The Top Ten Essential Legal Compliances for Residential Property Landlords

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Landlords of residential properties have an obligation by law to fairly maintain, service, and repair their dwellings – after all, these are the homes of tenants.

This doesn’t relate to longer leasehold interests where ‘tenants’ need to act more like an owner themselves; this is for shorter term ones like AST lets.

The Lease Says It All

The golden rule when looking at any landlord and tenant obligations is the lease.

What these leases clauses say, goes. It is often only in extreme circumstances where the law of the land has to override this, for example fairer levels of fees being charged under the Tenant Fees Act 2019.

The Wider Law

However, with such shorter-term residential properties there is a whole host of general legislation...

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The 7 Core Trends of Residential Buy-to-let Property Investments

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Getting into the buy-to-let side of the residential property market has been an increasing trend since the end of the last century as people began to realise that residential property can be there for investment-returns longer-term, not just for living in.

With the rising property market, people started to build up portfolios of properties let out to tenants, whether basic flats or larger and more complex houses.

However, things seems to have got more difficult over the last few years. There’s increasing bad press and hurdles to get through in order to get these stacking up, with reported trends of fewer private investors in this market, and more corporate-style off-shoots developing like the build-to-rent model with large blocks of...

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The Top-Tec Specification Factors For Traditional Office Areas at Properties

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Offices are certainly seeing a change with the times to what they used to be. Back in the day there was plenty of space around, particularly in urban areas, with large businesses taking chunky space by owning the property or taking long leases.

Whereas 25-year leases were the norm decades ago, they’re now very rare. After all, it’s all about flexibility and the more serviced office market.

And with such newer-ways of looking at office space, whether an occupier taking an agreement, and owner arranging to market, or a middle-man advisor helping out – you can get away from some of the nuts-and-bolts of what makes a good office space.

Talk of just the rent or price and a list of what’s on offer can seem a lot simpler. However, it’s still...

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