Renters affected by coronavirus will continue to be supported over autumn and winter through comRenters affected by coronavirus will continue to be supported over autumn and winter through comprehensive measures confirmed today (10 September 2020) by Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick. The government has changed the law to increase notice periods to 6 months meaning renters now
A solicitor has been struck off the solicitor’s roll after being found guilty of misconduct. Cabeer Ahmed used £100,000 from a client’s estate to re-pay debts he owed to HM Revenue & Customs and an indemnity insurer. Ahmed’s misconduct resulted in the Solicitor’s Compensation Fund having to pay double that amount to cover the misdemeanour.
Thousands of landlords are trying to avoid renting their properties to benefit claimants, according to the website OpenRent. However, a judge ruled “No DSS” (the Department of Social Security) rental bans were unlawful. According to the BBC, approximately 75% of listings on the website OpenRent said the landlords would not accept people on benefits. This
HM Land Registry has said the threat of another coronavirus outbreak will make people less tolerant of a paper-heavy conveyancing process and has outlined its own digital progress. According to The Law Gazette, in Land Registry’s latest annual report, chair Michael Mire anticipates a greater desire to make property transactions more digital over the coming year,
A judge has ruled that blanket bans on renting properties to people on housing benefit are unlawful and discriminatory. The court ruling found a single mother-of-two had encountered discrimination indirectly after a letting agent failed to rent to her. The woman and her children ended up being homeless. Her case was then taken on by
A landlord from Bury has been ordered to pay £5,200 in court costs after his three-storey house was closed for being a blight on the neighbourhood. The property, owned Abdul Razar Saddiqui, has been associated with drug-dealing and possible exploitation offences. Saddiqui, 52, contested the closure order, brought by Manchester City Council. Police had received
The government’s tenant eviction ban will come to an end next month. Court proceedings to evict tenants in England have been on hold since March. The government stopped landlords beginning or continuing eviction proceedings in order to give tenants stability and security during lockdown. This meant landlords who issued eviction notices before also had to put proceedings
A Coventry landlord has been ordered to repay almost £11,000 rent that was wrongly paid by tenants. A council investigation found Mrs Parvinjot Nagra failed to licence the property in Cannon Park for a period of eight months and failed in her management of the property. Mrs Nagra has been ordered to repay rent totalling
A landlord from Derby who verbally threatened and unlawfully evicted a tenant has been spared jail. Sajjad Ahmed appeared at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates’ Court after pleading guilty last December to the unlawful eviction of a tenant. The court heard that Ahmed had taken over the management of the property from his brother, who owned the property, after
Two landlords from Leatherhead were prosecuted and fined after a 13-year-old boy died following a fire at a house last year. Landlords Innocent and Clementia Mukarati pleaded guilty at Croydon Magistrates’ Court to one charge of failing to license the property in Camden Gardens under section 95 of the Housing Act 2004. The pair were ordered by