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The Secret Behind the Big Society of Landlords
15/06/2013 
newsatlandlordreferencing As Landlord Referencing Services LLP looks forward to attending the very first National Neighbourhood & Home Network Awards 2013 next week, we would like to look at the top 5 reasons why landlords and letting agents who use Network Referencing are fast becoming the “Gate-Keepers” to safe & happy communities, alongside charitable organisations such as [...]
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How to achieve a fairer PRS for Landlords, Agents AND Tenants
This week the BBC & Shelter have been renewing calls for an end to letting agency fees, as Shelter’s latest investigations reveal that agency fees could be pushing renters into more debt. Shelter carried out mystery shopping with 58 letting agencies across the country and found that all of them charged renters fees to set [...]
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A national register for dodgy landlords?
Labour’s Policy Review explores new ideas on the private rented sector to “drive standards up and bad landlords out.”
These “new ideas” include creating a national register of private landlords, a new national private rented property standard, stamping out the use of “retaliatory eviction” against…
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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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The Government will launch the first pilot test of its new benefits system ( Universal Credit ) in Ashton-under-Lyne today. It seeks to simplify the existing system by combining 6 benefits into 1, but opponents say it is misleading and will increase debt, mass evictions and homelessness. As a private landlord, letting agent and/or tenant [...]
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Families who cause misery in their communities are set to be targeted under strict new measures by Aberdeen City Council. Local authority officers will compile reports on trouble-makers who blight Aberdeen with their antisocial behaviour. Offenders will face a range of new penalties – including the possibility of losing their home. The plans were revealed [...]
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Since its launch in 2011 the SAFEagent campaign has made amazing progress in promoting the importance to landlords and tenants of identifying agents who are part of Client Money Protection Schemes. All agents regulated by NALS, RICS, ARLA, NAEA and the Law Society maintain and operate separate designated client accounts, where a consumers money is [...]
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With the controversy around Universal Credit becoming almost explosive and as rent arrears mount up & the housing benefit monies are spent on other things (drink, drugs, pay day loans, etc – which are extremely detrimental to ALL of our communities) Landlord Referencing Services are now seeing a massive influx of landlords AND letting agents [...]
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Landlord Referencing Services were most alarmed at the headline of this weeks Weston, Worle & Somerset Mercury this morning; Landlords keeping tenants in squalor. ” Collapsed ceilings, dangerous electrical wiring, vermin infestations and discarded needles – the Mercury can reveal these are some of the squalid conditions Weston tenants are being forced to live with [...]
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With nearly a third of the entire working population of Britain now working part-time Landlord Referencing Services would like to explore what the future holds for the private rented sector if this trend continues. Last night the ITV program Tonight covered the topic of ” Part time Britain ” – an insight into Britains flexible [...]
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