The 2019 Tenant Fees Act became law on June 1st 2019, banning administration fees for new tenancies. However, there was a transitional provision, meaning that for a period of twelve months, the Act did not apply to tenancies and letting agency agreements pre-dating 1 June 2019. This provision period is now over!
From 10 January 2020, all letting agents who manage properties which, individually, yield an income of 10,000 Euros per month (or equivalent) or more, must now comply with regulations set out in the Fifth Money Laundering Directive.
On 1st April 2019, the government made it mandatory for all property agents carrying out work in relation to housing in England to be a member of a Client Money Protection scheme.
From 1st June 2019 it will be illegal in England to charge any fees to tenants, licensees, guarantors, relevant persons or anyone acting on their behalf or guaranteeing their rent, other than a set list of Permitted Payments on new tenancies
MPs call on Landlords and Letting Agents to scrap 'no DSS' clauses in rental ads
The High Court has ruled the government's Right to Rent scheme breaches human rights law.
From 1 April 2019, all property agents carrying out work in relation to housing in England will be required to be a member of a Client Money Protection scheme.
It has been announced that the Tenant Fees Bill will come into force on June 1st this year. This means that, subject to the bill getting Royal Assent, the ban will apply to all tenancies signed after this date.
After 2 years, the Tenant Fees Bill has reached the discussion stage in the House of Lords and will be debated today
The Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Bill would give private and social tenants the ability to take landlords to court if their home is unsafe. Currently, landlords have no obligation to their tenants to put or keep the property in a condition fit for habitation.
From 1st October 2018 the new Section 21 rules which came into force on 1 October 2015 for all new assured shorthold tenancies (AST), will apply to ALL ASTs.
From October 1st, 2018 all HMO's must be licensed if they house five or more occupants, from at least two unrelated households, irrespective of the number of storeys that the property has.
The objective of GDPR is to give individual data subjects more control over what data is held on them by organisations and to make it easier for them to give and withdraw consent for that data to be stored.
Within the space of a week, the government has announced a raft of new measures to crack down on rogue landlords
