James McAllister, Director of The Dilapidations Consultancy, sets the record straight on VAT in dilapidation claims. Introduction Let’s start with a fact: Dilapidations is outside the scope of VAT as far as HM Revenue & Customs are concerned. So there we have it, VAT need not feature in dilapidation claims and settlement agreements. If only [...]
The Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) is calling on housing providers and government to focus attention on developing a wider range of rented housing options that better meet demand for good quality homes. The CIH report ‘Widening the rental housing market’ found that help is needed in particular for the “in-betweens”, people who aren’t in [...]
Landowners with Orange mobile phone masts on their property should be aware of the merger between T-Mobile and Orange which might bring with it problems for them, says Nigel Foster at rural specialist George F. White. As a result of the merger of T-Mobile with Orange earlier this summer, legal issues and possible mast redundancies [...]
The new legislation relating to Houses of Multiple Occupancy (HMO) are draconian and not sufficiently publicised. mortgageintroducer.com – 16 August 2010 This is according to Susan Drakeford, licensed conveyancer at Adams & Remers. The new legislation requires the owners of a property intended to be a House of Multiple Occupancy (HMO) to apply for planning [...]
Rent arrears cause nearly half of landlord possessions Samuel Dale, MortgageStrategy.co.uk – 16 August 2010 Nearly half of all landlord possessions are caused by tenants not paying rent, says the National Landlords’ Association. It follows recent NLA data showing a fifth of private-residential landlords had tenants in rent arrears during Q2 2010. Whilst one-third of [...]
Landlord Action’s founder, Paul Shamplina, will be heavily appearing on ITV’s “Tonight” programme ‘Nightmare Tenants’ on Thursday 26th August at 7.30pm. Paul will not only be commenting on a number of ongoing cases where landlords are owed thousands of pounds relating to unpaid rent but will also be trying to expose these ‘rogue’ tenants in [...]
“Fair Wear and Tear” is the traditional technical term used to describe the amount of deterioration (delapidations) which must be discounted when assessing damages claimed from a tenant at the end of their tenancy. This aspect has become more important for landlords now that all depeosits for ASTs must by law be protected. Any claim [...]
Paul Shamplina Of Landlord Action Responds To Horrific Squatter Case In Brighton In response to the story revealed on GMTV this morning that a charity worker and her four year old son had been forced to live in tent after a squatter took over their house in Brighton, Paul Shamplina, founder of Landlord Action, a [...]
The Latest accommodationforstudents.com research shows increase of 4.3% on last year – (London, 9/8/10) The latest research from accommodationforstudents.com (afs), the UK’s No 1 student accommodation website, shows a sharp increase in student rents in 2010. The average weekly student rent now stands at £65.30, 4.3% higher than last year (£62.61). The previous two years’ [...]
Local authorities could have the power, later this year, to declare their own “no-go” zones for privately rented shared houses. This would replace the current need to obtain planning permission if a landlord wanted to rent out an existing family home to a group of tenants such as students, nurses or young professionals. But the [...]
