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Homeless charity to trade tenants personal data?
10/05/2013 
newsatlandlordreferencing Today it has been revealed that social landlords are planning to hand over rental payment data to a credit ratings giant, in an attempt to help social tenants build their credit histories and access more affordable housing. Later this month Experian and the social investment arm of The Big Issue “Big Issue Invest” will be [...]
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Social referencing at LRS stops illegal immigrants
Almost 2 million buy-to-let property owners will be legally responsible for ensuring that they only let properties to people allowed to be in Britain under new immigration laws to be announced in today’s Queen’s Speech – with fines running into the thousands for those breaking the law. The Immigration Bill will also limit the ability [...]
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Tenants: Couple, Lyn and Simon, with four children.Source of income: only the woman in employment, but claiming some benefits.Duration of tenancy: two years. Monthly rent: £400. Lyn was, in effect, another single mother of four, as her husband was, in the considered opinion of Adrian, ‘a big, fat, lazy waste of space,’ with foul-looking [...]
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Characters in a new animated online video are helping to get the message across, to people across Greater Manchester and Nottingham, about important changes to their benefits. The five-minute clip which features talking animals is being used by housing association New Charter as a fun and informative way to help people understand how they will [...]
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In response to Labour’s call for longer tenancy agreements the Council of Mortgage Lenders have responded by warning that such agreements could lead to a rise in rent arrears. Labour argues that the private sector should give stability and financial certainty to private renters by offering predictable rents over a long period. Longer-term tenancies and [...]
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East Midlands Property Owners (EMPO) response to the Communities & Local Government Commons Select Committee enquiry into the private rented housing sector. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Thank you for this opportunity to contribute to this enquiry. 1.2 EMPO is a not for profit residential landlord association whose primary function is to support and represent the interests of [...]
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MPs have approved the controversial Welfare Benefits Uprating Bill, passed by 328 votes to 262. Once the legislation is approved by the House of Lords this will mean that local housing allowance base rates will be capped at 1% for 2 years from April 2014. Most working age benefits, including employment and support allowance, income [...]
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As we enter 2013 Landlord Referencing is extremely happy to reveal that the tenant alerts recorded (exclusively at Landlordreferencing.co.uk) in 2012 show a 30% drop in rent arrears and property damages compared to the figures recorded in 2011. Coupled with the vast increase of Landlords & Letting Agents registering to join the Landlordreferencing.co.uk network over the [...]
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Landlord Referencing Services is happy to announce that we now have a specific area for tenants to access income protection insurance and tenant content insurance services. Click for the new Tenants Support Area. Not only can tenants access these important services, they can also : Build a tenant history file (free) and Interact with our [...]
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NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH AND SAFE COMMUNITIES You’ve probably heard of Neighbourhood Watch (also known as Home Watch in some areas). In some ways it feels like a traditional British institution with its familiar window stickers and signs, despite originating in the United States and remaining popular in many countries worldwide. It isn’t by accident that Neighbourhood [...]
