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Bad tenants set to be targeted in Aberdeen
19/03/2013 
newsatlandlordreferencingFamilies 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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Leave a commentDoes OFT report spell death for the UK letting agent?
The OFT have published a report identifying several consumer protection issues in the lettings market. As part of this report, the OFT analysed nearly 4,000 complaints made by people renting a home as well as those letting out a property. It found that both tenants and landlords were concerned about fees and charges levied by [...]
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According to the latest report from a research charity, the number of households living in the private rented sector with children has increased by 103 % over the past 10 years. Who Lives in the Private Rented Sector? profiles the household characteristics and changing make-up of the PRS in the UK and identifies the rapid [...]
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A report has revealed that an increasing number of families are opting to reside in private rented accommodation in January 2013. According to the latest Aviva Family Finances Report 25% of families are residing in private rented accommodation, compared with 19% in November 2011. The biggest rise has been among younger couples who plan to [...]
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The Prime-Minister is being urged by The Commons Home Affairs Select Committee to consider all of the alternatives to Britain’s failing drug laws, including decriminalisation and legalisation. The influential cross-party group of MP’s say that after taking evidence from all sides of the drug debate, including from Russell Brand and Richard Branson, that “now, more [...]
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According to an independent body which monitors the UK’s finances; Housing Benefit bills are predicted to sky rocket, despite government attempts to cut benefit payments. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has now radically revised its forecasts for public sector borrowing over the next five years, as a weaker outlook for the economy reduces tax [...]
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The Department for Work and Pensions has been criticised after revealing it will not tell landlords how well its universal credit pilots are working until next year. Six pilot projects are currently running across the country to test the direct payment of benefit to tenants instead of to landlords. The projects, which run until [...]
Universal Credit will fail to encourage full-time work?
A new report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation today suggests Universal Credit (UC) could see people worse off in work and struggling to manage their finances, with many left to deal with a more complex benefits system than before. Key points found by the report include: Switching to monthly single payments to households is a [...]
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A recent Housing Benefit Poverty Hearing report confirms Landlord Referencing’s on-going fears; that the scale of problems & homelessness (which are a direct result of Housing Benefit cuts) is already escalating, that this report puts the UK further on course for a national rent cap AND that the majority share our views on the impending [...]
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Despite increased financial pressures, generated by government cuts and the Welfare Reform Act (Universal Credit), a major ratings agency has announced that the UK’s social housing sector’s credit worthiness is stable. The report, by Standard & Poor, claims that the majority of housing associations will be able to accommodate to the lower level of government [...]
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