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As a tenant, you have rights over communal parts of your building along with having rights over your own flat. This includes places such as stairwells, lifts and entrance halls. You also have rights o...

The Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018 brought in new obligations for landlords. Previously, the structure, exterior, and services in the building had to be fixed if they were broken. This...

The most recent evidence heard by the Grenfell Tower Inquiry has been from testing and certification bodies. Testing bodies assess products in line with the standards of statutory regulations and cert...

Welcome to the winter edition of the newsletter from the property team at Anthony Gold Solicitors. This edition of the newsletter brings you a mix of interesting developments in relation to Houses...

From a legal perspective in many ways 2021 has been a year of ‘more of the same’ for the private rented sector: more delays to abolition of section 21 notices, an extension for most of the year to...

The Year 2021 has been a year with a lot of significant developments in the Private Rented Sector (“ PRS”). The Year started off with amended guidance and rules continuing in respect of possession...

In the case of Raja -v- Salford City Council, the Upper Tribunal (“UT”) held that First tier Tribunals (“FtT”) are required to make their own assessment in determining financial penalties and...

Most of the criminal offences which relate to houses in multiple occupation (“HMOs”) fit into either of two groups. The first group is offences under the Housing Act 2004 – which are connected t...