...

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The Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal in Manchester Ship Canal Company Ltd Vauxhall Motors Ltd (formerly General Motors UK Ltd) [2019] UKSC 46, bringing to an end a long running case in which the...