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Homeless charity to trade tenants personal data?
10/05/2013 
newsatlandlordreferencingToday 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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Leave a commentUC pilot begins | Manchester landlords protect yourself (free) today!
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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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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Nationwide have halted new lending to landlords who have tenants receiving housing benefit. The Mortgage Works, currently with a buy-to-let market share of around 20%, was previously the biggest lender offering such mortgages to landlords with tenants on housing benefits. Experts have warned that this could leave many people struggling to find a place to [...]
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The Local support services framework for the upcoming welfare reform states that it will be up to the Department for Work and Pensions to make exceptions to normal payment rules; e.g. paying the housing element of Universal Credit of landlords. In most cases Universal Credit will be paid to the claimant, on a monthly basis. [...]
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As we near the end of the first month of 2013 Landlord Referencing Services is extremely happy to announce that we have had the busiest month we’ve ever experienced. Just over the January period we have welcomed 340 new landlord and letting agent members, who have uploaded nearly 1,500 new tenants (good and bad) onto [...]
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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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A survey of housing associations has found that, on average, they expect their rent arrears to increase by 51% as a direct result of the government’s impending welfare reforms. The survey of 232 housing associations, carried out by Ipsos Mori for the National Housing Federation, has also revealed that if this is extrapolated across the [...]
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Landlord Referencing Services would like to address the reasons behind the questions that we ask of landlords and letting agents upon registration of our service. What with the recent (unprecedented) influx of landlords and letting agents joining our unique landlord networking system right across the UK, following the introduction of the Universal Credit pilots and [...]
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Labour leader MP Ed Miliband has promised to protect the rights of private renters, as part of his party’s ‘One Nation’ philosophy. Mr Miliband highlighted the potentially divisive rift between private renters and home owners in a speech to the Fabian Society. As well as attempting to provide more security for renters via introducing more [...]
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