The LandlordZONE Journal – “LandlordLOG�

The LandlordZONE Journal – “LandlordLOG”
March 2006 – Issue 007

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The UK Housing Act 2004 involves one of the biggest changes for landlords for many years and most of its provisions will be enacted in April 2006. We continue this series on the Housing Act with a primer on the new Empty Dwelling Management Orders (EDMO) to be introduced in April 2006.

The Housing Act 2004 contains provisions for Empty Dwelling Management Orders—Interim and Final Orders—(EDMO) which will enable local authorities to take management control of private dwellings.
The UK housing shortage is serious and it affects the whole property market. Seems common sense therefore that government should consider some kind of enforcement on those who continue to leave properties empty—but, as we all know, it’s not only private landlords who are culpable here, local authorities are often as much to blame!
So we give local authorities the power to take away management rights from private owners—even though in some cases they have shown themselves incapable of managing their own properties?
A whole raft of measures being introduced by the Housing Act ads a new layer of bureaurocracy the like of which, in some cases, has not been seen before in the UK—Let’s hope these run smoothly and my tinge of cyniscm is proved wrong. Editor.

This issue is wholly sponsored by Coverlet – one of the leading providers of insurance for the rental property market.

Landlord’s Insurance from Coverlet
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