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Crisis – not just for Christmas

December 19, 2020 by Tessa

Crisis

For our December and Christmas episode, we speak to Chris Hancock who is the head of Best Practice at the housing charity Crisis. We talked about a number of things: The ‘everyone in’ initiative and how it could have been so much better The structural changes that need to take place to eliminate homelessness (which […]

Where are we now with the Renters Reform Bill?

November 22, 2020 by Tessa

Justin Bates

The Renters Reform Bill was included in the Queen’s speech and so therefore is bound in due course to come to pass. But when is this going to happen and what is going to be in it when it does? We speak to housing barrister Justin Bates, who knows a thing or two about legislation […]

Dealing with ‘No DSS’

November 3, 2020 by Tessa

Chris Wood

For years tenants have been complaining that landlords refuse to even consider them as tenants as soon as they learn that they are on benefit.  Often they are just told that there is a ‘company policy’ not to take on ‘benefit tenants’. ‘No DSS” is commonly found on adverts for rented property – despite the […]

Landlording in the Time of Covid

September 29, 2020 by Tessa

Ben and Tessa

We were going to have some guests for Episode 3.   But it didn’t work out so Ben and I decided to be our own guests and just chat among ourselves. So this is a bit of a ‘stream of consciousness’ episode where we talk about all sorts of things: How Everything Has Changed Selecting tenants […]

Possession proceedings after the lockdown

August 13, 2020 by Tessa

The second episode of the Landlord and Lawyer Podcast looked at possession proceedings. A topical issue as the government has recently published the new Civil Procedure Rules and Practice Direction setting out how claims are to be dealt with after the coronavirus lockdown stay ends after 23 August 2020. To help us we had two […]

Discussing Unique Property Reference Numbers with Kate Faulkner

July 15, 2020 by Tessa

Kate Faulkner

So what are Unique Property Reference Numbers (UPRNs)?  Kate describes them as a ‘little holy grail’ in the property market that no-one realised existed. Every property has a UPRN which is unique to that property and which can be used to identify information about that property. Just like car number plates. The idea of using […]

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