News from the Residential Property Investor, the bi-monthly magazine for RLA members

December 2003 / January 2004

• Most in need will pay price of Bill
• Limited licensing promise precedes Queen's Speech
• In brief
• House prices defy interest rate rise
• Landlords' views sought
• Fitting questions may land sellers in trouble
• New powers to trim 'hedges from hell'
• Buy to let buying shows sharp rise
• How to choose between a fixed, discounted or tracker rate

October / November 2003

• The news is...tenants can be ruthless too
• Leaseholders gain right of challenge
• In brief
• Rental demand moves ahead
• Deposit action urged
• Summer leaves insurers with that sinking feeling
• HMO properties go missing
• Mould warning
• Remortgaging to boost returns

August / September 2003

• Accreditation the way forward
• Licensing should be 'unfettered'
• Avoiding unnecessary electrical shocks
• Renting is 'more acceptable' choice
• Opposition to HB penalty plan
• House prices continue to climb
• Landlord faces retrial over killing
• In brief
• Tenant wins right to set off
• Work / live development rules too rigid
• Urgent improvement needed to National Asylum Support Service

June / July 2003

• Victims of unfriendly fire
• Empty homes take over
• Little satisfaction in council complaints
• HB reform moves ahead
• HB reform moves ahead
• House prices still climbing
• Empire builder's charter
• Demand grows stronger
• In brief

April / May 2003

• Competent regulation
• Private landlords set for 'selective licensing'
• Local crackdowns on HMO landlords
• Property prospects better in the north
• Landlords shop for best mortgages
• DTI acts against property investment companies
• Letting returns put at over 20 per cent
• Average house tops £145,00
• London landlord given life sentence
• Government admits to wider anti-social problems
• In brief

January / February 2003

• Damned either way
• Deposit scheme looks set to become mandatory
• RLA tenancy agreement wins backing
• 'Sustainable housing' a Pre-Budget aim
• Appeal Court upholds gay rights
• In brief

November / December 2002

• Making representations
• Tenancy gains for unmarried couples
• Queen's speech
• In brief
• Inheritance tax clamp down
• House price inflation lower
• Housing benefit pilots
• Household debt management

August / September 2002

• Homes shortage?
• Legislation to blame, not estate agents
• Landlords' great flood threat
• Council tenants set to lose right to buy
• Estate agent confesses
• Minister announces changes to housing benefit
• Up the smoke
• Scots council angry at landlord
• Insulating the property value
• In brief

June / July 2002

• Accredited to thrive
• Shelter group calls for landlord tax breaks
• Rat landlord fined
• Lancaster survey excludes landlord involvement
• Tax fiddle landlords jailed
• 'Liar' landlord condemned
• 'Flood of properties' hits rental values
• HMO failure brings fine
• In brief

April / May 2002

• Driving anti-social tenants private
• Landlords face tenant 'fines'
• Court punishes Dunkirk spirit
• Council ordered to pay over 'misleading' letter
• House price surge could be slowing
• Private sector to bear backlash from increased anti-social evictions
• Landlords suffer in rental slowdown
• In brief

February / March 2002

• Hostility causes brain drain
• Government admits weekly housing benefit changes
• Fitting way to avoid stamp duty penalty
• House prices buoyant after September setback
• In search of TV stars
• Falconer says 'strong case' for compulsory deposit scheme
• Default tenant database launched
• Do it yourself conviction
• In brief

December 2001 / January 2002

• 'Joined up' thinking overdue
• RLA launches assurance schemes
• Jail term for landlord who raped tenant
• Electronic gas certificates
• Byers promotes limited licensing
• 'Cancer risk' with roofing felt
• Government changes law to reverse court benefits loss
• Deprived areas have stamp duty 'abolished'
• Reader win rates refund
• In brief
• Evicting the 'Rigsby' image

News from the Residential Property Investor, the bi-monthly magazine for RLA members

October / November 2001

• A voice for landlords
• Bristol charity blasts shorthold tenancies
• Glasgow landlords challenge registration scheme
• NALS gets Government funding
• Jail for deposit trickster
• Rental market strong but could be stronger
• Council pays private tenants over lack of enforcement
• Halt called to dispersals
• DTLR puts case for smoke alarms
• Homeless increase in SW
• In brief

News from the Residential Property Investor, the bi-monthly magazine for RLA members

August / September 2001

• Getting off benefits
• Byers 'entices' investors with HB conditions
• Dispersal policy driven by 'cheap accommodation'
• Void calculation held to be void
• Stormy times for policy holders
• Security bye-law considered
• Independent insurance advice
• Mixed messages on house prices
• In brief

News from the Residential Property Investor, the bi-monthly magazine for RLA members

June / July 2001

• Asylum seeker threat
• Earnings link points to house price fall
• Dome Minister takes on housing
• New landlords should look to the long term
• AWhere tenant must act as tax agent
• 'Reasonable steps' absolve blam
• Easy does it
• House prices still risingt
• Alternative to gas
• Regeneration VAT incentive falls down
• Lease preparation costs to be disallowed

News from the Residential Property Investor, the bi-monthly magazine for RLA members

April / May 2001

• Incentives and Disincentives
• Mixed messages on rising market
• RLA promotes understanding
• Landlords offered renovation finance
• Makeover for possession rules
• BPF urges take up of pilot deposit schemes
• Landlord cleared of manslaughter
• Strategy failure criticised
• In brief
• Brown's conversion
• Easy PC record keeping packages

News from the Residential Property Investor, the bi-monthly magazine for RLA members

February / March 2001

• Time for accreditation
• Darling tackles benefit 'scandal'
• Commonhold law moves closer
• 'Death trap' landlord 'must be punished'
• Strong market is predicted
• Regulation killing cellular future
• Web callers want one bedroom most
• Neighbours have rights too
• RLA's top tips
• More floods predicted
• Damages due to gas fire victim
• In brief

News from the Residential Property Investor, the bi-monthly magazine for RLA members

December 2000 / January 2001

• Increasing costs
• Call for crisis talks on benefit delays
• Compensation not small beer
• Action taken on allocation and Ads
• CIEH campaigns for HMO licensing move
• Landlord sent for sentencing
• In brief
• Stamp duty waiver
• Repairs countdown

News from the Residential Property Investor, the bi-monthly magazine for RLA members

October / November 2000

• Death of housing Benefit
• Data services cause personal problems
• In brief
• Home ownership to continue rise

News from the Residential Property Investor, the bi-monthly magazine for RLA members

August / September 2000

• Landlord forums
• Prescott heads for spat with Spath
• No hiding from asylum tax bill
• Housing market 'quietens down'
• Repossessions at 10 year low
• Briefing: Letting agencies

News from the Residential Property Investor, the bi-monthly magazine for RLA members

June / July 2000

• New market
• Landlords protest as HB system 'falls apart'
• Friction continues over asylum seeker housing
• Bright future forecast for rental market
• PressWatch
• Record increases in house prices
• Insurance barometer signals cyclonic storms
• In brief

News from the Residential Property Investor, the bi-monthly magazine for RLA members

April / May 2000

• Green paper
• Prescott targets 'bad landlords'
• Stamp duties worries eased by Budget change
• 'Mentally ill' chide at asylum seekers
• Cheltenham branch opens for business
• ARLA seeks help
• Tough tactics
• In brief

News from the Residential Property Investor, the bi-monthly magazine for RLA members

February / March 2000

• Housing mismanagement
• BPF backs research into regulation
• Squatters' rights defy natural justice
• Leasehold reforms outlined to Commons
• In brief
• Paragon launches buy to let tracker
• Buy to let guidance

News from the Residential Property Investor, the bi-monthly magazine for RLA members

December 1999 / January 2000

• Stamping on landlords
• Councils chided on fraud response
• Manchester bucks house sale trends
• New house VAT charge proposed
• Radioactive warning
• Hi tech future on one level
• Spring start to builders' quality mark scheme
• LPG mobile heater warning
• Squatters profit from Lambeth losses
• In brief
• An alternative to custodial penalties

News from the Residential Property Investor, the bi-monthly magazine for RLA members

August / September 1999

• Unconvincing Arguments
• In brief
• Empty promises on council tax exemptions
• Date accommodation left landlord unassured
• Squatters win in London tussles
• HMO definition too broad

News from the Residential Property Investor, the bi-monthly magazine for RLA members

June / July 1999

• Bottom line reality
• In brief
• New calls for reform of housing benefit
• Most shared houses will be regulated
• Landlord is unable to recover costs
• Manchester has lowest prices

News from the Residential Property Investor, the bi-monthly magazine for RLA members

April / May 1999

• Licensing Logic
• HMG proposes to licence HMOs
• City's central role
• In brief
• Brown serves up mixed Budget
• Housing benefit set for major reform
• Title checks 'superficial'
• CO alarms recalled
• House prices take drop

News from the Residential Property Investor, the bi-monthly magazine for RLA members

February / March 1999

• Business rate assessments
• Fast route to price realism
• One sided rules on rent capping
• Tennancy validate by bank action
• When acceleration takes longer
• New crackdown on benefit fraud