Our first podcast episode for 2021 is with solicitor David Smith where discuss changes coming and take a look at the new legislation which may be coming down the tracks. Such as the Renters Reform Bill, the new ‘Breathing Space’ legislation and the new Renting Homes (Wales) Bill 2016 – which is already seeing amendments […]
Crisis – not just for Christmas
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?
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’
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
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
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 […]