Mary Latham

Reading Time: 5 minutes I would like to share my experience of renting a single let property which came back to me because of COVID 19. The property was initially let on an 18-month contract […]

Reading Time: 5 minutes Following my first article on the new legislation introduced in the Housing and Planning Act 2016 which began on 6th April this is another danger for landlords from tenants going […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes Some sections of the Housing and Planning Act 2016 came into force today.  The media will give a lot of attention to the fact that local authorities will be able […]

Reading Time: 5 minutes The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) issued Guidance to Councils this week which restricts their ability to use the powers given them in the Housing Act 2004 to […]

Reading Time: 6 minutes Under the weight of legislation, regulations and rent arrears some people get fed up of being landlords and those people now have a title “tired landlords” and are seen as […]

Reading Time: 6 minutes All the local authorities who I work with are well aware that landlords are afraid of rent arrears and of Universal Credit. The feed back from the pilot areas has […]

Reading Time: 5 minutes “Romney shot himself in the foot this week, then re-loaded, and shot the other foot” – Affan Chowdhry Most universities were built before most of us were born and, just […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes In all the thousands of landlords I have met I have not found one that would not prefer long term tenants so long as they are good tenants who pay […]

Reading Time: 6 minutes The reason that the legal process for taking our properties back from tenant is called possession is because once we have handed the keys to the tenant that tenant legally possesses […]

Reading Time: 5 minutes When a tenant begins to look for a new home to rent (s)he will begin by choosing an area. (s)he  will work out how must (s)he can afford to pay, […]

Reading Time: 8 minutes I have chosen to make this the subject of my first article in the series for two reasons namely, many Landlords are unaware of the changes to Tenancy Deposit legislation […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes From the 6th April 2012 a new style Energy Performance Certificate was introduced to give clearer information about measures that can be carried out to improve the energy performance rating […]